It’s Sunday and you decide that you’ve probably watched one too many episodes of Netflix and need to get some actual work done. If you stay in your room you’ll inevitably just end up succumbing to temptation, cracking open that bag of popcorn that you’ve been staring down all day and ripping ...
Barak adé Soleil crosses to the middle of the stage. The Chicago-based artist smiles infectiously at the audience. “I’m going to ask you to come closer,” he announces. His deep baritone instantly comforts you and makes you trust him. “There is plenty of space up here with me.” A moment of ...
Last week, students publicly demonstrated their displeasure with the recent John Doe v. Middlebury College ruling from the State of Vermont. On Thursday night, the words “Doe must go, I stand w/ Jane” were chalked on the pavement leading up to Mead Chapel and the go/doe link was established. The ...
In February 2015, a U.S. national security report called climate change “an urgent and growing threat to our national security.” Over the past two decades, climate change has become an increasingly important topic in the United States and across the world. Researchers have demonstrated the far-reaching ...
Family. Environment. Change. These are the three simple yet strong words with which award-winning director Chad Stevens describes his new documentary, Overburden, which was screened on Thursday September 17 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. The title of the documentary refers to all the material that ...
On Sunday morning, I watched time-lapse panoramas of rolling Utah skies and sunrises over looming, copper cliffs, before finally settling in the living room with award-winning CNN reporter Lisa Ling and Becky Jeffs, the daughter of the man who founded the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). Ling ...
Let’s talk about Battell bathtubs. Seriously. How, how, how are they still a thing? There are currently eleven bathtubs in Battell. Eleven! That’s more than most old people homes, which average 5.7 bathtubs per building. College records show that the last person to have bathed in one of these godforsaken ...
Over the summer, a prospective student visiting the Middlebury College Organic Farm asked Jay Leshinsky, “So, does this place run itself?” Leshinsky, the very tan full-time farm educator who manages the farm year-round, chuckled. The question sounds absurd but many Middlebury students, myself ...
Less than five miles from the College, one company is working to transport the benefits of Vermont agriculture to urban millennials across the United States. A few years ago, Cam MacKugler ’09 was housesitting at a dairy farm in Middlebury when he had an epiphany. As he pulled weeds from the fertile ...
Ari Fleischer ‘82 is one of The College’s most prominent graduates in the world of politics. He was ever-present in the media as the White House Press Secretary during the crucial first years of George W. Bush’s presidency (2001 - 2003). He was with the President when the tragic events of 9/11 ...
Readers, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to another year at Middlebury College. Do I really have any grounds to do this? No, not really. You’re back, I’m back, but I’m not your professor or anything, so do you really even care? Regardless, I’d still like to welcome all five of you ...
Caroline Cating ’16.5 and Jason Feinman ’15 love to fly. Procuring their pilot licenses at ages 19 and 17, respectively, Cating and Feinman have become familiar with the Vermont aviation community. Last month, they implemented their passion for all things aviation when their pitch for the Aviation ...
Thursday through Saturday there’s going to be a performance of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner in the Hepburn Zoo. It’s a very famous play that focuses around the lives of several characters during the HIV/AIDS Crisis in New York City, one of the turning points in American ...
Middlebury’s campus is fairly outspoken about a number of issues, both on campus and in the world beyond. Recently, some of the methods used to spread social awareness have arguably had too great of an impact on our facilities staff to be, ironically, socially just. This week, I talked to Wayne ...
Imagine looking out past the forest canopy onto the distant Adirondacks, the pink glow of the sunset spilling through their peaks. Imagine being suspended fifteen feet above the earth in a silent congregation of conifers with the face of a hill dropping sharply beneath your feet. Imagine feeling the ...
Wide-eyed and tight-lipped, students sit facing the podium in the Warner Hemicycle. The class will continue its discussion of Plato’s Republic today. As Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Murray Dry begins to write his outline, the whispers begin. “Is that a d?” “No, ...
Dear Frank, I’m on an advisory committee for an issue that excited me several months ago, but after several meetings of being ignored, I’m no longer interested in participating. How do I extract myself from this situation, particularly as the obligation continues into next year? With a few ...
Do you beliebowitz? (I shall not shorten this to belieb because this column does not associate with overgrown babies who stage instagram videos of their basketball skills.) Because I beliebowitz. For whatever reason the Mr. President of this fine institution and the inspiration behind my top-secret ...
Highly-educated. Self-motivated. Hard-working. Unpaid. These adjectives describe a growing proportion of the current national work force: the undergraduate intern. The US Department of Labor defines an internship as “a formal program providing practical learning experience for beginners in an occupation ...