If you’re planning a quick trip across the border or a night out in Montreal, be aware of new regulations from the Department of Homeland Security.

As of Feb. 1, you must present either a passport or a valid driver’s license as well as proof of citizenship – the most common of which is a birth certificate – when returning from Canada.

The JSC Summit Bookstore will soon be settling into its new home in Dewey. The building has been undergoing renovations and, according to Dean of Administration Sharron Scott, the construction should be complete by the end of February Vacation.

“The bookstore itself will have more features,” Scott said. “The textbook stacks will be open for students to get their own books. Students won’t have to wait in line to find books, they can just [get] them themselves.”

Johnson State College President Barbara Murphy will go on what she referred to as a “mini-sabbatical” this semester, taking some time off to travel to South Africa.
Murphy has been president at Johnson State for six and a half years. She began in July, 2001 after being president of Community College of Vermont for about six years as well.

A president in one of the Vermont State Colleges may be granted a four to six week sabbatical after serving for about six years, “to do something,” Murphy said, “It can’t be just a vacation.”

Sunday night, the residents of Arthur Hall were forced into the cold, and more importantly, to miss the Superbowl kickoff by an evening fire alarm. Many of the students who rushed out of the building and into the snow to escape the shrill alarm were barefoot and covered with only a towel or bathrobe. Arthur’s students quickly filled up the SGA lounge to escape the cold and watch the game on the big screen.

The second floor was filled with a thick, noxious-smelling smoke, which could almost immediately be smelled throughout the entire building. “The suite was so filled with smoke I couldn’t breathe when I went in there, and it burned my eyes,” said Public Safety Officer Jon Brooks.