Author: Joyce Man Beginning from the first week of January this year, Vermont has turned into what has been called the largest exhibition space ever, with a total 7,000 maple wooden palettes and an additional 30,000 paper palettes being manipulated in all kinds of artistic ways and displayed. Through ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith Well, in less than three weeks it will be the end of the semester, and the end of my first year here at Middlebury. What will I have to show for it? To be honest, I don't really remember it, and I was sober the entire time. Just yesterday, on my daily walk to the library, I stumbled ...
Author: Polly Johnson On Saturday, April 22, Clara Yu became the 12th president of the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS), an affiliate of Middlebury College since Dec. 22, 2005. Yu was formerly a faculty member, vice president for foreign languages and director of the Center for Educational ...
Author: [no author name found] Author, Harvard student accused of plagiarismOn Wednesday, April 24, Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan responded to accusations that she had plagiarized selections of her newly released book, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life," by acknowledging that ...
Author: JOYCE MAN There are traditionally two faces of the United Nations: gut-wrenching failure that exposes mankind's inability to collaborate, and lofty goals of unified action. To the first we attach the Rwandan genocide, the Oil-For-Food scandal and Darfur refugee camps. To the latter, we attribute ...
Author: Shannon Gymrek Over-achieving is something Middlebury Students know a lot about. Even taking that into mind, however, Kevin Vélez '06 has got to impress. Velez's senior 700 work, a new original musical entitled "The Legend of Cofresí," debuted on the McCullough stage last Friday. Velez not ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Professor of Computer Science Matthew Dickerson's publisher released commercially last week his new book entitled "From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy." Co-authored with Augustana College Professor and Middlebury alumnus David O'Hara '91, the work investigates ...
Author: [no author name found] "The Arctic Monkeys are burning up the charts" or "There's nothing chilly in fans' responses to the hottest new band out of the UK." Those are just a few very unfortunate taglines that manifested themselves in my head as I listened to The Arctic Monkeys' February release, ...
Author: EMILY THOMPSON "Lucky Number Slevin" wishes it were as good, or as lucky, as Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." Directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Jason Smilovic, "Lucky Number Slevin" illustrates a caricature of the elite crime world, found in many of Tarantino's films. The characters, ...
Author: Dan Stevens Following a hotly debated election last week, College administrators announced Friday that Alex Stanton and Annie Williams, both '07, will become Middlebury's next generation of top student leaders. Stanton and Williams, the new SGA President and Student Co-Chair of Community Council ...
Author: Joshua Carson This week, The Campus spoke with the Democratic candidate for Vermont's lone House seat, Peter Welch. Welch is currently the president pro tempore of the Vermont state Senate and is gearing up for the November election, one of the few competitive House races in the country. Both ...
Author: Dave Lee Three weeks ago, the Middlebury softball team appeared destined to make its unprecedented fourth consecutive NESCAC tournament appearance. After racking up an astounding 25 runs in the doubleheader against an error-plagued Castleton squad, the women were ready to resume their NESCAC ...
Author: Zoey Burrows When it comes to free entertainment, Middkids are pampered with astounding resources. FreshTracks Music (FTM), a brand-new music subscription service, is just one more resource that will be offered to students by the end of the year. Director of the Center for Campus Activities ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH The Internet is fast becoming as important of a tool to artists as a paintbrush. Undeniably, it is changing the way artists do business. Dealing with this side of things, though most right-brained visual artists despise the task, is absolutely necessary if one wants to get ahead ...
Author: Philip Aroneanu 06.5 President Liebowitz, Students, Staff and Faculty Members of the Sunday Night Group Socially Responsible Investment Campaign applaud the recent statement on divestment from companies financially supporting the Sudanese government. The people of the Darfur region of ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND LISIE MEHLMAN College hosts multiple environmental speakersAn institution known for its environmentalism, Middlebury College will host two environmentally-minded speakers next week. Essayist and acclaimed environmentalist Scott Russell Sanders will speak in Dana Auditorium ...
Author: STEPHANIE PRITCHARD '06 When I came to Middlebury as a first-year almost four years ago, we didn't have access cards. Residence Halls were only locked between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. and you used your room key to get into the building. We didn't have blue lights or emergency button call boxes and ...
Author: Aylie Baker "Activists by definition have to be optimistic," explained Saad Eddin Ibrahim in a lecture on Thursday, April 20 at the Robert A. Jones '59 House (RAJ). However, Ibrahim's talk , part of the Charles P. Scott Symposium, "Religion, Nation, and State," also conveyed a marked sense of ...
Author: Dave Barker He has been president for almost two years, but do you really know the guy who occupies an office the size of a few Painter singles? Armed with a tape recorder, I entered the unknown confines of Old Chapel, hoping to get some answers. Considering that a Facebook Group called "John ...
Author: CAITLIN CONNOLLY '06 By the time seniors graduate, 40 percent have visited the counseling center. While not all suffer from mental illness, many do. Mental illness touches everyone. It affects one of four people, and one of seven have a severe mental illness. It does not discriminate on the ...