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On Saturday, October 5th, Middlebury's new club Debatable held its first debate in Crossroads Cafe. The Debatable participants hashed out the pros and cons of Big Oil companies and kept the audience members involved with a Question session as well as an opportunity to state their side. The club is scheduled to host two more debates in November regarding Facebook and the environmentalist movement.
After being postponed due to rain, the Activities Fair was held on Hepburn Road on Monday, September 16th. Students from various clubs and organizations set up tables, offering students opportunities to join groups related to the arts, world cultures, religion, sports, music, and more.
On Wednesday, April 24th, Andrew Delbanco of Columbia University gave a talk based on his book College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be. Delbanco, Director of American Studies at Columbia, has published several books in relation to American Studies and has received the Lionel Trilling Award for two of them. He was also named "America's Best Social Critic" by Time Magazine in 2001. Delbanco was the final speaker of Middlebury's "Core & Change in the Liberal Arts" series, designed to engage students and faculty in discussions of the role of Liberal Arts in a changing world.
On Tuesday, April 9th, the Theatre department sponsored a lunch and discussion about Middlebury's inaugural New Play Festival. Assistant Professor Andrew Smith '97.5 sent out a prompt to as many playwrights sources as he could in order to produce two evenings of plays, co-directed by himself and by Teddy Anderson '13. The results were astounding - a stack of 101 plays was narrowed down to fourteen, with five written by Midd alum and one written by current student Otto Pierce '14.
The Campus editors get serious about satire, discuss the history of the edition, and share some of their personal April Fools bests. Enjoy this year's April Fools Issue!
On Monday, March 18th, Middlebrow presented "Paddy O'Furniture" in the Abernethy Room. The improv group entertained the watching crowd with scenes based solely around the suggestion "Horse Track."
On Friday, March 15th, the Middlebury College Orchestra held their first concert of the spring semester in the CFA Concert Hall. The Concert included Bruce Jia '16 on alto saxophone leading the group in "Scaramouche" by Darius Milhaud. Jia is the winner of the 2013 Alan and Joyce Buecher Concerto Competition.
On Saturday, March 9th, Middlebury hosted the fifth annual Vermont Chili Festival. Main Street was crowded with stalls, people, and even pigs as visitors went through hundreds of cups of chili and tried to pick a favorite. Other highlights of the day included face painting, ascending a firetruck's ladder provided by the Middlebury Fire Department, and a flash mob in the middle of the street.
On March 4th, students did indeed march fourth to Old Chapel in order to let the college know that students are still very much interested in the divestment of Midd's funds from fossil fuels. The rally is part of an ongoing movement that has spread across the nation. For more information, see Bronwyn Oatley's article, the post on middbeat, and the group's facebook page.
From ballet to Guitar Hero to One Direction, hypnotism can put the most normal people in the most abnormal situations. Certified hypnotist Paul Ramsay demonstrated the tricks of his trade, which included making participants forget their own first names. See the video of highlights above!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XqD3mWmeY&feature=youtu.be A team of students has begun painting the walls of Forest Basement in order to make the space one where students can meet freely. Students can come to the space any time to paint anywhere they want: the goal is to show student art and expression in ways other than graffiti, which previously dominated the walls of Lower Forest.
[gallery type="slideshow" ids="18269,18268,18267,18271,18272,18270,18274,18273,18275,18276,18277,18278"] On Friday, Feb. 15 the Middlebury Mountain Club hosted its event "Northern Lights" on McCullough Lawn where pre-registered teams competed for a $100 gift certificate to Flatbread. Events included the tug-of-war, relay races, a caber toss, and a dance competition judged and commentated by members of Middlebrow. Team members and spectators alike enjoyed the chilly afternoon with warm food prepared by members of the Mountain Club.
Although the panel on the endowment is now available in its entirety online, the Campus has compiled some highlights from last Tuesday's event in the video above. For additional coverage, please see "Divestment Debate Continues" or the Campus Current's liveblog coverage. In a new collaboration between WRMC and the Campus, News Editor Bronwyn Oatley also interviewed Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben, following last week's events at the College.
After Middlebrow was unable to perform back in December, the group presented the show "It's Us, Not You" on Wednesday, Jan. 23 in Dana Auditorium. At the show, the group held up posters with their phone numbers and asked the audience to text them opening lines to skits, which they used throughout the show to inspire scenes about herring, hipsters, and merpeople.
In a keynote lecture entitled "Pain, Passion and Possibility: Building Community Through Difficult Subjects," Professor Trisha Rose of Brown University kicked off the College's first ever JusTalks on Friday, Jan. 18 in the McCullough Social Space. As Anna Chamby reported last week, JusTalks is a forum aimed at those in their first January Term at Middlebury who want to communicate about issues of identity and diversity in a safe and supportive environment. In her speech, Professor Rose discussed matters of racial, economic, gender, and sexual discrimination. In the video above, she describes what she did for her class when one of her students spoke out, insisting that individuals should not take responsibility for discrimination. More information about Professor Rose's lecture will be available in this Thursday's issue.
On Friday, Jan. 18 Samuel Bakkabulindi, a master drummer and dancer from Uganda, taught a workshop entitled "Doing It the Ugandan Way" to students, faculty and community members in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theater. The afternoon concluded a week of events on percussion, dance and ethnicity. On Saturday, Jan. 12 Bakkabulindi was joined by Assistant Professor of Music Damascus Kafumbe and Assistant Professor of Dance Christal Brown for a "Percussion and Dance Explosion" in the McCullough Social Space. On Tuesday, Jan. 15 he presented a lecture entitled "Movement and Ethnicity in Uganda." In the video above, Bakkabulindi leads participants in a voice and movement activity.
On Friday, Nov. 30 and Saturday, Dec. 1 students presented "Mosaics from the Underground," at the Dance Theater in the Mahany Center for the Arts. The performance was filled with modern and post-modern dances choreographed by members of Intermediate/Advanced Dance III; the sample above, titled "Burst," was choreographed by Annie Powers '15 and performed by Najwa Stanford '16 and Hai Do '14. The department's next event, titled "Taking Flight," will be on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 4:30 PM in the Dance Theater.
On Saturday, Nov. 17 the Middlebury College Orchestra held their fall concert in the CFA performance space. Conducted by Andrew Massey, the group's set list included works by Paul Dukas, Mozart, Ernest Chausson, and Otto Nicolai. As Massey pointed out at the end of the concert, many members of the Orchestra are freshman, giving the group a promising future.
Following three successful Thursday evenings at the BCG, the Campus' Maggie Cochrane discussed the weekly event with Dan Lee '13, Will Gyory '13 and Nate Goldstone '13. The Atwater suite will host its last event of the semester at 9:35 on Thursday, Nov. 29. Entitled "Study A-Blog", the evening will focus on student writings and photography from around the world. Elias Alexander '13, Vanda Gaidamovic '14, Chloe Dautch '13, Taylor Bickford '14 and Inno Tswamuno '15 will provide music. Additional information and a full program are available online at go/bcg.