Dear Frank, I’m graduating in May and have realized that a lot of the people I’m hanging out with aren’t really people I want to be friends with in the long term. I’m a little disappointed in myself for not finding better friends at college, but mostly I’m wondering how much or little ...
Have you ever wished your clothes could better express the creative and fun person you are? Have you ever looked at your shirt pocket and thought, “What a complete waste of space!” Then look no further than the Flippant t-shirt company, founded in part by Middlebury students seeking to do something ...
In Feb. 2015, the Board of Trustees announced the construction of two new residential buildings to be erected in Ridgeline and Adirondack View. Plans for the project, which at the moment still await approval from the administration, include residences targeted specifically toward upperclassmen. The ...
“Fart” in Swedish means speed. Just thought I’d give you all the heads up on that because I’m six and because Broke College Students in Cars Getting McDonalds would like to welcome another Swedish vehicle to its illustrious list of tested cars. So, without further ado, let’s go full fart ahead ...
In honor of 100 years of commitment to foreign languages, the Middlebury Language School will celebrate its centennial with a special weekend of cultural events, lectures and panels on July 15 to 17. The wide assortment of activities, speakers and performances are open to all Middlebury students as ...
Last Saturday, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) of Middlebury held a policy conference on divided government. AEI is a new club at Middlebury based on a public policy think tank in Washington D.C. Thanks to this new voice on campus, students can now tune in to a national network of free political ...
For 95 years, the Middlebury Performing Arts Series has brought world-class performers inside the “Middlebury bubble.” The series has showcased Yo-Yo Ma, Louis Armstrong, the Von Trapp family, Pablo Casals, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo (just to name a few). As the director of the Performing Arts ...
The discussion of abstinence in church youth group filled my mind with scenes from “Footloose,” with conservative pastors and teachers telling me that sex is the devil’s playground and invoking city council meetings to preserve my generation’s sexual purity. As a Christian, I’ve chosen abstinence ...
Last summer, Abby Woolf ’17.5 came across a book about winemaking and decided to buy it on a whim, thinking it might be a new hobby to invest in when she returned to Vermont in the fall. Although instead she ended up making cider and, most recently, beer, the process of brewing stretched from October ...
Images have largely replaced sound in today’s media. In fact, we are so used to pictures accompanying sound that it’s strange just to listen to a story and to let our imaginations take over in creating mental pictures. It’s even stranger when we consider this within an academic context. Yet, ...
To be very straightforward, we decided to do capoeira this week because we wanted to learn how to beat people up. As trendy girls living in a downtown world, it seemed like a necessary life skill — or at least Maddie’s worrisome mom made it seem that way. **insert sweet, southern, high-pitched ...
"We [the SGA] think that having an 'eliminate it' option—we don't think that will pass—but we think it will scare enough people into thinking about it and to vote... Honor codes can and do work in some places but they only work if students buy into the concepts. If a large number of Middlebury students ...
This week, we follow-up with Hannah Bristol '14.5, one of the writers of the controversial "It's Actually Just a Game" opinion article, on the numbers that show athlete privilege is real, the backfire, and the gendering of athletic privilege. Before this op-ed, no one was talking about the athletic ...
In my junior year in high school, I used to believe that people who didn’t choose to come out to their friends and family were part of the problem. Their “being in the closet” was detrimental to the visibility of LGBT+ people in the world and, therefore, was slowing down the biggest challenge ...
“There’s something surreal about it. You feel like God,” Will Jacobs ’16.5 said. Jacobs drives a Snowcat: a 20,000 lb. hulk of metal capable of grooming sub-par snow into quality skiing terrain. In Germany, where the machines are made, a Snowcat driver is called “Helder der nacht,” which ...
On February 9, a mobile app created by a collaboration of students at the College won third place in the (Em)Powering Grid Resilience Competition. The student-led initiative designed the app ReGrid to create a direct connection between utility companies and their customers as a way to diminish environmental ...
Class is not dismissed yet, folks — acclaimed journalist and senior editor for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates still has a lot to teach us at Middlebury. Last Wednesday night, hundreds of Middlebury students packed Mead Memorial Chapel to hear Coates’s lecture on his Atlantic cover story “The Case ...
Ladies and Gentleman, fret not, the Campus’s greatest car column is back (yes, I know you don’t care, but I care, so show some respect). I assure you that I used my time off wisely. Over the course of J-Term, I dedicated myself to the grueling and complicated task of figuring out the conversion ...
In light of the recent release of 50 Shades of Grey and the upcoming Porn Party at the Queer Studies House, we thought a good topic for this week would be a list of porn and kink-related vocabulary and their misconceptions. Some of the terms you will find are very commonplace while others are not. The ...
This past weekend, MiddCORE launched their first Springboard Weekend, taking a program that is usually taught during summer or in a J-term course, and packing it into a weekend. In groups of three to four, students had three days to identify a campus issue, research the problem and do a presentational ...