Instead of publishing student stories this week, I’m using this space to write about student activism on Twitter. This column will continue to serve as a platform for your personal narratives, so please keep on sharing them! At the same time, however, I think our expectations surrounding sex in college ...
This week, the NARP duo decided to take on the ultimate beast— intramural soccer, known colloquially as “IM”. Some friends of ours started a team, and knowing our athletic prowess, have been begging us to join for weeks.
In 2013, seven sophomore students organized around a cause that they felt was lacking the attention it needed: local food security. Middlebury Foods was born, a non-profit business through which central Vermonters can pre-order monthly boxes of meat and produce at affordable prices, made possible by ...
Obeidallah, an Arab-American lawyer-turned-comedian, has been featured on CNN and MSNBC. His first joke inside Mead Chapel: “At the end of the show, you’re all gonna be Muslims. I’m going to convert you … in a church.”
The smell of burgers sizzling on the grill permeated the cold afternoon air in front of Proctor dining hall. Students representing various campus groups stood by tables and bulletin boards with colorful posters, tubs of ice cream, and an assortment of cookies fresh from the Weybridge House oven to engage ...
“Ethos. Pathos. Logos. Till our last breath.” Thus reads the heading on Middlebury College’s Oratory Society website. The juxtaposition of Greek philosopher Aristotle’s “three persuasive appeals” followed by the latter colloquial phrase encapsulates the unique undertaking of the Oratory ...
The gay best friend is not a new invention. It’s been a running bit on several sitcoms already, an excess of articles written about how to find one. There’s even been a movie on it, appropriately named GBF. Whether it’s middle school or college, female-identifying people everywhere can be found ...
“What I try to do is to get people to start looking around them,” Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Glenn Andres said, reflecting on his retirement at the end of this semester. In his 45 years teaching classes such as Art of the City, Andres has made “looking around” valuable ...
The range and scope of narrative podcasts can make it difficult to go beyond big names like The Moth Radio Hour and Serial. But tonight, Maya Goldberg-Safir ’12 from Third Coast International Audio Festival is bringing the event Podcast Therapy to campus. Goldberg-Safir and producers Alex Kapelman ...
A girl, the same girl that could have been sitting next to you in macroeconomics or literary theory, is now sitting in front of a camera, telling you about an experience – a couple of minutes - that transformed her life. Her face is covered with a mask that depicts another student at the College’s ...
Loyal readers (Hi Mom!), before diving into this week’s column, I would like to give you a heads up. This campus’s very own bastion of automotive journalism (yours truly), has been in contact with the inspiration behind my incredibly complicated reviewing system, the Liebowitz-o-Meter. That’s ...
“Okay, it’s just going to be me, Eli, Lydia, and Matt for the interview today but we honestly know each other so well that we’ll probably be okay without Ben and Danny,” Alexis Hughes ’17.5 said, as she drummed her fingers on an oily Proctor breakfast table. Mt. Philo, an on-campus alternative ...
Dear Frank, senioritis is hitting hard. This obviously means that I’ve been neglecting work, but I also find myself deciding whether or not to bother addressing various issues — ranging from personal conflicts to logistical challenges — based on whether or not I can tolerate the status quo for ...
Before we officially commence our column, we want to let you all know that we are aware that many of our NARP activities involve self-defense, and this week is no different. We are unsure what this means, but we are rollin’ with it. Seeing that it is the 21st century and we go to school in an incredibly ...
I had met him at the beginning of the summer and could tell very quickly that he was different. Since then, we’d worked alongside one another, hiked together and browsed western art galleries together, discovering our mutual love of the great Rocky Mountains and being in the moment. So one night a ...
Most of us have been on the Athletic department website at one time or another, maybe to check on your favorite team’s progress, or maybe to not-so-subtly roster stalk your Proctor crush. This website (along with many other sources of information and publicity for athletics) is led by two people, ...
“The more we understand the world, the more voice we have in shaping it.” These were the words of a young student of Kevin Murungi ’01, Director of Human Rights and Foreign Policy Programs at Global Kids, who returned to the College on April 9 to deliver the Spring Symposium’s annual keynote ...
After putting up an exhibit called Queer Faces of Middlebury in the McCullough Center Gallery, I noticed that the word “queer” turned some people off the project. I personally don’t mind identifying as queer and using it as a personal and political tool to talk about identities and ideas, but ...
Students in the Davis United World College Program, representing as many as 60 countries, will gather in Wilson Hall today to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Program. It will only be the second time this year – and also the last – that this group has come together under the banner which had ...
All the time we ask queer people what their sexual identity is. We ask their friends, they ask each other, we take guesses. The world is obsessed with finding out who is queer. On the surface level, this doesn’t seem like that big of a social issue. Labels serve a convenient purpose of seeing who ...