When a student enters Bert Gordon's office, the first thing she will probably notice are the books. The history professor's small room in the Vera Long building is crammed with volumes, from the floor almost to the ceiling on all sides, and while they are not numerous enough to require the library-style sliding ladder Gordon once wanted, they do span the duration of his 40-year career at Mills.
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When it comes to women's relationships with their bodies, Eve Ensler has never been afraid to ask the tough questions.
Many of us don't give our vaginas much thought at all, much less wonder what they would say if they could talk or what they would wear if they got dressed.
Like most graduate students, Marianne Krajewski commutes to school, and along with the rest of the College's commuter population, knows how difficult it can be to find a parking space on a given day. But, she says, there are days when the normally chaotic parking situation becomes just short of a nightmare.
It was an ordinary day in late September, and a dinner like any other at Mills College's main dining hall, Founders Commons. Then Jessica Naimark found an uninvited guest on her plate.
"There was an inchworm that was obviously cooked in my vegetables, just lying there, on a piece of zucchini," she said.
The Berkeley tree-sitters are all back on the ground and the trees themselves have been felled, but for members of the Bay Area indigenous community, the fight is not over yet.
The final four tree-sitters came down peacefully from their perches on Tuesday, Sept.
2008-09 was supposed to be her senior year of college and the year she turned 21, an important year she would remember for the rest of her life.
Instead, Tumi McCallum's loved ones at Mills observed the first anniversary of her death with a celebration of her life at a small memorial on September 3.
Ask Sandra Greer why she chose to come to Mills, and the College's newly-appointed provost will say that after 30 years working in a male-centric educational environment, she is ready to use her passion for undergraduate women's issues and her expertise in the sciences to benefit a place that is all about women.