In light of the recent release of 50 Shades of Grey and the upcoming Porn Party at the Queer Studies House, we thought a good topic for this week would be a list of porn and kink-related vocabulary and their misconceptions. Some of the terms you will find are very commonplace while others are not. The ...
This past weekend, MiddCORE launched their first Springboard Weekend, taking a program that is usually taught during summer or in a J-term course, and packing it into a weekend. In groups of three to four, students had three days to identify a campus issue, research the problem and do a presentational ...
Before we jump into this week’s NARP activity, we just wanted to use this column as a platform to get a date. We still have not seen 50 Shades of Grey, and after the teen who buttered our popcorn for the Spongebob movie thought we were dating, we decided we should branch out and bring new people (boys). ...
It was a Sunday afternoon like any other, and I found myself sitting in a Proctor booth chatting with some good friends about sex in college. During my time at Middlebury, I’ve really enjoyed the authenticity of such conversations: “Neither of us came, but it is still a great memory.” “It ...
Last Friday, I arrived in Wilson Hall at four o’clock, an hour and a half before the event was set to start. The room was buzzing with energy. For the Kids members were rushing about painting banners, blowing up balloons, and scheduling times to set out Boloco burritos and Bruegger’s bagels. This ...
Though the announcement did not come as a surprise to many, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) sent out an all-student email on Tuesday, Feb. 24 confirming that rapper and auto-tune extraordinaire T-Pain will headline this year’s spring concert on Saturday, April 18 in the Chip Kenyon ...
The Middlebury College Orchestra has experienced its fair share of ups and downs since its inauguration one hundred years ago. Most recently, low student participation led to the cancellation of orchestra in the spring of 2014. This past fall, however, conductor Andrew Massey rebuilt the group, filling ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Middlebury students brought the stage to life with performances of literary works from the New England Review (NER). This was a night to unify the author with the actor, to revitalize prose through the age-old tradition of spoken word. The event was titled “NER Out Loud,” and ...
This year’s class of ’88 lecture series speaker Hugh Taylor addressed the question, “Will Stem Cells Stop the Biologic Clock?” The Yale School of Medicine physician-scientist and editor-in-chief of the Reproductive Sciences journal interspersed the story of his stem cell biology research with ...
Forty-six years ago, an unknown four-man rock band out of London cut and released their eponymous debut album. Thirty-eight years later and one member down, they played what is widely believed to be their final show in 2006 to a crowd of eighteen thousand lucky fans out of the twenty million that applied. ...
The lecture hall was already packed ten minutes before Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a squat man with a prominent kinky beard, large silver dangle earrings,and an engaging aura of sassy humor, started his story. Over 150 students squeezed into the room even after the seats had all been taken, settling in the ...
If you’ve read the editorial this week or the news article from last week, you know that the a group of Stanford students discovered that that they have access to reader’ comments on their admissions files through the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act. We as an editorial board are grappling ...
I am not a fan of unsolicited advice, and with that in mind I am going to give some. This is the last generation of Febs I will be here to see before tragically graduating a little less than a year from now. While I will hopefully be ready to go by then, three years ago I could have used some frank ...
Over the last few months, thanks to the Supreme Court declining to take up the marriage equality petitions before it in October, a tidal wave of judicial decisions in favor of marriage equality has swept across the nation’s courts, expanding the number of states where same-sex marriage is legal to ...
Most of us probably came to Middlebury in order to have our beliefs challenged. We wanted to confront situations that would make us think and take on problems from different perspectives. We wanted to expand our ability to consider critically and to learn from the people and places around us. But we ...
College admissions have been a source of controversy for decades, but the topic has been of particular interest to this campus over the past month. Students and faculty have long wondered which traits the College prefers and whether the biases that shape these preferences are racist, classist or otherwise ...
“We strive for 105% support,” chuckled first-year Taylor Cook after reading the section of the most recent Campus feature regarding students opinions on divestment from fossil fuels. Cook’s comment referred to a large info-graphic, which allegedly claimed in bold that, “55% of students support ...
Taken aback I was when I read all the hullabaloo regarding the benefits of being an athlete on campus. I find the apparent miscommunication between athletes and non-athletes to be particularly shameful, considering how moderate and levelheaded Middlebury students tend to be when discussing social issues. ...
I recently participated in Midd Uncensored. For those who don’t remember this event, it is basically an intense get-to-know-you activity. The most notable exercise is a “stand up, sit down” game. In it, a facilitator reads prompts and asks the audience to stand up if they identify with the statements. ...
Happy Black History Month! As part of the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the U.S. government recognized Black History Month, which was formerly unacknowledged throughout most of the country. President Gerald Ford’s announcement was intended to urge all citizens to honor the achievements of blacks ...