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.