Author: J.P. Allen Middlebury residents gathered on Feb. 13 to discuss U.S. values and politics with Anna-Marie Slaughter, a distinguished scholar and recently-appointed high official in the Obama administration. Held in the Town Hall Theater, the talk was sponsered by The Vermont Humanities Council, ...
Author: Robert McKay A pastiche of visual and rhetorical styles, "Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past" - the exhibition now on display at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts - features reinterpreted historical images confronting the issue of race in various print media. ...
Author: Grady Ross In an economic climate that many are comparing to the Great Depression, the state of Vermont is revamping its food stamp program - a program that found its start in that first major period of financial distress. Renamed 3SquaresVT, the new program is designed to reach out to more ...
Author: Dave Small Experience is the most important kind of knowledge. We lack experience. What we have are facts. We have Wikipedia and Google. The ability to access an inexhaustible source of information rests at the connection between our minds and the Ethernet cable. Without WiFi, without BlackBerry, ...
Author: John Birnbaum I was appalled by the student body's overwhelming endorsement of Al Sharpton following his speech in Mead Chapel last Wednesday.Although Sharpton pandered to the liberal agenda of the Middlebury crowd, the speech was non-confrontational. His message: to increase student advocacy ...
Author: Kelly Janis Library and Information Services (LIS) is considering instituting printing quotas and establishing a sound-proof cell phone room in the Main Library. The plans were announced on the "All Things LIS" blog that Dean of Library and Information Services Michael Roy created shortly after ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski Science Theater. No longer the domain of B-list movies, 'Leap' follows the recent theatrical fashion of attempting to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. Taking after such works as 'Copenhagen' and 'The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem,' Lauren Gunderson re-imagines ...
Author: Martin Breu The Middlebury ski teams seem to have found their winning form just in time for the final two carnivals and NCAAs. Dartmouth took top honors on their home courses but the Panthers were just behind in second, with the University of Vermont accomanying them on the podium in third. ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman It's a cold Thursday night in February. Ice lines the treacherous sidewalks and frost coats the windows. Where is the best place to get warm and blow off some spring semester steam during Winter Carnival weekend? McCullough, of course! Orange Crush is performing!Orange Crush, ...
Author: Rachael Jennings On Friday, Feb. 13, the Center for Health and Wellness hosted the "'Find Me Someone to Love Dating Game,' " a hilariously entertaining quest to find love at Middlebury. Will Surrette '10, who was a contestant last year and hosted the event this year, offered The Campus his ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When you venture to talk to Maggie LeMay, expect to be taken on a tangent."In Vermont, we've always been very lucky about having more gay rights than any other state in the country, with civil unions and different kinds of affirmative action," said LeMay, one of the four sisters ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman When I applied to Middlebury, back before the days of courting the Top 100 applicants, I was under the impression that Middlebury wanted you to come to them. Want a free Nalgene with your $50,000 education? Get in line. You have to demonstrate an eagerness, a desire, a sense ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Students' spending on campus has proved resilient in the face of the College's financial woes and the national economic recession. However, overall changes in the spending habits of the College community have forced the managers of the Grille and Juice Bar to alter hours and menu ...
Author: Kevin Carpenter During the lull between periods at an ice hockey match at Middlebury's Kenyon Arena, a murmur can be heard among the crowd as the zamboni cruises by. Spectators have heard countless remarks from those yearning to take a ride on the massive mechanic monster. But the lucky men ...
Author: Kelly Janis With 184 students signed up as of Monday, the College has registered more participants for the second annual Power Shift Youth Climate Conference than any other institution in the nation. "The organizers of the conference are really impressed with us, which is an amazing feeling," ...
Author: Kaylen Baker To those who believe the end of the world is looming near - a reverberation of war, energy waste, extinct creatures, pollution, and general nihilism for humanity - do not give up hope. It often appears that real answers to these problems are too small to cause change, but when combined, ...
Author: Tom Brant PARIS - In September, standing with a friend on a pedestrian bridge in Paris called the Pont des Arts, I was almost persuaded to jump into the River Seine. As we were admiring the night view of the City of Lights, a group of about five French guys our own age sauntered up to us. Seeing ...
Author: Jaime Fuller STANFORD STUDENT INJURED BY FALLING CEILINGLast Friday, a piece of plaster ceiling fell on a Stanford student while she was lying in bed. "I heard a noise and all of a sudden, before I knew it, a very large portion of my ceiling fell on my head," said Laura Stampler '10, the victim ...