Author: Craigin Brown Every culture has its own unique urban legends. Some that have transcended American culture include the deadly pop rocks and soda mix or the story of the lone female passenger who harbored a killer in her backseat without her knowledge. Last week many people of different ages revisited ...
Author: Ellen Smith We fall out the door and down the two crumbling concrete steps that float rootless in the dusty soil. We shuffle along the shifting path in an eyes-closed rabbit dance. We run past an overgrown, rusted-out playground, past rows of government-issue housing in sickly pastels and ...
Author: Sarah McCabe "Welcome to Middlebury," the tour guides say — and how welcoming it is. Green grass abundant, the sun shining, the temperature hovering around 85 degrees with a slight breeze. "Yes, Middlebury!" the prospectives are thinking. "This is where I want to go."Wait a minute, back up. ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton We live in a culture obsessed with the question "What If?" What if you had chosen a different college or girlfriend? What if he had not gone to work on Sept. 11? What if we won the lottery tomorrow? What if we could change the past, or anticipate the future? We torture ourselves ...
Author: Liz Lathey Delta nine tetrahyrdocannibinol. What? Weed. Smoking marijuana is a widespread phenomenon in big cities, small towns and college campuses alike. Marijuana is thought by many to be a harmless high, despite the fact that it is considered "gateway drug" to other harder substances. Most ...
Author: Bob Wainwright I really don't see any reason to start the column this week with some comic remark about the snow storm we had yesterday, because most of us are true Vermonters by now, and if there's one thing we've learned by living here it's that it really isn't all that strange to have 85 ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Last Thursday I lay, confused and alone, on the dark basement floor of the Middlebury Town Municipal Building. I couldn't see anything, but I could sense rescue workers somewhere above me. I heard a Porter Medical Center dispatcher requesting all available personnel to respond ...
Author: Michael O'Brien Editor's Note: The opinions and themes expressed in the piece are those of the author and not of The Middlebury Campus. "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and rebuild it in three days.'" After we finish, the narrator intones, "And the high priest stood ...
Author: Jen LaRosa It's a Saturday night and you and your friends decide to throw a little shindig. You have the room, the people and the beverages. You are just forgetting one minor detail: you live in A-Frames and the party is at Alpha Delta Phi Anxiety and panic set in. You say to yourself, "How ...
Author: [no author name found] Friday, April 19 — National Hanging Out Day Clotheslines will be hung outdoors around the campus for students wishing to dry their laundry outside. There will be a Charity Line near Proctor for students to hang unwanted clean clothes that will then be donated to ...
Author: Cragin Brown Lake Champlain, the ribbon of freshwater extending along Vermont's western boundary with New York, has a rich archaeological heritage that can be attributed to its strategic location between the Hudson and St. Lawrence rivers, and the cold, dark, preserving conditions beneath the ...
Author: Bob Wainwright While enjoying the beautiful weather today, I remembered a story that was told to me a year ago by a Middlebury alumnus, who was passing through the College on his way to a summit in Montreal. Why I remembered his story today, I really do not know. All I can say is that the more ...
Author: Matthew Christ Although Hollywood, Calif. is the mecca of the entertainment industry, other parts of the country are able to attract talent and creativity. Telluride, Colo. has the Sundance Film Festival and Middlebury, Vt., has "Pursuing Happiness." The film is being directed by John Adams, ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton The Taliban "may seem like a product from another century" but, like the rest of Afghanistan, the regime is really "a product of global forces," said David Edwards, professor at the Williams College Department of Anthropology during his Saturday lecture entitled "News From Afghanistan: ...
Author: Yvonne Chen April 5. It was an ordinary Friday afternoon. Cows were grazing in a pasture near here, a little school in Weybridge, Vt., surrounded by open pasture and endless roads. Thousands of miles from sunny Caribbean beaches and salsa- booming barrios, fourth and sixth graders in Weybridge ...
Author: Amy Brais Scott Barnicle is the dean of Atwater Commons. He lives in Middlebury, Vt., with his wife, one-and-a-half-year old daughter and four-year-old son, all of whom keep him "very, very busy, but are always a source of a lot of fun," he conceded. When he's not working, Barnicle enjoys any ...
Author: Lanford Beard Just 15 minutes away from Middlebury, a community unto itself sits in Ripton, Vt. This community is Bread Loaf, a thriving environment where writers each summer learn from mutual exchange of ideas and experiences.Set in the Green Mountain National Forest, the most exciting feature ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson As three generations of women told their stories to each other, one could hear a mélange of nostalgia and aspiration in their conversations. About 30 women gathered at the Chellis House last Wednesday evening over pizza, brownies and soda to simply chat and talk about life and ...
Author: Charles Goulding You won't find Ron Schildge '03 at the local Exxon station. That's because Schildge has been working to develop an alternative fuel called bio-diesel, which he hopes will be used as an environmentally safe alternative to conventional gasoline.The fuel, made from Proctor's very ...
Author: Raam Wong I have often heard it said that "no one dates at Middlebury." Actually, I normally only hear this from women who are telling me why we can't go out to dinner. Still, with the warmer weather, students are now on the prowl for either a long-term relationship or at least someone to share ...