The Student Government Association (SGA) will launch MiddCourses, a new site for students and professors to view course evaluations. The site will be open to all students in early April, after spring break. “The point of this project is to create a better platform on which students can share course ...
The Spring Student Symposium, in which students present their academic and creative research and thesis work to the community, will begin on the evening of Thursday, April 10. The symposium, which is in its eighth year, is being held a week earlier than in past years to accommodate for Easter the following ...
Two Iowa State University professors gave lectures as candidates for a senior faculty position in the College’s burgeoning Food Studies program on March 18. “We’re advertising for one position, but on the basis of this visit, we found a way to broaden the search to accommodate potentially two ...
The Middlebury Library and Information Services (LIS) conducted the Measuring Information Service Outcomes (MISO) survey earlier this month and is planning to announce its results in the next few weeks. These results will allow LIS to detect areas of the different Internet platforms managed by both ...
On Saturday, March 15, GlobeMed at Middlebury held a dodgeball tournament to raise money for Gardens for Health International. GlobeMed is a national organization that has chapters at over 50 college campuses across the U.S. Each chapter is partnered with a unique, non-governmental organization to ...
A late winter blizzard on Thursday, March 13 blanketed the campus with over a foot of snow. Despite treacherous roads, high winds and inaccessible sidewalks, the College conducted daily operations as usual, albeit with a limited staff. Many of the College’s staff members were unable to come to work ...
When I go to 51 Main, I feel as though I am close to a little piece of home (Brooklyn, New York) because I run into all types of people there. Not just students. Not just townspeople. But everyone imaginable. They are enjoying a shared interest, mingling, being together in the same place. Worlds collide ...
As students, we live our lives in proximity to our peers, and thus have the opportunity to see them not only in an intellectual environment, but also in the social sphere. We see our friends on dining hall dates, at Atwater parties, on long walks to the organic farm, and “studying” in the library ...
Friends with benefits. All of those words individually sound so nice. Friendship, that’s awesome. And benefits, who doesn’t want those? Yet somehow, often, these situations don’t end up working out as perfectly as people initially plan. At a place like Middlebury, with the “work hard, play hard, ...
A blizzard raged outside the Robert A. Jones ’59 House last Wednesday evening, but inside, the conference room was filled to its capacity of 100. Students, faculty and community members had braved the biting wind, driving snow and deeply blanketed roads and sidewalks to attend this year’s Scott ...
On Feb. 25, a Facebook page was created for The Middlebury Fireside, which calls itself as “Middlebury’s new, premier publication for the outdoor enthusiast, environmentalist, nature photographer, or artist.” The page is currently on the sparse side, but the six students involved have given a ...
Tammy Iffland, first cook in Atwater Dining Hall, is perhaps one of the happiest people I’ve ever met. “My job is fun,” she told me. “We love making you guys happy.” Iffland’s day starts around 7 a.m., but Atwater opens even earlier, with dry goods arriving on trucks from Burlington Food ...
For those of you who were worried (probably just our #1 most devoted fan, Izzy’s grandpa): we’re officially back baby. Maddie has resurrected from her gastro gravestone and joined Izzy once again for their half-marathon training. After a beautiful rendition of Baby Come Back to Me, a.k.a. a Vanessa ...
Roughly 140 employees at IBM's Essex Junction plant lost their jobs this month, the most recent bout of layoffs in the company's billion-dollar restructuring. The company currently employs over 430,000 people worldwide, but some analysts expect that number to shrink by roughly 13,000. Many of these ...
Alexander Twilight Hall — the austere brick building separating the town from Middlebury College — is named for Alexander Twilight, the 1823 Middlebury College graduate who is known today as the first American black college graduate. Today, Twilight is widely touted as an example of Middlebury’s ...
Upon opening her inbox, Reverend Stephanie Allen noticed one unread email from an interesting source: Middlebury’s Memorial Baptist Church. The email turned out to contain a job offer, which Allen decided to take, and thereby become the town’s first female pastor. Allen’s role at the church ...
As I transition out of the Middlebury community, I will be joining a cohort of young people who face career uncertainty that I will refer to as “The Entitled Precariat.” Despite its allusion to Marxism, the Entitled Precariat has nothing to do with ideology. Rather, it is a group of young professionals ...
Two weeks ago I wrote an article for The Campus about how certain brands of leftist activism, especially those on this campus, have created a hierarchy of classes, which dictates admission into our collective discourse (see: “Jared Leto and the Thought Police”). A week later an article was published ...
“Act like a man.” I am sure that is a sentiment older male figures have expressed to any young man at some point in their lives. And I am sure the reasoning was well intentioned, even if ill-founded. I’m sure they meant ‘be brave, don’t cry and be athletic’; all those colloquial things we ...
I love to be alone. There is something so valuable about solitude, something so unique and singular, that I make a point to find it wherever I can. If I can find time to be alone, then that day is a success. Eating lunch by myself is the very least of the ways I can find solitude. I walk into town by ...