Ethel* and I met last year at a friend’s birthday party. Life strikes when you least expect. We only shared a few words, but she left enough of an impression that I’d intermittently make small extra efforts to say hi in the dining hall. Beyond that, I let it be. Spring faded. December came around, ...
You might have seen it scrawled on a Bi-Hall chalkboard. Maybe on the one in front of Proctor. Go/middbites, a sweet (and savory!) website combines the convenience of go/menu with the creative content of student-created recipes in one sleek, iPhone-friendly layout. But what exactly sets Middbites apart ...
What do the words “transdisciplinary artist” evoke to you? Last Monday, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, self-described “information artist,” gave a public lecture in the Johnson Memorial Building about how she uses art as an avenue for active inquiry into the ethics of various kinds of modern-day technologies, ...
We decided to write a poem to recap our third week of training: Roses are red Violets are blue Maddie got gastro, We didn’t know what to do. As a reminder to those who are joining our column now, you are witnessing two of Middlebury’s most non-athletic students attempt to train for the impossible: ...
As I was walking down the Axinn hallway for my interview with John Hawley ’14, I noticed him from 20 feet away. He was wearing a bright, but soft, yellow button-down shirt with simple faded blue khakis, sophisticated rectangular glasses and a classic pea coat thrown over the chair next to him. We ...
On Wednesday March 5, the Christian holiday of Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, a six-week long period of discipline and devotion. Ash Wednesday emphasizes human mortality and Lent traditionally asks observers to take up a specific discipline. Many students describe this period as a specially ...
Room 404 may not be the most recognizable student-run publication on campus, but its little-flaunted presence could be intentional. The publication’s distribution strategy, developed by the organization’s founders Moss Turpan ’14.5 and Dylan Redford ’14.5, does not rely on the typical grab-and-go ...
I am your new sex columnist for the semester, nice to meet all of you! We are always hearing or talking about the “hook up culture” here at Middlebury, yet it seems that people here (girls especially, though I’m biased) never talk openly about sex! Instead, sex conversation is relegated to anonymous ...
Robert Stowe, Head Baker, will retire this spring after a long career in the basement kitchen of Proctor. “According to human resources, it’s 49 years. Which is fine with me,” Stowe said. “That’s long enough.” Stowe began working summers before starting high school when Proctor was still ...
On Feb. 28, students and professors gathered in the Robert A. Jones Conference Room to discuss a topic of global proportions as part of the International & Global Studies (IGS) Colloquium. They attended in hopes of garnering a fuller understanding of a particularly sweeping idea the College has ...
The recent assassination attempt on a former editor of a major newspaper has caused international outrage. This event does not exist in isolation. Over the past year, four editors and founders of local media have been assaulted in Hong Kong. The application for a new television station has been debated ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/MALT-trips-REAL.mp3"][/audio] On Friday, Feb. 21 hosts GRETA NEUBAUER and IAN STEWART spoke with Adrian Leong ’16 and Rod Abhari ’15 about trips they took over February break to an alternative eco-community and natural gas fracking ...
Painter Hall The oldest college building in the state, Painter Hall was constructed in 1814 for $8,000. The Colleges’ original library, the first bathrooms on campus, and a two-story gymnasium occupied the building in its first years. Newly constructed, the building’s chimney malfunctioned in the ...
Every year the Middlebury College Center for Social Entrepreneurship grants $10,000 to one student to develop a grassroots project for peace. The initiative, Davis Projects for Peace, was started in 2007 by Kathryn Davis, a renowned philanthropist who chose to celebrate her 100th birthday by donating ...
The music scene here at the College is leaving its underground home for the center stage, as Middlebury Musicians United (also known as MMU) provides a new venue for campus performers. MMU’s main goal is to bring student music to the Middlebury community. They currently manage a rehersal space in ...
Education studies professor Jonathan Miller-Lane gave a public lecture last Wed., Feb. 19, that began with medieval church music — with improvisation on the saxophone — and ended with him standing in a white Aikido hakama, a traditional piece of samurai clothing worn in various forms of martial ...
From small talk in Proctor, to late-night brownie binges and even later nights in the library, the constant chatter that echoes through campus concerning the “perfect girl” not only exists, but has taken a toll on the College campus. With an acceptance rate of 17.3 percent, it is no question that ...
As a kid, Erika Sloan ’16 always wanted to be on Jeopardy!. Nearly every night after dinner, her family would watch the trivia show together with Sloan pretending to be a contestant and playing along with the show. Today, the classics major from Simsbury, CT no longer needs to pretend. This February, ...
The themes of week 2 were immobility, Chinese food and a foreign concept of exercise known colloquially as “squatting.” If those descriptions didn’t make it clear, we’ll spell it out for you: this week was a struggle. Due to severe muscle fatigue, neither of us could physically get out of bed. ...
Though Sochi might be over 5,000 miles from our home here in Vermont, Middlebury’s connection to the home of this year’s Winter Olympics may not be as far as you think. Since the 1940s, the College’s Snow Bowl and Rikert Center have produced some of the nation’s most impressive nordic and alpine ...