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If you picture a stereotypical country music band, you might call to mind a crew of musicians playing the banjo, a mandolin, the fiddle—maybe the harmonica, perhaps a pedal steel guitar—and someone on ...
The following piece was a K-Pop group dance choreographed by Professor Chia-Ying Kao for students in her K-Pop I course. Students danced to “CHEER UP” by the idol girl-group TWICE. This piece was ...
As someone who is fairly active in the Theatre Department here at Skidmore, I had very little idea of what to expect from our production of The Orphan Sea. The play, written by Caridad Svich, is not a ...
The moment we've all been waiting for has arrived: the Fall 2024 Elections results are in! It’s time to celebrate your newly elected student representatives for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year, ...
The partnership between Harlem Lacrosse and Skidmore Men’s Lacrosse began long before Coach Joseph Martin became Head Coach in 2018. In 2014, Skidmore Lacrosse Alumni and All-American, Jacques Ward ...
Earlier today, The Skidmore News reported that Wesley Yang, an outspoken transphobe, was scheduled to speak at “Are We All Fundamentalists?” a conference being held to celebrate the 60th Anniversary ...
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA– I was extremely fortunate to catch up with Michael Thorbjornsen, the world’s third-ranked amateur golfer ().We discussed overcoming adversity on the golf course, having his best ...
This Place, an exhibit in the Tang Museum until late April, is a multi- year project that invited a group of international artists to explore Israel and the West Bank between 2009 and 2012. Each of ...
Nostalgia is a gateway to a myriad of senses— from revisiting a meal from your childhood to hearing a song you grew up with. Arguably, there is no such potent a sense as that of sight when it comes to ...
Recently, a 'Back the Blue' counter protest occurred in Saratoga Springs, and live footage from the action showed two Skidmore professors, David Peterson and Andrea Peterson--who work in the Art ...
Horse racing writ large is an abusive practice. Jockeys whip horses repeatedly in an environment where a single fall could mean the death of the horse. Onlookers watch, bet, and cheer as money changes ...
While the political culture we have each played a role in enabling at Skidmore is most harmful to those with dissenting points of view, it is damaging to all of us in the long run—and ...