Are you addicted to your phone? Think about it for a second. How much of your day do you spend glued to your smartphone, checking emails, texting friends and reading articles? I know that when all is said and done, I am guilty of spending a good chunk of every single day on my phone. Before this winter ...
Society creates numerous barriers to become self-aware — mainly that it creates so-called “acceptable” models of behavior that cannot possibly match each person’s set of ethics and beliefs. But higher education compels us to move past the childhood world of social mimicry and to question what ...
The other day it became strikingly clear to me how genuinely unaffected I’ve been by environmental issues. I’ve never been the victim of environmental injustice. I’ve never been oppressed (outright) by oil companies or arms manufacturers. Having clean water was only ever an issue when the town ...
The Breakfast Club did it, Principal Duval in Mean Girls did it and now, Middlebury has done it too. Gather a bunch of students with various social identities, races, genders, sexualities, etc. and, basically, let them go at it: let them talk. Having participated in Middlebury’s first JusTalks event ...
Dear first-year Febs, I’m just a guy in his last semester that wants to welcome those in their first. I want to be an example of one of the many friendly (and weird) members of your college community. In the process, I would like to share a little about what I’ve learned and what treasures ...
With super storms like Hurricane Sandy and winter storm Nemo, it is easy to overlook some of the smallest creatures that are affected by more subtle differences that climate change brings. The Bicknell’s thrush, a medium-sized bird virtually identical to the grey-cheeked thrush, is one such victim, ...
More than 1.2 million people gathered in the National Mall to watch President Barack Obama’s swearing-in on Jan. 21. Before the official celebrations began, though, the numerous Vermonters in Washington, D.C. decided to kickstart the festival in Vermont style. On the night before the official ...
On Tuesday, Jan. 15, during the second week of the 2013 legislative session, state senators Robert Hartwell (D) and Joseph Benning (R) introduced a bill calling for a three-year moratorium on all large-scale wind projects in the state of Vermont to allow for further research and consideration. The bill ...
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Middlebury men's soccer team "drafted" Dmitri Duval, a local 6 year-old from Crown Point, N.Y. suffering from juvenile dermatomyositis. After being diagnosed in August 2009, Dmitri took high doses of IV steroids, oral steroids and methotrexate (chemo medication), was discharged, ...
The College cancelled all athletic events and closed the Parton Center for Health and Wellness on Friday, Feb. 8 due to a winter storm that is expected to blanket the Northeast region in one to three feet of snow. Many students will face harsh weather conditions while traveling back to campus this weekend ...
The class of 2012.5 celebrated the end of their time at Middlebury on Saturday, Feb. 2. After a morning service at Mead Memorial Chapel, students traveled to the Middlebury College Snow Bowl to ski down the mountain in their caps and gowns. Hanna Howell '12.5 filmed the ski-down for Middlebury Magazine. ...
For any environmental studies or geography major who has been subject to the dreaded “cone of silence” of Middlebury’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course, it is hard to imagine a class revolving around GIS could be fun. Yet when you are no longer forbidden to talk to your classmates, ...
On Saturday, Jan. 26 Schumann Distinguished Scholar and co-founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben sat down in the WRMC studio with News Editor Bronwyn Oatley to discuss divestment, the media, the relationship between money and happiness and using his own body as a tool for social experiments. This interview ...
Students took to the stage this past weekend in a production 0f Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Into the Woods at the Town Hall Theater on South Pleasant Street in Middlebury. Into the Woods is a musical retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, following a vibrant cast of traditional folklore ...
Last week the College and the surrounding community mourned the passing of esteemed Professor Emeritus Ana Martínez-Lage who died after battling cancer for many years. Although Martínez-Lage retired last fall to spend more time with her family, her death has deeply affected members of the college ...
Although the panel on the endowment is now available in its entirety online, the Campus has compiled some highlights from last Tuesday's event in the video above. For additional coverage, please see "Divestment Debate Continues" or the Campus Current's liveblog coverage. In a new collaboration between ...
After Middlebrow was unable to perform back in December, the group presented the show "It's Us, Not You" on Wednesday, Jan. 23 in Dana Auditorium. At the show, the group held up posters with their phone numbers and asked the audience to text them opening lines to skits, which they used throughout ...
Over the course of two evenings, the College community saw its leaders “do the math” on divestment in two radically different ways. On Sunday evening, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben and others spoke to over 150 college and local community members at Mead Chapel in the last stop on ...
Tomorrow evening, the Dance Company Middlebury will begin its tour of Simply Light in the Mahaney Center for the Arts before travelling to Smith College, the Monterrey Institute for International Studies, and various public venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Six students and one alumnus, Paul Matteson ...
The class gathered outside of Voter, looking up at the wire strung between two diverging trunks of an elm. “You see that wire, the slack there? In the summer, when the tree leafs out, it will pull the wire taught. That slack is a good thing this time of year,” explained Tim Parsons, Middlebury College’s ...