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The Middlebury men’s basketball team has dominated this season with an overall record of 14–2 and a record of 3–1 against NESCAC opponents.
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The Evolution Dance Crew (Evo) made their debut for the semester with two back-to-back shows in Wilson Hall on Nov. 5. The show was titled “Love, Sex, and Magic,” a theme voted on by the group’s dancers because of its versatility and variety of interpretations. For some, the theme is about the joys and difficulties that come along with relationships with other people. For others, it’s about trusting oneself, trusting others and trusting the dance process.
On election day, Vermont voters will decide whether or not to include Proposition 5, the Reproductive Liberty Amendment, in the Vermont Constitution as the 22nd Article. The Reproductive Liberty Amendment would enshrine reproductive autonomy in the state constitution.
The many pumpkins, leaf piles and spooky decorations around campus don’t just signify Halloween; for Middlebury athletics, they signify that the end of the regular season is drawing near, and the simultaneously nerve wracking yet exhilarating prospect of the postseason is nearly upon us. With just a few short weeks remaining in most team’s seasons, here is a look at how teams are faring heading into the postseason.
After spending the early years of his career known only for playing a severely underdeveloped supporting character in Disney’s fleet of modern “Star Wars” films, Englishman John Boyega has finally received his proper introduction as an actor. It comes in “Breaking,” the debut feature from director Abi Damaris Corbin that tells the heartbreaking true story of Lance Corporal Brian Brown-Easley. In 2017, the 33-year-old African American Marine veteran held up an Atlanta bank to protest Veterans Affairs’ failure to pay him the disability check he needed to survive. Boyega is powerful in his portrayal of Brown-Easley, at once channeling the crazed recklessness of Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon” and evoking sympathy for a good man driven to criminality by a society that refuses to care for him. But for all the merits of his performance, “Breaking” is not Boyega’s movie, nor Corbin’s, nor any of the other impressive actors or crew. Rather, it belongs to the men and women who served the United States overseas only to be forgotten upon returning home, especially those — like Brown-Easley — whose fight to be heard is further beaten down by racism.
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After a successful summer season, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury is heading into its new season and is excited to welcome the Middlebury College community back. There are several ongoing and upcoming events this fall.
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A grant aimed at bringing vibrant businesses to Main Street has re-opened for a second round of applications, which will close on May 13.
The Middlebury we know today is not the same as the one we surveyed during the first Zeitgeist student body survey in 2019. We may have expected the college to change over these four years, and it did — entire classes matriculated and graduated, presidents were elected and impeached, social trends rose and fell, boats got stuck and unstuck in canals — but few could have foreseen the transformation that our community and our world would experience in that time.
Whether there was magic in the air to celebrate the graduating seniors or a laser focus on securing the top seed in the NESCAC, the stars aligned for No. 1 women’s lacrosse (13–0) on Saturday in a fiercely anticipated matchup against No. 4 Colby (11–2). In what was expected to be a bloodbath for the conference lead, Middlebury dominated, 13–5, maintaining their perfect season record and taking another step towards NCAAs.
On a sunny day at Forbes Field, George Goldstein ’22 struck out the last batter of the game to secure Middlebury’s 6–2 win over Castleton University (6–15–1). Although technically just a non-conference win, for Head Coach Mike Leonard, this game marked something much bigger: his 200th win as Middlebury baseball’s head coach.
The college announced last month that it will implement a complete overhaul of its compensation structure, effective July 1. The decision is in part a response to an institution-wide wage study commissioned by the college that found Middlebury is currently paying 45% of its staff at rates below competitive market wages. The Mercer Study is a broad wage and salary survey across all departments commissioned by the college every few years and defines “competitive wages” as within 15% of the market median.
On March 26, the Middlebury College Admissions Office sent acceptance letters to 1,502 applicants for the classes of 2026 and 2026.5, adding to the 438 students who were accepted in December and February through the early decision application rounds to make a total of 1,940 admitted students. The overall acceptance rate for this year was 15% from a pool of more than 13,000 applicants. This marks the new lowest rate in years, slightly lower than the 15.7% of 11,908 applicants admitted in last year’s admissions cycle.
For a brief moment, the Panthers thought they had clinched the national title at the end of regular time.
Students who lived in Bread Loaf, the Marriott or the Inn on the Green in the fall will be eligible to participate in an advanced housing selection process on April 13, prior to the rest of their peers.
For the first time in 13 years, Middlebury College will host the final two rounds of the NCAA Division III women’s hockey championship.
While spring temperatures are still weeks away, Middlebury’s spring varsity teams are gearing up for their seasons. For many of these teams, it’s been a while since things have felt normal. The 2020 season was upended in early March and last spring was severely altered because of Covid-19. That’s not to say that we are officially back to normal, but the spring 2022 season brings promise and excitement. Unlike last year, spring teams will play both in-conference and non-conference opponents and won’t be subjected to the same Covid-19 measures as last year. With many teams starting their seasons this weekend, The Campus’ sports editors have compiled previews of every team.
After spending over 25 years as a National Hockey League agent, Kent Hughes ’92 was named general manager of the Montreal Canadiens on Jan. 18. Hughes takes charge of a struggling franchise that currently sits eighth in the Atlantic Division.