Author: Lizzy Zevallos Sounds rooted in the culture and traditions of the earliest Americans sparked the interest of members of the College community. The construction of a traditional teepee and sweat lodge on Battell Beach kicked off the beginning of the College's celebration of Native American Heritage ...
Author: Aylie Baker "Si me matan, yo sacaré mis brazos de la tumba y seré más fuerte," Minou Tavárez Mirabal exclaimed, her hands outstretched as though offering an embrace. Her words elicited a wave of passionate applause, and the audience was soon on its feet. In the close of her address, "Violence ...
Author: Zoey Burrows President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced Tuesday the establishment of the Middlebury College Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. The first of its kind, the program is designed to support intensive, year-long reporting about environmental issues by journalists ...
Author: Julia McKinnon Alluring scents of cinnamon, apple cider, spicy jambalaya and curried lentils floated down Weybridge Street as the sun dipped behind the Adirondacks last Thursday night. For three days, students peeled, chopped, sautéed, stirred and baked in preparation for a fall feast at Weybridge ...
Author: Trevor Lee "I'm here to build bridges," Bilal Sarwary '10 explains as he turns down the traditional Afghan music playing out of his speakers and points to a photograph of a boy who lost his parents in Afghanistan's civil war. In the Ross Fireplace Lounge last Thursday night, Sarwary, who left ...
Author: Joseph Bergan While Middlebury boasts a degree of international flair, with world-class academics and programs that reach far beyond our little town, the fact remains that the College is itself small. Although students revel in its intimate size, which seems to serve as a point of pride, another ...
Author: Katie Hylas Middlebury's website sings a proud tune: "Every summer for the past 92 years, Middlebury has created a unique linguistic environment, one that provides students with unlimited opportunities to speak their target language." What they don't tell you is that they will do anything they ...
Author: Nathan Zucker Most students at Middlebury probably ignore the campus telephones on their desks, viewing them as relics of the recent past before a time of e-mail, cell phones and instant messaging entered the scene. Indeed, it took many first-years over a month to set up their voicemail, a service ...
Author: Polly Johnson While many students rushed off campus last Friday to begin Fall Break, some dedicated MiddKids stuck around to hear Morris Fiorina, one of the nation's best-known scholars of American politics, speak on the myth of a polarized America in a lecture titled, "Polarized Elites, Moderate ...
Author: Aylie Baker The sky is heavy with darkness and the trees stand submerged by gauzy mist as several cars trundle into the Dead Creek Wild Life Refuge on Route 17. It's 6:30 a.m. and Middlebury is well-awake. Rendered virtually unrecognizable by their assortment of lumpy, woolen clothing, a group ...
Author: Katie Hylas Here at Middlebury College, people are rated in two categories: their taste in music and their general "outdoorsy-ness." We Middkids have a lot of creepy competitive energy leftover from high school. We were all the same - whether or not we liked being that way. We sat in the back ...
Author: Kelly Janis While most students were lazily whiling away the hours at home or visiting friends at other universities, nearly 40 first-year and sophomore students devoted this past fall break to the pursuit of an externship arranged by the College's Career Services Office (CSO). The program, ...
Author: Joe Bergan Oh Fall Break! Oh glimmer of hope in that long expanse from Move-in-Day to Thanksgiving. Oh sweet two days! How you fill us with such foolish pride, how you decieve us to believe that it is actually a full break! Oh, how we cherish you! How soon you are upon us! Yes, Fall Break is ...
Author: Polly Johnson Last Friday, Oct. 6, Middlebury played host to 1990 Nobel Prize recipient William F. Sharpe, who delivered the Carpenter and Alan R. Holmes Lecture entitled, "Financing Retirement: Saving, Investing, Spending and Insuring."Sharpe, a professor emeritus of finance at the Stanford ...
Author: Himali Singh Soin Himali Singh Soin '08 travelled this past summer to the Bhutan region. This travelogue is the final installment in a series of unique summer stories by students.Nestled between the mountains of Tibet and India is Bhutan, a tiny, Buddhist kingdom where spiritual happiness is ...
Author: Tom Brant On Tuesday morning, several students wearing bright yellow jumpsuits invaded Stewart Hall. Carrying boxes of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), they knocked on the doors of startled Stew residents, encouraging them to reduce their dorm room energy use by replacing their old light ...
Author: Leigh Arsenault Nine-year-olds growing up in low-income communities are already three grade levels behind their peers in high-income communities. Half of them will not graduate from high school. They are seven times less likely to graduate from college. These are the facts Teach For America ...
Author: Mike Murali Last Saturday, The Capitol Steps performed at the Pepin Gymnasium to a packed audience of students, visiting parents, faculty and community members. This crew of musical jokesters made light of politics, poking fun at famous political figures such as John Kerry, Al Gore, President ...
Author: Katie Hylas Anonymity is absent from our college campus. With 2,400 students, it's almost impossible to go a day without seeing an abundance of familiar faces. This usually positive feature, however, often proves to be logistically and emotionally awkward for all of us. We all pass scores of ...
Author: Toral Patel Amnesty International (AI) is a name we all know - or should know. One of the most widely respected human rights organizations in the world, AI is active in exposing abuses of basic rights through its signature letter-writing campaigns as well as through protesting, fund-raising ...