The origin of the word “Catholic” comes from two Greek words — kata and holos — which together mean “according to the whole” and over time has been more simply translated into “universal.”

I have to hand it to Proctor, they’ve done a pretty great job recently with their stir-fries. I was impressed with chicken and broccoli, and while I’m not a tempeh aficionado, my friends were raving about it at dinner the other night.

India: the land of Bollywood, curry, the Taj Mahal, Kama Sutra, snakes, elephants and pleny of folklore. For most of us halfway across the world, the recent economic boom that has catapulted India to the international stage in recent years seems at odds with our more romantic and exotic perceptions of India.

From rural Vermont to the coasts of Vietnam, David LaRose, supervisor of the Mail Center, has never lost his genuine sense of humor.

Writing a sex column for a small college’s newspaper has not garnered me any sort of national (or even local) renown as a sexpert as far as I can tell, and I never expected it to. But I have been hoping that somebody besides my friends (who already asked for advice before I started this column) would ask for some help.

When students opened last week’s all-campus e-mail advertising the presentation of the film “America the Beautiful,” the familiar image of the Statue of Liberty stared back.

Heard of the Old Stone Mill? If the current board members have anything to say about it, you will.

One of the aspects of my newfound collegiate life that I most clearly remember describing excitedly to my parents on the phone my first week at Middlebury was that I had discovered that my childhood differed from my classmates’. For all of you who hail from “just outside of Boston” or one of the popular…

“I rarely go anywhere without my camera because I enjoy photo-documenting my life,” said Vincent A. Jones IV, one of the most eccentric members of the Class of 2012.
“I’m regarded as quite a prominent Facebook personality. I have over 2,300 friends, 200 well-composed profile pictures from my countless self-conducted photo shoots, and over…

Though many first-years believe that they are going to be doctors some day, through introductory calculus courses and the looming prospect of organic chemistry, many become quickly dillilusioned. Middlebury is littered with ex-pre-meds. So, who makes it all the way through? Who are these determined pre-meds?

I spoke with a group of pre-med students and…