KAMPALA — I had a chicken on my right, a baby on my lap and there was a lingering smell of rotting fish in the air. Every day I take a taxi (independently operated minibus) held together with duct tape and prayers two hours to my school’s main office and everyday is a new adventure. Traffic in ...
Few Americans seem to know about the Canadian government, people or history. While Americans may not know the name of our current prime minister, they are however becoming increasingly aware of the impact that Canada’s climate policies are having on the global community. In recent months pressure ...
Dining Services will expand the operating hours of the Grille to 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Sundays and until 12 a.m. on Mondays beginning this month. Old Chapel has been privy to many complaints from students about the lack of dining options on campus this semester, particularly on Sundays and Mondays. ...
In the upcoming weeks, senator Anne Runkel ’11 will present a resolution before SGA urging the administration to help promptly restore MiddView (OINK, MOO et al.) to our community and future peers. This initiative expects to receive full SGA support, and should garner our backing as well. Outdoor ...
The College hosted its first TEDx event, “TEDx Middlebury,” this past Saturday, Oct. 2. The event lasted the whole day, featuring 16 speakers presenting on an enormous variety of topics. President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz gave the opening remarks. “What makes Middlebury distinct is ...
MOVIE | Holy Rollers DIRECTOR | Kevin Asch Holy Rollers can’t seem to decide if it’s a coming-of-age character drama, a cautionary parable about two cultural extremes or a straightforward crime drama. I suppose it’s more the first than anything, but I also suspect that it is ambitious enough ...
Game|Dead Rising 2 Platform|Xbox 360, PS3, PC Rating|Mature “Why did mommy bite me, daddy?” asks Katey, one of the main characters of Capcom’s zombie series, Dead Rising. Chuck Green, the protagonist, responds to his daughter with obvious hurt in his voice: “That wasn’t mommy, sweetheart, ...
“There’s nothing quite like having a coal train in your front yard to make you feel powerless,” said Sierra Crane-Murdoch '02, a Middlebury graduate whose clean energy research and advocacy earned her the Brower Youth Award and the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism. In interviewing ...
According to Beth Coleman, professor of writing and new media at MIT, the virtual identity, while a source of entertainment for gamers and movie viewers, is also an incredibly powerful tool. The ability to dive into alternate realities, she said, provides us with opportunities for widespread influence ...
Author, professor, renowned speaker and Middlebury graduate Stephen Kiernan '82 kicked off the series by reminding attendees of what it means to be part of a nation. Citing some alarming economic statistics (the average age of U.S. citizens below the poverty line, for example, is nine), Kiernan emphasized ...
Jessica Riley '98 recalls when, in a sculpture class in Paris, her instructor came up and smashed to pieces a beautiful sculpture she had just completed. “That was good, now do better,” he told her. She remembered this experience years later, when she lost her job in screenwriting and stopped ...
Frank Sesno '77, whose resume includes but is not limited to “Director of School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University,” “CNN White House correspondent” and “Middlebury graduate,” introduced a theme that would come to pervade many of the presentations to follow: the ...
Michael Silberman '02 knows a lot about the power of technology to connect people. As a Howard Dean staffer, he saw the launch of the “Meet Up” program, which attracted 189,000 people in 1,200 neighborhoods at its peak. He’s seen a student organize a march to Washington, D.C. for immigration rights, ...
Philip Conkling can trace the beginning of his career back to the discovery of an ancient cellar hole on Flint Island in Maine. The history seemed fascinating. “I couldn’t get it out of my head,” he said. “Who were these people?” Thus began a lifelong interest in island culture, which he’s ...
Sunny Bates is all about networking. Adrift after college, with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Energy Economics but, perhaps counterintuitively, no desire to work “for an oil company in Saudi Arabia,” Bates found herself in a series of jobs that yielded no apparent career advancement. Except ...
“The last five years of my life have been profoundly influenced by trash,” Cummins began her talk. Specifically, the plastic trash that is filling our ocean. Plastic is was that “miracle material” that we could just throw away, Cummins said. But, she asked, “Where is away?” She flashed ...
When the author of five books whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair and Time comes back to his alma mater, students might be curious to know what life advice he has to offer. Alex Prud’homme '84, who helped his aunt, Julia Child, write her memoir, provided those in attendance ...
Chris Maxey’s mother believed that her children should be thrown in the ocean before they could walk … people frequently tried to come to the children’s rescue. Maybe it worked: Maxey grew up loving the water. He joined the Navy because of it, and became committed to environmental stewardship ...
We’ve all heard of the “career ladder,” but Yelizavetta Kofman '07 and Astri von Arvin Ahlander '07 advocate another model: the more flexible “career lattice.” The ladder, Kofman and von Arvin argue, is set up for “the ideal worker”: the worker who can work year-round and overtime, and ...
As Middlebury turned to face autumn this weekend, Paul Asbell delivered a concert full of summer warmth to a campus audience. The acoustic guitarist, described as “one of the best kept secrets in American music,” delighted ears with a wide range of styles and the occasional anecdote revealing his ...