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Midd Night Stroll returns to downtown Middlebury for 2023 festivities

By Alexa Bryant | December 7, 2023

Midd Night Strolls is back this year, welcoming students and community members to enjoy discounted deals in stores, live performances, illuminated falls and holiday cheer.

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Opinion

I love my beautiful NARP life

By Catherine Goodrich | December 7, 2023

When people ask, “What do you do on campus?” it is most often asked with good intentions. I absolutely hate this question.  Over my time at Middlebury, I have crafted a decent elevator pitch for when I come across this awkward moment in conversation. I say something to the tune of “Oh, I ...

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Sports

Womens’ basketball gains momentum moving into key conference games

By Lexi Linafelter | December 7, 2023

Despite a turbulent start to the season, Middlebury womens’ basketball has been trending upward in recent weeks. After walking away from the Middlebury Tip-Off Classic tournament 0–2 and dropping close games to both Framingham State University (53-56) and Springfield College (46–56), the team ...

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News

Feminist Trivia, project symposium encourage students to act on intersectional issues

By Ellie Trinkle | December 7, 2023

The Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies Department collaborated with students and professors alike to host two events last week focused on intersectional gender and sexuality issues. The first event was Feminist Trivia night held on Tuesday evening in Wilson Café, followed by a final projects ...

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Local

Liv, Love, Local: Werner Tree Farm

By Olivia Mueller | December 7, 2023

Werner Tree Farm, a family-operated Christmas tree farm in Middlebury, has been selling cut-your-own trees and spreading holiday cheer since 1986. Over the past few years, the Werner family has worked to improve their sustainability practices and diversify the farm’s offerings.

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Arts & Culture

Polaroid Stories: A lens into the fringes of society

By Jonathan Eaton | December 7, 2023

“Polaroid Stories,” a play by Naomi Iizuka and directed by Professor of Theatre Alex Draper was performed Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 in the Seeler Studio Theatre in Mahaney Arts Center. The play focuses on at-risk youth coming of age in New York City, filtered through the lens of Greek mythology and ...

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Opinion

Broken culture: Reopening the Murray incident

By Huthefa Maalim | December 7, 2023

In the spring of 2017, Charles Murray, a political scientist known for his controversial work “The Bell Curve” was invited by the American Enterprise Institute Club to speak at Middlebury College. His presence sparked student protests that not only disrupted his speech but also escalated to violence ...

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Sports

Rookie of the Week: Fayanne Smith-Salzburg ’27

By Charles Crounse | December 7, 2023

Welcome back to another edition of Rookie of the Week, where we introduce first-year athletes making a major impact in their chosen sport. This week, I sat down with Fayanne Smith-Salzburg ’27 of women’s swim and dive, who won the opening two races of her collegiate career. Hailing from Brooklyn, ...

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News

Sustainability Spotlight: Local purchasing in Middlebury dining halls

By Pearl Tulay | December 7, 2023

Whether a student is an Atwater devotee, a Ross regular or a huge Proc fan, chances are they have enjoyed some delicious ice cream, apples or eggs in the dining halls recently. From Cabot Creamery cheese to Vermont Coffee Company coffee beans, the dining halls at Middlebury are stocked with more local ...

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Town hall theater prepares to begin new construction

By Edith Mauch | December 7, 2023

The Town Hall Theater, a focal point for the town of Middlebury and college students alike, is expanding. But the theater is no stranger to change. Since the 1800s, it has held space for a variety of community spaces, including an opera house, town offices and a failed furniture store. In its current ...

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Arts & Culture

Songs for the season: Seven holiday albums to wrap up the semester

By Acadia Klepeis | December 7, 2023

It is no coincidence that Spotify Wrapped’s name is a nod to festive paper and that it tactfully cuts off its tracking in November to avoid Instagram stories dominated by a deluge of Christmas music. But why shouldn’t yuletide classics count as ‘real’ music? After all, the annual repetition ...

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Opinion

MiddSafe: Creating a safe space over the phone

By Arthur Lyu | December 7, 2023

“Hello, you’ve reached the MiddSafe hotline. How can I help you today?” Power-based personal violence is not just individual occurrences, but structural, community-level problems that require collective actions to remedy. Violence continues to occur at Middlebury College and has pervasive impacts ...

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Sports

Men’s varsity soccer bow out in Elite 8

By Blaise Siefer | December 7, 2023

Before beating Cortland, Middlebury earned a pair of first and second-round NCAA tournament wins against Western New England University and Johns Hopkins, respectively. 

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News

College continues plans to renovate Proctor Dining Hall, convert to student center

By Liv Sanchez | December 7, 2023

Students were asked for their input on the design of a new student center last spring when members of the Middlebury administration began actively planning a complete renovation of Proctor Dining Hall’s current design. The college plans to expand the space significantly into a four-story student center ...

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Local

Middlebury community responds to shooting of three Palestinian students in Burlington

By Julia Pepper | December 7, 2023

Tahseen Ali Ahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid went to visit their close childhood friend Hisham Awartani’s family in Burlington, Vt. over Thanksgiving break from college. All three men were shot while walking down the street on Nov. 25 while two of them were wearing keffiyehs, patterned scarves that symbolize ...

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Arts & Culture

Reel Critic: “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”

By Charlie Keohane and Maggie Reynolds | December 7, 2023

“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is the latest installment in one of the twenty-first century’s most beloved franchises. Based on the bestselling book by Suzanne Collins, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” takes viewers back in time to the barbaric tenth annual Hunger ...

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Opinion

Sarah Says: Everything I know about love

By Sarah Miller | December 7, 2023

As I approach the end of my final fall semester at Middlebury, I have found myself grappling with the realization that, forgoing any eleventh-hour surprises, I will likely graduate without experiencing a romantic college relationship. That fact has forced me to admit that over the past couple of weeks, ...

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Sports

Captain’s Corner, Championship Edition: A chat with field hockey captains Charlotte Marks ’23.5, Audrey Lazar ’23.5 and Katie George

By Captain Rudolph | December 7, 2023

The Middlebury field hockey team capped off another successful season with an NCAA Championship win for the sixth straight year. An impressive feat to say the least, their dominance in the sport has been spurred by a relentless pursuit to play at the top of their game. The Panthers maintained an undefeated ...

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Arts & Culture

Cliff-Hanger: Mountainfilm showcases all types of terrain

By Maggie Bryan | December 7, 2023

A crunchy crowd of Middlebury students gathered in Dana Hall on Thursday, Nov. 30 for what, at this point, is an annual tradition for the outdoorsy, socially conscious community: Mountainfilm.

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News

Midd Kid 2.0 video brings an updated view of life at Middlebury

By Orly Berke | December 7, 2023

The influence of the original “MIDD KID” video, released in 2010, cannot be understated: It garnered over 1.7 million views on YouTube and cemented many of Middlebury’s stereotypes in pop culture. Now, thirteen years later, Malick Thiam ’24 and Jordan Saint-Louis ’24 are working together to ...