Hundreds gathered in Mead Memorial Chapel on Monday, May 2 to attend “Responsibility, Reconciliation and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs.” The event’s primary participants were Shigeko Sasamori, an 84 year-old survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing, and Clifton Daniel, grandson of U.S. President ...
Located on the lower level of Davis Family Library, the relatively inconspicuous entrance of Special Collections gives little indication that it is, in fact, home to folios that have existed for upwards of four centuries and first edition copies of classics such as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. From ...
On March 26, 1970, Campus writer Micheline Fedyck reported on the first ‘significant’ protest in Middlebury College’s history. During this week some 46 years ago, students gathered outside of Proctor and marched into town protesting the U.S. draft lottery for the Vietnam War that called on men ...
On Monday, March 21, members of the Middlebury community met in Twilight Hall to hear the College’s plans for the development of a new park area where the town offices and municipal gym currently stand. The meeting was led by Dave Donahue, who has been developing the plans for the park along with ...
Students such as Joey Button ’18 and Leo McElroy ’18 demonstrate just how creative Middkids can be. Over the past several months, the two sophomores have worked tirelessly to establish a Middlebury “Makerspace,” a design lab-type space where students can realize projects with power tools on ...
The Office of the Provost hosted a lecture by philosopher Dr. Martha Nussbaum on Thursday, March 17, in Wilson Hall. The lecture, titled “Anger and Revolutionary Justice: Ideas for Liberal Learning,” was open to all students, faculty and staff. About 175 people were in attendance. “Anger, with ...
On the eve of Commencement 1985, a student crept into the meadow where McCardell Bicentennial Hall stands today, took a blowtorch to a tall, boxy sculpture and burned it. The sculpture, a four-sided closet-sized metal building with panels of six playing cards on one side and an entrance door painted ...
In Kanye West’s song “Real Friends,” he raps, “We smile at each other, but how many honest?” Last Saturday night, I found myself preoccupied with that same question. I stood in a friend’s room on the fourth floor of Stewart and carefully folded a vomit-soaked comforter around itself to ...
On Thursday, March 10, Dr. Catherine Kerr of Brown University presented “Mindfulness: Body, Breath and the Self,” which included a brief history of secular mindfulness in the United States and its growing acceptance in academic culture. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of secular mindfulness, defines ...
While students learn countless lessons from their professors — often through hours absorbing lectures and taking notes of problem set solutions or discussion points — there are certain subjects that, over months and years of class, go unaddressed. Last Thursday’s installment of “It’s Not What ...
While most students spent J-Term hitting the slopes or catching up on sleep, Maryam Mahboob ’18 was hard at work, albeit outside of the classroom. For Mahboob, J-Term marked a time for fundraising and for the first test of her food startup, Macaroni and Choose (M&C, formerly known as M.A.C.), ...
During Winter Term, the dining halls welcomed a new brew at the beverage station: coffee by local roaster Vermont Coffee Company. Based in Middlebury Vermont, coffee from the Vermont Coffee Company is fair-trade and certified organic. The move to serve it in the dining halls has allowed the College ...
By Renee Chang As spring semester gets underway, the College is abuzz with activity. From classes to sporting events, there is hardly room to deny that life at the College is anything but uneventful. But besides classes and extracurricular activities, there is something else that lingers on students’ ...
By Grace Levin This week’s Good Ol’ Campus column reaches back into the college archives to March 1888 with the school publication The Undergraduate. The publication, founded in 1875, consisted of town bulletins, personal announcements, literature and poetry and op-eds. The paper begins with an ...
Christian students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered on March 5 in Axinn 229 to discuss how to find communities of faith and meaningful work after graduation. The all-day workshop, titled “Living Faith: Christian Leadership on Campus and Beyond,” featured a morning prayer and panel discussions ...
By Will Nathan 1. Every other Tuesday 2. Shirts off 3. A drink and a church 4. Atwater dining hack 5. New kids on the block 6. A general and our president 7. THURSDAY! 8. Movies and fistpumps 9. Proctor ______ 10. Tiny desk concert 11. ...
What is consent? Does consent have to be verbal, or can it be reached through body language? Am I supposed to get my boyfriend/girlfriend’s consent each time before having sex with him/her? What makes for good sex? Why don’t we talk about sex more as a community? These were some of the questions ...
Bob James, a representative of Monument Farms Dairy in Weybridge, Vt., gave a talk about the company’s history and practices on Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the Hillcrest Orchard. James, a native of Middlebury and the company’s director of sales and distribution, spoke to an audience of about 25 students ...
For local Vermont farmers Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack, cheesemaking has been a way of life since 1982. The proud owners and primary operators of Orb Weaver Farm in New Haven, Vt., Susman and Pollack produce two artisan cheeses sold exclusively in Vermont, including at local businesses 51 Main, ...
Middlebury Women Leaders is a new club on campus founded and run by Jialong Wu ’17.5 and Mariah Levin ’17.5. The club works to empower women and equip them with skills to promote their professional and personal development. Their first workshop, on conflict resolution, will be held on Thursday, ...