Author: Gretchen Schrafft "What do we see happening here?" asked Mateal Lovaas '07, referring to an illustration from the children's book "Make Way for Ducklings." With a slideshow of images from childhood picture books, Lovaas challenged a group of students and professors gathered in Chellis House ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman From the cold, tired, often intoxicated students chasing after the "big white bus," to the stubborn, insistent, nearly fearless ones who simply step out in front of the moving vehicle, desperate students will do anything to catch a Midd Ride."She was saying 'Thank you so much! ...
Author: Joseph Bergan The powers at be would like students to believe that Ross, Wonnacott, Brainerd, Cook and Atwater are all separate but equal Commons. Yes, Wonnacott has the Gamut Room, but Ross has the Ross Fireplace Lounge. Atwater has those beautiful new suites, but Brainerd has Jewett House ...
Author: Polly Johnson It was way back in 1784 when an ever-resourceful Benjamin Franklin, wanting to save on candles, first proposed the idea of Daylight Saving Time (DST). Yet DST was not even officially enacted until 1966, under the Uniform Time Act. Now, thanks to the passage of the more current ...
Author: Sage Bierster After a year in Brazil, a country where the cover of Playboy is rarely a shot of the woman's front, I realize that the ass is highly underappreciated in this country. I've never really had an ounce of cleavage, but when it comes to my backside, well, I've got plenty. My butt had ...
Author: Thomas Newton Does this sound familiar? You open up the Sunday paper, hoping to learn if it's a good day for skiing, only to find that to get to the forecast you must sift through 50 pages of advertisements. In frustration you give up and turn to the TV, only to discover that you must sit through ...
Author: Joe Bergan DynCorp. Blackwater. Janusian - While these names may be foreign to some Americans, they constitute the most influential companies currently serving on the front lines side by side with American troops. And these are just a handful of the hundreds of privately owned global security ...
Author: Nathan Zucker If you asked most College students where they could find Henry David Thoreau's personal copy of Walden, most would probably shrug and say they have no idea. A few might guess that it is housed in a famous museum in New York, Boston or some other large American city. In fact, the ...
Author: Aylie Baker The Civil Rights movement of the 1960's dealt with issues of black and white. If you ask Van Jones, eco-visionary and human rights attorney, today that movement could be fought for green. "We all agree that we don't have any throwaway resources, species, energy sources," said Jones ...
Author: Katie Washburn A tour guide, casually walking backwards on the path next to Warner, points to Twilight Hall. "Students always complain about having classes in this brick building," she says with a smile. "They say it's so far away." Several parents laugh, but a student walking near the group ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman One day this past fall, first-years Faisal Saeed, Daniel Odette and Eric Baginski decided they wanted to catch a squirrel. For a trap they propped up a box with a stick and disguised it by placing grass clippings on top. For bait they laid out salad and oranges. Then the three ...
Author: Thomas Newton Imagine not having access to the laptop in your dorm room. Or even a public computer in the library. No e-mail checking every five minutes, no Facebook, nothing. At Middlebury, this scenario is never an option. But in a number of developing countries, access to computers and the ...
Author: Sage Biester I know nothing about men. I tried, but did not succeed, to understand that elusive bond between a man and his penis, and two first-years called me on it in a letter to the editor last week. So I went on a fact-finding mission to better understand men, or at least those populating ...
Author: [no author name found] They clean your dorm, wash your dishes and sort your mail. You see their faces everyday, but rarely do you get a glimpse into their lives. The Campus has torn down the wall between student and staff to reveal the stories, interests and hobbies behind Midd's everyday heroes.Kirk ...
Author: Polly Johnson With the three-day weekend behind us, we can now reflect upon the glory that was the 84th annual Middlebury College Winter Carnival celebration. Including such festivities as the ice show, cultural gala, Nordic and alpine ski competitions and the ball, the Carnival, with "Jet-Set" ...
Author: Thomas Newton We are embroiled in an energy problem. The recent trend to make consumer appliances, electronics and cars more efficient has helped ease the pain, but the underlying ailment remains. Compact Fluorescent Lights, hybrid cars and energy-saving appliances are all gaining in popularity ...
Author: Alina Levina Shirley Ramirez was recently appointed Middlebury's Dean of Institutional Diversity, a position created at the recommendation of the Human Relations Committee. Ramirez, a Latina clinical psychologist from New York City and former Executive Vice President of The Posse Foundation, ...
Author: Sage Biester Last week was my 22nd birthday and my friends, perhaps taking a cue from a previous column about masturbation, chipped in to buy me the gift that keeps on giving - a vibrator. I have never used a vibrator before, and at first I didn't know how to react as I opened the box from Trusted ...
Author: Sage Biester This past Sunday saw Middlebury's annual production of "The Vagina Monologues." Every woman that saw the show left feeling high on vagina pride, and every man that saw it left feeling slightly uneasy and a bit jealous. Why do women get to have these complicated but ultimately wonderful ...
Author: Joseph Bergan You got the phone call. Don't even lie and say you didn't. Your family called sometime during the last two days of last week after hearing about the blizzard of the century. They plead of you, "Don't go outside, I don't want you drifting into a snow bank and dying!" DYING? That ...