We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for the VILLAINOUS cold to take hold of our fair hippie college town, but it’s been so mild this week we’ve been in VILLAINOUS weather purgatory.

For many students, the concept of putting education on hold for a year off is as daunting as it is enticing. Taking a year to travel, work or volunteer is already a common trend with European students, and now, like a love of soccer and a functioning health care system, the idea of a gap year is also seeping into American culture. In recent years, more and more American students are opting to take a gap year, either between high school and college, or between undergraduate and graduate studies.

One of the most popular majors on campus, biology serves as a gateway to the medical profession, as well as a department for crucial research in areas such as pharmaceutics and genetics. Although we applaud the attention paid to the major in the form of a recent revamping, we are, nonetheless, disappointed with the low level of transparency on the part of the Biology Curriculum Transition Committee throughout the process.