Author: Charlie Goulding There's a new group on campus. Hosam Mekdad '03 and Andre Fanous '05 joined up to form an organization called Arabesque. "Our goal is to give students at Middlebury a taste of Arab culture," stated Mekdad. "We believe Arab culture and its heritage have been underestimated in ...
Author: Lanford Beard As Midd-kids of all years seek jobs in this devastated job market, it has become clear that nothing beats practical experience when trying to break into any job market. And no one realizes this fact more than senior Jack Thurston.A film major, peer writing tutor and president of ...
Author: Alison Hertel Walking across campus this morning, enjoying the warm weather (finally) and the blue sky (finally), I realized that this is it. In less than three weeks I'll be wearing a cap and gown and receiving a diploma with the rest of my class (hopefully under more auspicious weather than ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Marjorie Lamberti, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, is one of the most memorable members of the Middlebury College faculty. She is a world-renowned scholar who is well published and often speaks at professional conferences. She is an inspired teacher who anticipates her ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Now that the year is almost over, it's important for all of us to take a step back and ponder for a few seconds what it is that we have learned. In my case, junior year was actually split into two halves: the first in Australia, the second at Middlebury.So, in an effort to compare ...
Author: Chris Shields For me, April 20 has never really held any high level of meaning. This year I decided to do something. The weekend of April 20 proved to be one of the most dynamic and active weekends that Washington, D.C., has seen in years. From across the country and around the world activists ...
Author: Raam Wong My upcoming graduation still does not seem real to me. It feels like just yesterday that I was a naïve student getting lost in Proctor, not emerging until six hours later when the firemen found me shivering and weeping behind the salad bar in the arms of Dr. Proctor. Actually, that's ...
Author: Matthew Christ The town of Middlebury, because of its size and centrality, is easy to navigate. What would make the town healthier and more accessible would be an increase in biking and walking to businesses and local merchants. The daily congestion would be lessened, parking would not be as ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Interior decorating is an art that is practiced in every culture and most every economic stratum. Throughout time, people have taken pride in designing and decorating the place where they live. People overcome limitations such as size, necessary furniture and budget and have ...
Author: Yvonne Chen "The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted so tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else." So opens "Drown," a collection of short stories by Junot Diaz highlighted at a reading and lecture ...
Author: [no author name found] First Prize: Heat LightningNikki HollandSummer footpushed itself from muddy banks,posed in the bogwater on a rotten piece of styrofoam,and lingered with my dad and me in late June light to fetch fluorescent bobbers from craggy limbs. This was a summer that smelled of sulfur ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Over the course of my three years at this school, I've discovered two things: The first is a secret that I can tell absolutely no one — not even you. And the second is that there will always be a time every semester when you have so much work that you have to scale down your ...
Author: Julie Samara Robert F. Jones, highly acclaimed author of 15 books of fiction and nonfiction, will visit Middlebury College this Thursday to give a talk titled "Fly-fishing, Fiction and the Search for Innocence." Described as "America's best writer of high-action literary fiction" by Howard Frank ...
Author: Lanford Beard Assistant Professor of English Timothy Billings recently received a prestigious fellowship from the Camargo Foundation, allowing him to spend the fall semester of his 2002-2003 sabbatical in Cassis, France.Billings will be editing an estimated 320-page, 75-poem English critical ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton "I want to talk about the representation of female sexuality," Sut Jhally said last Thursday night to a crowd that almost filled Dana Auditorium. Jhally, keynote speaker for Middlebury College's observance of Take Back the Night Week, is the founder and executive director of ...
Author: Iruma Doman Are you interested in meeting Middlebury College international students, learning about another culture and sharing your own?This was one of the questions that appeared on a brochure sent out last August to many local families advertising the "Friends of International Students (FIS) ...
Author: Lanford Beard Last week, Feminist Action at Middlebury (FAM) hosted the annual Take Back the Night Week as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Month. A few of the goals of this event were to promote ongoing awareness of the serious issues that women face, ranging from media exploitation to sexual ...
Author: Matthew Christ For the last two weeks the United Nations headquarters in New York City hosted the Ninth Predatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (ICC). Morgan Wilson '04 was there.Wilson, a member of the Middlebury College chapter of the Model United Nations, found out about ...
Author: Mayo Fujii They have arrived. A light spring breeze, amplified to a gale force wind by the massive structure of Bicentennial Hall, stirs the tentative buds on the nearby trees. Birds twitter merrily, squirrels frolic freely … and herds of prospective students shuffle through campus anxiously. ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson At almost any time in the day, students can be seen hanging out at the Wonnacott Commons office on the first floor of Battell South. Why?"Basically, to see Lorraine," says Nicole Grohoski '05. When Lorraine goes home early, Dean of Wonnacott Commons Matt Longman noted that it ...