Author: Andrew Throdahl Terry Tempest Williams delivered a lecture in conjunction with the Energy Symposium to a packed Mead Chapel, filled with the usual mix of faculty, students and townspeople. Terry Tempest Williams's personality subscribes to that rugged but maternal personality well known in Vermont. ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander This season's "American Idol" is in full swing. The show has gained a whole new level of legitimacy since Jennifer Hudson took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, proving that it can indeed be regarded as a factory for fame. But "American Idol," a remake ...
Author: Bri Cavallaro and Emily Temple You would think that a fitting finale to the 2007 Energy Symposium would be hippies with acoustic guitars sitting in the candlelight and not a fully-amped rock show. But Minnesota's Cloud Cult pays to offset every bit of energy that their traveling and concerts ...
Author: Oscar Loyo Passion, energy, and even a happy birthday dance piece. This weekend, The Dance Company entranced audiences with its latest production, "Tribute." The hour long piece was directed by Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen and created by Jamie Gutierrez '07, Louisa Irving '07, Rebecca Marcus ...
Author: Melissa Marshall It was a problem that I could no longer ignore: my hips did lie, and they were laying completely and utterly still. When I would go to parties, I would try to drop like it was hot, but the closest I could get was lukewarm. I did not have an answer for what I was going to do ...
Author: Colin Foss Walking through the bottom floor of the main library, you might notice a strange phenomenon: inside glass cases, resting on largish pedestals, there are assortments of little trinkets, mundane baubles that seemingly hold no aesthetic value beyond the fact that they are presented much ...
Author: Sara Jameson Amanda Kleinman '09 is a joint Music and History major from Texas. She has already made an impressive mark on the vibrant Middlebury College arts community through her involvement with musical theatre. She took a few moments to talk with The Campus about her past experiences and ...
Author: Chi Zhang Most students slept in late after hours of ceaseless torso twisting at the Winter Carnival Ball. Others woke up to find themselves face to face with a different form of rigorous club dancing - the juxtaposition must have been quite striking.The Hip-hop & House workshop, hosted ...
Author: Melissa Marshall I think the conversation may have been re-ignited when I was putting on a dress that completely inhibited breathing and three-inch heels in preparation to slide and swing to cheesy albeit wiggle-inspiring covers at this year's Winter Carnival. Certainly, "The Vagina Monologues," ...
Author: Beth Connolly "I'm really quite unsure about which part of me is wasted. Trapped in flesh which doesn't seem to be responding the way that other people's flesh seems to," says a member of the troupe "Dancing Across Borders." Though his words were evocative, the true power of his expression came ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Let's talk fashion. And politics. Your body may be your temple, but it is also your own personal billboard. Use it wisely. Expressing your political views on this valuable advertising space is a great idea, as long as you are willing to stand up for you beliefs. Original ...
Author: Grace Duggan Once a year, the word "vagina" is used repeatedly by a group of Middlebury women in the McCullough Social Space. Taboos are challenged and confronted as women talk openly about their vaginas. They fake orgasms, elaborate on their sex lives, marvel at the process of giving birth, ...
Author: Josh Wessler The Academy Awards might feel a bit repetitive this year. Clint Eastwood directed two of the nominated films. Peter Morgan wrote both "The Last King of Scotland" and "The Queen," and was nominated for the latter. Alex Jennings has roles in "The Queen" and "Babel," both of which ...
Author: Emily Temple Glorious day. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse's newest album, to be released March 20, 2007, has leaked to the internet. I almost can't believe that it's been three years since Good News for People Who Love Bad News, but it has. This new album, which Isaac Brock ...
Author: Kelsey Smith You know that option when you create a Facebook invite that says you are promising a "night of mayhem?" Well it was promised and wholly delivered Saturday night at the Gamut Room, which played host to Fat Worm of Error - a costume-wearing, pandemonium-causing noise-rock group from ...
Author: Melissa Marshall In a "Garden State-esque" instant, I found myself returning to my dorm room on a cold Saturday night before the start of Spring semester. And as I stared at the four walls that surround my bed, I realized that I was indeed homesick for a place that didn't exist anymore. With ...
Author: Kelsey Smith I spent my last Thursday before Feb break peering into a vast expanse of young Manhattanites with rich parents who seem to be on a treadmill of hopelessness. "This is Our Youth," American playwright Kenneth Lonergan's first play, follows two disillusioned Upper West Side kids who ...
Author: Beth Connolly Visitors to the Middlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA) can currently view a two-story-long chain of sideways raindrops and the impression of an enormous leaf floating in green glass. These works are just two of the eight pieces of contemporary art featured in the Museum's new ...
Author: Sara Jameson Filled with acute emotion, clever dialogue and stirring philosophy, the performance of "On The Open Road," directed by Evan Dumouchel '06, pierced the audience with its intense depiction of the physical and emotional journey two men endure in their search for freedom. The play, ...
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