Author: [no author name found] With the semester winding down, and exams looming large, The Campus recognizes that all work and no play makes Joe Midd a dull boy. Put aside your books for an afternoon, and take advantage of the College in bloom. Check off these to-dos on our top 10 guide to must-sees ...
Author: Rachael Jennings From noon until 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, a white tent near Coffrin Lounge was host to delicious food, exquisite costumes and cultural celebration during the College's first-ever Haru Matsuri - or Japanese Spring Festival. Traditionally, the College has celebrated Yuki Matsuri ...
Author: Dina Magaril Caeli Nistel-Schnabel '08, was one of three Iowans who applied for the Fulbright, but she was the only one to receive approval on her independent project studying secondary education for the cognitively disabled in Wuhan, China. "All of us Iowans would band together in the library ...
Author: Tess Russell If you have been frequenting www.middleburyconfessional.com since the controversial Web site went live last week, you have probably had at least a few good laughs. You might also be grappling with certain important questions regarding the darker, more vicious elements at work on ...
Author: Thompson Davis You can keep your friends, your pint glass and your cane - all I want out of Middlebury is my diploma. And I want it now. I want it before the higher ups realize that I'm a credit shy and a few payments behind. I want it so I can show it to my mom and make her cry tears of joy. ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Students were not speaking up in class on April 25th, but it was not because they had forgone the night's reading. Instead, participants of the National Day of Silence were making a statement that spoke louder than words.The day is a national event, honored by over 6,500 high schools ...
Author: Rachael Jennings With flashing lights, trendy clothes and contagious music revved by DJ Thompson Davis '08, McCullough Social Space definitely got a taste of the glamorous life on April 26. That night, under pulsing spotlights and encouraged with warm applause, Middlebury's African American ...
Author: Amanda Greene Middlebury students have a tendency to overload their schedules. Our date books double as color-schemed art projects and by Sunday evening our dorms look as if they've been swept by a hurricane. In a climate where kids are penciling in phone calls home and time to sleep, it's inevitable ...
Author: [no author name found] With temperatures shooting into the 70s, the re-emergence of flip-flops, skirts and bicycles, and the blossoming of daffodils and trees, there is no denying the beauty of springtime at Middlebury. It is about time to escape the cool fluorescence of the library and venture ...
Author: Dina Magaril Heat waves. Glistening, tan bodies. Short dresses, clean shaven legs and skin skin skin. We're all thinking about it. Now that spring has officially arrived our options for enjoying sex in new places has increased tenfold. So, with a little help from some outdoor-enthusiast friends, ...
Author: Amanda Greene Everyone is talking about elections. "Obama or Clinton" is a question asked as often as "beef or chicken." People are deciding who they want to vote for, and the American public is finally talking about issues. What about health care? How should we fix public education? How do ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg For students hovering near the "Middlebury PostSecret" bulletin boards in the New Library, news of the latest in on-campus confessions may drag them back, at long last, to their carrels and computers. MiddleburyConfessional.com hit campus early this week, and though the Web site's ...
Author: Alie Burnstein It seems odd that a night devoted to sexual violence awareness would begin with an a cappella performance. The Mischords, one of the all-female groups on campus, performed three songs, including an especially stirring Tracy Chapman medley. Yet, this event - the third annual Lovefest ...
Author: H.K. Merriman Photographer Steve McCurry spoke and showed photographs to an overflowing Dana on Sunday. McCurry, a member of Magnum Photos whose pictures frequent the pages of National Geographic, is most famous for his photo of Sharbat Gula, the "Afghan Girl" with the striking green eyes, that ...
Author: Tess Russell If I did not know Rowan Morris, I might be surprised by his unconventional tennis vocabulary. Right before our interview, tied at 40-40 on the Atwater courts, he called the score as "Düsseldorf." On the next point, after ceding the advantage to his opponent, he yelled that he ...
Author: Thompson Davis Have you ever noticed how awesome Middlebury looks on the College home page? Needless to say, if people took that thing halfway seriously there would be a lot of pissed off people. Let's say I was a high school senior from the planet "Snompson" (an alien) with aspirations of attending ...
Author: Nicole Lam, Mary Lane, and Cecilia Goldschmitt Gurard-Levin takes a gap semester to gain perspective on real worldLike many first-years coming to Middlebury in September 2003, Micah Gurard-Levin '07.5, fell into the trap of believing that college was all about getting through intensive academic ...
Author: Amanda Greene A good friend of mine, Emily, was a tour guide our sophomore year. I would often see her walking backwards leading around eager groups of students (and their equally eager parents) answering questions about social life, food and academics. Emily always had a big grin on her face, ...
Author: Eleanor Horowitz and Rachael Jennings "This may induce ulcers of grandiosity," Dr. Robert Sapolsky began as he stepped up to the podium for the College's second annual convocation series keynote address. His talk, titled "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress, Disease, and Coping," was made possible ...
Author: H.Kay Merriman In an effort to meet the trustees' deadline for developing a firm set of ideas that would enable the College to become carbon neutral by 2016, the MiddShift Implementation Working Group (MSIWG) hosted two open forums on April 15. The purpose of the forums, Campus Sustainability ...