Over the past number of weeks, there has been a flurry of rhetorical posturing on all sides of the table. Israeli Barak has reiterated his new favorite line about how Israel must end the Occupation for the sake of its future as a Jewish and democratic state (absolutely correct). American Barack has ...
The Subcommittee on the Social and Academic Interest Houses is wrapping up its annual Social House Review. The current Community Council (CC) will make recommendations to next year’s council whether each of the five social houses, Alpha Delta Pi (ADP), Kappa Delta Rho (KDR), The Mill, Tavern (Omega ...
The audience shudders with laughter, some riotous and some nervous, and the teenage couple next to me swig from their brown-bagged cylinders. Damon Macready, a.k.a. Big Daddy, (Nicholas Cage) has just fired a handgun directly at the wee chest of his daughter Mindy, a.k.a. Hit Girl (Chloë Moretz) and ...
Calling all cultures! If you want to graduate from Middlebury, you have to meet some academic distribution requirements. Many of us sweat and struggle, searching for that second college writing class. Many of us pull a fist-pump when we discover that we may skip one of the eight disciplinary categories ...
While Middlebury is without a Greek system, it has been lucky enough to benefit from the best of Greek traditions with the addition of Middlebury’s very own step team, Kadence. The name, a spin off of the word “cadence” meaning a recurring rhythmic pattern, “was given to me by my friend Darryl,” ...
In sharp contrast to the donor apathy that has plagued the relief effort in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Haitian government is in the unfamiliar territory of having too much aid at its disposal to repair its nation following the earthquake in January. Total donations for Haiti relief have ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team turned the tides of a rough patch in the season with an exciting 13-9 win over the sixth-ranked Tufts University Jumbos. The win for Middlebury, ranked 16th, snapped two streaks: Middlebury’s three-game losing streak and Tufts’ nine-game winning streak. The ...
All good things must come to an end. After enjoying a 12-1 run to open its season, including a 4-0 record in NESCAC play, the 15th-ranked women’s tennis team dropped two straight matches this week against perennial conference rivals Williams and Tufts. The week started on Wednesday in Williamstown, ...
With Winter Term long gone and the last traces of snow finally melted, it would appear that spring has arrived once again at Middlebury College. And we all know what that means: finding summer internships, navigating room-draw, preparing theses and final papers and trying not to think about how little ...
The Office of Admissions has not accepted any transfer students for fall 2010. According to Admissions, approximately 260 students apply every semester to transfer to Middlebury. The decision to not accept any transfer students is unusual, but not unprecedented. According to Dean of Admissions Robert ...
As far as academic resources go, the Middlebury College Museum of Fine Art is regrettably unnoticed and underused by the majority of students on campus. However, in recent years there has been a much-needed push to get students out of their desks and into the galleries, where they can find an outlet ...
This week’s theme is: weird crap. It pops up in The Campus every once and a while. The first two sections of the 1954 article shown are a prime example. The author chooses to introduce a somewhat informative, plain article about a professor’s research with a fictional anecdote. He leads into the ...
In spite of the economic struggles of the past year, the Middlebury College Language Schools continue to attract highly qualified candidates. The College continues to receive an increasing number of applications for the Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese schools. These languages remain popular given the ...
At its April 27 meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) voted to approve the resolution submitted by Vincent Recca ’12 to officially support the passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (D.R.E.A.M.) Act at Middlebury College. The D.R.E.A.M. Act is a proposed piece ...
This weekend the Middlebury community will be treated to a performance that seeks to capture audiences through intellectual engagement. With a cast of over 21 students, The Good Woman of Setzuan stars Michaela Lieberman ’10.5, Christo Grabowski ’10 and Michael Kessler ’11. When three gods descend ...
Answers to the crossword will be posted here at 7 a.m. on April 23. Across 1. NaCl 5. Stats for Mayweather 8. Alf or E.T. 13. Greek portico 14. “Habanera” from “Carmen”, e.g. 16. Stuff to capacity, like with food 17. Yao Ming’s fireworks? 20. Salmon breed 21. Internazionale striker Samuel 22. ...