I would like to continue the discussion my friend, Jeff Garofano, began in his Nov. 12 op-ed on the role of politics in our Middlebury education. In his piece, Jeff argues that institutions of higher education should remain as apolitical as possible. He takes Stanley Fish’s view that universities ...
You’ve been eyeing this cutie from across the library for a few weeks now, and judging by his/her printing patterns, you think that you’re ready to take the next step: reveal your crush to your friends and gather information about this unicorn. “Oh, yeah … I think we took a class together,” ...
Ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated with your seatbelts tightly fastened until the aircraft has landed — oh wait, it just did. The “bearcraft,” that is. Having barely recovered from his premier album, “Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man,” which he released to the blogosphere last ...
Dear Middlebury Campus, As a part of Middlebury College’s 10 percent international student population, it was quite an unpleasant surprise to see barely any mention of the Annual ISO Show in the Middlebury Campus’ Nov. 18 edition. The Campus’ mention of the ISO Show was restricted to a corner ...
Middance, also known as Middlebury’s come-one-come-all dance organization, put on its fall performance over two shows in the McCullough Social Space on the night of Friday, Nov. 20. Centered on choreographed hip-hop dancing, the performance also featured a variety of other styles, from tap to classical ...
Dan Brown tops college bestsellers book list The number one bestselling book on college campuses this year is “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown, according to a list compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Other bestselling books include “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, “The ...
Starting in February, Library and Information Services (LIS) will enact a new policy establishing a printing quota for students. The policy will require students who exceed the quota to pay five cents per page for each side of a page. Under the new policy, first-years, sophomores and juniors can print ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz continues to maintain a salary and benefits package comparable to that of peer institutions despite increases over the last decade. Liebowitz and Chief Financial Officer Patrick Norton note that direct comparisons of total compensation can be misleading, ...
Dristy Shrestha ’11.5 and her father share a dream — to see every house in Nepal lit up with electricity. Shrestha grew up in Kathmandu, the capital and only large city in the small Asian nation. “My dad is an orphan,” Shrestha said. “He grew up in an orphanage in Kathmandu, but he had really ...
Middlebury’s international students have opened doors to the wider world by teaching domestic students about their cultures in ways that cannot be learned from a book. As international student Chris Lam ’10 recounted, “Director of International Student Services Kathy Foley Giorgio once said, ‘we ...
Last year, I offered my readers unsolicited advice on maintaining an acceptable public image through class participation. This year, I will apply my dubious expertise to the culinary practices that go into baking the cake on which class participation is the proverbial icing. (If you are a science major ...
Over this Thanksgiving break, my friends from high school and I got together in Boston for a “Boy’s Night Out.” Of course, we didn’t call it “Boy’s Night Out” — that would have been embarrassing — but as a graduate of an all-boys Catholic school, any attempt to hang out with friends ...
“Our wiffle team’s victory is one of the most epic underdog stories ever told.” This quotation from Sean Maye ’11 pretty much sums up the tale of the Mean Bullies, a motley crew of a wiffle ball team that no one gave a chance to win it all. But in the end, the Bullies won the Intramural World ...
At the Nov. 22 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, Dean of the Students Gus Jordan spoke about the College’s controversial “sober friend” program, clarifying that sober friends were not legally liable for their intoxicated friends. However, when questioned about the unpopularity of the ...
Audio produced by Amanda Pertierra I can see myself working within a quota because I can see myself paying for it after a certain point. It depends — if a class requires a lot of printing, I think that each class should have a certain quota. A professor should be given a quota too, so that we can ...
Despite the fact that Wes Anderson’s new film stars an assortment of furry creatures who scamper, scurry and crawl in the dirt, the characters of “Fantastic Mr. Fox” bear more similarities to the oddball humans of Anderson’s other films than to the actual animals they are supposed to be. Bill ...