For the heating and cooling team within Facilities Services, December through January is their Super Bowl. With huge swings in temperature, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) staff like Scott Barker have to keep buildings heated at a comfortable temperature without wasting energy from ...
For my next date, I went to lunch at Otter Creek Bakery with Agnes*. My best friend, Edgar*, who plays on a varsity team with Agnes, had introduced us a couple times before. However, our interactions were always fairly brief and insubstantial, so we became acquaintances of awkward proximity — we knew ...
After a year of news stories about Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers, Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics Allison Stanger set the record straight on Jan. 10. Talking about the cases of Edward Snowden, the NSA, and Wikileaks, Stanger was critical of those she ...
It is politically incorrect to call Myanmar ‘Burma’ because of its colonial connotations, but the new name ‘Myanmar’ is also politically incorrect, as it is the name of only one of its many ethnicities. While the United States supports the former name, as the country under its current name is ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/campus-voice-oct-27.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Nov. 27 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke with Sports Editor DAMON HATHEWAY, as they hit pause and rewind on Fall 2013. They discussed dissent and debate, academics and activism in ...
Some time ago, two of my close friends in a long distance relationship broke up due to an ‘irreconcilable cultural difference,’ despite both of them being brought up in Hong Kong. So where is Hong Kong positioned in the cultural spectrum really? There are many groups of people in Hong Kong. There ...
Church, early on Thanksgiving morning. I close my eyes to pray but the picture that flashes before my eyes is Him on top of me, kissing me. I’m not talking about Jesus, of course, and it’s not my imagination. “If love is a sin, I’m a sinner,” I comfort myself (with the lines of a song I had ...
Hunter boots, polo shirts, the newest Tory Burch flat or even a classic barbour jacket are the last things you will find in Hannah Deoul’s ’14 closet. The senior, originally from Baltimore, has a style far too unique to blend in with the crowd. Known for her Berlin-style clothing, “Doodles” ...
My first “first date” last week was delightful. After a long hiatus from dating on campus, I felt like a lucky boy to be out on the town with an adorable and charming lady. Finding her was a little tricky. In the absence of any casual leads, I wasn’t sure how to seek a potential date without ...
Azure heavens gently fading into blue over the spire of Mead Chapel, trees ablaze in the colors of fall below; the view going down College Street, past the utility poles, parked cars and language houses to the crimson façade of Twilight Hall; the stark white slopes of the Snow Bowl broken by the elongated ...
After viewing the documentary made in a 2011-2012 Middlebury Union High School (MUHS) English Class on middbeat, Local Editor Molly Talbert and Editor-in-Chief Kyle Finck reached out to MUHS Journalism teacher Matthew Cox. In a new partnership, The Campus will work with MUHS journalism students to produce ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/town_gown.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Nov. 17 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke with the creators of Town vs. Gown, a short documentary produced by students at Middlebury Union High School. This follows discussion about the video ...
As a first-year I was elected into the leadership of the Student Investment Committee. As a sophomore I ran a handsome campaign for SGA President, and escaped the burden of winning by losing handily. As a junior I met the Dalai Lama and won the TEDx spot to talk about traveling. As a senior I’ve published ...
It is 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night. The campus is illuminated by a full moon, and the faraway thumping bass of music can be heard echoing across lawns as parties get started. Tom Raymond is on the clock, checking in for his shift as a night watchman. “The College campus is a lot different at night ...
Blackbird, a literary arts magazine, will present its new online branch, The Orchard, on Friday, Nov. 22, in tandem with the release of Blackbird’s biannual publication. The magazine’s Editing Board, which includes editors of both publications, will host a launch party at The Mill on Friday night, ...
At home in Hong Kong, I used to be able to just stand up and go anywhere. Right now, any means of travel requires meticulous premeditation. Sometimes I feel like I am stuck on an island, in every sense of the word (believe it or not, Middlebury is built on a slope so as to avoid a flood if there ever ...
Instead of the typical pictures of physical distortion and emaciated children one would expect to encounter in any other talk about social issues, E. Benjamin Skinner began his lecture on modern-day slavery with light-hearted banter with the full audience in Dana Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 7. Skinner ...
Just like in the online videos, at the beginning of every TED talk, a sonorous round of audience applause in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (CFA) is a prelude to a brilliant idea. TEDxMiddlebury screened three TED talks and hosted 10 speakers, including a current student, Alec MacMillen ...
“It was in ’67, ’68, when the U.S. was making great efforts to invade Vietnam that I realized that religion and politics — these abstractions — were what caused people to do these things. So I wanted to do the opposite. I wanted to show people something concrete.” Vito Acconci, renowned ...
For college students across the country, class registration is a high-stress, high-stakes time of year. Not only do we have to pick the classes we want to take, we have to successfully register for them. Inevitably, around registration time, complaints and frustrations about BannerWeb and class registration ...