With the 2016 deadline of carbon neutrality looming closer, the College’s alternative energy profile is more diversified than ever. We’re powered by sun, wind, trees and now… cow manure? Fear not, the odorless gas produced from the quintessential Vermont scent won’t force you to hold your breath ...
Have you climbed a mountain recently? Did you make the trek to the gym during J-term? Do you own more than three athletic outfits? Well we haven’t, we didn’t and we don’t. As Non-Athletic Regular People, or NARPs for short, being unathletic makes us social pariahs on a campus where the athletic ...
How do you make an ice rink out of nothing but a stretch of grass on a quad? As difficult as it might sound, every February, the Facilities Landscape Services staff makes it happen, albeit with a little improvisation. With winter weather unpredictable in Vermont, Facilities staff have to be simultaneously ...
eBay. Everyone is familiar with it, understands what it is used for and most likely has been on it themselves or has known someone that has. The website is most popularly known for selling things like old furniture, vintage cars, NFL jerseys and objects of that sort. However, what you probably didn’t ...
A developed city should also have a developed culture. Hong Kong does not have one. In In Search of Hong Kong Culture, Lee Oufan, a renowned Chinese academic, described how academics from mainland China marveled upon visiting the Central Library, Hong Kong’s biggest library. And yet all the books ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2-16-shirley.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Feb. 16 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER discussed the possibilities, obstacles and future of JusTalks with Dean of the College Shirley Collado.
Language Tables Head Waiter, Ricardo Martini '16 Ricardo Martini, is a language table super-star. He started working as a humble Italian waiter during the J-term of last year, and after just one semester, was chosen to be a head waiter this past fall. Martini says the position of Head Waiter is more ...
Jack and Nicole have spent every weekday of the last five months together. At 7:45 a.m., Nicole picks Jack up at his house. Most mornings, they stop at Ferrisburgh Bakery on the way to school, so Nicole can get a breakfast sandwich; if she is in a good mood, she will buy Jack a cookie, too. At school, ...
There are two types of people at Middlebury: those who are in committed relationships and those who wish they were. If you’re not in a “Midd Marriage”, you’re romantic life is limited to either alcohol-fueled hookups or banishment to the desolate land of loneliness. We’re pinned between ...
After just a few minutes aboard the white maintenance truck, Clinton Snyder, the landscape supervisor at the College, noticed that I had forgotten gloves. Buzz, as he is fondly known, kindly offered me his own, and explained that the success of campus snow removal depends on the entire crew. “The ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jan26campusvoiceTHESES.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Jan. 26 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke with two super-senior Febs about their last homework assignments ever. Hanna Mahon '13.5 talks about the class she's teaching (yes, teaching), ...
If you had sex education in high school, chances are you were a pimply fourteen year old who was too embarrassed to pay attention or absorb any information. Most of what you learned was probably heteronormative and geared towards basic pregnancy and STI prevention — either abstain or, if you must, ...
Exactly one year ago, I was tapped on the shoulder in Ross Dining Hall by a sophomore guy who asked me, “Are you the girl that wore those patterned leggings last week?” My answer was “yes,” as I grinned ecstatically, so incredibly pleased that someone noticed those leggings that were going ...
It just so happens that every once in a while, the Middlebury community misses out on the opportunity to hear fantastic visiting speakers due to the distraction of spectacular glorious skiing conditions. This past weekend was one such opportunity. The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs sponsored the ...
On Tuesday evening, former National Football League (NFL) cornerback Wade Davis received snaps and laughs from a packed Mead Chapel audience as he honestly — and often humorously — spoke about his difficult journey from closeted gay man to LBGTQ activist. Davis, who invited students to view his ...
The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler ’75 in 1996. The play consists of a series of monologues about the “female experience,” such as sex, menstruation, sexual assault, orgasm, female empowerment and solidarity based on both Ensler’s personal experiences and interviews ...
The reasons I did it - measure the blood pressure of about 400 patients in 3 8-hour workdays - was because of this. “When are we going to see Aung San Suu Kyi?’ I asked Christine, the daughter of Doctor Aung, the leader of the trip, ‘Have you ever seen Aung San Suu Kyi before?' ‘Yeah,’ ‘Really?! ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/migrantWorkersCampusVoice.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Jan. 19 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke to four of Vermont's migrant workers. Estimates put the number of migrant workers in Vermont at 1,500. For those migrants the long, ...
Mika Tan '15 from Singapore The Megabus from Boston that was cancelled was the second cancellation that I experienced that day – first my flight from New York got cancelled, hence the decision to take Megabus back to Middlebury (New York-Boston-Burlington), but at the Boston stop, they cancelled ...
Features Editor Joe Flaherty ’15 became facilities services newest “dangler,” braving sub-zero morning temperatures to drop down into a manhole outside the Biomass plant on Jan. 8. Flaherty has introduced Campus readers to the men and women “Behind the Vest” at Facilities Services who keep ...