I have recently returned to my "exile base" in Wales from Quebec City where I was invited to attend the American Musicological Society's annual conference and received an invitation from the editors at The Campanil to make a statement to the Mills community.
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The Mills Repertory Dance Company's opening night performance on Nov. 8 was a tortured mixture of innovation and agonizing boredom. The two-hour performance featured works by Trisha Brown, Molissa Fenley, Sonya Delawaide and others.
The show started twenty minutes late with a performance by a Mills College music group, the William Winant Percussion Group.
When President Janet Holmgren's essay on presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton ran as an opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News this September, she did not know that she would meet the woman herself a month later. President Holmgren's article caught the attention of Sen.
At a town hall meeting on Nov. 5, the Legislative Congress of the ASMC issued a report card to Public Safety concluding that while some of the improvements suggested had been implemented, Public Safety did not deal with all the issues that students brought up in last spring's survey.
In honor of Constitution Day on Sept. 17, the Women's Leadership Institute challenged the Mills community to create their own interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. The Mills College 21st Century Constitution Initiative invited students, alumnae and professors to create a more inclusive U.
The Women's Healing Garden, a new plant bed within the Mills Botanical Garden, opened Wednesday, Oct. 3 after a year of hard work. The 45-minute afternoon opening included speeches by Garden Coordinator Christina McWhorter and Merri Gordon, a 2007 Mills graduate whose research on women's healing inspired the garden.
On Sept. 7, Congress awarded $20 billion to federal student aid programs while cutting federal subsidies to private student loan companies. This award may make college more affordable to students. The bill, called the "College Costs Reduction Act," will cut interest rates on federal student loans, increase awards for the Pell Grant, create new grants for teachers and offer more options for paying back loans.