A dear friend of mine, a resumer at Mills in the final semester of her senior year, has done the unthinkable. She's just about Benjamin Button-ed her college experience. She has, for this final home stretch, moved INTO the dorms. The accepted logic goes that dorm life is something you do at the beginning, because you have to, because it is part of the college tradition.
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Thank you for running another article on the feral cats (College looks to new policy for feral cats, 2.17.09).
The very fact that Mills cats are still in danger of being removed and killed by our administrators is disgusting and so anti-Mills that I am ashamed to be an alumna.
The continuing global financial crisis has had effects on Mills, and those effects will continue for some time. President Holmgren has communicated with all Mills constituencies as the budget analysis has progressed. She has met several times with various groups, answered questions in open forums, and informed the community by email letters.
Madagascar is a country at once sultry and real - the rain came in last night around midnight and poured for about an hour. I laid in my tiny little bed - narrower than a single or a twin bed - and wondered if the corrugated roof would hold, since so many of them are rusted through with holes.
FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Contact:
ELIZABETH PAROWSKI, eparowski@alleycat.org or 240-482-1984
FRANCIE ISRAELI, fisraeli@johnadams.com or 202-737-8400
ALLEY CAT ALLIES ENCOURAGES MILLS COLLEGE TO ADOPT HUMANE PLAN FOR CAMPUS CATS
Notes that college campuses across the country successfully using Trap-Neuter-Return
BETHESDA, MD- Alley Cat Allies, the national advocate for stray and feral cats, today urged Mills College of Oakland, CA to adopt a humane approach for the campus' population of feral cats as a permanent policy, including Trap-Neuter-Return and managed colony care.
As a result of programs like the Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL) and the Women's Leadership Institute (WLI), in conjunction with curriculum in many disciplines, women's leadership training at Mills has provided support and opportunities for our students to implement high levels of community service and civic engagement activities.
Racial tensions..
. on our campus. Is your guard up? Blood moving? Good, now hear me out girlfriend, before you go and burn my newspaper down!
As a commentator, I wanted to share with you some advice I've learned to accept over the past couple years. This column actually refers to all campus tensions, including racial ones at Mills.