Author: Abigail Mitchell We have all had them-those utterly bizarre, other-worldly nighttime musings we call dreams. I bet at one time or another every college student has suffered the humiliation of leaving the house completely naked only to wake up at the peak of embarrassment and breathe a sigh of ...
Author: [no author name found] Students, faculty and members of the eco-business community gathered last Friday in Lawson Lounge to discuss the potential of biodiesel as a solution for the world's rapidly disappearing petroleum reserves. With fervor still lingering after this summer's highly publicized ...
Author: [no author name found] Each week The Middlebury Campus will take one member of the Middlebury College community. to a local thrift store to revolutionize the way they look at life, liberty and personal style. This week, we celebrated the oncoming Halloween holiday by whisking away Campus Arts ...
Author: Grace Armstrong Twelve-hour days - if you get out early. Working early in the morning, through lunch and late at night. An environment even more intense, competitive and high-pressure than Middlebury College. If this doesn't sound like your cup of tea - or even coffee - that's all right. The ...
Author: Emily Thaler Two years ago, Andrew Corrigan '02.5, a pre-architecture student, came up with the idea for an architecture table modeled loosely on the language tables, which would provide a place for students, faculty and staff to meet up and discuss architecture. Corrigan sought to recreate ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Last spring, the "Rodriguez Manifesto" made it quite clear: Should Sam Rodriguez '04 be elected Student Government Association (SGA) president, the SGA would be more accessible to students. Rodriguez's platform was manifold, but his highly personable demeanor pervaded the entire ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer It seems ironic that the "junior counselor," program at Middlebury was implemented in 1958 as "a constructive alternative to hazing." In the first 100 years of the College's history, hazing was a "neutral" term, according to Dean of Advising Karl Lindholm '67. Even the faculty ...
Author: Lanford Beard Justin may have walked away with a few Moonmen that night, but the minute Britney snatched a kiss from the infamous Boy Toy-cum-Caballah Mama at MTV's 10th anniversary Video Music Awards, we knew that this pre-Madonna was no longer "Like a Virgin."More than ever she was and is ...
Author: Venessa Wong On Friday, Sept. 26, the African American Alliance (AAA) welcomed the new school year with a screening of "Barbershop" (2002), a comedy directed by Tim Story about a whimsical day in an old-fashioned Chicago barbershop. The event, which took place in Bicentennial Hall Room 220, ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer The Alianza Latinoamericana y CaribeÒa (ALC) kicked off its celebration of national Hispanic Heritage Month last Saturday with a screening of "Like Water For Chocolate." The film proved to be so popular that it was moved to a different room to accommodate the crowd. ALC originally ...
Author: Charles Goulding The baby boomers had television, Generation X Nintendo and today, Generation Y boasts the prize-winner of them all - the Internet. For years, Generation Y has used the Internet for purposes of downloading free music files from other people's computers. In doing so, this generation ...
Author: Lanford Beard This weekend when "Everybody Loves Raymond" snatched the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series from shows like "Sex and the City," "Friends" and "Will and Grace," I thought to myself, Where is pop culture going?Are the stodgy really going to inherit the earth?What about the overpaid, ...
Author: Lanford Beard You may not recognize his booming baritone when he's whipped into a hockey-induced frenzy. Perhaps you won't recognize his face behind all that blue paint, but you will no doubt recognize the hair, the thrift store duds and the unabashedly enthusiastic demeanor every time.Michael ...
Author: Grace Armstrong It might seem ambitious to hold a serious panel discussion of world events on the first Friday night of the school year, but the organizers of "Hope, Not Hate: Curbing Anti-American and Anti-Arab Sentiments after 9/11" had an important message. The Sept. 12 timing was no accident ...
Author: Megan Keenan The beginning of classes has been frenetic this week as students scramble to finalize their schedules. Armed with add and drop cards, many students attended up to five or six classes a day looking for that perfect fit in their schedule.Although registration occurred last spring, ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca What do you get when you put a second-string quarterback, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a st-st-stutterer, the stereotypical South Boston girl, a mime and Batman on stage together? That's right - you don't just get utter nonsense, you get Otter Nonsense, Middlebury College's improvisational ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer The ease of getting into classes this fall seems to depend on the class, the department - and on who you talk to. "Historical data from MARS registrations over the last three years show that between 80 and 85 percent of classes never close," Secretary of the College Eric Davis ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Middlebury College is a lot like the National Basketball Association (NBA). Middlebury distinguishes itself amongst its peers with its strong international influence. Indeed, for a small college, Middlebury is largely cosmopolitan. Similarly, for the past decade, the NBA has ...
Author: Lanford Beard Who was the Father of the "Bling?"No, it was not P. Diddy - not even Run DMC or Fab Five Freddy before them. It was Liberace. There's a new Fab Five in town. They're here, they're queer and they're running the show.Generally I'm not a slave to the corporate hype factory. In fact, ...
Author: Christian Holt This week, Bob Wainwright, author of "What About Bob?" will be running his last column. Holt's Harangue therefore would like to give a send off to this sultan of sarcasm. "So long, you old fogey!"Haha, I kid. But the truth is, Bob's pretty old now. How old? Well, he's old enough ...