Instead of publishing student stories this week, I’m using this space to write about student activism on Twitter. This column will continue to serve as a platform for your personal narratives, so please keep on sharing them! At the same time, however, I think our expectations surrounding sex in college ...
This week, the NARP duo decided to take on the ultimate beast— intramural soccer, known colloquially as “IM”. Some friends of ours started a team, and knowing our athletic prowess, have been begging us to join for weeks.
This year in May, key provisions in the Patriot Act that allow the bulk collection of private data and information are set to expire. In light of that, I find it particularly chilling that within Middlebury’s ongoing micro-debate about security there is an erroneous proposal to increase surveillance ...
In 2013, seven sophomore students organized around a cause that they felt was lacking the attention it needed: local food security. Middlebury Foods was born, a non-profit business through which central Vermonters can pre-order monthly boxes of meat and produce at affordable prices, made possible by ...
Obeidallah, an Arab-American lawyer-turned-comedian, has been featured on CNN and MSNBC. His first joke inside Mead Chapel: “At the end of the show, you’re all gonna be Muslims. I’m going to convert you … in a church.”
It is easy and natural to have a strong emotional reaction to issues of privacy and security. As skeptical, educated adults, we are quick to react whenever we feel our autonomy is being violated — as demonstrated by the incidents of graffiti on our campus commenting on the proposed cameras — or ...
The Classics department received a significant donation that will endow a lecture series, professorship, and summer programming. The department will be renamed the Eve Adler Department of Classics. Donations such as this are normally named in honor of the donor, as with the Albert A. Mead Professorship ...
The smell of burgers sizzling on the grill permeated the cold afternoon air in front of Proctor dining hall. Students representing various campus groups stood by tables and bulletin boards with colorful posters, tubs of ice cream, and an assortment of cookies fresh from the Weybridge House oven to engage ...
“Ethos. Pathos. Logos. Till our last breath.” Thus reads the heading on Middlebury College’s Oratory Society website. The juxtaposition of Greek philosopher Aristotle’s “three persuasive appeals” followed by the latter colloquial phrase encapsulates the unique undertaking of the Oratory ...
This year, two Middlebury College students, Maddie Orcutt ’16 and Kate Hamilton ’15.5, were selected to receive the prestigious Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship is a $30,000 grant awarded to a select number of college juniors interested in government and public policy with the purpose ...
On Tuesday, April 21, students, faculty and members of the community gathered in Mead Chapel to hear Middlebury College Activities Board’s (MCAB) spring speaker, veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile, in her talk titled “Political Outlook: A Comprehensive Picture of What’s Going ...
The SGA meeting on April 19 opened with an announcement from President Taylor Custer ’15 that the recently passed proposal Coffee Hour would take place at 8:30 p.m. every remaining Tuesday of this school year, in either Davis Family Library or Bicentennial Hall. Next, Director of Membership Nick Warren ...
Recording of the Student Co-Chair of Community Council debate [audio m4a="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SCOCCdebate.m4a"][/audio] Recording of the SGA Presidential Candidate debate [audio m4a="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SGAPresDebate.m4a"][/audio] Students ...
Community Council voted on Monday against a proposal to install security cameras in the hallways where bags are left outside of dining halls, with the intention of deterring and monitoring theft.Graffiti protesting the installation of cameras appeared Monday morning at a number of locations on campus. ...
The gay best friend is not a new invention. It’s been a running bit on several sitcoms already, an excess of articles written about how to find one. There’s even been a movie on it, appropriately named GBF. Whether it’s middle school or college, female-identifying people everywhere can be found ...
“What I try to do is to get people to start looking around them,” Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Glenn Andres said, reflecting on his retirement at the end of this semester. In his 45 years teaching classes such as Art of the City, Andres has made “looking around” valuable ...
The range and scope of narrative podcasts can make it difficult to go beyond big names like The Moth Radio Hour and Serial. But tonight, Maya Goldberg-Safir ’12 from Third Coast International Audio Festival is bringing the event Podcast Therapy to campus. Goldberg-Safir and producers Alex Kapelman ...
A girl, the same girl that could have been sitting next to you in macroeconomics or literary theory, is now sitting in front of a camera, telling you about an experience – a couple of minutes - that transformed her life. Her face is covered with a mask that depicts another student at the College’s ...
Loyal readers (Hi Mom!), before diving into this week’s column, I would like to give you a heads up. This campus’s very own bastion of automotive journalism (yours truly), has been in contact with the inspiration behind my incredibly complicated reviewing system, the Liebowitz-o-Meter. That’s ...
“Okay, it’s just going to be me, Eli, Lydia, and Matt for the interview today but we honestly know each other so well that we’ll probably be okay without Ben and Danny,” Alexis Hughes ’17.5 said, as she drummed her fingers on an oily Proctor breakfast table. Mt. Philo, an on-campus alternative ...