Author: Aylie Baker Two years ago, eco-visionary and human rights attorney Van Jones urged a packed Dana auditorium to consider the power behind inter-group collaboration in the environmental justice movement: "Who are you going to take with you?" he asked. "Who are you going to leave behind?"Saturday ...
Author: Tess Russell After a few weeks of getting 'A's in Mod partying while coasting through classes, the work is starting to pile up for many of us. Trying to juggle school assignments, campus jobs, extracurricular activities and social obligations necessitates a great deal of self-discipline and ...
Author: Rachael Jennings "We will, we will COOK you!" shouts an enthusiastic new generation of Cook Commons members. Against the backdrop of their shirts, ties and sundresses, the uproarious chant seems out of place.The Brainerd first-years, who have just performed their equally spirited version of ...
Author: Aylie Baker My Grandma Jean may have taken to confusing the family dog with Picasso, but her self-imposed commitment to bettering the youth of today has not yet eclipsed her. Indeed, as a distinguished matriarch of 80-odd years (she vows never to divulge her age), she's not out to convert the ...
Author: Dina Magaril I've been thinking a lot about food recently, which has got me thinking about eating habits and the kinds of food relationships we develop during our time at Middlebury. It might be because I just finished reading Fast Food Nation, or the fact that I've been frequenting the organic ...
Author: Tess Russell Subject: Midd-Rides contact numberBefore the weekend, all students received an e-mail reminding them that the proper extension for Midd-Rides is, in fact, (802) 443-7433 and encouraging them to program that number into their cell phones. Apparently a local resident had complained ...
Author: Amanda Greene I've been thinking a lot about sharing. College students, living in extremely close proximity to one another, are constantly sharing ideas, books and information. We share our frustrations, our fears and our anxieties - often to the point where our friends become our second families. ...
Author: Maggie Moslander In February 2003, Sudanese government-sponsored militias began systematically killing and torturing innocent civilians. Presently, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and as many as 2.5 million have been displaced.On Oct. 13, the Middlebury Farmers' Market hosted Tents ...
Author: Roz Vara For more than 20 years incoming first-year students at the College had the opportunity to attend Middlebury Outdoor Orientation (fondly known as MOO), a unique pre-orientation program during which students took part in three days of hiking, biking, canoeing or climbing around Vermont. ...
Author: Aylie Baker Robert Frost's cabin is going to have a new resident. In the Breadloaf Inn, he regales visitors from his frame above the mantel. On weekends, Fire and Ice becomes the local haunt for college students and towns people alike. Indeed, in a town which was once the summer stomping ground ...
Author: Amanda Greene Going back to school is intoxicating. Moving in involves a rediscovery of the dining hall, highly anticipated living arrangements and new classes. Back-to-school time is as exciting as it was when the best thing about September was a brand new box of markers and shiny notebooks. ...
Author: Tess Russell Each August, millions of Americans anxiously await the release of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" for a wide variety of reasons. High school students and their parents look to the rankings in hopes of gaining helpful insight into the trying college process, ...
Author: Jesse Davidson An article published on July 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed the existence of the only other mammal, besides Weybridge House residents, that subsists entirely on organic microbrew. The pen-tailed treeshrew, an inhabitant of the West Malaysian ...
Author: Dina Magaril Last semester, I started writing The D-Spot because I used to be a sexaholic. I was addicted to sex. I wanted to write about it and read about and watch shows about it. I wanted it in the early morning; I wanted it in the afternoon and right before I went to sleep at night. I wanted ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Throughout a seemingly endless winter sandwiched by a painfully shorter warmer season, Middlebury students spend hours upon hours working on schoolwork, attending classes and creating some fun in the utopian Vermont mountains. But come May, everyone is off for a trip with the ...
Author: Tess Russell Living in the Information Age certainly has its benefits (see handheld GPS), but one of the major drawbacks is the deluge of unnecessary information with which we are constantly inundated. The Middlebury community is no exception - seemingly every College office and student organization ...
Author: Dina Magaril "Here's the deal. I'm looking for some help. You'll need to be up at five in the morning and working till six o'clock at night and it's going to be dirty, dusty, smelly dangerous work for about 10 dollars an hour. So how many of you want to do this. Just raise your hands please."Sheryl ...
Author: Dina Magaril As the school year comes to a close, many of us can't help but have only one thing on our minds - exams. Middlebury students are used to working hard and pulling all-nighters, but there's something about the impending weeklong designation of final exams and papers that has even ...
Author: Austen Levihn-Coon While efforts have been made recently by the College to promote diversity initiatives, including the establishment of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Planning, there is still a sense among community members that Middlebury is homogenous and that discussion of difference ...
Author: Amanda Greene The idea behind Middlebury Confessional is intriguing. The Web site is a place for students to voice their concerns without fear of embarrassment or judgment. All postings are anonymous, so students don't have to worry about how they appear. Middlebury Confessional is an open forum. ...