On Friday March 1, 54 current Middlebury Posse scholars and 76 of their student, faculty and staff guests, called “plussers,” traveled to Silver Bay, N.Y. for the nationwide PossePlus Retreat. The PossePlus Retreat is an annual program in which the Posse Scholars of all 44 participating colleges ...
Three students have taken an initiative to start MiddPIG (Middlebury Philanthropic Investment Group), a club focused on integrating microfinance and philanthropy. MiddPIG president and co-founder, Josh Kruskal ’15.5, wants to add Middlebury to the growing number of colleges and universities with ...
I have been focusing too much on distinctions. Coming to a new culture, it is natural to encounter little differences to huge cultural shocks that remind me of all the distinctions between home and the place I am living now. I wrote about how Americans and Chinese have different perceptions ...
Walk into the basement of Forest Hall these days and you will find a transformed space. Thanks to the efforts of a few inspired students, this once stark, industrial area is now the site of an open-ended art project that aims to turn the basement into a viable social venue through weekly Sunday night ...
I was dancing at Atwater last weekend when some girl took over the DJ station and put on “I Knew You Were Trouble.” The whole party began to the sing – or more accurately scream – the lyrics to Taylor Swift’s latest hit. This song is incredibly popular, obviously because Ms. Swift is the ...
Where do you look to find out what’s going on at Middlebury? Most of us would probably have a jumble of different answers. With so many options, from Portal to Middblog to Facebook to the Campus, it’s hard to know where to go to get information about campus happenings. This is one of the reasons ...
Last Thursday, Feb. 21, the Middlebury community had the rare opportunity to hear stories of Hindu heroes from Lindsey Harlan, Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Connecticut College. Harlan’s lecture, titled “Hindu Heroes with Muslim Fast Friends: Contemporary ...
The upcoming TEDxMiddlebury conference is expected to offer the fundamental TED organization promise of, “ideas worth spreading,” according to Roy Wang ’16 who is currently serving as one of the event’s organizers. Scheduled for March 9 at the Center for the Arts concert hall, the event features ...
In 1980, at the behest of several community members seeking to provide a resource for survivors of domestic violence in the area, the Addison County Community Action Group oversaw the establishment of the Addison County Battered Women’s Project. Two years later, the project became an independent entity. ...
On Feb. 10, Sword & Plough, a company founded by recent Middlebury graduate Emily Núñez ’12, won first place and the audience choice award in the Harvard Pitch for Change competition. The competition welcomes contestants who present ideas promoting the creation of social value. Sword & Plough ...
Last Wednesday night, Meghan Laslocky ’89 presented her first book, The Little Book of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages at 51 Main. At the event, which The Vermont Bookshop touted as “Anti-Valentine,” Laslocky discussed her new book and read from her recent Middlebury Magazine article, ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 10 p.m. to midnight, the College celebrated Middlebury Rises, one of many events worldwide dedicated to ending violence against women through the One Billion Rising movement. The vision of the Feb. 13 dance parties, which took place in over 197 countries, was created ...
I do not enjoy giving head. I find the sensation of jamming a phallus against my gag reflex generally unpleasant, and, in my eyes, the activity fails to forge an emotional connection. I find fellatio physically intimate, I can smell the mustiness of his nether region, but I struggle to achieve emotional ...
I interned at a Hong Kong-based weekly news magazine in winter term, and I made some observations on fragmentation of information by reading news everyday from news outlets in China and in the U.S. If I only have 10 minutes before I go to work and need to skim some news, I’ll choose the New York ...
In the wake of the 2000 Olympic summer games Nike aired an ad featuring Olympic runner Suzy Hamilton. Like all patrons of athletics, Nike enjoys the lucrative window opened by the Olympic games that vaults athletes other than football, basketball and baseball players into the American mainstream. Suddenly ...
Over the years, the Internet has become a source of alternative methods of education, making information readily available. InstaEDU, an online tutoring service launched publicly in May of last year, makes virtual education even more accessible by adding a human element. Launched by three Stanford ...
Remember Valentine’s Day in elementary school? You’d come home off the bus beaming, with a shoebox full of cardboard rectangles sporting Disney characters, comic book heroes or cuddly cats, and — hopefully — a handful of Hershey’s kisses and heart-shaped lollipops. Everyone brought in a bumblebee ...
For the members of this year’s Solar Decathlon team, designing a home is not an exercise in engineering or architecture but a reflection of a community’s values. InSite, this year’s submission to the Department of Energy’s biennial competition, aims to foster communal spirit through their sustainably ...
As human beings, we desire privacy in our sex lives. Originally an evolutionary imperative, this drive persists in modern society. We lock doors. We close shades. We turn up the music. As college students, however, communal living often thwarts this need. Dorms are shared spaces in which we temporarily ...
Barack Obama’s long-awaited day has finally arrived. As he stood on the west side of the Capitol, he took the oath of office once again in front of a crowd of 600,000: “I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will ...