Author: Aseem Mulji In a meeting on March 19, the Student Government Association (SGA) and Faculty Council hammered out a compromise on the contentious Honor Code amendment on faculty proctoring, which SGA Chief of Staff Katie Hylas '09 called "the biggest thing the SGA has accomplished since I've been ...
Author: [no author name found] RESPONSESHaving several smaller acts doesn't generate the same campus-wide excitement that one big concert does. Lesser known artists tend to fly under the radar. I know some people who had no idea that Santigold or RJD2 played a show at Middlebury. Big name artists energize ...
Author: Grady Ross The idea of home always becomes more clearly defined for me when I travel. No matter how many sights I see or people I meet, travel never fails to lose some of its novelty after extended periods of time. Lying in a hotel bed with the sheets too tightly tucked in hospital corners, ...
Author: Toren Hardee Santi White - widely known as Santogold and, more recently, as Santigold, due to a lawsuit filed by infomercial jeweler Santo V. Rigatuso a.k.a. Santo Gold - brought her fresh, energetic, contemporary pop to the Pepin Gymnasium on Saturday night. The performance, though brief, was ...
Author: Jaime Fuller This week, candidates for Student Government Association (SGA) President and Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) are stumping for students to sign their petitions so they can ask the SGA to accept their candidacy on April 12. After that, candidates have until next Thursday ...
Author: Canem Ozyildirim After a conversation on extreme sports over dinner, Andrew Wagner '09 and I walked out of Freeman International Center. Billy, as his friends call him, looked around and said to himself, "Huh, I don't remember walking here ... Oh, because my friend drove me." He then turned ...
Author: [no author name found] SconesMakes 12 sconesTotal preparation time: 30 minutes I first came across these scones after a snowy, treacherous drive through New Hampshire and Vermont. Some friends and I finally arrived at our destination hungry, cold and tense. Sliding down the driveway towards ...
Author: Elizabeth Scarinci For decades, the town of Middlebury has not had a functional passenger train. During college breaks, students arrange for taxis or carpools, or sometimes resort to asking a friend or advisor to drive them to the nearest train station, a 45-minute drive away in downtown Rutland. ...
Author: [no author name found] 4/7 - State lawmakers voted to override Governor Jim Douglas' Monday veto of a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry.The Senate passed the bill with enough support to garner the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto, 23-5. The House announced its 100-49 vote ...
Author: Alex Blair I'm waiting for the day when noise pop breaks into the mainstream. It's going to happen. I can see it now. Miley Cyrus will pick up an electric guitar, plug it into a massive amp, and blow the heads off a bunch of screaming eight-year-olds with her roaring feedback (the Jonas Brothers ...
Author: Stefan Claypool It's time to call the plague that is sweeping the United States by name. We are experiencing the third wave of socialism in this country, and to call it anything else would be profoundly dishonest. What else can one call a system where the president is allowed to fire private ...
Author: Julia Ireland The Middlebury women's lacrosse team added another victory to their winning streak against Bowdoin College this past Saturday at home on Peter Kohn Field, as they bested the Polar Bears by a score of 16-9. The Panthers now hold an authoritative 27-2 all-time record against Bowdoin, ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Students have the Student Government Association (SGA), Commons Councils and protests to ensure their voices are heard by the College administration. The American people have their vote (and their dollar). But how is the will of the faculty expressed?As part of The Campus's series ...
Author: Ian Trombulak There's snow up to my ankles, and it's spilling over into my shoes. Wet socks - my favorite part about winter in Vermont. I suppose I should be better prepared, having lived in the Middlebury area for the vast majority of my life. Of course, as a thrifty youth, I discovered the ...
Author: Dana Walters Usually the term "graffiti" denotes vandalism, ruin and wreckage. The pictures that coat the walls of subway stations and impoverished buildings might look beautiful and creative, but they still remain synonymous with destruction. Adding the term "art," to "graffiti" might therefore ...
Author: Tim O'Grady "Power Strip: How Much Can You Take Off" is an ongoing competition, run by the Sustainability Integration Office, to encourage students to minimize their daily electricity usage. Five teams of five students track their normal energy use for one week using a Kill-a-Watt meter, then ...
Author: Kevin Moss The governor of Vermont, a Middlebury graduate, has vowed to veto Sen. 115, the bill that extends marriage equality to same-sex couples. He says he has friends on both sides of the debate, and that beliefs are "deeply felt and passionately expressed." He also says, "For those on ...
Author: Dillon Hupp After opening the season in Arizona, where they played 10 games in eight days, the Middlebury baseball team returned to Vermont last week to begin the home portion of their schedule. Following an 8-7 victory over Southern Vermont, the Panthers opened a critical three-game series ...