On behalf of the Better Middlebury Partnership I want to thank the wonderful Middlebury College volunteers who helped us with the Chili Festival and to thank all the great students who showed up to sample the more than 70 types of chili provided by more than 50 vendors. It was a great day made greater ...
Sometimes I get fed up with this place. There may be better reasons to dislike Middlebury, but so often I come back to the same restless discomfort: I am always surrounded here. I am always watching. I am always being watched. Maybe you can relate — you know those days when the perky girl on your ...
Whether you hear of it through e-mails from your RA or by looking down your decimated hall, the problem of dorm damage is a reality. With several weeks still remaining in the academic year, the College’s monetary tally for dorm damage exceeds $53,000 — more than the cost of one student’s yearly ...
Dearest Blueberry, You don’t know a lot about me, and I don’t know a lot about you, but we are in love. Here is the story of how I met you. Doing homework is one of the loneliest parts of my day. I came to this realization this past weekend, when I spent every waking hour of my actual birthday ...
A heavy knock on the door startled me as I sat at my desk the other night, wallowing through a lengthy problem set. “Come in,” I yelled, and then returned to my work. When I noticed my visitors I nearly fell out of my seat. President Barack Obama stood in my doorway, flanked by House Speaker John ...
At the beginning of your journey, it might have been the glamour of the NBA that lured you into the game, or that exhilarating sound of a basketball swishing through the net. But not long after, what started off as a spurt of enthusiasm grew into a long-lasting passion. When other kids were at home ...
In a recent lecture on the connection between mind and body, Andrea Olsen said that after three days of drinking water at a conference in Korea she was 60 percent composed of that country. My encounters with the Proctor water tap have provided less inspiration. That’s not to say this place is lacking ...
There are many wonderful things we can, and often do, say about Middlebury students. Our academic knowledge is vast and expanding everyday; our athletes are disciplined and talented, and our teams nearly always competitive; and on the weekends, we know how to cut loose and have a good time. But there ...
An ideal liberal arts education provides a broad-based academic curriculum with the purpose of cultivating individuals who think critically, communicate well and realize potential. Such an institution, like Middlebury, must offer a diversity of subjects in a limited number of classes, which both interest ...
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was … snow. II Middtwitt: this snowday has only reinforced how badly I WANT MATTHEW BIETTE TO BE MY DAD #socuteinanapron III E-mail from Professor Billings canceling class: Hi everyone, I’m snow-bound this morning, and so is Prof. Monod. Have ...
From Iran to Egypt, from Yemen to Libya, from Morocco to China and from Senegal to the United States citizens have spilled into the streets, surrounded government buildings and choked public squares, holding signs and shouting — hoping that their combined presence and united voices will change their ...
Lately, I’ve been taking a class on social movements; civil rights, farm workers unions, peaceful uprisings in the Middle East — you name it. And while I have learned that there is no way to explain these powerful events as a whole — each is unprecedented in its own way — some key components ...
The town meeting last week marked the second year in a row that Vermont’s education spending has declined. And it happened without the angst we all felt last year. Only three districts rejected their budgets — that’s the fewest in at least 20 years. And based on the anecdotal evidence, many budgets ...
Although I have a very large bone to pick with issues involving the Middlebury community and our inability to integrate different social scenes on this campus (I hope to address them in future articles), I want to start with a very simple proposition. It may seem a wild idea at first but I think it ...
As the winter months draw slowly to a close, two sports teams at the College have infused the Middlebury community, both town and gown, with a new, higher tolerance for a long winter season. The men’s basketball and women’s hockey teams will continue their quests for championships this weekend: ...
“It’s difficult for anyone to have warm and tender feelings for the crazy man.” – Glenn Beck, Feb. 22 It’s a surreal scene: Glenn Beck, all alone on a TV set flooded with a low, blue light. He’s surrounded by an array of chalkboards; like mirrors in a haunted house, they reflect the many, ...