If my childhood friend group is any indication, there are a few distinct and mutually exclusive ways to play with Legos. There is the rule-follower, who builds the thing on the front of the box per instructions. Next, there is the engineer who ignores the instructions in favor of his own plan, carefully ...
It’s been two decades since Beck penned the anthemic, self-mocking two-lined chorus that (who knew?) would be swallowed heartily by ‘90s frat bros and despondent weirdos alike. Led by “Loser,” his album Mellow Gold immediately garnered praise with eclectic fusions of anti-folk twang, old-school ...
Joey Kizel has never shied away from the biggest names or the biggest games, especially when it comes to fellow All-American Aaron Toomey and the defending national champions, Amherst.
In order to study the influence and perceptions of the Middlebury brand, the College sought the advice of Baltimore-based consultant Mark Neustadt. After interviewing students, faculty, alumni and prospective students alike, he presented his observations and suggestions to the faculty last spring. “The ...
Middlebury College’s Office of Sustainability Integration declared the College to be on track towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2016 in its most recent report citing the biomass plant, efforts by a variety of groups on campus, and the new biomethane initiative as critical to the progress. In ...
According to a press release from the Peace Corps, the College ranked 14 on a list of top volunteer-producing small colleges. There are currently 12 former students volunteering worldwide, serving in Botswana, China, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo and Uganda. Since the Peace ...
Prescott House, former home to Delta before its disbandment in 2013 and current home to 27 first-year students, will be offered as a social house or superblock for the 2014-2015 academic year. Applications and preliminary rosters for superblocks and social houses were due Tuesday, Feb. 18th. Immediately ...
Teddy Gold ’16 won the Middlebury Entrepreneurs Pitch Challenge during J-term with his local delivery project, Otter Delivery. Otter Delivery functions as an on-demand delivery service, allowing students to place pick-up requests at stores in town and have it delivered to their dorm room later that ...
Let’s talk about vaginas. Or, rather, let’s talk about The Vagina Monologues, a student produced play performed on Valentine’s Day in the Hepburn Zoo. Writer Eve Ensler ’75 wanted to start a taboo conversation about female genitalia, and she started interviewing women about their views on sex, ...
Across the country, 24 states have declared energy emergencies in response to lingering cold blasts that continue to slam the South and Midwest. A propane shortage has caused 14 million Americans to pay nearly double for recent deliveries of the pungent gas. It would appear that the U.S. is in the midst ...
The past few years have been a rotten time for local multiplayer video games. Big name franchises have been shifting focus to online multiplayer, sometimes dropping their local multiplayer altogether. Last year, when I popped open my brand new copy of SSX for the PS3, I found that EA had decided not ...
Though Sochi might be over 5,000 miles from our home here in Vermont, Middlebury’s connection to the home of this year’s Winter Olympics may not be as far as you think. Since the 1940s, the College’s Snow Bowl and Rikert Center have produced some of the nation’s most impressive nordic and alpine ...
I am sure that many of you, like me, fall into certain familial rituals after spending a few days back home on break. Laundry is done in collective family-sized loads, your normal dinner schedule is thrown horribly out of sync or perhaps you must perpetually update your parents as to your whereabouts, ...
Here at Middlebury, we live by an extensive set of rules. Some are necessary to maintain our safety, but many are superfluous and actively undermine our autonomy as students. A student body that lacks agency also lacks community standards. I simply propose that we deserve more trust. The presence of ...
With the 2016 deadline of carbon neutrality looming closer, the College’s alternative energy profile is more diversified than ever. We’re powered by sun, wind, trees and now… cow manure? Fear not, the odorless gas produced from the quintessential Vermont scent won’t force you to hold your breath ...
When I read the article by Jeanette Cortez, class of 2015 and from Los Angeles, not Philadelphia, as reported in last week’s issue, “Not Like a Fifth Class,” I had an immediate, almost visceral reaction. In her article, she criticized the negative reactions of students of color to incidents of ...
Sue Lahai and Tracy Raymond have been cutting hair side by side at Bud’s Barbershop for over 18 years. The shop was opened in 1971 by Bud, according to Raymond. “He worked up right until ninety, so whatever clientele he had left we grabbed. This has been here for over sixty years. So everybody ...
Have you climbed a mountain recently? Did you make the trek to the gym during J-term? Do you own more than three athletic outfits? Well we haven’t, we didn’t and we don’t. As Non-Athletic Regular People, or NARPs for short, being unathletic makes us social pariahs on a campus where the athletic ...
My parents often ask about my future and about what I’m doing to prepare for a career. Most of these conversations descend into arguments, during which they become frustrated with my steadfast uncertainty about what I want to do. During one such discussion, my father exclaimed in frustration, “Where ...
Hey kidiots! Does that start us out on the wrong foot? These days I’ve been feeling like my social filter is made out of Swiss Cheese, holes punched through with the heavy artillery of being “totally over it.” I am frustrated with how seriously we take each other and bummed with how we casually ...