Author: Joseph Bergan The sun had long set last Sunday, Nov. 20, but the temperature grudgingly stayed warm around Mead Chapel, which at 7:30 was full with both students wandering in from Proctor Dining Hall and community members of all ages and varieties. All were gathered to usher in the holidays ...
Author: Julia McKinnon "Confucius says that the greatest happiness is your students knowing more than you do," quoted Professor Sunhee Choi. This is a saying that inspires the academic life of Vermont Professor of the year Choi, department chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The Carnegie Foundation ...
Author: Katie Glass We are meant to remember college as the best years of our lives - a time of self-discovery, newfound independence and the establishment of lifelong friendships. At the same time, however, there is always the underlying stress associated with doing well in school and keeping up with ...
Author: Caroline Vial GIANT SQUID, GIANT...Scientists once thought that nobody had a more tumultuous sex life than top models and athletes. New research, however, demonstrates that the giant squid wins the prize. Five beached squids on the Spanish Atlantic coast revealed the secrets that were up until ...
Author: Polly Johnson With all our attention focused on our own lives and our own work, sometimes we forget to look around us and notice the interests and pursuits of those close to us. Unbeknownst to many, a number of Middlebury faculty have for a year been involved in the Race and Ethnicity Reading ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER The 200 Days Party held in Atwater Dining Hall on Friday night was supposed to be a classy event dedicated to the senior class's countdown to commencement. But the party didn't exactly hit the bull's-eye of Target Classy. It ended up wrapping all of our clichéd first-year drinking ...
Author: Kerren McKeeman Meet Zhuo Tian, known to her students as teacher Tian, or Tian Laoshi. She is Middlebury's newest Chinese language professor, hired from the CET Academic Program in Beijing. She is also filling the position of the Chinese house teaching assistant. If asked five years ago what ...
Author: Jason Siegel The Middlebury Campus: You're here because of your work in activism as well as your music. What can you accomplish through music or other forms of art that you can't accomplish through non-artistic channels?Isaac Hayes: Music is one of the cores of the fine arts and the fine arts ...
Author: Alina Levina The "I Love my Body" fashion show was characterized by a comical yet serious tone that powerfully illuminated the struggles associated with eating disorders and body image. Through sophomore Ryan Taurianene's documentary on the stories of women and their struggle with bulimia, ...
Author: Dina Magaril An addition to the list of graduates who just cannot get enough of Middlebury, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Alex Draper '88, has returned to teach acting and co-direct as well as star in the fall faculty production "The Bewitched". Draper, the son of a diplomat, spent ...
Author: Dina Magaril When my roommate first received an invitation to "Wabeno" it was in the form of a note in her mailbox that read, "'Wabeno,' we own you." At first, we thought some strange cult on campus was trying to recruit her. It was only when I saw the posters advertising that Wabeno was some ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Are you that kid? If not, at least you know that kid - one of the incarnate forms of obnoxiousness responsible for souring dining hall experiences, making classes intolerable, killing the joy and generally crippling morale. I thought the College's Admissions Office would have ...
Author: [no author name found] For most Middkids, last Friday's evening meal was a typically uneventful precursor to the night's festivities. But for the 88 students who gathered at the Proctor Dining Hall entrance at 5:30 p.m., this was certainly not the case. These fortunate individuals were preparing ...
Author: Mallika Rao This past Sunday, Mead Chapel became the site of an intimate remembrance ceremony for the many victims of Hurricane Katrina as well as the city of New Orleans itself. The evening kicked off Middlebury's Hurricane Relief Week and was, according to one event organizer, Sarah Applebaum ...
Author: Jeanine Buzali The cries of the hurricane and earthquake victims could be heard, even within the College bubble, but some might not be aware of just how extensively the College has reacted to the recent disasters. News and calls for help filter in and out of our e-mail inboxes, but few people ...
Author: Katie Glass Having been here only a little over a month, I am finally getting to know peoples' true characters as they gradually emerge and feel their weird quirks are becoming not only noticeable but also strangely endearing. The process of getting to know people is exhilarating, albeit overwhelming ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Fall break sounds like a great idea until you consider the fact that not all Middlebury students (believe it or not) live in the greater Boston area or somewhere else within driving distance. For those of us who don't live around here, we face the inevitable dilemma of "what ...
Author: Caroline Vial On Oct. 13, Dr. Carla Fehr's lecture "Are Smart Men Smarter Than Smart Women?" created a twist in the heated debate set by the chilling remarks of Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers on the inherent differences between men and women in the sciences, at an academic ...
Author: Dina Magaril Vermont just got sexier Meet Mr. Vermont! Though it is Matthew McConaughey's handsome face that grazes the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine's November "Cosmo Men" issue, Middlebury Senior Thomas Hand comes in a close second, with a full page spread devoted to him in the "Bachelor ...
Author: Dina Magaril JOHN MALLUCIOIf you thought Economics was strictly for business-oriented individuals, talk to the new Assistant Professor of Economics John Maluccio to get a different perspective. Originally from Connecticut, Maluccio attended Amherst College and holds a doctorate degree in Economics ...