On April 4, the Campus celebrated its annual tradition of releasing an April Fool's issue. As none of the information presented in the issue is true, the articles were not uploaded to the website this week. Be sure to check out our video about the making of the April Fool's issue! Even though the articles ...
The Campus editors get serious about satire, discuss the history of the edition, and share some of their personal April Fools bests. Enjoy this year's April Fools Issue!
The Middlebury men’s basketball team fell 67-55 to North Central (Naperville, Ill.) in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, Friday, March 22. The 12-point loss marked Middlebury’s largest margin of defeat since the Panthers were ousted from the 2010 tournament by Rhode Island College, ...
Men's Basketball defeated Ithaca 73-72 last Saturday, March 16, earning the team a spot in the NCAA Elite Eight in Salem, Virginia. The boys play North Central (Illinois) tonight at 8PM in a Quarterfinal match-up. The winner heads to the Final Four Tournament! GOOD LUCK MIDD! Watch the team's "Road ...
“Ladies and gentleman of Radio Land, it is six o’ clock. The sun has set. Soon darkness will be all around. Yes it is six o’clock and evening has fallen, an evening of thrills and suspense.” For nearly eight years, every Saturday night, these words have been broadcasted from WRMC’s ...
“17 ½”, the senior acting thesis of Sumire Doi ’13 and Rachel Goodgal ’13, opened last Thursday in the Hepburn Zoo. It featured nine scenes from eight writers, among which Doi wrote a monologue. “17 ½ is a breaking stage,” Doi said, “half is the state of in between, and the play is ...
Last Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, Professor of Dance Christal Brown and the INSPIRIT dance troupe performed her dance piece, titled “Opulence of Integrity.” A production nearly two years in the making, “Opulence” sought to present the life and legend of world champion boxer Muhammad Ali ...
It was almost comical. One of the custodial staff was in the Battell bathroom as I brushed my teeth early one morning during winter term. “You haven’t seen a tree, have you?” she asked, peering into the shower stalls. “No, I haven’t,” I replied, both puzzled and bemused. Coincidentally, ...
The cheerful, vivacious Alexander Twilight Artist-in-Residence Francois Clemmons — decked out in Irish green tamed by his sparkling kaleidoscopic blazer — came out on stage toting a gold purse, pulling out all the stops as he opened the curtains for his last and 10th annual St. Patrick’s ...
Intimate communication appears to be a painful endeavor for the modern college student. Indeed, Trevor Powers was a senior at Boise State University when he began writing and recording highly personal tracks under the moniker Youth Lagoon as an outlet for his crippling anxiety and erratic mind. As such, ...
I got back from Alexandria, Egypt almost three months ago. “Wow, you were in Egypt? How was it?” “Incredible.” “Did you see the pyramids?” “Yeah, can’t miss ‘em.” “Were you ever in danger?” “No, the violence is pretty isolated.” “Was it crazy?” “Yeah, man. ...
In last week’s Campus article, “Arrested Students Protest ‘Environmental Racism,” Middlebury alum Jay Saper ’12.5 is quoted as saying, “We’ve talked more about environmental racism today — just today — than we have at a place where there is the longest-standing environmental studies ...
Two years ago when we received the fat acceptance package from Middlebury, we were pleasantly surprised to find a letter encouraging newly admitted students to take a gap year. Yes, we individually thought, some reassurance for this wild, scary thing I’m about to do after high school. Unlike many ...
I am a heavy drinker. According to Middlebury College, I fall squarely into the 11 percent of students that consumed 10 or more drinks in one sitting in the previous two weeks. How interesting. This has always been a topic I have been interested in, though lately it has become more of a fascination. ...
It is not surprising that the word “occupation,” was not mentioned in Dennis Ross's lecture on Tuesday night. The word does not exist in the discourse of the Israeli government, it wasn’t mentioned during the farcical elections for the Israeli Parliament recently nor does it exist in the language ...
Last year, President of the United States Barack Obama asserted in a White House press release that one of “America’s greatest goals must always be to foresee, prevent and respond to genocide and mass atrocities.” But last Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the Syrian civil war, a conflict ...
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to support a bill that would impose a ban on some assault weapons along with other measures aimed at reducing the likelihood of another tragedy like Sandy Hook. That bill, in all likelihood, will now die in the Senate. Even if it somehow ...
As student organizers within the divestment campaign on this campus, we would like to make clear that groups that have been working towards divestment at Middlebury, including the Socially Responsible Investing Club, Divest for Our Future and Sunday Night Group, disapprove of the recent appearance of ...
At the activities fair a couple weeks ago, I was wandering the aisles of clubs and organizations when I spotted a friendly face behind the College Democrats table. In his typical outgoing fashion, this friend shouted to me that I should come join the College Democrats. I politely declined, and when ...
On March 18, Community Council voted to disband Delta. The decision came after the Residential Life Committee conducted its biennial review of Middlebury’s five social houses. Delta was the only social house that the committee recommended for disbandment. While disbanding Delta, formerly known as ...