Author: Caleigh Waldman SEA SEMESTER - Awoken at 2:30 a.m. with a rustling of my bunk curtains and a whispered debriefing of the wind and sea conditions, I groggily throw on my shoes, grab my flashlight and a mug of coffee as I stumble up on deck for dawn watch. The next four hours will be comprised ...
Author: Aylie Baker The late Studs Terkel once said that "most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits." He never met Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing free healthcare to over two million patients in 10 countries, one might even venture to say that it's Farmer's job that's running to keep up with ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe To see Robert Jensen standing behind the wooden podium at the front of Ilsley Public Library's basement meeting room, no one would have guessed that this slight, bespectacled and amiable man, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism, ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Paranoid ParkDIRECTOR: Gus Van SantSTARRING: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen and Daniel LiuThis first paragraph is going to be a bit pretentious, but bear with me. Movie titles are an important venue from which audiences can glean information about a film; the story, a genre, ...
Author: Peter Baumann As the ball floated upward, what had started as a general rumble erupted into a cacophony of sound and exhilaration.Something about that ball was timeless. With Pepin arena exploding around it, the orange orb continued to fight against the bondage of gravity, climbing towards the ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman "Sometimes there are advantages to 'coming' early," sex educator Dorian Solot joked to the occupants of a crowded Dana Auditorium last Thursday, Feb. 26. Solot's pun 'set the mood' for the rest of the evening. Laced with innuendos, tips, facts and positive encouragement, the ...
Author: Sarah Harris The Alpine Shop boasts a unique cast of characters.The experts on the slope wait in a darkened basement, where hundreds of students rent and purchase skis and boards each year. Fischer Van Gulden, a 24-year-old Monkton native wearing a Burton sweatshirt, explained the ins and outs ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I noted with great alarm that Richard Fuld - yes, that guy - is a Middlebury College trustee! Fuld is the Lehman Brothers CEO who shoulders a good deal of responsibility for precipitating the current global economic crisis, either because of malignant greed ...
Author: [no author name found] While the College's Honor Code has always been a somewhat amorphous concept, its existence is undeniably crucial to our Middlebury experience. By forcing students' collective honesty to triumph over greed and self-consciousness, the Code is a learning tool that transcends ...
Author: Hillary Hall In a report that could significantly change Middlebury's entire academic climate, the Honor Code Review Committee (HCRC) suggested several changes be made to the Honor Code, including the removal of the current ban on faculty presence during exams. The full report includes nine ...
Author: Alyssa O'Gallagher At this winter's second Art in the Snow festival in Brandon, Vt., one part of its title was missing. Despite the unseasonably warm February day, the festival recognized and celebrated the town's growing arts community on Feb. 28. Recently christened "the art and soul of Vermont," ...
Author: Johanna Interian If you are too busy or stressed to read this article, then you are part of a campus-wide trend.While it is nearly impossible to definitively quantify and compare stress levels over the years (attempts have been made at this - read on), there is a general concurrence among students ...
Author: Jaime Fuller From Feb. 28-March 2, nearly 12,000 college students converged on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., for Power Shift 2009. The national youth climate change summit offered a chance for student leaders to exchange ideas on how to prevent global warming ...
Author: Robert E. Prasch As everyone now knows, the U.S. and the world are in the grip of a tremendous financial crisis. Many banks have failed. Virtually every honest analyst and commentator understands that many of those that are still operating are actually bankrupt by any reasonable measure - all ...
Author: Aseem Mulji Despite the turbulence brought on by former president Bobby Joe Smith's '09 resignation, the Student Government Association (SGA) pushed through its agenda on March 1, displaying a collective desire for a seamless transition into the rest of the spring semester. The meeting began ...
Author: Liya Gao World Camp for Kids is a non-profit organization started by seven UNC students in 2001. Today, the World Camp for Kids headquarters are located in Ashville, NC and the programs are run almost entirely by college student volunteers. After visiting South Africa in 2001 and witnessing ...
Author: Anna Briggs The economic downturn is taking its toll on the town of Middlebury, but has been hitting some businesses harder than others. Student spending off-campus has remained strong at some local hot spots, but has come to a relative stand-still at less fortunate locations. "I'm aware of ...
Author: Molly West The Middlebury men's swimming and diving team took sixth place with 781 points at this past weekend's NESCAC Championship at Wesleyan University. Williams, Tufts and Amherst finished in 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively. Support from many Middlebury swimming alumni and family members ...