Documentarian Ken Burns, notable for directing The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), and The Natural Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009) will visit Deerfield on February 23, 2012.

The Green Cup Challenge, a competition between dorms as well as schools in an effort to reduce energy use, started on January 18 and will last through February 15.

Fall 2011 saw a 49% increase from fall 2010 in the number of students who visited the counseling office for help.

Next year will mark the beginning of current Assistant Dean of Students Amie Creagh’s five-year tenure as the new dean of students, giving her responsibility for the entire student body.

Marked by a major change of name, the Deerfield Diversity Alliance, formerly known as the Diversity Task Force, is working to increase the organization and responsibility which come with positions…

This fall a residential curriculum entitled Connect4 was introduced through corridor conversations and a freshman class overnight at Camp Beckett in the Berkshires.

After almost a term without a representative because elections were postponed from last spring, day students elected Hannah Wulkan ’12 and Annie Klink ’13 as their student council representatives.

In a move towards providing more organic food, the dining hall, under Interim Food Services Director Michael McCarthy, has stopped purchasing ground beef from a mass distributor.

English Teacher Gina Apostol has traveled to Zuccotti Park and throughout Manhattan in order to witness the Wall Street protests.

The Gay Straight Alliance asked to allot time for their annual Coming Out Day ceremony at school meeting but could not be accommodated, due to an ongoing attempt to make…