Technically speaking, Jeff Klein ’09 and I were co-editors of The Campus Sports section for three semesters in 2008, but that distinction doesn’t do justice to either our friendship or the weekly lessons he gave me in sports reporting. A small and somewhat sterilized office, the Hepburn basement ...
At the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup in New York City on Nov. 13-14, the second-seeded Middlebury team Constant Vigilance took the top prize. This victory marks the fourth year in a row that Middlebury has won the tournament; this year’s World Cup is also the first to be held off campus. Before ...
How many times have you had your laundry in the washer and ready to go, having snagged a precious available washer on a busy Sunday afternoon, only to find that the balance on every one of the five MacGray laundry cards you had lying around your room is a quarter short of the price of a wash? Or had ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz recently announced two major positional changes. Vermont Governor Jim Douglas ’72 will join the College community as an executive in residence beginning this January. Scholar—in— residence in Environmental Studies Bill McKibben has been appointed to ...
The College community mourns the tragic death of recent graduate Jeff Klein ’09 on Nov. 9 near his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. A line of loving friends and family went out the door and down the block at the 23-year-old’s wake on Nov. 12 in Pleasantville, N.Y., and many gathered again at Klein’s funeral ...
Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette recently discussed a change in the Grille’s management. The current managers, Michael Glidden and Dave Kerin, who run the Grille, Wilson Café, MiddXpress, the Ralph Myre Golf Course and the Snow Bowl, are leaving their positions. Though the reason for ...
Twelve senior faculty members will be retiring at the end of this semester as a result of the Faculty Retirement Incentive Program (FRIP), a program implemented to achieve further staff reductions in order to cut costs at the College. The College announced this program last fall, offering tenured ...
The recent decision to move the Music Library from the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (CFA) into the Davis Family Library has provoked some controversy from members of the College community. The plan is to change the Music Library space into classrooms for the History of Art and Architecture ...
After being detained for 15 of the last 21 years by the ruling military junta, Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has finally been freed. Such a step for the in the increase in liberty of a politically influential individual has been widely supported by the international community. Skeptics ...
YAROSLAVL — My semester in Russia thus far has presented me with challenges both big and small. The big ones, like my upcoming term paper on “love and responsibility” in Alexander Pushkin’s Evgenie Onegin, are being handled with caution and a surprising amount of planning and forethought. The ...
Legitimate representation demands clear and consistent communication between legislatures and their constituencies. Therefore, the recent polling program launched by the Student Government Association (SGA) and its senators regarding course credits should, in essence, be the rule and not the exception. ...
Students at the University of South Florida have been found guilty for cheating on a midterm exam for a senior-level business course. After an anonymous student tipped Professor Richard Quinn that students were cheating earlier in the week, he found discrepancies in the number of A’s and the time ...
To the Middlebury Campus, The article published in the most recent issue of the Campus, entitled “Students debate course credits,” struck a nerve with me and many other non-natural science majors on campus. The issue itself is definitely worth consideration, but solely on the basis of hours spent ...
According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, a syzygy is “the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system.” One of more obscure words in the English language, when typed into a Microsoft Word document it comes up as a misspelled version of ...
My dream is to find a career where I can be a hybrid of Tina Fey, Jon Stewart and Sam Seaborn. So far, I am found wanting in embodying the characteristics of all my role models. My shortcomings thus far haven’t caused my enthusiasm to wane, and I continue to prove my worth by studying my heroes in ...
This world has its ups and downs, but parts of it really suck. Airlines that decide it’s OK to strand me in a dirty motel on New Year’s Eve fall into this category. I could also do without hangovers, Proctor tempeh dishes and sadness, all of which are arguably the same thing. But by far the worst, ...
College students get a bad rap. Among any population there will be a few misbehaved deviants scattered among many upstanding individuals; but at Middlebury, it seems that some faculty and administrators overestimate the prevalence of these malcontents. My friend Charlie and I recently walked through ...
Last Tuesday was not a good day for any American outside of the top one percent of wage earners. Democrats lost 65 seats in the House, bestowing the GOP with their biggest majority in, well, over half a century and now cling to power in the Senate by a narrow margin. The next two years will likely be ...
Midterm elections do not inspire quite as much media buzz and public interest as its quadrennial counterpart, the presidential election. And in some regards, they should not — there is not any one race on the ballot which everyone in the nation votes on, nor are we determining anything as important ...