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Last Thursday, swimmers and fans alike buzzed with excitement at the Middlebury College Natatorium as the women’s swimming and diving team kicked off the first of four consecutive days of racing at the NESCAC championships.
The much-loved and uniquely long-lasting student band Mutual Friends played their final show on Saturday, Jan. 28, just a week before five of the band’s eight members skied down the Snow Bowl for the Feb celebration. In addition to lead singer Annabelle Iredale ’23.5, guitarist Andrew Grossman ’23.5, pianist and singer Kai Fukuda ’23.5, drummer Jon Jon March ’23.5 and saxophonist Bess Gramling ’23.5, the band included trumpet player Nate Corbett ’25, bass player Hans Kindstedt '24 and guitarist Charlie Moore ’24.
Canadian novelist and essayist Emily St. John Mandel brought the larger Middlebury community together for an event full of laughter and insights into her work and creative process. The Middlebury student body sat alongside members of ‘book clubs’ from the college, a high school class, the Vermont Book Shop and ‘Tome Talk,’ the Ilsley Public Library’s discussion group led by Renee Ursiti.
Adventure Dinner and Atria Collective, formerly known as WomenSafe, hosted their annual Galentine’s Day Celebration, a culmination of a long standing partnership that raises funds for Atria Collective. Sixteen women-owned businesses set up shop at Vergennes Opera on Feb. 17 from 5 to 8 p.m. Any gender was welcome to come celebrate.
An increase in thefts from vehicles in student parking lots in recent weeks led Public Safety to urge caution and vigilance from students.
Walking into the Town Hall Theater for the opening night of “Next to Normal,” the sixteenth J-Term musical that ran from Jan. 25–28, everything seemed normal. In the lobby, a virtual tour of the theater’s forthcoming renovations drew curiosity. The crowd gathered and chatted before the performance began. They looked on curiously at the softly-lit stage, trying to make sense of what appeared to be just another family living room.
When I first saw the Snow Bowl, I knew I wanted to apply to Middlebury. I fell in love with the Middlebury Snow Bowl and the adventures to be had before I had even stepped foot on campus. Five years ago, when I eagerly clicked on my acceptance letter, the snowflakes dancing on my computer screen foretold a future where I would proudly wear a cap and gown at the college’s iconic ski mountain to culminate my college career with my fellow Febs.
After two student deaths during fall semester and the announcement of a $4.9 million unrestricted gift put towards mental health resources, leaders of The Campus sat down with members of health services to discuss past policies and plans going forward.
Vermont isn’t what we think it is. At least, Vermont isn’t the place I thought it was or the place many of my peers think it to be. Coming to Vermont as a student from the Midwest, I was eager to become immersed in the land of politicians like Bernie Sanders, activist companies like Ben and Jerry’s and values of environmentalism and justice. These, along with maple syrup, mountains and cows, are the basic traits of the Vermont stereotype and likely are some of the things that drew many students to Middlebury. In fact, a key pillar of the admissions info session I attended back in the summer of 2019 was that a prospective student could not understand the college without understanding the context of the wonderful state in which it exists.
Time off from school and proximity to multiple Cinemark theaters meant I got to catch up on some of the latest movie releases over winter break. From a sultry English summer story in “Saltburn” to two very different takes on a New England winter, I’m recapping three new films.
Racing movies typically make for a fun time at the theater. Think “Rush,” Ron Howard’s moving 2013 Formula One drama starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl, or “Ford v Ferrari,” the energetic 2019 blockbuster from James Mangold led by Matt Damon and Christian Bale. Those films follow sympathetic characters through affecting passages of drama off the racetrack that are interspersed with thrilling sequences of action on it. They are crowd-pleasers, and very good ones at that.
Do children learn from their parents, or do parents learn from their children?
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 Kate Flynn ’27 of women’s hockey, who leads the team in points this season. Hailing from Milton, Mass., Flynn discussed her origins in hockey, what it means to be a Panther and her pregame rituals.
Ross Dining Hall has changed its hours and offerings for the second time this year. Starting at the beginning of J-Term, the dining hall closes between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m., and does not serve breakfast until 10 a.m. on weekends, a departure from the continuous dining that began this fall. Ross has also returned to a more varied menu, serving options other than the more limited range of pub food favorites it provided in the fall.
Members of Middlebury’s Sunday Night Environmental Group (SNEG) held an Empower Vermont event in conjunction with 350Vermont, a climate justice non-profit organization based in Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday, Dec. 5 in Axinn 229.
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 has since won three of four recent games, claiming big wins against Vermont State University Castleton (75–57) and Union College (68–50).
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 record and finished 22–0 on the season, beating Johns Hopkins University 2–0 in the final. This was the third straight year the two teams have met in the final, with the Panthers emerging victorious every time.
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 create not only a new, high-quality song and music video, but also one that more accurately reflects Middlebury and its current culture.
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, it’s not just the lack of light that’s been getting me a little down. Even as I remain grateful for the love of my friends, I am sad not to have experienced romantic love at Middlebury and sadder still to feel so trite.
The men’s soccer team scored a pair of huge wins this past weekend by advancing through the first and second stages of the national tournament. Despite an untimely exit from the NESCAC playoffs, Middlebury’s undefeated regular season was enough to earn hosting rights for the first two rounds of the NCAA Division III tournament at South Street Field. The picturesque mountain setting played host to three action-packed matches, with the lineup featuring Middlebury, Babson College, Johns Hopkins University and Western New England University. This marked the Panther's sixteenth appearance and sixth consecutive entry on the national stage.