Throughout January, as students, staff and faculty adjust to the change in pace of J-term, the editorial staff of Middlebury Magazine will make its way around the campus to discover just what goes on during this month….Continue Reading J-term: In Five Words
Year: 2011
Not exactly Gardening News
In the spirit of Tim Spear’s blog post “Not Exactly Administrative News: 10 great albums of 2010“, I thought I’d write about what’s been captivating me sonically for the last year. Maybe a brief explanation would be in order first. I don’t listen to music much, mainly All Things Considered (and some of them even […]…Continue Reading Not exactly Gardening News
Annual Review
Regular blog readers (all four of you or so) probably don’t realize I can read about you as well. Through the wonders of an add-in on the blog called Blog Stats, I can see not only how many people are reading pages on this blog, but what pages they are hitting. It can be kinda […]…Continue Reading Annual Review
It’s Time To Start A-Campaigning!
Matt D’Auria has updated the White House staff retention data beginning with Bill Clinton’s second term in 1997-1998 through the end the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency in 2009. Here’s a graph of his findings. Note that that these ……Continue Reading It’s Time To Start A-Campaigning!
Why Gibbs Really Resigned (and why Daley Was Hired)
Why did Robert Gibbs decide to step down as Obama’s press secretary? (For that matter, why was Bill Daley hired as chief of staff?) In his public statement Gibbs cited personal reasons, noting his desire “to occasionally drive his young … C……Continue Reading Why Gibbs Really Resigned (and why Daley Was Hired)
Sustainable Landscaping
While doing a post on the Sustainable Sites Initiative for the Atwater Landscape contest blog Turf Battle I’d remembered I also wanted to write about a homeowner version of this document called Landscape for Life. I first read about this project at the wonderful Garden Rant blog, then immediately went to read the document. I’d been following […]…Continue Reading Sustainable Landscaping
Hillel News, 1/6
Shabbat Friday Night services at 5:30, dinner at 6:30. Come for either or both, it’ll be great food and a lot of fun as always! Community Supper Havurah, the Jewish community in town, is running this week’s community supper – … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Hillel News, 1/6