The primaries for the Vermont gubernatorial election in September may be far away, but between recent debates and more media coverage, excitement is quickly building for a race that many are predicting will be a toss-up. This will be the first election that this Vermonter can vote in, and I am therefore ...
There is a unique pleasure in watching a deserving musician rise to prominence. And Middlebury’s own Anaïs Mitchell ’04 seems to be doing just that, slowly but surely. Since signing to Ani DiFranco’s record label — Righteous Babe — and releasing her third album, “The brightness,” on ...
PARIS — Americans often talk about French exceptionalism, a term that, in its most general definition, means the French way of doing things. In the political and economical sense, it embodies the state being involved in many aspects of life, which leads to positive results such as universal healthcare ...
In the years between 1975 and 1980, NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe towards Mars, Richard Leakey discovered a 1.5 million year old homo erectus skull in Kenya and Sony introduced the first portable stereo, the walkman.Christine Homer spent this time milking cows by hand, cooking over an ...
The eruption of Iceland’s Mount Eyjafjallajokul created minor travel delays and inconveniences for Middlebury students studying abroad in Europe this semester. Students in Europe were forced to adapt some of their travel plans after the cloud of ash from the April 14 eruption snarled air traffic ...
Voters hit the polls today to elect their SGA representatives for the 2010-11 academic year. Below find a summary of the candidates’ platforms. To vote head to go/sgavote.
Recently, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz invited The Campus alcohol columnist Mike Waters ’10 to engage in a discussion about the problems ailing Middlebury’s social life and the potential for a cure. This type of discussion is an encouraging step in the process of student-administration ...
We all watched in horror last year as the real estate market popped like an over ripe tomato, shaking the entire economy with the violence of its implosion. As people lost homes and jobs, tax revenue at all levels of the government shrunk precipitously. Deficits — already out of control after eight ...
Everything about She & Him’s second album, “Volume Two,” drips with nostalgia. From the retro cover art of a lonely schoolgirl to the sunny soft rock production to singer Zooey Deschanel’s aching reflections on past romances, it’s an album that owes much to the California dreamin’ singer-songwriters ...
The sun was shining, the sky was blue and local runners took to the roads for the second annual Middlebury Maple Run on Sunday, April 25. This year, 509 participants completed “The Sweetest Half,” 284 more runners than the previous spring. The 13.1-mile course begins in downtown Middlebury, weaves ...
“I think this series was a wake-up call for us,” said pitcher Ali McAnany ’11. In their two-game series at home against neighbor Castleton State College last Saturday, the Panthers went one-for-two in two very close match-ups. The first game of the day was characterized by a real lack of offensive ...
LIS has developed a new wireless network called “Midd-standard” that provides higher performance than the often-problematic midd_secure network while maintaining the same level of security. Along with this initiative, Mike Roy, Dean of Library and Information Services (LIS), also announced that ...
Today’s world is plagued with environmental disasters erupting left and right. Companies like Seventh Generation are taking action to curb the negative consequences of these catastrophes. A Burlington, Vt. based company, Seventh Generation is one of the state’s “socially responsible” businesses. ...
There was a drag queen in Hepburn Zoo April 22, 23 and 24. There was also a womanizing politician and a love struck songbird. Incidentally, they all happened to go by the name of Schuyler Beeman ’10, and they were part of his senior work, a collection of scenes and songs simply dubbed “Perform.” “I ...
Though Middlebury students are known to joke about living in a bubble, the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January was a catastrophic wake-up call. The quake, which registered at 7.0 on the Richter scale and led to the deaths of 230,000 (and the displacement of countless more) by February, clearly ...
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 ...