Have you ever had an argument with a friend and wished there was someone there to settle it for you? Well now thanks to two Middlebury alumni, you can use Squabbler.com to share your side of the argument over the Internet and let viewers declare a winner. The creators of Squabbler, Matt Bijur ’97 ...
Go directly to jail. Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $200. In this case, jail is Proctor Terrace. In conjunction with this spring’s symposium, “Communities & Justice: Inequality and Innovation in America’s Justice System,” the symposium student leaders, Hannah Postel ’13, Hanna Mahon ...
Michael Kraus, Frederick C. Dirks professor of Political Science and director of Russian and East European Studies, has a life that is, to say the least, worth writing home about. His spacious office, filled with books and journals and documents of all shapes and colors, is a testament to all that he ...
As Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies, Tara Affolter’s time at Middlebury neared its end, the Keep Affolter movement took off. After President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz received a letter from education studies minor Jay Saper ’13 on behalf of the Institutional Diversity ...
Hookups. Like Natty Ice, beer pong, chemically-aided all-night cram sessions and crippling addictions to Facebook, hookups are one of the most iconic symbols of what it means to be in college. This is not to say that everyone has them, or even should — but for better or for worse, they happen to ...
Dr. Wino’s Take: Founded in 1859 and covering over 380 acres, the Maison Louis Jadot French wine producer has had plenty of time and space to perfect their well-known Beaujolais wines. The featured wine for the fourth week of the spring semester is the Maison Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages. This ...
Every February, Middlebury gets as New England as it can possibly get — we eat sugar on snow while watching ski races, build ice sculptures, and can watch our peers compete in snowshoe races. But the carnival is never exactly the same year to year, and it’s changed a lot over the years. This year, ...
1. Things MCAB did try this year to, “recreate a Winter Carnival that they might have had in the 50s or 60s,” according to Liz Gay ’11, MCAB Traditions Chair: -Old-fashioned dance cards -King and Queen -Klondike Rush -Retro style advertising posters 2. Ice sculpture competition used to be incredibly ...
Most Middlebury students have experienced the feeling: it is late at night, there is no food in the dorm, both MiddExpress and The Grille are closed and it is way too cold and entirely too far a walk to get food at Shaw’s or Hannaford — that is if they are still open at all. Recognizing this problem, ...
Where are you from? How did you get to Middlebury, and what did you do before taking on the Great Dish War? My parents came to this country from Sparta, in the Greek Peloponnese. You know Sparta? How 300 Spartan men in their underpants held off the entire Persian army of Xerxes? Anyway, I was raised ...
In 1970, Middlebury’s admissions office had a challenge on its hands: fill the space left behind by an extraordinarily high number of juniors abroad. The administration proposed that the College fill these beds each spring by increasing the number of admitted transfer students. Fred Neuberger, dean ...
After a brief introduction, Rick Bass walked up to the podium and turned to his audience, taking a long look at the white board. Disconnected words, circles inside circles, arrows, lines and a quote had been scribbled all over the board from the previous class. “Gosh,” he said in his coarse southern ...
I am in the process of learning an important lesson, and at the risk of embarrassing my boyfriend, it’s a lesson I would like to share with you. Since we are college students, I think it’s fair to say that dining hall conversations pretty frequently revolve around sex and alcohol, but as one of ...
With his signature thick-rimmed glasses, grandpa-inspired sweaters, well-loved three-year-old J. Crew messenger bag and effervescent smile, Leo Moses ’14 isn’t one to blend in with a crowd. Towering above most of his peers at 6’5”, this first-year has caught the eyes of students for being someone ...
After watching “Race to Nowhere” — a film in the documentary series put on by the Education Studies Department, (apart from critiquing what invisible layers were missing from the film in terms of race, gender and socioeconomic inequities and the larger, more dominating pressures and problems with ...
Anne Hoover, recipient of Spirit in Nature’s 2011 Eco-Spirit Award, leads a life comparable to the busiest of Midd Kids. Though Hoover admits she has slowed down in recent years, her involvement and leadership in a myriad of causes is undeniable. Hoover, who lives in Middlebury, is currently a volunteer ...
The clock strikes five on a Friday afternoon and already there is a line through the three floors of Adirondack house. The door opens every few moments to let another anxious student in, grunge t-shirt in hand. Excited chatter travels down from floor to floor; faint sounds of coins jangling fill the ...
Growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Assistant Professor of Economics Leticia Arroyo Abad experienced the vibrant culture of a city with 2,891,082 inhabitants. Currently, she is enjoying a quieter environment as a professor in the Economics department at Middlebury. It was the location of her upbringing, ...
The discomfort of trudging through endless snow is tempered only by one important consideration: at least we didn’t have to shovel it. Keeping the paths clear of snow and ice has occupied facilities this winter to a degree that Lanscape Supervisor Bob Cameron has not seen in his four years at his ...
Over February break, a controversial lawsuit was brought against Taco Bell. California citizen Amanda Obney, along with a law firm in Alabama, claim that only 35 percent of Taco Bell’s ground beef is not actually beef, so Taco Bell should not call their beef filling “beef.” Other ingredients were ...