“Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light,” Michael Caine intoned, bringing the great words of the 20th-century poet Dylan Thomas into the cultural mainstream as mankind’s last hope shudders through space and time. This Wednesday, Oct. 7th, adventurers ...
Two of the areas targeted by the 2008 Climate Action Plan (CAP) to help the College reach carbon neutrality were waste management and travel emissions. At the time of the plan, travel and waste accounted for 10% of the College’s greenhouse gas emissions. The CAP laid out a variety of recommendations ...
Dear Ross, You are not a five star restaurant. It’s okay; we know and love you just the way you are. You don’t need to disguise the real you. Be free. There’s no need to hide behind fancy names or complicated ingredient lists. Let the real Ross shine: fry all the things, make pizzas best described ...
2015 is a year of many 50th anniversaries including the release of The Sound of Music, the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the death of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Last week, the Black Students Union (BSU) was the target of anonymous campus vandalism. Posters they had hung up raising awareness for Middlebury’s black community were defaced with comments reading “racist” and “promotes hate!” Two weeks ago, in another act of anonymity, a student established ...
Thirteen months before the 2016 presidential election, we’re already hearing about the candidates in the news every day. Personally, I am tired of listening to the same batch of politicians debating virtually the same issues from the last election cycle. In large part, this stems from the fact ...
“Poverty” is as much of a buzzword as “privilege.” In the decades when truly progressive Democrats ruled the stars and stripes, poverty commanded political importance arguably above that of the White House. It soon lost its status, only to experience a resurgence recently pronounced in a Brooklyn ...
If you’re currently a senior, a super-senior or an ambitious more youthful individual, you are probably beginning to have some existential thoughts as you look towards life after Middlebury. As Middlebury students, we spend our college careers in a place that is remote in all senses of the word. It ...
In last week’s Campus, Alex Newhouse ’17 wrote an opinion piece, “Confronting Life’s Big Questions,” in which he issued a plea for greater enthusiasm and openness, especially from friends, in discussing “vulnerabilities and those deep, philosophical fears.” In effect, he wants to talk ...
On Sept. 23, the College filed to appeal U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha’s order to temporarily re-enroll John Doe, the student anonymously suing the College to reverse his expulsion following an alleged sexual misconduct charge against a non-Middlebury student. In a preliminary injunction ...
The week of Sep. 29 officially launched Green Dot, the College’s new program to prevent violence and promote student safety on campus. Director of Physical Education Noreen Pecsok, who helped implement the program, said the response from students has been overwhelmingly positive. “It’s very empowering ...
In this Sunday, October 4th 2015 broadcast, the editors of The Middlebury Campus join host Nathaniel Wiener to discuss their plans for the paper during the 2015-2016 academic year and discuss the week's editorial, "Disrupt the Finance Pipeline". [embed]https://soundcloud.com/campusvoice/the-campus-voice-october-4-2015[/embed] ...
Andrea Olsen gives me hope. If you are anything like me, you have also spent countless hours deliberating over various premade professions, wondering which hole fits your peg best, only to be frustrated by incompatibility at every turn. Nothing seems to match that idyllic happiness we have always been ...
When the name Annie Lennox is mentioned in conversation, it invariably leads to someone providing their perceived best take on “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” which no one had asked for. When Eurythmics released their second album in 1983, which shares its name with the song, the soaring and ...
On Sunday, Sept. 20, Ingoma made its first appearance at the Middlebury A Cappella Jamboree. But rather than mmm-bopping through a Billboard Hot 100, the group performed music from another source: the African continent. Ingoma, which gets its name from an African drum, was created in the fall of 2013 ...
On Apr. 7, 2009, legislators at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier cast an historic vote legalizing gay marriage in Vermont. “Those voting yes, 100. Those voting no, 49. One hundredneeded to pass, you have voted to override the veto,” announced Representative Shap Smith (D). The courtroom erupted ...
This past Saturday, Sept. 26, the Tour de Farms bike ride kicked into gear with a new route including more of the northeastern part of Addison County. Now in its eighth year, the Tour de Farms is an annual 37-mile bike ride around the Vermont countryside that stops at various farms, features local foods ...
One. Two. Three. Four. Motions repeated, counting up to 60, restarting, repeating, repeating. How long will this continue? When will it finally end? These were the questions evoked by “reRace: a movement study,” the first piece of Barack adé Soleil’s keynote performance of this year’s Clifford ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams hit the courts this past weekend on Sept. 25-27 in the USTA/ITA New England Regional tennis tournaments. The men’s team traveled down to Williams College for the weekend, while the ladies stayed home for a beautiful weekend on campus. Due to ...