Author: Lindsey Whitton I found out last night that an old friend had been found dead in New York City from a drug overdose. He was 18 years old. My mom spent this morning at his relatively poorly attended funeral, surrounded by anonymous elderly parishioners who seemed to have accidentally gone to ...
Author: Charlie Goulding In the fall of 1884, Middlebury College opened its doors to three female students: Mary Anna Bolton, Louise Hagar Edgerton and May Belle Chellis.With this began the history of co-education at Middlebury. Nonetheless, 1884 also marked the beginning of the long struggle for the ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton The large kitchen in the basement of Proctor Hall is a fairly quiet place. Workers dressed in white are all busy marinating chicken strips, chopping vegetables or cleaning off the counters. They talk to each other as they work but nobody yells and there is no loud music blaring.For ...
Author: Matthew Christ Around 1 a.m. on Saturday night, I found myself meandering along the social house circuit. But something was not right: a certain foreign accent seemed far more prevalent than the American twang that abounds on campus. I failed to hear the pulsing techno beats and notice that ...
Author: Lanford Beard When the term feminism arises in today's society, it evokes a confused mixture of knee-jerk anti-testosterone sentiment and memories of 1970s-era bra burning women's liberation rallies. While the disparity in the current status between men and women is highly debatable, the woman's ...
Author: Liz Lathey The other day, when I asked a friend how her classes were going, she replied, "I've stopped sleeping." The casual manner in which she announced this astounded me. With midterms now in full swing, there are more and more people on campus who have fallen into the same pattern. This ...
Author: Matthew Christ "Bold American Food," the slogan of Smokejacks, a restaurant in Burlington, Vt., was scrawled across its business card in shiny silver letters. Bold and silver are definitely enduring themes in this funky restaurant on Church Street that, for the past five years, has been a very ...
Author: Bob Wainwright I have a proposal to make. This Friday, once classes are over, let's all leave Vermont. I know it sounds crazy, but I'm serious. I think we should all leave New England for a week, go somewhere warm, then look up the Vermont weather forecast and decide if it's best to return or ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton I have been surrounded by girls my entire life. My family is mainly defined and fueled by estrogen — 86 percent of my immediate family members are women. My poor father is surrounded by three generations of feisty, intelligent and sometimes completely frustrating females. ...
Author: Lanford Beard Every year, Panther hockey sees its ups and downs, but the support of the recently formed Friends of Panther Hockey has become the one constant that keeps Middlebury sports fans coming back to connect with the players.Kim P. Loewer '76, founder of Friends of Panther Hockey (FOPH) ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson Richard Varno is a recent graduate, who like all recent graduates, still brims with pride when he sees that "thing on the wall." His framed diploma hangs just above his desk, solitary and majestic in an uncluttered area of the wall. "Butch" or "Butchie," as his friends call him, ...
Author: Matt Christ The room is depressing — no windows, little light and nervous anticipation. In walks a bearded man with two hands full of slides and an infectious laugh. The gloom soon dissipates as the screen in front of the class is illuminated with history's most glorious works of art, expounded ...
Author: Bob Wainwright As I racked my brain tonight, searching in vain for a suitable topic for this week's column, I eventually began to despair. But my despondency was short-lived, however, when I realized that the lack of a topic has never stopped me from writing before. This is interesting though. ...
Author: Sam Rodriguez As you might have noticed at the Student Activities Fair in the fall, an exciting new club was developed: the Procrastination Club. Plans for this organization were carefully engineered a few moments before the Activities Fair by Siddartha "Sid" Rao '04. The self-described "procrastinator ...
Author: Charles Goulding In 1998, a startling genetic revelation made its way to the front page of The New York Times: DNA testing all but proved Thomas Jefferson fathered numerous illegitimate children with Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves. The tests breathed new life into an ongoing debate over the ...
Author: Craigin Brown Michael Azzara '02 is changing the face of developing world citizens — literally. As president of Operation Smile at Middlebury, Azzara and nearly 20 members work together to educate the Middlebury community about the organization's fight to provide facial reconstructive surgery ...
Author: Elizabeth Lathey Beginning later this month the majority of us will experience the thrills, the joys and the tears of that special occasion we affectionately dub room draw. A select few, however, will get to bypass that whole system. How? you may ask. Where do I sign up? Residential assistants ...
Author: Matt Klein I have seen an entirely unreasonable number of concerts in my time. Somewhere around 80 I stopped counting. In the summer of 1998 I put 10,000 miles on my car in the span of three weeks following Phish, the Vermont touring phenomenon currently on "indefinite hiatus," with my best ...
Author: Rose Boyer Connie Bisson, the College's sustainable campus coordinator, is one of the newest member of the Middlebury staff, having arrived and begun her work last summer. Her role at the College, however, can hardly be summarized by any title. Bisson works on the College's emissions inventory, ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Perhaps the one truly sad aspect of going abroad to Australia is the fact that once you leave, the country seems to go away as well. The reason for this is that Australia is a very self-contained place. Case in point: it's the only country to ever lose a prime minister. The man ...