Author: Dina Magaril Sex is as ubiquitous on a college campus as are midterms and winter break, but Middlebury added a little spice to its Sexual Awareness Lecture Series this past Sunday by hosting sex toy extraordinaire and independent consultant, Kristin Lawson of Passion Parties. Lawson, a self-employed ...
Author: Tess Russell For the past two years, incoming Middlebury first-years have received - among a myriad of other orientation materials - an offer from the College's Office of Environmental Affairs to purchase an "offset" for their individual carbon emissions. This year, 156 students participated ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Think back to your first few weeks at Middlebury, when you were struggling to remember roughly 2,000 new names, find your way around campus, balance four new classes and learn to live with a stranger. Add to that the pressure of jumping into the College's social scene halfway ...
Author: Cloe Shasha First-years have been hearing rumors about Winter Term - colloquially referred to as "J-Term" - since they set foot on the Middlebury campus. While many members of the class of 2011 shared similar preconceived notions of what Winter Term would hold, students reported having a range ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman Countless columnists of The Campus have lamented Middlebury's lack of a dating scene, and students of all grades and sexual orientations express that the student population is generally uninterested in long-term relationships. During orientation for the class of 2010, a residential ...
Author: Amanda Greene I can't remember the last time I paid for music. Or videos. The notion that people go into record stores and exchange cash for albums is foreign to college students. Why would we pay for something that we can get from our friends or neighbors? Yet, all of the music trading that ...
Author: Tess Russell Given the unseasonably warm spells we have been experiencing at Middlebury this month, it is certainly a wise move to check the forecast before leaving your dorm. So when Max Kanter '10.5 told me that he was "obsessed" with www.weather.com, I immediately chimed in that I, too, ...
Author: Molly Dwyer Despite the fact that Middlebury students have a quarter of the workload and quadruple the amount of free time during Winter Term, between the parties and ski trips, students are exploring non-traditional academic classes that are preparing them for the "real world." "It is good ...
Author: H.K. Merriman The 10th annual Remembrance and Reflection ceremony in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 21 shared a message of simultaneous hope and struggle. Artist-in-Residence Dr. Francois Clemmons, who founded the honorary celebration, led the Middlebury College Spiritual Choir in ...
Author: Zach Howe My first thought was, "Wow, these kids are tiny." As 50 fifth, sixth, seventh and eigth graders rolled into the Pearsons lounge on Jan. 19 for the "Midd Kid for a Day" event, I was instantly transported back to all the uncertainty of middle school. I hoped that as a dozen other students ...
Author: Amanda Greene Middlebury needs to bring back the date. I'm not talking about upper Proctor. Girl needs to ask boy to grab some coffee. Boy needs to ask girl out to dinner. Girl needs to invite girl to a concert in Burlington. Dating can be platonic. Middlebury students assume that un-intoxicated ...
Author: Sage Bierster There are times in life when you just have to call it quits. This applies to a lot of things: sports teams, smoking, jobs and procrastinating from writing my thesis, just to name a few. I'm not an authority on any of these subjects (and seriously need to consider the last one), ...
Author: Tess Russell A few weeks ago, as I was gathering materials for an internship application (a task undoubtedly familiar to most of you), I attempted to print some writing samples from The Campus Web site, www.middleburycampus.com. Pressed for time, I carelessly typed www.themiddleburycampus.com ...
Author: Tess Russell Want to surprise your mom with a really special gift this Mother's Day? Forget flowers or a massage certificate and take a cue from Israel Carr '09, who (at the tender age of 15) gave his mother something truly memorable."I wrote her a card saying, 'Sorry I've always been a pain ...
Author: Aylie Baker In November of 1979, along a crowded street in Islamabad, Pakistan, hungry flames licked the U.S. embassy's shivering structure. Just kilometers away, huddled in the U.S. Consulate building, Jeffrey Lunstead and his colleagues found themselves under similar attack. His car was burned. ...
Author: Amanda Greene Last weekend, I found my dad rummaging through our limited wine supply at the last minute, looking for something that he could bring to dinner at a friend's house. My dad ultimately settled on a bottle of Pinot Grigio and joked that he hoped his friend hadn't gifted him this bottle ...
Author: Features Editors For most of us (sorry, Orgo students) Winter Term provides a much needed respite from the rigors of a full-time courseload. Now that you have three-day weekends and afternoons off, all that is left to do is figure out how to spend your newfound free time. Of course, there are ...
Author: Features Editors Middlebury's own Rachel Ann Cole '08 was featured prominently in the inaugural episode of The Learning Channel's "Miss America: Reality Check" last Sunday. Crowned Miss Vermont this fall, Cole, along with the 51 other Miss America contenders, is being put to the test on national ...
Author: Amanda Greene Last Saturday night I realized that very little of what I was wearing was actually my own clothing. I was wearing borrowed earrings and shoes, and a jacket that I had picked up along the way after I decided that my (seemingly) warm-enough sweater was not going to cut it. I glanced ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman A few weeks ago, during lunch, a friend of mine performed a monologue that he had been writing and rehearsing for a class. The speech described different moments in his life in which he had been ridiculed, rejected or simply sad. His words were raw, real and deeply personal. ...