Author: Mike Waters Over the course of our collegiate years, we all (hopefully) grow more mature, more sophisticated and more discerning in our tastes. We shun Top 40 radio for indie music blogs, we trade department store garments for vintage store discoveries and we deny our previous populist tastes ...
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Author: Nicole Lam At this week's meeting, the Student Government Assoication (SGA) discussed the recent financial decisions made by the College administration which were made with little opportunity for input from SGA senators and committees. "Although I understand that many concerns were sensitive ...
Author: [no author name found] RESPONSESAccording to Al Sharpton, it's not very nice to die and leave a poor preacher the arduous task of fabricating your life's contributions for all those at your funeral. As a preacher himself, he would prefer to not have to hallucinate that your passing through life ...
Author: J.P. Allen Middlebury residents gathered on Feb. 13 to discuss U.S. values and politics with Anna-Marie Slaughter, a distinguished scholar and recently-appointed high official in the Obama administration. Held in the Town Hall Theater, the talk was sponsered by The Vermont Humanities Council, ...
Author: Robert McKay A pastiche of visual and rhetorical styles, "Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past" - the exhibition now on display at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts - features reinterpreted historical images confronting the issue of race in various print media. ...
Author: Grady Ross In an economic climate that many are comparing to the Great Depression, the state of Vermont is revamping its food stamp program - a program that found its start in that first major period of financial distress. Renamed 3SquaresVT, the new program is designed to reach out to more ...
Author: Dave Small Experience is the most important kind of knowledge. We lack experience. What we have are facts. We have Wikipedia and Google. The ability to access an inexhaustible source of information rests at the connection between our minds and the Ethernet cable. Without WiFi, without BlackBerry, ...
Author: John Birnbaum I was appalled by the student body's overwhelming endorsement of Al Sharpton following his speech in Mead Chapel last Wednesday.Although Sharpton pandered to the liberal agenda of the Middlebury crowd, the speech was non-confrontational. His message: to increase student advocacy ...
Author: Kelly Janis Library and Information Services (LIS) is considering instituting printing quotas and establishing a sound-proof cell phone room in the Main Library. The plans were announced on the "All Things LIS" blog that Dean of Library and Information Services Michael Roy created shortly after ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski Science Theater. No longer the domain of B-list movies, 'Leap' follows the recent theatrical fashion of attempting to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. Taking after such works as 'Copenhagen' and 'The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem,' Lauren Gunderson re-imagines ...
Author: Martin Breu The Middlebury ski teams seem to have found their winning form just in time for the final two carnivals and NCAAs. Dartmouth took top honors on their home courses but the Panthers were just behind in second, with the University of Vermont accomanying them on the podium in third. ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman It's a cold Thursday night in February. Ice lines the treacherous sidewalks and frost coats the windows. Where is the best place to get warm and blow off some spring semester steam during Winter Carnival weekend? McCullough, of course! Orange Crush is performing!Orange Crush, ...
Author: Rachael Jennings On Friday, Feb. 13, the Center for Health and Wellness hosted the "'Find Me Someone to Love Dating Game,' " a hilariously entertaining quest to find love at Middlebury. Will Surrette '10, who was a contestant last year and hosted the event this year, offered The Campus his ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When you venture to talk to Maggie LeMay, expect to be taken on a tangent."In Vermont, we've always been very lucky about having more gay rights than any other state in the country, with civil unions and different kinds of affirmative action," said LeMay, one of the four sisters ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman When I applied to Middlebury, back before the days of courting the Top 100 applicants, I was under the impression that Middlebury wanted you to come to them. Want a free Nalgene with your $50,000 education? Get in line. You have to demonstrate an eagerness, a desire, a sense ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Students' spending on campus has proved resilient in the face of the College's financial woes and the national economic recession. However, overall changes in the spending habits of the College community have forced the managers of the Grille and Juice Bar to alter hours and menu ...
Author: Kevin Carpenter During the lull between periods at an ice hockey match at Middlebury's Kenyon Arena, a murmur can be heard among the crowd as the zamboni cruises by. Spectators have heard countless remarks from those yearning to take a ride on the massive mechanic monster. But the lucky men ...