Crossword 5/4
By Josh Harkins and Aaron Cohen | May 4, 2023Here is this week's crossword! Solutions will be posted on Friday, May 5th at noon. And, for the first time ever, we have a link to complete the crossword online! Enjoy and good luck!
Arts & Culture
High Infidelity: Do you really want to know where we were on May 1st?
By Eliza King Freedman and Maggie Bryan | May 4, 2023For many, May 1, simply marks the first day of the month, but for us, May 1 represents a little annual dinner party that our friends like to throw. Some may call it the pinnacle of fashion, to others it’s another day in the Big Apple, and to a few, it’s the Met Gala.
Evolution Dance Crew’s Saturday (R)Evolution
By Miracle Tapia | May 4, 2023Evolution Dance Crew (Evo) presented their Spring 2023 show, “Step-Up (R)Evolution,” which included dance elements from Afro-Beats, Dancehall, Soca and Bachata styles, on Saturday, April 22 in Wilson Hall.
A Bright and Fiery Half-Life
By Joshua Glucksman | May 4, 2023In “Bright Half-Life,” four decades flash back and forth, sometimes within seconds. Swinging between the life stages leading up to marriage and those that come with having kids, the story is a blur. For the weekend of April 27–29 in the Hepburn Zoo, four groups of audiences were taken into the ...
Reel critic: A review of “Clock”
By Eric Burchill | May 4, 2023As a diehard “Glee” fan who dreams of living in a world where Lea Michele isn’t the only original Glee Club member who still finds consistent work, I was elated to find out the one and only Dianna Agron would be starring in the brand-new horror movie “Clock.”
Marriage talk as an intramural sport, the remix
By Eliza King Freedman and Maggie Bryan | April 27, 2023“The structured nature of the wedding allows for everyone to feel like they’re participating in a show of sorts. Overall, I left feeling entertained and warm, like I had been a part of a collective hug,” reminisced one-time fake wedding attendee Andrew Neumann ’25.
A semester without Moth-Up
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri | April 27, 2023According to Moth-Up producer Rach Peck ’25, the show's sudden stop can be attributed to a perfect storm of producers going abroad, graduating — the organization’s longtime president, Elissa Asch ’22.5, graduated this past February — and remaining producers’ inability to take on a more significant ...
The Middlebury music explosion
By Brett Sorbo | April 27, 2023Middlebury is home to a variety of distinct bands and solo artists. While bands may form on their own, many jump at new opportunities to make music with people they meet through the college’s ensembles, such as the Afropop Band, Jazz Workshop, the college choir and the college orchestra. For those ...
Buckle up for “Destroying Angels”
By Joshua Glucksman | April 27, 2023During the Covid-19 pandemic, Cole Merrell ’21 wrote a play about three siblings navigating vastly different life circumstances who are brought together by a death in the family and — if that wasn’t enough — a long drive trying to escape a serial killer. Merrell was raised in the Church of Jesus ...
Waiting to Wading
By Edyth Moldow | April 27, 2023Your limbs look like Pottery shards to me.
4/20 Crossword Solutions
By Josh Harkins | April 21, 2023Here are the solutions to this week's crossword! How'd you do?
4/20 Crossword
By Josh Harkins | April 20, 2023Here is this week's crossword! Solutions will be posted on Friday, April 21st at noon. Good luck!
Beyond the page remimagines education in all departments
By Eliza King Freedman | April 20, 2023Beyond the Page (BtP) is an innovative learning collective affiliated with the college that has completed one of its many on-campus residencies, which have evolved and broadened over the years since the last time The Campus visited them. The organization was born from a teaching practice that began ...
"A Woman Left Lonely": A tribute to Tennessee Williams
By Jonathan Eaton | April 20, 2023Victoria Keith’s ’23 senior thesis, “A Woman Left Lonely,” directed by Bri Beach ’23 and Sophie Butler-Rahman ’25, was an amalgamation of three Tennessee Williams plays: “This Property is Condemned,” “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” ...
From the Archives: The history of the coronation and royal drama
By Tulip Larson | April 20, 2023“From the Archives” is an opportunity for various writers to visit the Middlebury Special Collections and write about a different artifact each week. The Special Collections boasts hundreds of thousands of historic items, and through this column we encourage writers to explore not only the college’s ...
Radio Roundup: Tunes to help you reel in springtime!
By Wrmc Exec Board | April 20, 2023Have your Spotify playlists become stale? Is your weekly mix just not cutting it? Maybe it’s time to branch out and listen to something new. The Executive Board of WRMC, Middlebury College’s radio station, has selected a wonderfully wide range of albums, spanning time and genre, for your listening ...
Mandatory attendance: New Directions student show
By Joshua Glucksman | April 20, 2023As students, we all know that getting mass emails from the college can be frustrating. Another survey to fill out, an initiative that needs attention, a new administrative position being announced. Nevertheless, the email entitled “Mandatory Attendance” that was sent to hundreds of first-year students ...
4/13 Crossword Solutions!
By Will Reed | April 14, 2023Here are the solutions for this week's crossword! How'd you do?
NER Out Loud makes a bold return after a three-year hiatus
By Kate Sadoff | April 13, 2023NER Out Loud, a collaboration between the New England Review (NER), Oratory Now and the Mahaney Arts Center, returned on March 30 after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Students, faculty and community members gathered to watch Oratory Now students perform live readings from NER issues spanning ...
Niche Reads: Books for environmental studies majors
By Sylvie Shure | April 13, 2023If you struggle to find time for fun reading, this is the spot for you. Niche Reads recommends novels that relate to academic (or other) interests so that you can explore a new book while still feeling productive. Check back each week for more cool books.