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 ...
Automatic Problematic This professor’s eyeballs are about to pop out of her head in front of this surly discussion section. She wants you to find what is problematic. Oh honey! What isn’t!? Moby Dick is problematic. The Help is problematic. Jezebel should be more problematic. Your ...
What does $60,000 mean to you? Perhaps a couple new cars, a good chunk of a house, an annual salary in tech or finance for a recent grad or the rounded comprehensive fee at Middlebury College. In 2009, colleges like Middlebury were cresting the $50,000 mark; now five years later, we are approaching ...
If there is one thing to remember about the end of the roaring ’20s, besides the collapse of the economy, it is the Lindy Hop. Jazz was flourishing and swing dance was already on its way. While the general population often imagines the Lindy Hop as the definition of swing, a plethora of other complex ...
The stories we tell ourselves about our own past are the result of hundreds of voices — both named and otherwise — coming together to paint a picture. Each voice has its own volume and each listener comes with their own biases, so these pictures of our past are just that: only pictures. As time ...
In 2013, Harebrained Schemes kickstarted Shadowrun: Returns, their first title. Billed as a successor to the classic SNES game, Shadowrun Returns offered up two main options for players: they could create their own content using the built-in story editor, or they could play the campaigns released by ...
As the political situation continues to develop in the Crimean peninsula, there have been frenzied calls among American politicians to break Russia’s energy dominance in the region. The principle idea is to leverage the burgeoning North American shale revolution by exporting natural gas to continental ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team continued its early-season success on Saturday, March 15, winning its home opener over Wesleyan by a score of 10-4. After a scoreless first 12 minutes of the game, Liza Herzog ’14 broke the tie with a goal off of a free position shot. Wesleyan quickly struck ...
The indoor track and field team sent 10 Panther athletes to the NCAA Championship meet on March 14 and 15 at the Devaney Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, where over the course of the two-day event the squad competed in three individual events and two relays. The men’s 4x400 meter relay team consisting ...
As I lay tossing and turning last Thursday night in our Omaha hotel, I finally fell into a shallow sleep. Suddenly I was on the line for the 400 meters, in front of thousands of people. The gun had gone off and I was running smoothly. I saw the whole race ahead of me, and with every meter I was growing ...
The sixth-ranked Middlebury women’s tennis team grabbed another home win this weekend before its spring break trip in California, beating 17th-ranked MIT 7-2. Middlebury started off the match strong with doubles wins by pairs Alexandra Fields ’17 and Jennifer Sundstrom ’17 and Lauren Amos ’16 ...
The Middlebury men’s lacrosse team lost to 10th-ranked Wesleyan by a score of 11-5 on Saturday, March 15. Middlebury has yet to reach double digit goals in any of its four games. The Panthers got off to a quick start against the Cardinals. Only 2:31 into the game, Taylor Pirie ’15 found Mike Ford ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/keystone-xl.mp3"][/audio] On Friday, March 14 host Greta Neubauer spoke with students Hannah Bristol '14.5 and Adrian Leong '16 about their participation in a mass act of civil disobedience in Washington D.C. to protest the Keystone ...
This past Saturday, the Middlebury College Men’s Cross-country team was hard at work by 6 a.m. cooking 24 gallons of chili to serve to students, Middlebury residents and chili connoisseurs at the Sixth Annual Vermont Chili Festival in Middlebury, VT. Their Wild Rumpus Chili took home first place ...
On Friday, May 9, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) will welcome Brooklyn-based alt-indie band Matt & Kim to perform the 2014 Spring Concert. Due to student demand demonstrated through online surveys, the concert will be held outside, weather permitting, most likely in the space between ...
The Middlebury College Board of Trustees met over Winter Carnival weekend to discuss a range of issues including a 2.94 percent increase in tuition, a new Korean language school and various construction projects underway between the main College campus and Monterey Institute campus. According to Vice ...
A Brainerd Commons policy of fining students for leaving items in the hallways of residence halls has led to Brainerd’s levying fines of hundreds of dollars on students. Each Commons attempts to discourage students from leaving items in the hall, and when contacted for comment, representatives from ...