When I graduated from Middlebury in May of 1972, I had decided to seek election to the House of Representatives that fall, but I could never have imagined the journey on which I was about to embark. It’s an honor to be back on campus after all these years; I hope I can make a contribution by relaying ...
10) Fang Island— Fang Island Any band that takes its name from an article in The Onion about Donald Rumsfeld’s secret hideaway is bound to be a bit exuberant. Clocking in at only 31 minutes, Fang Island’s eponymous debut is a blood-rush of epic, carefree hullabaloo inspired by the likes of Los ...
Casual, confident, but the stuttering gait and searching eyes betray real fear. “Is anyone I know here?” Methodically spooning lima beans about your spinach, making the salad you didn’t know you wanted, then wandering around to consider, perhaps, if you want to add some feta. Eyes glance up: you ...
The silver screen has a long and sequins-smattered history of facilitating the perpetual stylistic dialysis of the masses. No, not in what Blake Lively or Uma Thurman wears to the Oscars — for as inspirational those shimmery stars may be, I'm talking about the celluloid and digital, the magic of the ...
Writing a top ten of 2010 makes me feel like a character straight from High Fidelity. My favorite ten albums of 2010 are… 10) White Denim — Last Day of Summer White Denim surprised me with their latest (and free!) release. The band explains that the collection of songs is just “something ...
Open Mic at Carol’s Jan. 21, 7 p.m. Have something to say? Bring your friends to Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe this Friday for Open Mic night. Sign-ups start at 6 p.m. and the evening of entertainment kicks off at 7 p.m. It is sure to be a night of laughter. Call the coffee shop at (802) 388-0101 for ...
This past weekend, the Middlebury College community organized and participated in a variety of events to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Stephanie Pons ’12 and Whitney Hanson ’11 organized a volunteer event where people could come and prepare fabric which would be sent to Mothers ...
When the following students decided to lead Winter Term workshops for the first time, the decision was sometimes less than self-assured, tempered by apprehension about the daunting task of instructing one’s peers. Halfway through the experience, when asked what advice they would offer those contemplating ...
Natty Smith ’10.5 had just returned from a weekend camping trip in the Green Mountains’ Bristol Cliffs when I interviewed him on Sunday. With three of his friends, Smith had snow-shoed up and skied back down, having carried their skis on their packs. But while Smith describes himself as “on ...
If you make your way over to Johnson Lounge, you might be surprised at what you’ll find. This month, the Winter Term class “Vermont Waters” has taken over the lounge and converted into a boat-building workshop, where they are building reproductions of two historic boats from the Lake Champlain ...
Last year, when The Hunt failed to generate enough enthusiasm from students to be carried out, The Campus wrote that it would take “some strong-willed, resourceful, inventive underclassmen to get the ball rolling again.” But when the time came this January to boost interest and organize the Hunt, ...
Do me a favor. Take a moment, wherever you are, to take stock of your body. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Skin over muscle over bone, tendons thrumming like strings, the blood rushing through veins — the human body is a gorgeous, complex, intricate bit of architecture, a construction that ...
A group of students was recently awarded the contract to run the Juice Bar as part of the contest launched by Vice President for Administration Tim Spears last fall. If the preparation process goes smoothly, the Juice Bar will reopen at the start of the spring semester under the students’ management. A ...
According to data released by the Office of the Registrar, grades at the College have steadily increased over the past 10 years. The data tracked the grade point average (GPA) in every department from the last decade and found that the overall GPA has risen from 3.27 in the fall of 2000 to 3.45 in ...
After the spring semester exam period, Facilities Services will begin a $10.5 million renovation of Forest Hall that will add 11 new beds and bring the building’s systems up to code compliance. The renovation will also move the Mailing Service and Reprographics office to the Freeman International ...
Midway through its second year, the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) continues to tackle issues of diversity in the Middlebury academic setting. The CCSRE formally launched in the fall of 2009, but the idea had been developing for years. “The idea of creating a center ...
On Feb. 11 50 to 60 college students from across Vt. will converge on campus to discuss what role community service and civic engagement play in their lives. The conference, dubbed the Student Think Tank on Civic and Community Engagement, is part of a larger initiative led by New England Research Center ...
At its Jan. 16 meeting, the SGA passed several new resolutions, including a controversial resolution encouraging the administration to consider the re-instatement of a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on the College campus. The resolution, proposed by Brainerd Commons Senator Charlie ...
In recent weeks violence has erupted in the North African nation of Tunisia. The violence was first sparked on Dec. 17 when a young man lit himself on fire to protest the worsening economic conditions in the agriculture-based state. Such a visible display of anger ignited the simmering public resentment ...
JOHANNESBURG — While all of you are living it up in feet of snow, I’m sitting outside writing this in gloriously sunshiney, 70-degree weather (sorry for bragging). In all seriousness, I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to spend my Jterm interning with the Tapologo AIDS hospice in South ...