Author: Meghan Michelson Vermont has been the home of many historically significant individuals, including Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, who was born in Plymouth, Vt., and John Deere, the inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery, who was born in Rutland, Vt. Many ...
Author: Meghan Michelson Addison County's regularly scheduled legislative breakfast, which is usually comprised of state legislators presenting their proposed bills and engaging in discussion, had a special keynote speaker this week. On Monday Governor Howard Dean appeared at the breakfast at the Legion ...
Author: Liz Lathey Vermont used to have snow. I remember, as a child growing up in Vermont, it used to fall by the foot and cover the whole state. Those new to Vermont may not be aware of this, but it is true. For some reason this year, the snow has stopped coming, perhaps due to lack of interest. ...
Author: Mary Christine Kwiatek After meeting with Associate Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry regarding alcohol policies on campus, Student Government Association (SGA) President Brian Elworthy '02.5 and SGA Chief of Staff Ginny Hunt '03 co-authored a formal proposal to reform the current alcohol ...
Author: Yvonne Chen What does it take to open an opera performance at Middlebury College? A flourish of trumpets? A smart kick in the pants? A tender introduction? Or nothing at all? This Sunday afternoon an almost packed house at Middlebury's Concert Hall investigated these questions and soon found ...
Author: Polly Lynn Madeleine Kunin, Bicentennial scholar-in-residence, was not only the first female governor of Vermont but also the fourth female governor in the United States. As Vermont's governor in 1984, she served three terms before becoming President Clinton's deputy secretary of education in ...
Author: Lanford Beard When the term feminism arises in today's society, it evokes a confused mixture of knee-jerk anti-testosterone sentiment and memories of 1970s-era bra burning women's liberation rallies. While the disparity in the current status between men and women is highly debatable, the woman's ...
Author: Matthew Christ Around 1 a.m. on Saturday night, I found myself meandering along the social house circuit. But something was not right: a certain foreign accent seemed far more prevalent than the American twang that abounds on campus. I failed to hear the pulsing techno beats and notice that ...
Author: Kevin King Herbert Marcuse strikes back! For those of you scratching your heads right now, wondering what I mean, allow me the time to briefly explain who this man was and what he stood for. Herbert Marcuse, a social critic and philosophical writer of the "New Left" in the 1960s, wrote an essay ...
Author: Dan Russel The Middlebury College Men's Rugby Club achieved unparalleled success this season after winning the New England Championship, the Northeastern Championship and qualifying for the National Championship quarterfinals for the first time in the Club's 30 year history. They dominated nearly ...
Author: Peter Nestor I do not deny that there may be good reasons to add an African-American Studies major to our curriculum. It is regrettable that none of those reasons were presented in last week's Campus article "Calling for a Visibly Diverse Curriculum." Instead, Athenia Fischer '04 argued that ...
Author: Emily Thurber Last Thursday, 40 Middlebury students and 25 alumni attended the Student Investment Club's (SIC) First Annual Young Alumni Panel held at DB Capital Partners in New York City. SIC Co-chairs Mashrib Zahid '02 and Eli Sugarman '02 developed the idea for the panel in place of the traditional ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton The large kitchen in the basement of Proctor Hall is a fairly quiet place. Workers dressed in white are all busy marinating chicken strips, chopping vegetables or cleaning off the counters. They talk to each other as they work but nobody yells and there is no loud music blaring.For ...
Author: Charlie Goulding In the fall of 1884, Middlebury College opened its doors to three female students: Mary Anna Bolton, Louise Hagar Edgerton and May Belle Chellis.With this began the history of co-education at Middlebury. Nonetheless, 1884 also marked the beginning of the long struggle for the ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann The Middlebury women's water polo team has gotten off to the best start in its history by collecting two solid wins in the opening tournament of the season two weeks ago. As the team prepares for the upcoming tournaments in the New England division of the National Collegiate ...
Author: David Lindholm There were plenty of things I wanted to say this week, but I couldn't organize them into one cohesive article. So here are my random thoughts this week.1) This is the first time in seven years that Middlebury has not captured a National Title in hockey. From '95-'99, the Panther ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee As anonymous posters flooded public and residential facilities at Middlebury College in the past two weeks, their cries of "silenced" rape have proven pervasive in the minds of students, staff and faculty alike. One of the earlier posters claimed that "one in four college ...
Author: ELizabeth Logue In this week's column, I humbly acknowledge my discovery of a new art form. Had you asked me weeks ago my definition of acceptable arts discourse in The Middlebury Campus, martial arts would not have been among them. To steal a sentiment from Harry in "When Harry Met Sally" when ...
Author: Ann Hanson, Dean of Student Affairs There have been many letters and opinion pieces appearing in The Campus in the past two weeks that have focused on sexual assault or rape at Middlebury. I welcome this dialogue. The issue of rape is serious, and ending this type of violence will require the ...
Author: Craig Brown Emma Hart Willard, an early advocate and pioneer for women's rights, found her roots here in Middlebury, Vt. Born on Feb. 23, 1787 as one of 17 children, Willard grew up on a small family farm in Hartford, Conn. Her father, Samuel Hart, recognized his daughter's inquisitive and dynamic ...