Author: Mike Waters At a beer tasting class during my semester abroad in Denmark, the host introduced himself as "a part-time alcoholic," which makes sense. In Denmark, with its government-funded education and universal healthcare, one can afford a part-time schedule. Me, I'm an American. I work full-time.My ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy College, I gather, is a formative experience for the young Americans who elect to take part in this fine tradition. It is a place where they not only acquire a deeper and broader understanding of the world around them, but also learn savvy social skills, explore one another's ...
Author: Nate Blumenshine For many of us, reading the news the past couple of weeks about the invasion of Gaza stimulates energetic debate, academic interest, and the occasional emotional twinge of guilt. We have no way to really understand the numbers that are reported: 1,300 Palestinians killed, 13 ...
Author: James Kerrigan Middlebury College's 2003-2004 prospectus still owns a piece of real estate on my dorm room's bookshelf. Its cover and its message have lingered with me long after I first stepped foot into the Emma Willard House five years ago. Four pictures and one powerful definition graced ...
Author: Matt Joseph On Nov. 4, 2008, many of us watched Barack Obama deliver a powerful speech in Chicago's Grant Park after becoming the President-elect of the United States. Amidst all the emotions from Democrats and Republicans alike, Obama spoke to the crowd with a voice to the future. He declared, ...
Author: Alex Garlick The image of Barack Obama taking the presidential oath in front of millions of onlookers Tuesday overwhelmed me. Just five years ago, I had never heard his name. In 2004, at John Kerry's nominating convention in my hometown, he burst onto the national scene; now, four years later, ...
Author: [no author name found] This past week has been an exciting one for Middlebury students. Our bucolic Vermont campus has been galvanized anew by the zeitgeist surrounding the inauguration of the nation's next president.Whomever we supported in last fall's election, we followed Tuesday's events, ...
Author: Robert LaMoy In response to Kate Lupo's '10 article "The Sexism of Laughter" (Jan. 15), I must respectfully disagree with the assertion that women cannot be funny without compromising their intellect. Let's address the examples provided in the article. America laughed at Tina Fey's impersonation ...
Author: Hannah Burnett With over a billion people in our world living on less than a dollar a day, the problems of extreme poverty and disease can be daunting, to say the least. It can be hard enough to even imagine such suffering as a part of our world, let alone begin thinking about how to end this ...
Author: Tess Russell "50 percent of Middlebury graduates marry each other." If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone work this dubious statistic into a lunch conversation at Atwater … Well, let's just say I'd be making much more frequent use of the CoinStar at Hannaford. At this point, ...
Author: Grace Duggan and Melissa Marshall We are senior English majors. We spend winter term Friday nights explicating Milton instead of trying to dissect the ingredients in the punch at the Mill. We are some of the only students setting up camp in the blue library chairs on Sunday afternoons (anyone ...
Author: Mark Esposito In 1993, the Green Mountain State rejected the retail monster known as Walmart from building here. It's a shame that 16 years later, we have let something just as bad grow up in our backyard. Burton Snowboards was once a revolution unto itself: it personified youth angst and created ...
Author: Matt Dickinson What can we expect from an Obama presidency? The next two years will be the critical period for his administration. It is the time when presidents exercise maximum influence, often with an attitude of hopefulness tinged with hubris borne from winning a two-year struggle to obtain ...
Author: Jacob Udell Haven't you heard? You don't need to be a vegan, drive a Prius, or know how to compost to be an environmentalist! Of course, conservation in our daily lifestyle is incredibly valuable. But rather than immediate global warming solutions, things commonly associated with environmentalism ...
Author: Kate Lupo Aren't women funny? Aren't we just hilarious? Do you know the names of any female comedians besides Ellen DeGeneres? No? Me neither. On the flip side, I'm sure if I asked my readers to name male stand-up comedians, they would probably be able to provide a solid list. I will argue that, ...
Author: Peter Baumann The funny thing about a comfort zone is that it is exactly that - comfortable. You could be there because it is what you know, or what you are good at or simply where you find yourself most at home. For me, I was comfortable as editor of the sports section of The Middlebury Campus. ...
Author: Alex Garlick The numbers are staggering: seven semesters on campus, three J-terms, $159,870.50 in tuition, fees, parking tickets, and deposits, thousands of printer pages that Count Paper is fretting over and a GPA that would have been sterling if my Spanish was "bueno" (sadly, it was "mucho ...
Author: [no author name found] For most Middlebury students, Winter Term represents a cherished exercise in relaxation. Free afternoons afford ample opportunity for skiing, snowboarding and exploring the surrounding Vermont hinterlands, while a diverse array of eye-opening workshops allow students to ...