Last Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11, students, faculty, staff, community members and guests filled McCardell BiCentennial Hall, Johnson Memorial Building, Wright Theatre and Mahaney Center for the Arts for the eighth annual Spring Symposium, a celebration of research, creativity and the liberal ...
As we walked into the dining hall for our seasoned potato cubes on Saturday morning, the student body was shockingly hyper, reminiscent of Charlie Sheen on tiger’s blood (#winning). Still in our pajamas, we meandered to our anti-social corner in the side cove of Ross and overheard conversations from ...
Bill McKibben Schumann Distinguished Scholar It's never been a huge problem for me. I grew up writing for newspapers, and that tends to cure you of perfectionism: you know that half the job is to get it done on time. I think sometimes you have to say: I'm going to write as well as I can right now, ...
Middlebury students are connected by no more than two degrees of separation: you either know someone or know someone who knows that person. Though there are many great things about this smallness, I always thought it presented a romantic disadvantage. The main reason: the gossip-mongering that roars ...
What do cheese, 3D visualization goggles, epi-pens, cowgirls and undocumented college students have in common? Not much more than the shared evidence of the creativity students will be pursuing this summer, with the help of grants awarded by MiddChallenge. On April 4 and 6, nine finalists presented ...
The next time you walk by a tree, and a dead branch does not come crashing down, knocking you off your feet, you can thank the College’s Facilities Services Maintenance and Operations. As spring thaw approaches, the College’s landscaping crew is busy pruning trees on campus before the snow melts ...
It took way too long for two college-aged girls to realize that the Middlebury Campus is released every Thursday. In other words, here is the very delayed Throwback Thursday edition of the Secret Life of NARPs. Ever wondered whether Maddie or Izzy have ever experienced athletic success? Or when they ...
On a beautiful Thursday last week, I accompanied the student initiative NOM (Nutrition Outreach Mentoring) to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. Inside a gray building on a side street in downtown Vergennes, about 15 local teenagers chatted and played cards and video games. However, the six ...
Today, the College will launch its annual Spring Student Symposium with an inaugural keynote presentation by San Francisco-based novelist Vendela Vida ’93 in the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Since graduating from the College with a degree in English and American Literatures with a Creative Writing ...
College is famously known and remembered as “the best years of our lives.” Four (or more) years to explore, experiment, learn and find ourselves, so that we can (hopefully) sort out our passions and plan our futures — including the development and cultivation of our own signature style. I realized ...
On April 2, a motley crew of professors, students and local denizens came together to share in a discussion titled “Acting Righteously in Times of Danger.” The event sought to spark conversation regarding two key questions: “When others are threatened in times of danger, what is it that moves ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tuition-april-fourth.mp3"][/audio] On Friday, Apr. 4 hosts GRETA NEUBAUER and IAN STEWART spoke with Opinions Editor Issac Baker about the Campus’ editorial on Middlebury’s ever-increasing comprehensive fee which is now approaching ...
As students, we live our lives in proximity to our peers, and thus have the opportunity to see them not only in an intellectual environment, but also in the social sphere. We see our friends on dining hall dates, at Atwater parties, on long walks to the organic farm, and “studying” in the library ...
Friends with benefits. All of those words individually sound so nice. Friendship, that’s awesome. And benefits, who doesn’t want those? Yet somehow, often, these situations don’t end up working out as perfectly as people initially plan. At a place like Middlebury, with the “work hard, play hard, ...
A blizzard raged outside the Robert A. Jones ’59 House last Wednesday evening, but inside, the conference room was filled to its capacity of 100. Students, faculty and community members had braved the biting wind, driving snow and deeply blanketed roads and sidewalks to attend this year’s Scott ...
On Feb. 25, a Facebook page was created for The Middlebury Fireside, which calls itself as “Middlebury’s new, premier publication for the outdoor enthusiast, environmentalist, nature photographer, or artist.” The page is currently on the sparse side, but the six students involved have given a ...
Tammy Iffland, first cook in Atwater Dining Hall, is perhaps one of the happiest people I’ve ever met. “My job is fun,” she told me. “We love making you guys happy.” Iffland’s day starts around 7 a.m., but Atwater opens even earlier, with dry goods arriving on trucks from Burlington Food ...
For those of you who were worried (probably just our #1 most devoted fan, Izzy’s grandpa): we’re officially back baby. Maddie has resurrected from her gastro gravestone and joined Izzy once again for their half-marathon training. After a beautiful rendition of Baby Come Back to Me, a.k.a. a Vanessa ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/keystone-xl.mp3"][/audio] On Friday, March 14 host Greta Neubauer spoke with students Hannah Bristol '14.5 and Adrian Leong '16 about their participation in a mass act of civil disobedience in Washington D.C. to protest the Keystone ...
The restructuring of the Middlebury College Board of Trustees comes at a time when the Middlebury brand is expanding its reach. With the increasing number of Schools Abroad sites, programs to the Summer Language Schools and the acquisition of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in recent ...