Author: Thomas Brant At 7 a.m. on the morning of May 5, 1970, first-year Howard Burchman picked up the phone in the WRMC-FM office. His vision was blurry and his voice probably sounded tired. He had been up all night, his eyes glued to the radio station's teletype feed, which was spitting out bits and ...
Author: Amanda Greene My friend was eating lunch in Atwater, when Public Safety came to boot and remove a vehicle that was parked in a faculty/staff space. The owner of the vehicle was, conveniently, eating lunch in Atwater as well, and ran out of the dining hall to rescue his car. It was clear than ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Who are you? Why are you here at Middlebury? What categorizations make up your identity and why do those groupings exist? On Monday, April 7, as part of the Gaypril series, a Queer Studies Panel took place in Hillcrest to stir up questions like these and raise awareness about ...
Author: Dina Magaril Let's talk about spanking. I think it's something that needs to be addressed. There exists a school of thought that believes that all human beings can be divided into spankers and spankees. This theory, as many of us are finding out by the time we hit our senior years, is entirely ...
Author: Amanda Greene Housing can be - and is - stressful. The issues that arise when Middlebury students decide where to live, and whom to live with are complicated. How do you tell a good friend that you don't want to live with him? What do you do when someone doesn't fit into your block of four? ...
Author: Thompson Davis Whether it's shot-gunning Busch Lights in a Stewart bathroom or savoring a pint of Oatmeal Stout at Two Brother's, Middlebury students have a special relationship with beer. Like most American teenagers, I was not allowed to consume alcohol, so once I got to college I started ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman "He's a professor of Geography, a major he took in college. Expert in speaking Russian, though those Russians have nothing on Liebo's dashing good looks. And because of him, they had this great idea: they could thank him and give him his rightful cheer. Finally they figured out ...
Author: Rachael Jennings While many students were getting ready to start their weekend, heading out to the bar and meeting up with friends, a former Middlebury party-girl addressed a small crowd about her personal battle with alcohol that began when she was a teenager and peaked during her college years. ...
Author: [no author name found] I have probably had as many conversations about this week's Campus Character, Lauryn Torch '11, as I have had with her. Last weekend, I again found myself discussing the Bronxville, N.Y.-native, this time with one of my housemates in Homestead who is a member of the men's ...
Author: Tess Russell Attending a session of Men's Group on Tuesday, March 18, I eagerly anticipated stepping into a parallel universe of forthcoming male students who would supply the answers to those vexing, age-old questions we females often ask about our Y-chromosome possessing counterparts. Are ...
Author: Michelle Harvey When was the last time that you stopped studying, disregarded your stack of books, turned up your favorite song and just danced? Think about your favorite dance move: the Charleston, the cha-cha or the one-two step. Think about how your special dance dissipates the stress of ...
Author: Liz Gay We all know the saying - "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life." But the question of who controls the river, posed at the Oxfam America Hunger Awareness banquet that was held on March 9 in Proctor Dining Hall, is a decidedly ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman "If you don't know this song, I don't know why you're at this school," announced host Jimmy Wong '09.5 as an introduction to Chelsea Minton's '08 final song in Friday night's Middlebury Idol competition. In true Middlebury fashion, her rendition of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" ...
Author: Dina Magaril I don't want to jinx it by talking about. It seems too good to be true but I need to share this with someone to make sure I'm not imagining it. Can it be? Middlebury students are dating. While this fact should not be startling news, let's face it, it is. Most Middlebury students ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Imagine that your friend is lying still on a hard floor, arms scribbled with Sharpie, facedown. Imagine that, surrounded by crushed cans of beer and empty handles, he is dead, and has been dead for hours. We have all encountered situations involving passed out friends at parties, ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Julia Alvarez, Middlebury College's acclaimed writer-in-residence, ended her slideshow presentation on Tuesday, March 11, with a powerful image - a black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman, frail and wrinkled, framed by crumbling stucco wall. The woman is dressed humbly, ...
Author: Amanda Greene Modern dating is complicated. There comes a time in college student's lives when relationships end, and when squeezing into a twin bed is no longer a routine sleeping arrangement. Break-ups are especially painful, because more often than not, the decision to call it quits is not ...
Author: Austen Levihn-Coon Paul Loeb, author of "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear," winner of the Nautilus Award for the best social change book, is speaking this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Mead Chapel. Loeb has spent over 30 years working on citizen ...
Author: Amanda Greene Sometimes it's hard to ask for help. Relying on others means that we have to be open and honest, and that we have to talk about things that we would like to ignore, or keep to ourselves. Girls are often placed in particularly difficult situations because we have to talk frequently ...
Author: Tess Russell This week's Public Safety log listed - among a string of wallet thefts and alcohol-related citations - an incident of sexual assault, which reportedly occurred on Feb. 28 in Coffrin Hall. This will likely strike many students as shocking and frightening, but sexual violence at Middlebury ...