In addition to producing highly successful and well-educated students, Middlebury College has had a reputation for many years as a school known for providing the foundations for high quantities of romantic relationships that evolve into marriage. Students share similar interests, and as a result the ...
Author: Jen LaRosa Staff Writer "Hooking up" or "going out": what exactly happened to dating? Isn't that the thing you do between these two extremes? You know, where customarily the guy takes the girl to dinner and conversation ensues. Then, after a lovely evening of good old-fashioned fun, they drive ...
Author: Alison Hertel Associate Editor I'm single. No, that was not an advertisement, and this is not a personal ad (though I do enjoy reading them — but that's another topic for another time). I've spent most of the past 21 years being single. I'm something of an expert on the subject. I like to ...
Author: Amy Brais Staff Writer Instead of using fall break as a period of relaxation in the midst of a busy semester, Drew West '04 opted to do something a little more productive. He went home to Loudonville, N.Y., and started a Web site called U.S. Ski Trader, which allows visitors to buy and sell ...
Author: Alison Hertel Associate Editor According to statistics from an April 23, 1992 report from the National Victim Center, in the United States, 1.3 women are raped every minute. According to the same report, only 16 percent of rapes are reported to the police. This low number is partially explained ...
Author: Cragin Brown Staff Writer If the frigidity of Vermont winters isn't enough to chill you to the bone, joining the Middlebury Polar Bearing Club may be a bare necessity. Every Thursday night this semester, 30 to 40 of Middlebury's bravest caravan to nearby lakes for some often cold, always fun ...
Author: Philippe Danielides Staff Writer What do the words skeevy, shifty, sketchy, dirty, horny, easy and unfaithful have in common? No, they are not Hugh Hefner's version of the seven dwarfs (although that would be funny), but rather adjectives used to typify a minority group constantly berated and ...
Author: Raam Wong Opinions Editor Trying to write something about sex that hasn't been said countless times before is a daunting task. Like sex, I wouldn't know where to begin. What could I possibly say about sex that people haven't already learned from episodes of "Real Sex," high school health classes ...
Author: Rose Boyer Staff Writer "The number of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) treated at Parton Health Center has fallen very significantly over the last eight years," said Yonna McShane, director of Health and Wellness Education at Middlebury. Eight years ago, the Parton Health Center was treating ...
Author: Rose Boyer As the stress of midterms is already blowing away with the autumn leaves, and the anticipation of Winter Term growing stronger with the threat of snow, it is impossible to deny that time goes by quickly. For this year's seniors, busy with theses to write and major requirements to ...
Author: Venessa Wong Staff Writer During the months of September and October, Forest sink-mates Shannon Linn '03.5 and Gillian Finocan '03.5 separated themselves from the utopian atmosphere of the Middlebury campus for two evenings a week to attend training sessions for the Addison County WomenSafe ...
Author: Julie Samara Staff Writer Inch by inch, row by row, Anne Lionberger '02 has planted the seeds for a growing non-profit organization called Puente a la Salud Comunitaria, or Bridge to Community Health. Building upon extensive experience in the study of public health acquired in both Latin America ...
Author: Megan Michelson Features Editor A friend of mine recently suffered the consequences of a pricey traffic violation in downtown Middlebury. He failed to make a complete stop at the stop sign coming onto College Street from the Johnson parking lot and as result was pulled over by the police and ...
Author: Megan Michelson Features Editor In response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 and the subsequent terrorist related events, the religious organizations at Middlebury College have attempted to counteract feelings of uneasiness among students with assurance that a caring community exists and ...
Author: Ashley Elpern Editor-in-Chief For Middlebury students trying to make it big in the real world, one essential thing is needed to succeed: etiquette. For the 50 or so students who attended the Career Service Office's Etiquette Dinner last Thursday night, the world of etiquette came alive, courtesy ...
Author: Lynsey Waite Staff Writer The summer before my first year in college, I marched through the doorway of Eastern Mountain Sports armed with a Middlebury Outdoor Orientation (MOO) trip checklist and suddenly felt any shred of confidence I had melt away. The store and the people in it were intimidating. ...
Author: Philippe Danielides Staff Writer When I was a bright-eyed sixth grader I had the delectable privilege of attending my first school dance. The gymnasium was decorated, the music was blaring and every one was dancing. That's right, every single female in the room was grooving to the beat while ...
Author: Alison Hertel Associate Editor The end of the semester is approaching. After Thanksgiving it's practically finals and then it's J-term and then it's spring term and before you know it it's graduation and then it's … the real world. Yes, I know I'm getting a little ahead of myself. But the ...
Author: Karen Acheson Staff Writer On Thursday, several faculty members, parents and a few students gathered in the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Center to hear Ronald G. Ehrenberg, professor of industrial and labor relations and economics and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute ...
Author: Jasmin Jones Staff Writer Stop reading right now.Can't do it, can you? It's almost a mechanical process — your eyes keep moving along the page, making sense of the words you see. Unfortunately, reading does not come so easily for everyone.Ten percent of adults in Addison County cannot read ...