Author: [no author name found] Henry Sheldon Open HouseKick off your holiday celebration with a flair - music, homeade cookies, crafts, raffles and general merriment and cheer at the nation's oldest chartered community history museum. The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History on Main Street in Middlebury ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury and its top-ranked NESCAC peers are overrated, according to a new guide to colleges released by The Washington Monthly. The controversial rankings, whose editors purport to ask "not what colleges can do for you, but what colleges are doing for the country," place ...
Author: Simon Keyes XC star Alexandra Krieg '09 places third at NCAAsMiddlebury's fall sports continued their season of excellence as the women's cross country team showed true mettle at the NCAA Championships at St. Olaf's in Minnesota, finishing 15th in a 32-team field. Amherst went on to win the ...
Author: Amanda Greene Thanksgiving is a day of fast-paced indulgence and excessive eating. On Thanksgiving, it is acceptable to spend the day preparing enough food for three times as many people than are present and to eat until our pants need unbuttoning. In five short days we pack up dirty laundry, ...
Author: [no author name found] Ten Thousand Villages Craft SaleOn Nov. 16 and 17, the Memorial Baptist Church, located at 97 S. Pleasant Street, will hold a craft sale featuring fair trade products from around the world. "At Ten Thousand Villages, we work with over 100 artisan groups in more than 30 ...
Author: Nicholas Spenger VALPARAISO - I returned to ValparaÌso just in time to enjoy week two of my vacation from the university. Sept. 18th is Chilean Independence Day, exactly one week after the anniversary of the golpe. It's oddly appropriate that, after a week of protests and, for many, dark memories, ...
Author: Scott Greene Members of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) demonstrated peacefully outside the Ross Dining Hall in conjunction with an information table sponsored by the United States Marine Corps on Nov. 13. The students protested against the College's allowance of such recruiting and ...
Author: Colin Foss and Eleanor Johnstone Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.On Nov. 15-17 the Middlebury stage will be graced by Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles," a production directed by Professor of Theatre and Women's and Gender Studies Cheryl Faraone. The many related events that ...
Author: Bryant Cobb GW student caught with swastikas in dorm room George Washington University first-year Sarah Marshak faces expulsion after being caught writing swastikas on her dorm door. University officials claim that Marshak was "dishonest" in statements she made to the University Police regarding ...
Author: Theo May The College's off-campus housing program will likely accept a greater share of students seeking to live in and around town than usual this Winter and Spring Term due to a projected increase in the number of students returning or arriving for the first time to campus, according to administration ...
Author: [no author name found] SkiingOver Thanksgiving recess, members of Middlebury's cross country ski team will go across the country to find snow, stopping in West Yellowstone, Mont., like it has in years past, to train alongside other top collegiate teams as well as the U.S. national team.This ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Wednesday, Nov. 21You wake up today and realize that you are completely alone. Quite possibly, you are the only student left on campus. To numb the pain, you eat one last meal at Proctor before all of the dining halls close for the rest of break. With no dining halls to cater to ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.In one of the most harrowing performances since Julia Proctor's '06.5 portrayal of Morse in "One Flea Spare," Lilli Stein '11 thrust herself onto the blade of a knife in the final scenes of "The Zoo Story," to the shock and horror of the ...
Author: Aylie Baker "Life as a refugee," reflected Alex Pial this past Thursday afternoon, quietly tracing the sleeve of his shirt before glancing up to the assembly of students, "it is not safe. You do not know tomorrow. You do not know today."A refugee from southern Sudan, Pial settled in Burlington ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Every Thursday when The Middlebury Campus newspaper comes out, a truly woeful process of misery unfolds.Basically, every kid that walks into a dining hall grabs a paper from the rack, regardless of whether or not they plan to read it.Each person brings the paper to the table and ...
Author: Emily Temple I'm going to break a tenet of journalism right off the bat and start with a disclaimer: I am no disc jockey. Okay, yes, I DJ for WRMC, but that's not what I'm talking about. And yes, sure, at home I pick all the music for my friends and myself when we're sitting around my living ...
Author: Chi Zhang Blogger responds to Midd relationship debateThe College's recent discussion regarding a student-faculty relationship policy has made an appearance in DankProfessor, a blog by Barry Dank, emeritus professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. With an academic specialization ...
Author: Molly Dwyer As we sat in my Gifford single, the carol of the Mead Chapel bells flooded through my open windows. My parents' eyes widened with delight as they were inundated by the Middlebury College carillon for the first time. The carillon music, to which I had become immune, suddenly appeared ...
Author: Thomas Brant & Cecelia Goldschmidt Note: the Focus layout is best viewed in Acrobat Reader with the "facing" option selected under View--Page LayoutIs the College finally becoming a global village?It turns out that the answer is yes. But we've only just started. On paper, Middlebury is admirably ...