In the HBO series, Bored to Death, Ted Danson’s magazine-editing character hears that the board of his publication has voted to cut his column — to which he responds, “I am my column. I mean, I’m writing it in my mind, all the time.” Similarly, I too write my column in my mind, all the time. ...
Last fall I had the tremendous benefit of arriving on this campus and beginning my Middlebury journey in the classroom of Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Tara Affolter. I was immediately challenged in numerous ways to critically analyze the complexities of systems of oppression and ...
Technically speaking, Jeff Klein ’09 and I were co-editors of The Campus Sports section for three semesters in 2008, but that distinction doesn’t do justice to either our friendship or the weekly lessons he gave me in sports reporting. A small and somewhat sterilized office, the Hepburn basement ...
How many times have you had your laundry in the washer and ready to go, having snagged a precious available washer on a busy Sunday afternoon, only to find that the balance on every one of the five MacGray laundry cards you had lying around your room is a quarter short of the price of a wash? Or had ...
To the Middlebury Campus, The article published in the most recent issue of the Campus, entitled “Students debate course credits,” struck a nerve with me and many other non-natural science majors on campus. The issue itself is definitely worth consideration, but solely on the basis of hours spent ...
My dream is to find a career where I can be a hybrid of Tina Fey, Jon Stewart and Sam Seaborn. So far, I am found wanting in embodying the characteristics of all my role models. My shortcomings thus far haven’t caused my enthusiasm to wane, and I continue to prove my worth by studying my heroes in ...
This world has its ups and downs, but parts of it really suck. Airlines that decide it’s OK to strand me in a dirty motel on New Year’s Eve fall into this category. I could also do without hangovers, Proctor tempeh dishes and sadness, all of which are arguably the same thing. But by far the worst, ...
College students get a bad rap. Among any population there will be a few misbehaved deviants scattered among many upstanding individuals; but at Middlebury, it seems that some faculty and administrators overestimate the prevalence of these malcontents. My friend Charlie and I recently walked through ...
Last Tuesday was not a good day for any American outside of the top one percent of wage earners. Democrats lost 65 seats in the House, bestowing the GOP with their biggest majority in, well, over half a century and now cling to power in the Senate by a narrow margin. The next two years will likely be ...
Midterm elections do not inspire quite as much media buzz and public interest as its quadrennial counterpart, the presidential election. And in some regards, they should not — there is not any one race on the ballot which everyone in the nation votes on, nor are we determining anything as important ...
At 12:30 a.m. this past Saturday, a friend and I decided to hit up the Bunker, host of the annual VACA-sponsored Halloween party, featuring DJs from New York and Montreal. (VACA stands for “Vitality of the Artistic Community Association” in case you were wondering.) As we neared FIC, we saw streams ...
It is rare that we think of Middlebury, both town and college, as a mighty, unified force. It is more common that we equate the area with its New England quaintness, seemingly slowed pace of life and picturesque pastoral beauty. But the opening of the Cross Street Bridge this past Saturday was a show ...
Middlebury’s OUT day marks one of the first times that our campus has collectively engaged the idea that honesty about our identities can truly foster an empathetic, socially responsible and dynamic community. However, despite its relative merit, I can’t help but think that this movement undermines ...
Being a climate activist, I tend to engage in some pretty intense and discouraging discourse. Still, the most terrifying conversation I’ve ever had was with a representative of the International Red Cross, at the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen last December. We were discussing climate refugees ...
To The Campus, I would like to extend a “wonderful job done” to the students who volunteered their time to the Spooktacular event held on the Middlebury Green. Those students were so good with kids! I attended the festival with my two year old and although he wasn’t much into the games, I did ...
Three weeks ago, as the rest of the editorial board was working tirelessly on our third annual Green Issue, I was taking a holiday from The Campus — but not from the theme of sustainability. I was in Denver, Colo., attending the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability ...
As you read this column you know who has won and who has lost in the midterm elections. You know who will control the House and the Senate for the next two years, who will be Vermont’s governor, and whether, for the first time since the Civil War, the House and the Senate will be controlled by two ...
Over the past week, the communications office has been rolling out its new battle strategy against dishware thieves. You might have seen the posters with the oh-so-creative spaghetti font telling us that “[we] can dish it out, but [we] can’t take it.” Or the strange film noir-esque YouTube video. ...