The Student Government Association (SGA) recently passed a resolution to seek financial and organizational support from the administration for an improved outdoor orientation program. The passing of this resolution gives a committee run by senior senator Anne Runkel ’11 the authority to take action ...
Every year since 1981, the members of the senior class have honored their time at Middlebury by giving a class gift to the College. “The senior class gift is a way for seniors to show their appreciation for their time at Middlebury and also help support the College mission of challenging students ...
In past years, students’ options for airport transport have been limited to friends’ cars and expensive local transportation services. Due to these conditions, the SGA will now be offering $5 airport shuttle buses for the upcoming Thanksgiving vacation, and it is planning to offer the same for every ...
The Independent Scholar is a rare breed at Middlebury. Each is passionate about a specific field that does not fit within one of the established majors and therefore has opted to design his or her own. If this sounds like an easy way out of unappealing classes, do not be fooled — blazing one’s own ...
Proposition 19 did not pass in California. However, if it had been put to a vote here at Middlebury, it seems it might have found more success. On Nov. 1 — the night before the election — a group of 33 Middlebury students and two professors congregated in Gifford Annex Lounge to debate California ...
“He’s really curious,” said Ada Santiago ’13. “He likes to be in the know. When new people come, he likes to meet them. He’s playful and funny and smart. He knows when he’s in trouble and he’s good at getting out of trouble. He knows how to get where he wants to go. He likes to eat tree ...
Starting Nov. 29, Atwater Dining Hall will open again through special dinners sponsored by Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB). Old Chapel closed Atwater’s regular dining hours in fall 2009 in an effort to reduce costs and respond to the economic downturn. Today it is used for a continental ...
Vice President for Administration Tim Spears, working alongside Facilities Services landscape horticulturalist Tim Parsons, has recently launched a student design contest, known as “The Atwater Landscape Design Competition” or “Turf Battle,” in which students will submit design proposals to ...
The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) Speakers Committee has awarded funding for the Spring Symposium to a proposal entitled “Communities and Justice: Inequality and Innovation in America’s Justice System.” The symposium will take place from Sunday, Feb. 27 to Friday, Mar. 4 of 2011 ...
During its meetings on Nov. 2 and 8, Community Council reviewed the Public Safety Department’s role on campus, as well as policies surrounding student print quotas and the party registration process. On Nov. 2, the Council hosted Associate Dean of the College and Director of Public Safety Lisa Boudah ...
At the Nov. 7 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, a new resolution to reform aspects of Middlebury’s course credit system was introduced. The resolution was discussed, and then tabled for later consideration until after a meeting with faculty members, when more information will become available. The ...
Author and journalist Ted Conover will give a talk today at 4:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium entitled “Sending Myself to Prison (and Other Places I was Not Invited).” Cloe Shasha ’11 originally invited Conover to the College to speak at the TEDx event on Oct. 2, but he was in a minor accident and ...
Since the end of World War II, the global community has focused on deterring states and individuals from committing violent acts. With this aim it created both the International Court of Justice (ICJ, one of the six main branches of the United Nations) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). In ...
The past month has been an important one for the Solar Decathlon (SD). From being chosen as the lucky recipients of the Senior Class Gift, to a successful open house over Homecoming weekend, to the recently-updated blog and website, the team has made strides both large and small. The landscaping plan ...
by Peter Hirsch '12 When I am at home over the summer I always dread going to the grocery store. This is not because of some sort of phobia of produce, but rather a strong want not to run into any of my high school classmates that I have not seen since graduation. It is not that I do not like these ...
Artist |Deerhunter Album |Halcyon Digest From the opening bass rumbles of “Earthquake,” we are shaken (how much depends on how loud you crank the volume) out of ourselves and brought to the idyllic past: Deerhunter’s “Halcyon Digest.” The album’s title is satire, though; Bradford Cox, Deerhunter’s ...
As Ellis Professor of English and Liberal Arts John Bertolini mentions in his program notes, “unusual people” of idiosyncratic ambition inhabit Major Barbara. George Bernard Shaw writes the vast disparity between characters with a seamless naturalism that lays the groundwork for both fluid humor ...
Though I am a firm believer in the flexibility and personalization of fashion, there are certain things that will never be in style; socially blacklisted trends most commonly created in the name of comfort that may only ever be worn with the self-awareness that they break all the rules of mainstream ...
It’s an Olio, a four-man wonder featuring the talents of JP Allen ’11, Ben Meader ’10.5 and Gillian Durkee ’11, as well as the multiple abilities of Worth Baker ’12, played at the Heburn Zoo over the course of last weekend. One of its aims was to show other students that they could perform ...
The New York Times has called cellist Sophie Shao “eloquent and powerful.” One might think this is a paradox, but to be a truly exceptional musician of any style, these qualities are necessities. After watching Sophie Shao in her performance on Friday, I was overwhelmed by not only her technical ...