Op-ed: Harry Morgenthau, Really Listening

On Friday morning, I opened my window for the first time since November. Sunlight lay in long strips across my quilt and I could feel the warmth on my face as I struggled with the crank, still half lying in bed, my mouth full of the rosemary bush that dwells on my windowsill. Rising to my knees, I leaned ...

Editorial

When Jay Saper ’13 clicked “Reply All” to James B. Jermain Professor of Political Economy Peter Matthews’ two-department-wide (Economics and Sociology) email advertising an upcoming speaker, he roused a discussion about the College inviting controversial guest speakers to lecture. That he took ...

@world: put down you smartphones #growup

My phone is the most basic model sold at the Verizon store. It can take pictures (but not videos); it has a speakerphone and texting options. Beyond these ‘bare essentials’, it has no multimedia or Internet capabilities. I had the option to upgrade my phone two months ago and I chose this model ...

Spring Break - Dylan Levy

Panther Blood: An exercise in bi-winning

The past few weeks, there have been several op-eds printed in the Campus protesting the stifling nature of Middlebury’s rigorous academic demands. Although I agreed with many of the arguments presented in the op-eds, as a lifelong nerd with no hope of salvation and a puppet of the administration, ...

Yankee Doodle Dandy?

A few days before the Japanese earthquake (and ensuing nuclear power and human crisis), the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in this country approved Vermont Yankee’s request for a new 20-year license. Despite the local plant’s questionable history (radioactive hydrogen was found leaking into ...

Preschoolers take over Snow Bowl for Iguana Cup

The Middlebury College Snow Bowl welcomed skiers from age five to age 50 to participate in the second annual Iguana Cup, a fundraiser for the Quarry Hill School. The private preschool, located on Quarry Rd. in Middlebury, hoped to raise approximately $2,000 to support the school’s day-to-day activities ...

Building a healthy academic community

Last week the economics department sponsored a lecture on “Early Non-Marital Childrearing and the Culture of Despair,” by Phillip Levine, an economist from Wellesley.  Levine posited deeply problematic and racist conceptions that devalued a “culture” from which he retained much distance.  ...

Meet the Farmer: Monument Farms

The College takes great pride in the quality of the food served in its dining halls. Matthew Biette, director of dining services, seeks local and organic products whenever possible. Though just 19 percent of the College’s food funds purchase Vermont products, Biette stressed that the statistic “depends ...

Students embrace a classic Vt. tradition

Middlebury students are taking advantage of their location and many are getting involved in the maple syrup and sugaring industry. Max Godfrey ’13.5 and Sam Koplinka-Loehr ’13 have each discovered a love for the classic Vermont tradition. Koplinka-Loehr and Ford Van Fossan ’13 began researching ...

Thank you, thank you! - Donna Donahue

On behalf of the Better Middlebury Partnership I want to thank the wonderful Middlebury College volunteers who helped us with the Chili Festival and to thank all the great students who showed up to sample the more than 70 types of chili provided by more than 50 vendors. It was a great day made greater ...

Middlebury flower shop moves to new location

On March 1, The Blossom Basket, previously located at 56 College St. next to Sama’s Café, moved to 8 Bakery Ln. The store, which was vacant when owner Jennifer Hill bought the space, sits across from Jackson’s on the River. Sandy and Jack Burkholder opened The Blossom Basket in 2001, but Hill will ...

Spotlight On... Mica Schlosser '13, CCAL Student Arts Curator

Did Ariel Ritchin’s ’11 vibrant photographs catch your eye on the way to your mailbox through the McCullough Social Space last month? How about the art on the walls at 51 Main during the last Spoken Word?  Do you have your own artwork that you want on display? The person responsible for bringing ...

Under the Raydar

When I’m at home — which is to say, my other home in Pennsylvania — I don’t usually find myself hoarding all of the dishes from the kitchen in my room, leaving trash all over the floor, drunkenly shouting something derogatory at my neighbor while she minds her own business taking out the garbage ...

Administration Tree

The Princeton Review ranks Middlebury fourth in the country as a school that “runs like butter,” but most students have few opportunities to meet our administrators. Years ago, every Middlebury student used to receive a pamphlet with the names, titles, pictures and job descriptions of most Middlebury ...

One in 8700

Trent Campbell can often be seen around town and on the College campus with a camera around his neck, taking photos for the Addison Independent. “People are shocked when they don’t see me with a camera,” said Campbell, who grew up in Deluth, Minn. Photography has been a constant presence in his ...

Famed NPR voice resonates with students

Eight years ago, in one of Middlebury’s many attempts to bring the outside world to campus, Scholar-in-Residence in English and American Literatures Sue Halpern established “Meet the Press,” a program designed to bring members of the media to campus. Middlebury students have heard lectures from ...