Author: Kaylen Baker Middlebury students of all years can be found reading late into the night in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, noses buried deep in physics textbooks. Others keep to their rooms, plastering their walls with sticky notes on the chemical process of cellular respiration. And a small few ...
Author: Jeff Klein Arizona is in. St. Mary's is out. Are you kidding me?Great, Arizona extends its longest active streak of NCAA tournament appearances to 25 straight, which undoubtedly pleases all the traditionalists. But is it really too much to ask the selection committee to base its decisions on ...
Author: Martin Breu At the NCAA championships this past week, the western ski schools showed that they are the real forces in national collegiate skiing. Strong finishes from the western universities relegated the first eastern school (UVM) to fifth place. The University of Denver stormed to a prominent ...
Author: Dana Walters While the label "animated documentary" might sound contradictory, almost to the point of seeming oxymoronic, Professor of Japanese Studies Carole Cavanaugh argues that it might embody the most honest version of the documentary genre yet. In her stimulating lecture, "Drawing on Truth: ...
Author: Alex Blair U2, once again, is the biggest band in the world. In the first week of March, the boys from Ireland were featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, performed a five-day gig on Letterman and released their latest album, "No Line On The Horizon." The LP reached number one both in the U.K. ...
Author: Elizabeth Scarinci The steeple of the Congregational Church of Middlebury is the most defining characteristic of the town's skyline. But despite the steeples that dominate many Vermont towns, religion is a declining landmark of the state. The most recent American Religious Identification Survey ...
Author: Ben Benson Over the past couple weeks I've been getting several suggestions for topics to write about, yet they all seem to share a common theme: "You should look up the nutrition of hard alcohol versus beer." "How much alcohol does it take for any serious side effects?" "Is drinking wine every ...
Author: Jamie Studwell As part of last week's Global Health Symposium, renowned epidemiologist Dr. Alfred Sommer of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health gave an informal lecture on his research into the health benefits of vitamin A treatment in children of developing countries. Ophthalmology ...
Author: Ted Silberman If it weren't for a poorly timed injury, Max Levine '09 may never have had the chance to represent the United States at the Maccabiah Games this summer. Levine came to Middlebury hoping to make the basketball team, but a broken leg two weeks before tryouts spoiled those plans and ...
Author: Aseem Mulji Student Government Association (SGA) President Hiba Fakhoury '09 led an agenda-less meeting on March 15. The informal format, explained Fakhoury, allowed for a "fast-paced, action-oriented" atmosphere conducive to brainstorming initiatives for the rest of the semester.The meeting ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal As of Sunday, the buzzword in the sports world has been "bracket." March Madness has returned and everyone is trying to isolate that key 3-14 upset. Division I basketball and Division III lacrosse are clearly quite different, but Wesleyan showed that any upset is possible as the ...
Author: Emma Stanford Saturday's closing performance of "F*ckpigs and C*ckroaches" started slowly, as would-be audience members were escorted into Hepburn Zoo to find extra crannies to occupy. For some, this was their second or third time seeing the show since its opening on Thursday; they were drawn ...
Author: Caroline Woodworth To shed more light on the recommendation provided by the Comprehensive Fee Committee regarding the price tag on a Middlebury education, we, as a committee, felt obligated to further explain our decision-making process. Firstly, however, we would like to explain the procedures ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez The Middlebury Campus: First, what attracted you to the novel ("Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates)? Justin Haythe: I'd read the novel with a novelist's hat on first. Then I was approached by the BBC for an adaptation, and it is a very filmic book in certain ways. So I felt ...
Author: Tim O'Grady Although the College has been faced with a plethora of financial challenges in the past few months, the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) appears to thriving with a growing enrollment and a budget greatly unaffected by the recession - unlike Middlebury - which has ...
Author: Jaime Fuller On March 5, the Middlebury College Quidditch Club was an honorable mention at the annual PR Week Awards in the category of promotional event of the year. Last year's spring break quidditch tour came in second behind Fleishman-Hillard and Papa John's International's "A Pie in the ...
Author: David Peduto With the pending student vote on the Honor Code Review Committee's recommendations for the Honor Code, I would like to express what I believe is necessary in order to achieve this endeavor. I believe that we need to revitalize the spirit of the Honor Code. This doesn't just come ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Over the past two years, I have occasionally found myself double-tasking at performing arts series concerts, working as the page-turner as well as the critic. The artists have never known about my agency with The Middlebury Campus - as far as they know I am just a fledgling dot-follower, ...
Author: Garrett Reynolds The Inter-House Council (IHC) is a student-only organization responsible, among other things, for keeping the social houses and super blocks in line. The IHC has historically been composed of the president and vice-president from each of five social houses: Alpha Delta Phi (ADP), ...