Author: Matt Kunzweiler Did the Facebook.com redefine the word "friend" while no one was paying attention? Because from the looks of it, I don't have many. I signed onto my account today for the first time in a while, and it looks like the Facebook has deemed me unpopular. This is my fourth year at ...
Author: Mallika Rao This past Friday's lecture, "Art and Politics under the Habsburgs 1450 to 1650," was not only well-attended and well-received, but conducted by a man well-suited for the task. Archduke Géza von Habsburg, grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and great-great grandson ...
Author: Alina Levina On Friday Sept. 30, Middlebury's International Studies Colloquium lunchtime lecture hosted guest speaker Bill Berkeley, a former New York Times editorial writer and international affairs reporter for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine and the Washington Post. Berkeley ...
Author: Dina Magaril Most students have heard about Middlebury College's renowned Summer Language Schools long before they even set foot on campus. Rumors of the intense seven-to-nine-week programs flood the campus at the beginning of each school year, and students who participated in the schools over ...
Author: Michael Stefanik Autumn is a time for reflection and the appreciation of beauty. At the Middlebury Organic Garden it is also a time of celebration. With the annual Harvest Festival, the community and students come together to look back upon the accomplishments of the past year. Winding and twisting ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Before I started at Middlebury, I had this ideal picture of college life. I would spend my weekends dressed in a professor-ly cord jacket, sitting on the lawn beside worldly friends, being "chill," discussing politics, drinking coffee, learning, growing, being. I'm a senior now, ...
Author: Matt kunzweiler Thinking I could sit in Wright Theater and catch up on some reading, I showed up to the Career Service Office's first senior meeting almost half an hour early. As someone who usually walks into class two minutes late, I entered the foyer hesitantly and, to my chagrin, saw that ...
Author: Lucy Faust My parents and I had never evacuated for any of the several hurricanes that have swept across New Orleans in the past and we weren't planning on doing so now. As most people packed up and shipped out over the weekend before Katrina's scheduled arrival, we moved furniture and valuables ...
Author: Katie Glass "So you must be going away to college," said the man behind the check-in counter at the airport, as he suspiciously eyed my five massive suitcases. I was quite proud of myself for condensing everything I owned into these suitcases the night before. "It's very cold in Vermont; I need ...
Author: Katherine Washburn An excited crowd filed into Mead Chapel last Thursday for the launch of this year's academic symposium, "Renewal: Perspectives and Possibilities in an Age of Climate Crisis." The 2005 Clifford Symposium, focusing on current environmental issues, spanned the borders of many ...
Author: Polly Johnson and Alyson Bourne Think about the e-reserve you printed last night, and then think about the last time you ever actually read an e-res. Now think about the last time you witnessed a first-year student printing out his or her entire semester's worth of e-reserve material, and you ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Returning to college, I was anticipating the usual first-week struggles: forgetting my mailbox combo, my handwriting - unpracticed for four months, resembling a small child's - my inability to tell which sentences in my textbooks should be highlighted...and my eventual decision ...
Author: Dina Magaril GRACE CHO Assistant Professor of Psychology Assistant Professor of Psychology Grace Cho, known simply to students as Grace - she prefers that they address her informally - is one of Middlebury's newest professors. A Los Angeles native and former Bay Area resident, ...
Author: Mallika Rao On July 7, 2005, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz joined Middlebury College researchers at the John McCardell Jr. Bicentennial Hall as they unveiled the result of a decade's worth of research - a new eight-foot bathymetric map reproducing ...
Author: Brett Cluff When Professor of Biology Sallie Sheldon came to Vermont nearly 20 years ago, she faced a serious problem. Intent on studying relationships between fish and certain aquatic plants, she was frustrated to find that a single plant species had come to dominate many bodies of water here ...
Author: Caroline M. Vial Associate Dean of Library and Information Services (LIS) David Donahue '91 and several managers of LIS enthusiastically shared some vital information on the inner-workings of our new campus network. The Campus: Rumor has it that Middlebury's computer network has changed dramatically ...
Author: [no author name found] Dead man walking Terrified of waking up in a coffin six feet under? Never fear: Vitaly Malyukov has invented a device that can pull you out of your grave if you've been accidentally buried alive. The Russian researcher installed an "alert device" in the interior of a ...
Author: Dina M. Magaril President Emeritus of Middlebury College John McCardell, known affectionately by upperclassmen as "Johnny Mac" has returned to Middlebury to teach U.S. History this fall. Additionally, McCardell plans to be an active member in the Middlebury community both on and off campus. ...
Author: Polly Johnson Americans have watched over the years as gas prices have exponentially increased and recently watched in shock as the price of a gallon of fuel rose to over $3.00 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. As economic, environmental and political issues will inevitably continue to cause ...
Author: By Caroline Vial Double Trouble If the Poles were to vote tomorrow, the country could be led by a pair of real twins. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, currently in his 50s, still lives with his mother. He is at the head of the conservative party of Law and Justice, that is currently leading in the polls ...