Author: Matthew Christ A national championship is a big deal. Whether it's a 10-year-old golfer or a Division I football team, being the best in the country is huge. A national championship not only brings prestige to the players and coaches of the team but all of those involved — including the school ...
Author: Raam Wong In the aftermath of Sept. 11, everyone from late night comedians to columnists have become much more serious, perhaps reluctant to poke fun at our nation or its leaders during a time of war. We here at The Campus have done our part: in his column Bob Wainwright has avoided making jokes ...
Author: Alison Hertel "Sex and the City." Maybe you watch it. Maybe you don't. But I'm willing to bet you've at least heard about it. Magazines have written articles about the popular series, questioning whether a mere TV show has changed women's attitudes toward men and relationships. I think that's ...
Author: Jen LaRosa There are no classes on Friday, dinner is actually looking quite appetizing and there is a late night McCullough dance party two nights in a row. This can only mean one thing: Winter Carnival. Each year, Middlebury College faculty, staff and students get together to arrange a weekend ...
Author: Matthew Christ Middlebury, Vt., is a small place and, needless to say, we all need to escape from it once in a while. This occasional claustrophobia could help to explain the popularity of study abroad programs and even the amount of road trips taken during a four year career at Middlebury College. ...
Author: Meghan Michelson Normally this column proudly states fact and figures about California and the West Coast that in my opinion glorify and compliment the states on the opposite side of the country. Being from California, I have been determined to make native East Coasters at Middlebury realize ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Associate Professor of History James Ralph, despite his 12 year career, could still be mistaken for a college student himself. His youthful looks and rapport with students, however, are balanced with a first-rate intellect and a passion for the study of history.James Ralph was ...
Author: Crystal Belle A dinner Friday evening in Coltrane Lounge was the first in a series of events planned to commemorate Black History Month, ranging from panel discussions to film screenings to a final prayer breakfast.Looking around at the dinner, one could see a plethora of faces and cultures ...
Author: Charlie Goulding "We are in the process of destroying an entire society," said Denis Halliday, a 34-year veteran of the United Nations. In his lecture on Feb. 15 entitled "Finishing Unfinished Business?: Iraq, a Decade After Desert Storm," Halliday critiqued the way the United States had dealt ...
Author: Raam Wong The 2002 Olympic Games is an awesome showcase of individuals' relentless training and unfaltering pursuit of the gold. All across the country the momentous occasion was marked by hefty Americans turning on the tube, popping their Lay-Z-Boys into the fully reclined position and slipping ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton I've often wondered what it would be like to be an anthropologist: to ponder the science of man, to examine the psychophysical, the relationship between the human body and the mind, to observe first hand other foreign cultures.Over winter break, my friend and I had the rare opportunity ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton I was just sitting down to my computer at 8 p.m. Sunday when the ambulance beeper went off. The sound was piercing — loud enough to wake even the deepest sleeper. As I threw on my coat and ran down the hall a few people opened their doors, wondering if the fire alarm was going ...
Author: Crystal Belle As I walked through the heavy brown doors of Brooklyn's Prospect Heights High School on Jan. 2, the first day of my Winter Term internship at the school, I immediately noticed the gray metal detectors placed there to ensure student safety.Although many people who have never attended ...
Author: Matthew Christ As winter drags on and we begin to settle into the routine of a new semester, a weekend approaches that can only be described as "fantastical." With promises to destroy the mid-February monotony, Winter Carnival 2002 will officially commence on Thursday."It is going to be the ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee There are plenty of people who love the environment, but fewer who actually work to keep it. Even before attaining its official student organization status, the Middlebury Initiative for Sustainable Development (MISD) has spent the past six months condensing environmentalism ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton About an hour and a half south of Middlebury College and a few minutes away from Bromley Mountain, a piece of historic Vermont is preserved. A beautiful white farmhouse sits on the roadside. Two draft horses race a sleigh through snow-crusted fields. The family farm still produces ...
Author: Cara Lovell In China, Korea, Vietnam and other Asian countries, the New Year is a time to come together in the spirit of a new beginning. In the McCullough Social Space last Sunday, the Lunar New Year celebration was a chance for the Middlebury Asian Students Organization (MASO) to enjoy the ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Before I begin today, I must admit that I am writing this column with a bit of a stomach virus that appears to have surfaced, so to speak, after the large platter of fish I had last night. Consequently, my mind is even more spacey than usual, so you'll have to forgive me if my ...
Author: Lanford Beard The mid-year graduates of the Class of 2001.5 have certainly learned to love the cold.Having entered Middlebury College during the harsh Vermont winter, they concluded their stay here with a ski down the Snow Bowl on Feb. 2, 2002.Kate Noble '01.5, one of the many Febs who did not ...
Author: Deborah Jones "You're a Feb? Oh, that makes sense."I can't tell you how many times I've heard that comment since coming to Middlebury. Students and faculty alike never seem surprised to learn that I'm a member of the Class of 2004 'point five.' "You just seem 'Febbie'," they say.'Febbie?' What's ...