As a member of The Bennington Lens (formerly The Bennington Beacon) for the last three years, I recently found myself going down a historical rabbit…
Posts published in “Opinion”
As Field Work Term draws near, anticipatory groaning is approaching its peak. Each year around this time the Bennington student community ends up asking itself,…
Blaming low-income communities for their own reliance feeds into the narrative that has allowed plastic production to double every year for the last 15 years.
Approximately 71 million Americans voted for the reelection of Donald J. Trump, most of them in that nebulous 24-hour period of noise between 11:59 PM…
It is November 8th, the day after it’s announced that Democratic candidate Joe Biden has won the election. Electricity and the sense of relief are…
Disciplinary fines are a problem. They are the primary system that Campo uses to address and prevent harm at Bennington. They are not only fundamentally ineffective, but also they cause additional harm to many students. Here’s why.
Climate change is a controversial topic in the 2020 presidential election. The devastating wildfires that rage across California and Oregon, displacing thousands of people, show…
The year 2020 has been arduous on us all, but public schools have taken the brunt of the pandemic. We were already in an education…
