Author: Katie Hylas Well, I thought I would be able to avoid it this year - Chronic Death. Yes, I have it. Perhaps some of you have it as well. Only the first week into school last year, I was inflicted by the first of many colds I would acquire in the petri dish otherwise known as Battell. I found ...
Author: [no author name found] The Clifford Symposium has become an annual tradition at Middlebury College. Held at the beginning of each school year, it attempts to establish a long-term dialogue about issues of interest to the college community. The 2006 symposium, entitled "Urban Landscapes: the ...
Author: Joseph Bergan While some may believe that dating may be dead at Middlebury College - here at The Middlebury Campus, thoughts remain positive. High levels of sweaty grinding at Tavern are beginning to force more people off-campus, to perhaps achieve some kind of "real" relationship. Dating is ...
Author: Aylie Baker SafeRides. No more Free Pub Night. Construction on Main Street. This fall, such gripes have been noticeably discernable above the hum of SGA deliberations and general student banter. Yet such complaints quickly pale in comparison to issues such as AIDS, sexual exploitation and premature ...
Author: Mike Murali So you might have had an interesting summer, but can you say you accompanied your professor on a trip through time to the ruins of the lost city of Hix Witz or Jaguar Hill outside of Vistahermosa, Guatemala? Or that you lived in a house more primitive than Batell, lacking such amenitie ...
Author: Aylie Baker It is not often that one gets the chance to hear one of journalism's key figures speak on the nature of news media today - let alone ask him his favorite band or whether his movie collection includes the film Almost Famous. This past Thursday, Sept. 21, however, a hoard of students ...
Author: Lizzy Zevallos This weekend's Middlebury Organic Garden's Annual Harvest Festival was a time of merriment and reunion in honor of a successful growing season at the garden. The rainy skies on Saturday, Sept. 24 were no deterrent to the determined student gardeners who relocated the festival ...
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Author: Katie Hylas Everything I ever hear about Middlebury is positive (unless it's about the weather). If you go to Middlebury you are expected to LOVE it. "Oh it's such a beautiful school, such a great school, oh and you can ski whenever you want!" With all this positive propaganda, I lose track ...
"I have been swimming upstream my whole life," revealed Francois "Buttercup" Clemmons. "It is a painful thing to deny who you are." In writing his memoir, "A Song in My Soul," Clemmons embarked on an intellectual and emotional journey to come to terms with his life as a gay, black man. Now, while Clemmons ...
Author: Andrew Herzik and Joseph Bergan John McCardell Bicentennial HallThis is perhaps one of the finer designed bathroom spaces in the school. The location is central but refreshingly secluded. Upon entering, you are faced with a nice foyer, leading to a terrific full length mirror. The first thing ...
Author: Joseph Bergan "My mother says I was 'born to the sound of gunfire'," explains an Afghani man sitting across from me in a corner room in Ross Commons. Moments earlier this man, Bilal Sarwary '10, had brewed green tea and poured it into a porcelain cup he had provided me before showing me a seat ...
Author: Aylie Baker "It was outside. 10 p.m. They were making beats, listening to the music, tapping the poles…that," smiles Morgane Richardson '08, "was hip hop." This past Friday, Richardson had a chance to lead a discussion which utilized the musical form of hip hop as a springboard through ...
Author: Michael Murali Middlebury College discussed the wide range of social and cultural issues surrounding hip hop in a three-day event titled "Bad As I Wanna Be, A Hip Hop Symposium" this past weekend. From Friday through Sunday, the College hosted a series of film screenings, lectures, panels and ...
Author: Aylie Baker MIDDLEBURY PIPE BAND: Josh Hendrickson '07.5 couldn't bring his piano with him when his family moved to Belgium. So, rather than sulk over this loss, Hendrickson picked himself up, moved on and decided it was time he began playing the bagpipes. You may have heard them play last ...
Author: Joe Bergan and Aylie Baker Every summer, Middlebury College releases about 2000 freshly educated undergraduates into the summer sun, eagerly anticipating the coming months. Some spend these warm days by a pool, while others pack into a small Manhattan apartment to get a glimpse of the real world. ...
Author: Joe Bergan and Aylie Baker As the fifth ranked liberal arts college in the nation, Middlebury once again reeled in a record number of applicants and selected a dynamic student body for the class of 2010. This years batch of state champs, valedictorians, child prodigies and galaxy defenders - ...
Author: [no author name found] Last Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, newly arrived Middlebury students participated in Deliberative Dialogue. Returning upperclassman led the freshmen, who were grouped by commons, in discussions on issues such as racial and ethnic tensions, gender and immigration policy.This ...
Author: Joe Bergan For most Middlebury College students, registration was an ordeal completed in that ancient period - "before summer." For others, those hot months are an uncomfortable time, awkwardly fielding such questions as: "Oh Middlebury! Do you take a language?" "What is a 'Feb' exactly?" For ...
Author: Dina Magaril After Stevie Starr's impressive regurgitating antics two weekends ago Middlebury students thought they had seen it all. This was until last Friday . when Tom DeLuca, reenowned hypnotist extraordinaire hypnotized a group of students in front of an amazed crowd in McCullough Social ...