What would have been our last week of training was instead spent recovering in bed and wallowing in Adam Levine’s new hair color. Reminders of the upcoming race proved to be overwhelming throughout the week. A walk into town meant passing a screaming neon sign announcing road closures on Sunday, May ...
Nail biting. Isolation. Tiredness. Irritability. Anxiety. These are all ways to tell when you’ve reached the boiling point. As most students have probably experienced, stress manifests in a variety of forms, intensities and lengths. According to the American Psychological Association, “stress can ...
The Middlebury Campus brought big money out of the shadows this week. We distributed surveys polling our personal spending habits, where our spending money comes from and where we think the money comes from when we see others charge everything to their cards. The results of 109 surveys distributed across ...
Although we wanted to start our last week of training with more energy than ever, the universe once and for all, proved its wish to sabotage its two favorite NARP first-years. Izzy dealt with a recurring foot pain that left her walking like a teetering pregnant woman — swollen feet and cankles included ...
The desire to eat local, real food has become rooted in our food culture on campus. Defining real as local, fair, humane and ecologically sound, members of Eat Real set out to discover how much food in the dining hall fulfilled at least two of the four criteria mentioned. After tracking food production ...
As a kid, my favorite food and drink were spaghetti bolognese and Coca-Cola. Yet, after indulging myself in the richness of cakes, Cheese pizzas and meatball spaghettis for five months the dining halls, I’m starting to crave my mother’s meatbone soup. To me, the taste of Chinese food tends to be ...
As April winds to a close, the College wraps up a month of events focused on raising awareness about sexual assault. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and new Health and Wellness Director Barbara McCall launched a series of events throughout the month in order to “recognize and support survivors ...
If Hannah Sobel ’17.5’s linguistics study is valid, there won’t be any feminists left in the movement for marijuana legalization. Though Sobel doesn’t smoke, she enlisted her friends to record their conversations while under the influence of marijuana to study gender differences in speech patterns ...
Since its launch on April 9, 2014, beyond the green, a publication that seeks to provide an outlet for marginalized voices at the College, has rocketed to the forefront of campus consciousness. The publication, which “seeks to use writing as a way to support and ultimately achieve structural and institutional ...
For my last column of the year, I wanted to touch on a more serious issue. Inspired by recent events in my life as well as many friends, and also various Middfesh stories, I believe it is important to discuss the very serious issue of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). While sex comes with a lot ...
Although we pushed ourselves to adopt the “early-riser” mentality that other active students all share, our attempt to cut the ties to our beds in the mornings failed. We may not have made the cut for this exclusive group of kids who wake with the sun, but we have decided to make our own clique: ...
This week’s commemorative event for Sexual Assault Awareness month will take place tonight at 6:30-8 p.m. in Crossroads Café. While in recent months on both a national and local level here on the campus, there has been a tremendous influx in dialogue surrounding sexual violence, the event Sex, Hooking ...
Last Monday evening, sitting in the small and stuffy newspaper office in the Hepburn basement, I found myself surrounded by lounging editors, writers and photographers listening to a steady stream of bluesy, jazzy soul played by Innocent Tswamuno ’15 and Mohan Fitzgerald ’14 of the student super-band, ...
If you ventured down to Crossroads anytime in the past year, you may have noticed a small man and woman in red chef jackets, busily moving among the baristas shuttling sushi from behind the counter. Behind the jacket is Tint Kyan and his sister Khin Swe, the brother-sister combination responsible for ...
Black Sheep was the place, Darlene my date. Another terrific night, made more interesting by my expanded interpretation of “dating at Middlebury”: Darlene is a townie. I met Darlene at a business downtown, where she works. She’s the kind of girl who converts new customers into returning customers, ...
Bakery at Crossroads Cafe The school bake sales as you knew them pale in comparison to the kind of creative baked goods the student-run Crossroads Café are selling. From lemon-frosted blueberry cake to banana peanut butter finger cake, from white chocolate sweet potato cake to pumpkin bread, the range ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kyle-on-adderall.mp3"][/audio] On Friday, Apr. 18 hosts GRETA NEUBAUER and IAN STEWART spoke with Kyle Finck about his two-part series, “Living in the Adderall Generation”. Who’s taking the drug, what’s it doing for them, and ...
This past Friday evening, the Swing Dance Club took the stage for their first official performance in McCullough Social Space, lighting up the room with energy and dance moves. The show, featuring nearly 50 dancers with a wide range of experience, attracted a full house of students and community members. ...
If girls were noodles, then Hong Kong girls would be rice vermicelli and the girls from Middlebury spaghetti. Why? Rice vermicelli is puny and delicate. It takes on the flavor and color of the sauces it is cooked with. In contrast, spaghetti always slaps angrily at your face when you slurp too hard. ...
What’s in a name? As Romeo said, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Yet, in this day and age, names, and more specifically definitions, definitely matter. While many modern day college students enjoy the benefits of sexual freedom and the influx of information on sex, relationships have ...