Most of the campus hears and sees the action powering Middlebury’s Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) in April, with the dynamic Gaypril programming, and in October, during “Coming Out Week.” But behind the door of Chellis House and on the rest of campus, MOQA is still working, advocating and having ...
I remember the first time I had it. It had been a fairly unimpressive food day (sorry, Proctor) and I was bemoaning what I perceived to be the lack of viable dessert options after dinner. I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) get involved with a Black Forest Bar — I think it’s the cherries that are the ...
This February, an unprecedented number of students dedicated their break not to skiing and bacchanalia, but to benevolent service. Four Middlebury Alternative Leadership Trips ventured to Miami, Dominica, New Mexico and Nicaragua, where they partnered with local organizations to help do good work and, ...
The saying that “college is the best four years of your life” is a falsehood, according to Jyoti Daniere, director of Health and Wellness Education at Middlebury College. “This doesn’t mean that time spent at college isn’t great,” she explained. “There are just so many other happy years ...
Oliver the camel is not native to Vermont. But then, neither is Judith Giusto, his owner, and she is getting along fine. “I’m originally from New York City,” Giusto explained. “I owned a business in New York. Then I adopted a boy as a single mom. I was bringing up a child in New York City, ...
In his 15 years as the U.S.’ own Dating Doctor, David Coleman has spoken to over two million people about love and has memorized over 11,000 pickup lines. Last Friday, Jan. 15, he came to McCullough Student Center and gave his advice to some Midd kids. Coleman’s philosophy on dating is simple: “You ...
“Let’s Talk About Sex month” began with a bang, so to speak, on Jan. 12, as students piled into Dana Auditorium to witness the witty, alternative and ever-informative Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot present “I Love Female Orgasm.” Proponents of practicality, positivity and pleasure, the ...
Growing up, my family and I would go to a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” every year. And every year I wondered what it would be like to be haunted by ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Of course, I was never overly concerned. After all, I certainly had more Christmas ...
Mead Chapel was sparsely populated at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18. The meager audience, however, was treated to a striking address by the Reverend William G. Sinkford. Sinkford, the keynote speaker for this week’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, was the seventh president — and first African ...
We have all seen the commercials: a couple framed in black and white and walking down the street in the rain, a smiling pair jogging through the suburbs, a slightly awkward but endearing dinner date. Online dating: is it as magical and effective as our television screens make it out to be? Jean Lin ...
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how other people perceive sex. Perhaps naïvely, I assumed that people with shameful or other negative feelings about physical intimacy simply avoided it, but sexual satisfaction is a need that must be met somehow, and I do know that it is all too easy to give ...
Luckily for winter sports enthusiasts, the one month during Middlebury’s school year when students are not trapped in the library coincides with some of the best ski days in Vermont. Whether you are a skiing enthusiast who came for the great terrain or a first time snowboarder from Florida who didn’t ...
I am happy to report that I survived yet another holiday drill session performed annually by my extended family. How are your grades? Who are you dating? Have you come to your senses about voting liberal? What are you going to do with an English and Religion degree anyway? After four years, I have ...
“I had never heard of these people before they were invited to campus. My standards for graduation speakers are pretty simple — if they can entertain me, great; if not, I don’t care how famous they are. Graduation is my time, not time for some stuffy famous windbag to tell me how I ought to ...
With Winter Term nearly half-way through, and so many evenings left to enjoy and mornings to power through before heading to the slopes and warm fire-side beverages that come with another all-too-early nightfall, there is a lot left to do before the chaos of spring semester wakes us up from our late ...
Middlebury is home to an array of unique shops and restaurants, but for several years now it has been missing a small-town staple: the candy shop. Stephanie and Andy Jackson would like to change that, not with just any old confectionary — with chocolate. The new owners and operators of Middlebury ...
Welcome back for Yay-term! Personal story time: the Sunday night before the last week of class, my dear significant other and I were relieving a little academic stress in the classic cowgirl position, and I misjudged the distance from my head to the wall behind his bed, seriously slamming my skull into ...