Author: Colin Foss Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.To find good theater, sometimes you only need to open up your European history books. Shakespeare knew this well enough, and some of his most often produced plays are historical in some sense. So, in true English fashion, modern poet-turned-playwright ...
Author: Lucas Yoquinto Quite a few people around here talk about "the Middlebury Bubble." This figurative barrier supposedly separates the student body from the rest of the world, keeping out current events and keeping in some of the most devastating diseases ever to make you think twice before opening ...
Author: [no author name found] Middlebury commemorates five years of war in IraqYesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq - an event that ultimately dwarfs the politics of on-campus student organizations. Since the invasion, just shy of 4,000 American soldiers have ...
Author: David Zhou Over this past weekend, the three-month-long indoor track and field season finally culminated in the NCAA Division III Championships at Ohio Northern University. Amidst the boisterous cheers from the crowd and the intensely competitive atmosphere, Alexandra Krieg '09, the lone Middlebury ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman "He's a professor of Geography, a major he took in college. Expert in speaking Russian, though those Russians have nothing on Liebo's dashing good looks. And because of him, they had this great idea: they could thank him and give him his rightful cheer. Finally they figured out ...
Author: Jeff Klein Amherst representing the NESCAC in NCAA tourneyFor the first time ever, the Division III men's basketball selection committee rewarded the NESCAC by sending four teams to the D-III tournament. Overall, the schools proved themselves worthy of the committee's decision.While the Panthers ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes If you find yourself spending your spring break in Vermont, never fear - awesome tours for all ages await.Not venturing to Aruba or Cabo this spring break? Bummed that you are going to be staying in snowy Vermont while your friends work up a tan? Do not despair, Vermont has plenty ...
Author: Adam Clayton After three years and a sizeable effort to amend my ways, I still find myself struggling to appreciate what many Americans consider integral to their sporting calendar. First among these is baseball, which is to the English what Americans must think of cricket, only much more uncouth. ...
Author: Theodore May There is a new and disturbing trend in U.S. race relations - the media has declared, and college students have embraced, that we belong to the "post-racial generation." Though the term goes back a ways, it gained momentum in the media when the country's youth began to show its commitment ...
Author: Grace Duggan Brain too fried to figure out what to do over break? Have no fear - The Campus has you covered. From the Whitney Biennial in New York City to Montreal's notorious White Party, our picks will get you your arts fix. New YorkHeaded to the Big Apple for a few days? Take a break from ...
Author: Thompson Davis Whether it's shot-gunning Busch Lights in a Stewart bathroom or savoring a pint of Oatmeal Stout at Two Brother's, Middlebury students have a special relationship with beer. Like most American teenagers, I was not allowed to consume alcohol, so once I got to college I started ...
Author: Jaime Fuller On March 19, Middlebury College students were assigned random room draw numbers for the first time since the inception of the commons system in 1998. This marks a dramatic change from the point system, in which students were rewarded for their residency within a commons. The new ...
Author: Emily Temple Rabbit Habbits, the highly anticipated third album from notorious gypsy-jazz ringleaders Man Man comes out April 8 on Anti- Records. The boys have been playing many of the songs that appear on this album for months in their live shows, so the enthusiasm for the release is backed ...
Author: Jake Cohen The members of the Middlebury women's swimming and diving team returned from the University of Miami (Ohio) this past Sunday evening after their most successful showing at the NCAA national swim meet in the College's history. The women placed seventh overall out of 52 teams, just ...
Author: Susan Personette I would like to try to clarify some of the issues around the temporary closing of Proctor Hall's Woodstove Lounge. But first, I'd like to apologize for the glitch in communications about this closure that caught some members of our community by surprise. Simply stated, several ...
Author: Paxson Woebler I like Third Eye Blind. I like Cake. I've never been in or been involved with WRMC. And while I don't have a stake in this argument one way or the other, the clumsy vitriol coursing through James O'Brien's piece "A Preface to Lunch: Elitist Tastes not my Jam" (The Campus, March ...
Author: Amanda Greene Housing can be - and is - stressful. The issues that arise when Middlebury students decide where to live, and whom to live with are complicated. How do you tell a good friend that you don't want to live with him? What do you do when someone doesn't fit into your block of four? ...
Author: Sasha Swerdloff I have always learned best at the table, surrounded by good food and good conversation. I found both at The Inn at Baldwin Creek outside of Bristol, Vt. The Inn hosts the Table Talk Series - a monthly dinner event exploring various food-related topics. The subject of the March ...
Author: John Patrick Allen Meet Middlebury College's newest performing student band - Yuzimi. With enough catchy tunes to please a drunken partygoer, enough real talent to please a musician and enough contagious energy to make an audience get up and dance, Yuzimi is ready to take a solid place in the ...