Author: Caroline Vial No sex before suffrage "Are you faithful?" inquired the European radio station RTL 102.5 to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who responded, "I have often been faithful." Flighty or not, this answer was followed by Berlusconi's promise to observe a "total sexual abstinence" ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Using a newly-available online database, college seniors worldwide can now post their senior theses for viewing by professors and their fellow students alike. The Web site, UGResearch.org, was developed last year by two Dartmouth graduates.According to a statement on the site, ...
Author: Mike Murali The winter season has always been known to bring out the competitive side of Middlebury students. From the founding of the College, winter sports have been prevalent on Middlebury's campus. Following this tradition, the introduction of a Winter Carnival following the winter term ...
Author: Emily Peterson and Ilhan Kim I'm from New Orleans - born and raised there my whole life - and I felt heartbroken, confused, angry and helpless after Katrina. I was actually at school already when Katrina made landfall, but my immediate reaction was to pack my bags and head down to the city right ...
Author: Aifuw Ehigiator MALT Jamaica did not start when we landed on Jamaican soil. Ever since we were chosen we recognized that we had a mission. We had much training and fundraised to a point of aggravation. We ended up in Jamaica and civic dialogue was at the core of our actions. Our leaders Angelica ...
Author: Mallory Falk After 16 years as chief curator of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Emmie Donadio has taken on a new role: Winter Term professor. Her class, Curatorial Practicum, is less of a traditional History of Art and Architecture course than novel experiment. Though students complete ...
Author: Dina Magaril While many in the Middlebury community commemorated Martin Luther King's Birthday by attending the ceremony at Mead Chapel, one group of students decided to take a trip to King's birthplace. Middlebury students, accompanied by Professor of History Jim Ralph '82 and Associate Professor ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith Sunday, Jan. 22, was a thrilling night in the world of competitive sports. The Steelers and the Seahawks both won conference championships and a place in Superbowl XL, and offensive juggernaut Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, setting three new NBA records ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Over the years Carlo Rossi - the world's most beloved jug of wine - has convinced me to pull some outstandingly humiliating stunts. He's whispered sweet-nothings into my ear and massaged away my inhibitions until I've been midair between my trampoline and hot tub, moments away ...
Author: Caroline Vial World Social Forum in MaliBamako, Mali - From Jan. 19-23, Africa hosted the World Social Forum for the first time since its inception in 2001. The presence of nearly 30,000 delegates representing 260 NGOs and organizations from all five continents marked a "turning point" in history ...
Author: Derek C. Schlickeisen It's no secret that there is a lot of drinking at Middlebury: every Monday morning, Busch Light cans litter the sidewalks and fill trash bags that pile up outside the supposedly dry first-year residence halls. But is drinking really becoming more prevalent? From 1972 until ...
Author: Mallory Falk Visiting Professor Will Stevens' J-Term class is anything but conventional. In "Eating Locally, Thinking Globally," students analyze their personal food histories and prepare dishes from scratch. They frequent local farms, visit an orchard or two and speak with beekeepers and berry ...
Author: Mallika Rao and Rachel Durfee J-Term proposes that filling a Midd-kid's day with a less traditional curriculum will inspire him or her to seek out interesting ways of filling it. The best way to see this theory in action is through the unique J-Term classes and workshops - a combination of ...
Author: Caroline Vial Peace my friend, Adopt a Carrot...Is your darling a vegetarian? Make him/her happy: adopt a vegetable. As most people know, we cannot begin counting the varieties that are slowly extinguishing. Save these endangered species by placing them in a safe haven, a grain conservation ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Everyone hypes J-Term, says it's ridiculous, says the scene is out-of-control, says (to use the parlance of preppy kids trying to sound ethnic) "the parties are off the proverbial hizzle." But no. J-Term is little more than an extended weekend in Vermont's most godforsaken month, ...
Author: Kerren McKeeman Since the fall of her first year at Middlebury, Melissa Klein '07 has been delivering food for The Grille every Wednesday night to financially support two young girls in Romania who have been affected by the AIDS epidemic. The Grille Delivery runs every Wednesday night from ...
Author: [no author name found] So I submitted my first job - sorry, career - application on Friday. In the cover letter I used the words "skills," "knowledge," "generosity," "achieved," "communication," "teamwork" and "experience" so many times that my self-description sounds even more unforgivably ...
Author: Caroline Vial Rice and CIA prisonsTwo secret prisons operated by the CIA in Poland and Romania were closed to get all suspects off European soil before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe. Rice admitted shortly before her departure on Monday that the United States had ...
Author: Annie Onishi Middlebury College Writer- In-Residence Julia Alvarez gave a lecture entitled "Chasing the Butterflies" last Thursday to kick off the College's observance of the "16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence" campaign. The '16 Days' Campaign is an internationally organized effort ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Thanksgiving has to be the most depressing of the American holidays - and not just because of the awkward dinner conversations and general gluttony. I can't ignore the central irony surrounding the holiday: the Native Americans went out of their way to feed uptight, outcast whitey ...