Before the End of the World

Deported

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Before the End: Every year thousands of children are brought into the United States. Some grow up not knowing they are undocumented until they want to get a driver's license and find out they aren't allowed. Others don't know how to cope with the insecurity.

Immigration is also Emmigration

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The news feeds us stark images of brown men in running or jumping positions; brown pregnant women clutching the hands of their several little brown children; gardeners in pickup trucks; and Spanish-speaking cleaning ladies and nannies who now fill the shoes that were once worn bitterly by black women.

Timeline of US Immigration Law

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Introduction: In 2007 over two hundred and thirty immigrants died on the border between Mexico and the United States. A 2006 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office states that the number of deaths has doubled since 1995. There are currently around eleven million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Bennington Gone Batty

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

A plague has descended upon New England-or at least its bats, anyway.

Residents of Brattleboro, Pownal, and Arlington have reported seeing

bats flying around their respective neighborhoods during the day. The creatures in question have been afflicted with a mysterious illness biologists are referring to as "white nose syndrome.

World Snippets

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

EARTHQUAKES: Every year there are several million earthquakes, most are not felt because they occur in remote areas or are of a small magnitude. As of March 1, 2008, the US Geological Survey National earthquake Information Center has recorded 2,193 earthquakes worldwide.

A Professor's Field Work Term

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

During Field Work Term, a six-week winter term during which Bennington College students work off campus, I tried to imagine that it was ten or so years into the future; that my FWT job was my real future job and life. I imagined I had long since graduated from Bennington and was now working at Peak6, a finance institute in downtown Chicago, as a member of their finance engineering team.

Before The End's Senior Spotlight : Brian Schultis

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Through every Senior Spotlight, Before the End wants to highlight the work of Bennington College graduating seniors. Often as underclassmen we wonder what we will look like as seniors, where we will be, what we will have accomplished. The most important of those accomplishments will be personal and intimate; they will be fulfilling in individual and perhaps lonely ways.

From Our Album : There's No Place Like Home

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

New Faculty Member at Barn

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

To all of those who haven't peeked into the Barn yet, the Field Work Term and Career Development office has gotten a face lift and a tummy tuck. Some students stop at the door amazed, accessing the possibility of danger, then walk in realizing that even if the layout is new the same friendly faces still populate the FWT & CD Office.

Bennington Professor Starts Border Safehouse Project

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The desert of Sonora is hot. In some parts the temperature can reach over 130° Fahrenheit in the shade. It stretches over southwestern Arizona, parts of California, Nevada, and northwestern Mexico. Since October 2007, over 20 immigrants have died in Arizona, many from crossing the Sonoran Desert.

Indian Gov't to Cancel Debt of Small Farmers

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The Indian government recently announced a plan to cancel the debt of small farmers. The move is expected to cost around 15 billion U.S. dollars and will be available to any famer with less than two hectares of land. The deal was motivated partially by a recent spike in suicides amongst impoverished farmers in the Vidarbha region of central India.

Quo Vadis Bennington

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The Story Thus Far: The Year is 2156. The United States has collapsed and in 2100 the American Interior was declared the world's largest ecological reserve, having forcefully relocated the remaining Americans to Australia. A reporter has been sent into the interior by National Geographic to report on the level of neglect and to what extent the wildlife has repopulated the remnants of the collapsed civilization.

The Perfect Human

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Is the order of things important? To rephrase that in two ways: If you get to the right conclusion does the order of the steps matter? or, If you approach things in the wrong order can you achieve the same understanding form the conclusion?

On the 'right order' side of the argument you have examples like reading Dante before Virgil, creating a logical argument, solving a math problem without getting lost, or building, well, nearly anything mechanic.

Whose Heir is Obama?

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

From my own experience I know how John F. Kennedy electrified a generation of youth. Because my father was his friend and biographer, I was fortunate to have known him. Kennedy came to my home in Williamstown when I was a small boy. My family and I visited him in his Georgetown home during the 1960 primaries.

Mexican Food for Thought

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

It has been established that I am Mexican, but I want to let you in on a secret: I don't know what Mexican food should taste like. (Nor do I know what Oaxaca is like, since I have been missing from there since I was seven). This realization came to me while I was in Austin and I found what they refer to as "Tex-Mex" and it was�very good.