Improv and Bird Watching
Final Middle Brow Show: TODAY! 11PM Dana
Final Otters Show: 5/14 10PM Atwater Dining Hall
Otter Nonsense have a new video up! Watch it and a see a picture of a bird after the jump.
Posts by Mackenzie Beer
May 9
SGA election results
Pretend you’re standing in a ballroom and there are American-manufactured balloons falling from the cieling. Now go blow a dandelion on battell beach, sing an anthem, and I’ll see you at Purple Jesus tonight.
SGA President: Charlie Arnowitz
Student Co-Chair of the Community Council: Luke Carroll Brown
Senior Senators: Anna Esten, Nathan Arnosti
Junior Senators: Will Potter, Killian Naylor
Sophomore Senators: Danny Zhang, Rana Abdelhamid
Feb Senator: Anna Shireman-Grabowski
Atwater Senator: Hannah Stonebraker
Brainerd Senator: Christian Holmes
Cook Senator: Rachel Liddell
Ross Senator: Firas Nasr
Wonnacott Senator: Naila Jahan
May 3
On Drug Raids
Earlier today fire alarms went off in Meeker, Munford, and other dorms around campus. It was alleged by an anonymous source that public safety had deliberately pulled the fire alarms in residences of students who had received citations for smoking marijuana in the past, then entered the rooms of those students in order to check for suspicious activities.
When I spoke to Public Safety this evening, they insisted that the alarms were part of the regular checks that officers do to ensure safety. However, multiple students with prior citations were confronted with officers who had visited their room, confiscated bongs, marijuana, and distributed citations. Others received texts from friends warning them that their fire alarms would go off next, and if they had citations they should be concerned.
Even if Public Safety did intend to conduct the alarm tests for the primary purpose of finding drugs, it is within the legal rights of the administration. However, I believe that this community, which has recently engaged in multiple public forums to cultivate a more trusting, supportive, and safe campus (It Happens Here, Alcohol Talks), has been betrayed by its administration. IF (and a very strong IF, since no one has confirmed or denied those intentions yet) it was deliberately to confiscate drugs, the actions of Public Safety have not only undermined efforts to create an open dialogue between students and administration, but will, I believe, lead to less honesty, less discretion, less respect, and many more problems in the future. So Middlebury, what do you think?
Spotters: It’s more fun with a partner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO4zXEE4XS4
Adam Benay 13.5′ and Greg Dorris ’13 of Ottter Nonsense made a video. It’s funny! make more!!
Also, where are all the ladies at Midd and when are we going to get a Girls spoof on hand? Alexandra Kennedy, Alyssa Limperis, Jenny Johnston, and non-improver comedians/underclassmen I don’t know because I’m sooo old…I’m looking at you.
May 1
A superficial electoral judgment of SGA Presidential Campaign Videos
I like to think Middblog empathizes with the masses. We aren’t some stodgy, mahogany tabled board of judicious, trained journalists who likely play polo on Sunday and eat M-F at the Crossroads café (The Campus = basically Versailles). We’re just ambivalent, average yet amiable coeds, and thus in a the spirit of the Midd-Plebs I watched the campaign videos for each SGA presidential candidate before reading a single statement of intent for either platform and made critical judgements based on the films.
