Author: Meghan Keenan This Saturday will mark the second annual Careers in the Common Good Symposium hosted by the Career Services Office (CSO). The event, which will feature a number of panels covering the various sectors of careers involved in promoting social responsibility, will take place from ...
Author: Lanford Beard The most powerful tools for understanding tragic moments in history lie in the eyes of the survivors. Visting Assistant Professor of Italian Natasha Chang and the students of her first-year seminar (FYS) took exactly this approach when they and a group of nearly 50 students from ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Earlier this semester, two prospective students came to stay with this writer for a three-day weekend. When they arrived, they asked to experience Middlebury's nightlife, to attend classes and to eat the food. They also asked if there was an anime club. Sure enough, the prospectives ...
Author: Allison Damick The lecture room on the second floor of Bicentennial Hall was filled with students, faculty and community members, warming the small space despite the frigid winds that blew outside on Friday afternoon. "The Historical Evidence for Jesus," was presented by Professor Edwin Yamauchi ...
Author: Tom McCann and Ryan Reese Over the past three weeks, the literary wordsmiths McCann and Reese have embarked on a journey through the life of Tim that will leave them forever changed. The changes may not soon surface as the small, subtle ripples on the tumultuous lagoon of life until many moons ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Whether discussing the art of fly fishing with Dan Rather, observing a photo shoot of muffins or leafing through campaign portfolios, students who participated in Middlebury College's Fall Break externship program gained a tremendous amount of experience in a two-day period. ...
Author: Meghan Keenan In his passionate and animated lecture last Friday entitled "Guerilla Tactics for Breaking Into the Film Industry," Josh Newman stated the best part about being a successful movie producer - "It beats having a real job." Although it was not the most profound comment regarding the ...
Author: Lanford Beard For the last three years I've been a snowflake snatched from the wintry sky. This year I want to be a Lesbian Avenger, donning a rainbow cape with pride and fabulousness. Halloween costumes speak volumes about a person.The moral majority, crazed though they be, have deemed Halloween ...
Author: Charlie Goulding The Student Investment Committee (SIC) is growing almost as fast as its portfolio. Each Thursday, a group of students led by Michael Cooper '06, Pieter Nijnens '05 and John Schirm '05 make presentations to one another and debate the merits of various stock investments. The group ...
Author: Tom McCann and Ryan Reese "Terminator" had one, so too did "Home Alone," "Mighty Ducks," "Rocky" and unfortunately "Speed," so it should come as no surprise that TIM has one, too. This is the sequel to the blockbuster, chart-topping, best-selling column that began two weeks ago to chronicle ...
Author: Crystal Belle It was 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 10, and Mead Chapel was more than half full. Students, faculty and parents came prepared to hear a lecture on one of the most painful, horrific moments in American history - the enforcement of Jim Crow laws. As the audience chattered in excitement, ...
Author: Emily Thaler Keith Williams, a first-year from Manchester, N.H., will be representing Middlebury College in this year's "Jeopardy" College Week series, which airs beginning Nov. 10. Williams has been an avid "Jeopardy" fan for years and claims to have first watched the show when he was three ...
Author: Meghan Keenan Junior Megan Hutchin recently reached the first milestone of a writer's career - publication. After initial rejection by several magazines, three promotions and a crashed computer, Hutchin accomplished her goal by co-authoring the college guidebook "Choose the Right College and ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell The majority of students at Middlebury College, and on campuses throughout the United States, have a limited understanding of the relative diversity of educational experiences throughout the world. Most American students, starting from the age of four or five, have spent all ...
Author: Lanford Beard Isn't it anti-climactic, I mean isn't it just a little?The curses stood the test of time, and now the World Series has two teams with mascots that I as a Southerner am taught to hate, hunt or both.Former penchant for Big League Chew aside, anyone who knows me knows that I detest ...
Author: Charlie Goulding A new Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) raised a new closet last Sunday in hopes that the second annual event will continue to spread awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) issues on campus. The closet launched and will ultimately conclude Coming ...
Author: Lanford Beard I rue the day IM was invented.Okay, back up the bus. I don't rue the day, but I am slightly saddened by it.IM has snatched credibility away from courting rituals as we know them.Honesty? Forget about it. Joking flirtation? Meaningless. IM transforms even the most friendly of friendly ...
Author: Tom McCann and Ryan Reese Each week, the writing team of Tom McCann '06 and Ryan Reese '06 will present to you, through our eyes, the life of Tim Bellis '06, your average Middlebury student. Now, meet Tim Bellis '06 - your average 19-year-old college student, from an average town in an average ...
Author: [no author name found] Debauchery in the eighth century? Indeed it was so. Religious authority and alcohol were common companions in early Islam, according to Steven Judd, associate professor of Middle East history at Southern Connecticut State University, in his lecture entitled "It is Friday ...
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