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On the night of September 30th, Hill House reminded campus why it holds an infamous reputation among the student body. A series of repeated fire alarms—some of which turned out to be false—ruined everyone’s chance at a good night’s sleep. Now that they have caught up on their beauty rest, however, students are ready to give their thoughts on their home’s unreliable emergency system. 

In the bowels of the campus operations office, past the iconic purple door and up two flights of creaky stairs, sits the office of Maureen ‘Mo’ Gallagher, a space packed to the brim with reusable bags, papers, notes, and spreadsheets of all means and uses. Everyone on campus knows her name; for all Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) students, her name pops up in email after email, a kind of disembodied voice that answers all kinds of campus operations questions. On campus, she slips by the student body easily, often in a baseball hat and a taupe bomber jacket; she sees all. She sits on the board of directors as the sustainability chair, oversees all campus clean-up teams, is the head of campus operations, and she does it all efficiently and bluntly, looking earnestly over her large wire-rimmed glasses.  

In a recent election,  Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) first-years elected Annabelle Fernandez ‘30 as the Class of 2030 President. According to the SLC Student Senate bylaws, the role of the Freshman class president is to “Act as the liaison between their class and the Senate.” Among other things, their responsibilities include serving as a voting member on both the Student Activities Subcommittee and the Students for Scholarship Fund Committee (SSSF), holding 3 events a year and organizing Town Hall Meetings to address student concerns.

Dear Class of 2030, Welcome to Sarah Lawrence College! As you begin your first year here, we wanted to welcome you not only to campus but to the community that you are now a part of. Sarah Lawrence is a place that is shaped by the incredibly unique people who pass through it.

Charlotte Doyle has made history as Sarah Lawrence's longest-serving teaching professor, entering her 60th year of teaching at Sarah Lawrence College. Stepping onto campus in 1966, Doyle knew she was right where she belonged.

Before last spring, a Hampshire College student’s worst nightmare was letting a University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Minuteman get the better of them. For Ethan Gordon, at the time a Junior at the late establishment, this was certainly the case: “Of course we were constantly joking about when Hampshire was going to close, but the second a UMASS student said something, I’d clap back.” One email sent out April 14th changed that forever, and declared to the school that Gordon and his friends bonded over defending closed. It condemned the students to something else, too: the decision to give up or transfer.

As many Sarah Lawrence students know, if you find yourself craving a late night or a pre-eight o’clock snack, one of the tastiest places to go is the pizza counter nestled in the back of Bates Dining Hall. Luis Fuentes, an experienced food serviceman and long-time employee of the college, would strongly agree, but what he would not admit is that the key to the pizza counter’s glow lies in his precision.

The application cycle for prospective Resident Advisors (RA) has come to a close, and the interview process is now in full swing. The role is highly competitive, with Residential Life (ResLife) receiving over 80 applications each year and typically only offering 10-15 new positions each year.