With $53,879.19 in dorm damage already billed and what are traditionally the most destructive months still to come, the 2010-2011 academic year is shaping up to be the most costly on record. This fall, the College saw over $16,000 of damage in both October and November, making the two months the second ...
Discussion of feminist topics will take center stage on March 17 and 18 as the symposium “The F Word: Feminist Texts, Feminist Lives” comes to the College. The symposium, which hopes to rekindle interest in feminism by connecting it to many other disciplines and movements, is sponsored by the May ...
The College awards endowed chairs more than twice the enrichment funds of its peer institutions, including those that award bonuses, according to findings from the Sept. 2010 Ad-Hoc Committee on Faculty Compensation. Endowed chairs are becoming more numerous but less lucrative, according to the College ...
On Friday March 9 an 8.9 magnitude earthquake shook the island nation of Japan. The quake resulted in a subsequent tsunami that rolled inland at an alarming rate. Some 96 aftershocks have since occurred, ranging in severity. While each of these disasters on their own would be considered disastrous, ...
On Tuesday, March 8, a “dinner-time discourse” was held in the seminar room in the basement of Ross by DMC, also known as Deep Meaningful Conversations. Unbeknownst to some of the attendees of the meeting, DMC in fact stands for Distinguished Men of Color. Using the alias “Deep Meaningful Conversations,” ...
Have you noticed anything different about dinners in Ross Dining Hall lately? Particularly on Thursday nights? Perhaps you detected the slightly dimmed lighting or the more romantic ambiance? If you haven’t noticed the Ross romance — or are just a die-hard Proctor fan — here’s the scoop behind ...
On Thursday, March 3 the Gender Council held its first meeting. Made up of students, faculty and staff, the Council is facilitated by student co-chair Lark Mulligan ’11 and faculty co-chair Karin Hanta, director of the Chellis House. Mulligan says the Council hopes to centralize its movements on ...
What has surprised me most about Chile isn’t how different the culture is. I knew going in that their lunch is the equivalent of dinner in the United States. I knew that they keep different hours, as they don’t leave their houses until 11p.m. or midnight, and usually stay out until 5 or 6 a.m. Bars ...
OK, so I admit, I have a biased opinion. I’ve been on board with the Gender Council idea since it was first floated at a MOQA meeting many moons ago. And like, if I had to pick a social issue that I was most passionate about, I’d probably put identity, sexuality, and LGBTQ activism right behind ...
I bought my ticket for Dominique Young Unique in a fit of gung-ho, event-attending initiative. And, even though it was a Friday night concert and I could have easily convinced myself that I had more important things to do (and by do I mean drink), I was actually quite excited to go to this show. As ...
Just like that “Friday Night Lights,” one of the best television dramas of all-time, is over and you didn’t even notice. On Wednesday, February 9th, we witnessed Coach Taylor take the field for a final time in the small town in Dillon, Texas, ending a saga full of drama on and off the field as ...
Over the past few years there has been an overwhelming surge in the popularity of the cupcake, a mini bite of deliciousness that combines the pleasures of cake, frosting, and filling into a seemingly innocent and adorable package. Perhaps it began with the depiction of Carrie Bradshaw savoring a cupcake ...
The March 3 rehearsal for “Everyone Can Dance” began in a circle in the middle of the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theater. Thirty-five dancers of every shape, size, ethnicity and age created the circle, led by Ellen Smith-Ahern ’05 in a modern dance warm-up, rearranging skeletal and brain ...
Ten-minute plays are something of an anomaly in the theatre world, but for seven consecutive Sundays at 5:00 these brief dramatic pieces will be coming to Hepburn Zoo through the student initiated Immediate Theatre Experiment. Student producers Lilli Stein ’11, Daniel Sauermilch ’13 and Matt Ball ...
As it is now de rigueur for every serious news publication to publish an evaluation of James Franco’s career, I decided it was high time for The Campus to pass judgment. Franco, now ubiquitous in the cultural sphere, is an actor, artist, writer, Oscar host, Oscar nominee, television daytime soap opera ...
Slam poet Andrea Gibson performed at 51 Main on Tuesday, March 1. The event drew a large crowd of both students and members of the community, and seating became limited very quickly. The dim, cozy atmosphere of 51 Main was perfect for hosting a poet of Gibson’s standing, but the glowing blue lights ...
There are many wonderful things we can, and often do, say about Middlebury students. Our academic knowledge is vast and expanding everyday; our athletes are disciplined and talented, and our teams nearly always competitive; and on the weekends, we know how to cut loose and have a good time. But there ...
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 forever changed arcade fighters. Tournaments popped up across the country, many characters were introduced, some of which no one had ever heard of (I’m looking at you, Amingo) and the game spawned lingo such as, “Scoops! Haagen-Dazs!” and “Where’s your swoopy moustache?!” Ten ...
An ideal liberal arts education provides a broad-based academic curriculum with the purpose of cultivating individuals who think critically, communicate well and realize potential. Such an institution, like Middlebury, must offer a diversity of subjects in a limited number of classes, which both interest ...