Since December of last year the Middle East has been the scene of mass revolt and rebellion. Liberty has become the byword of hundreds and thousands of people rising up against the oppressive and brutal regimes which have controlled their political destinies for far too long. The heartstrings of the ...
Seopmana, an annual music festival organized by WRMC, brought four acts to the stage Friday night at McCullough Social Space. Das Racist, Free Energy, Oberhofe, and the Ivorys played for over four hours to a crowd that grew steadily towards capacity. The acts were sequenced well, giving the night a ...
Professor of Literary Studies and editor of the critically acclaimed New England Review (NER) Stephen Donadio welcomed the room of literary enthusiasts at 51 Main on Tuesday, April 19 to the first night of the NER Vermont Reading Series. He spoke of the project as an endeavor of the NER, in partnership ...
The poster set the bar pretty high: three stylish musicians standing against a rugged backdrop, wielding instruments and sporting aviators. And then there was the program, claiming “we we we so excited to be performing.” Yes, last Sunday’s recital featuring the musical styling of Sarah Harney ...
You’d be hard-pressed to find two film genres more different than romantic comedies and boxing movies. Professor of Film and Media Culture Leger Grindon strives to examine and analyze these genres in two new books, Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History, Controversies and Knockout: The Boxer ...
Chaz Bundick makes music with the sensibility of a DJ more than that of any conventional songwriter. He is a skilled manipulator of mood, texture and ambiance, and both of his albums as Toro Y Moi have been very well sequenced, each track flowing naturally into the next, just like a good DJ set. This ...
The original Portal was something of an anomaly in the gaming world. What started as an independent project by some students turned into a small game that came packaged in Valve’s “Orange Box,” a collection of the Half Life games, Portal and the multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. Portal became ...
If Midd Kids are buzzing about something, it is probably up on MiddBlog. Or it will be in an hour or so. According to the blog’s “About” page, “Our only hard and fast rule about submissions is that it must be relevant to the Middlebury College community.” Last week’s topics included an ...
Election season is over at Middlebury, and for the students who do not vote, which is the majority of those at Middlebury, this might not mean that much. Do we even know what the Community Council Co-Chair and Student Government Association (SGA) President do, or what they are in charge of? Those who ...
“Little competes with the last six months — the political world has changed,” David Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, explained to a large Middlebury audience in his powerful lecture titled “Wikileaks and the Toppling of Middle East Dictators: Covering the Winter ...
This year Middlebury students joined over a billion people in celebrating Earth Day, what, according to the Earth Day Network, is the “largest civic observance in the world.” In an effort to do more than celebrate the planet, the SGA Environmental Affairs Committee organized a week’s worth of ...
Each time I have tried to start this column, I have begun with generalizations, enigmatic attempts at profundity, and lines that I am pretty sure have been said before, perhaps by Hallmark or maybe Thoreau. After four years, we’ve learned a lot of facts, a thousand names, how to pump a keg properly, ...
When I started this column at the beginning of my fourth semester, I had just come out of a series of non-relationships and random hook-ups. I possessed a bright-eyed determination to show this campus the evils of not committing, the perils of casually hooking up without emotional investment. For someone ...
There is a whole new category of celebrities these days: The YouTube Sensation. Some become quotable classics, like Kittens Inspired by Kittens (I want beef jerky!) or Marcel the Shell (Some people say my head’s too big for my body, but I say, compared to what?). Sometimes it’s just an incident ...
Pragmatism and optimism abound — and sometimes clash — in this year’s elections SGA and Community Council elections. For each of the posts, run-off elections begin today and run until Friday at noon. The Campus endorses Riley O’Rourke ’12 for SGA President and Kevin Broussard ’12 for Student ...
It’s no secret that Middlebury is a politically liberal institution. From the students to the faculty and even to the staff, an overwhelming majority of people here consider themselves progressive, liberal, leftist — or even a budding Socialist. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing — countless ...
In the New Yorker last week, there was a great “Shouts & Murmurs” titled the “Wisdom of Children.” There were three segments that described certain seminal moments of everyday life through the innocent eyes of children. For example, “A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at ...
Coincidentally, several friends of mine have gone into the perfumery business. They all just developed new scents and are in the process of marketing them. I mentioned that they might take out an advertisement in the Campus, but they didn’t want to pay top dollar for a spot. Instead, they convinced ...
With this semester’s end, spring flowers and warm days comes the 20th anniversary of the infamous Middlebury College staff firings of 1991. A decade ago, when we noted the 10th anniversary of this shameful chapter in the College’s history, some asked why we were dredging up these unpleasant ...