Middlebury College likes to drink. Not all of us, certainly, but it is no secret that the collective BAC of this campus rises substantially when Friday night rolls around. We are not unique in this regard – drinking is an endemic part of college culture nationwide. But in the interest of community ...
Wes Doner climbs into the driver’s seat of the truck and pulls on a pair of plastic gloves. “Are you guys ready?” he asks with a grin. It’s 12:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon and Doner, a waste and recycling handler with facilities services, is about to start the third leg of his daily route ...
Ruby and Roman each carried a white paper bag overflowing with freshly picked apples and a tooth-splitting smile last Saturday morning as they clambered to sit atop the stone wall in Adirondack Circle. “I got a bunch of tiny little apple ‘thingies,’” Ruby said, drawing an apple smaller than ...
Students call it “the sophomore slump” — that feeling, common to second-year students, of being pressured to make decisions about majors, studying abroad and, ultimately, life. The College may finally have a solution. For the past year, a “Sophomore Experience” committee of Middlebury staff, ...
He quietly opened the door to my room and greeted me with a silent smile. I pulled him onto the bed and onto me and pushed my tongue into his mouth, blocking any semblance of sound that could sneak out. I took his hands and ran them over my eager body, baring my whole self to him and allowing him to ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CommunityEducation.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Oct. 6 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke with Laura Strom '14.5, Molly Shane '13.5 and Joe Flaherty '15 about the Editorial Board's proposed "community education credit." Also on the ...
On Saturday, October 5th, Middlebury's new club Debatable held its first debate in Crossroads Cafe. The Debatable participants hashed out the pros and cons of Big Oil companies and kept the audience members involved with a Question session as well as an opportunity to state their side. The ...
You know that one person you’ve hooked up with so many times you can’t even count it on your fingers anymore? But you two are not, never have been and most certainly never will be anything serious. It’s the person you call at 1 a.m. when you’re in the mood and no one else is around. It’s the ...
This week, the Campus sat down with Amari Simpson '16, a Posse Scholar and Neuroscience major from Chicago who is active in the Student Government Administration and has also done cancer research. Middlebury Campus: Tell me about yourself and what you do on campus. Amari Simpson: Most of the time ...
Although much of the attention on immigration reform in Congress centers on the policy toward illegal immigrants, Professor of Public Policy at the College of William and Mary Harriet Duleep brought to light a surprising fact about immigration. “For almost half a century family unification has ...
Although much of the attention on immigration reform in Congress centers on the policy toward illegal immigrants, Professor of Public Policy at the College of William and Mary Harriet Duleep brought to light a surprising fact about immigration. “For almost half a century family unification has been ...
How heavily is our style influenced by our surroundings? Jack Supple ’14 went to Berlin, Germany last fall with one self-identity and left with a new, improved and slightly more European one. Before leaving to go abroad Supple didn’t necessarily consider style among his top priorities, although ...
In a detailed letter sent out to all students on Tuesday, Oct. 1, Dean of the College Shirley Collado and Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott outlined changes to both the written alcohol and party policies and the College’s education, prevention and response programs. While the changes may seem trivial, ...
Every other Tuesday evening during the the fall semester, students will find themselves handing their dinner plates to peers and watching as any unconsumed food is scraped from the plate and into a plastic bucket. Generally relegated to the room hidden behind the dish deposit conveyor belts, the new, ...
A reduction in parking ticket fees this year from $50 to $10 marked a concession of Public Safety to the demands of the Student Government Association (SGA). In February 2013, Public Safety raised the price of a parking ticket from $10, the cost that has been imposed for the past 10 years, to $50, ...
Armel Nibasumba ’16 and Rabeya Jawaid ’16 were invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City from Sept. 25-27. Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to ...
Before the school year began, Dean of International Studies Professor Jeffrey Cason decided to close the College’s school abroad in Egypt based at the University of Alexandria due to the political turmoil that continues to rock the country. After the removal of President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt erupted ...
The Community Council met for their first meeting of the year on Monday, Oct. 30 to discuss its role at the College and to create a list of agenda topics for the upcoming academic year. In considering its role, the group emphasized looking at issues beyond those that are primarily student-related. ...
After 34 years of diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the presidents of the two countries made direct contact with one another last Friday for the first time since 1979. President Barack Obama placed a telephone call to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani as Rouhani was heading to Kennedy Airport ...
I have been in Brazil for a month now, but it feels like I’ve been here for almost a year. It’s uncanny how easily I adjusted to life in another country. I touched down in Rio de Janeiro, on Aug. 29, and even at the airport, I was already worried about so many things: fitting in, classes, culture ...