No one but Jonathan Safran Foer – who spoke at the Middlebury College Commencement in 2013 – could have written Everything Is Illuminated. Of course, this is true to a degree of any piece of writing, but one can imagine that if another author was, for example, given the outline of an Agatha Christie ...
Fifty-four years ago this past September, in 1960, the global cartel known as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. Thirteen years later, in 1973, the Arab members of OPEC played their trump card, initiating the ‘Arab Oil Embargo’ in protest to American involvement ...
On the first Thursday of every month, students fill The Gamut Room in Gifford Hall to hear their peers tell a story as a part of The Middlebury MothUP. The live storytelling events are, indeed, as simple as they sound – each student storyteller takes the microphone, without notes, for about ten minutes ...
In the intimate setting of the Middlebury College Dance Theatre, artist-in-residence Scotty Hardwig and guest performer Keanu Forrest Brady, accompanied by media operator Michael Ryba, explored masculinity in the digital frame. The six works presented, including two short film installations, came together ...
On Sept. 9, 2014, one of the most highly anticipated games of the year was released. The game was called Destiny. I’m sure you saw and/or are seeing ads for it everywhere. The game was advertised on TV, billboards, trucks – the whole nine yards. They even had it up on the screens in Times Square ...
Nobel laureate and Columbia University Professor of Biological Sciences Martin Chalfie visited the College last Thursday, Oct. 16 to give two lectures. One talk focused on his research on the green fluorescent protein (GFP), which earned him the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the other on his current ...
From Oct. 2 to 4, the Theatre Program sponsored the 19th Annual First Years Production: A Cautionary Tale and Others. Directed by alum Bill Army ’07 and composed entirely of first-years, sophomores, and sophomore Febs. A Cautionary Tale and Others was staged in The Hepburn Zoo to a sold out crowd. A ...
On Oct. 3 and 5, the Opera Company of Middlebury (OCM) presented a concert staging of Guiseppe Verdi’s La Traviata at the Town Hall Theater. The production, directed by OCM Artistic Director and Executive Director of the Town Hall Theater Doug Anderson and joined by the College Choir under the direction ...
In a shocking – though not unforeseen – development, China has recently surpassed the European Union in greenhouse gas emissions per capita. This means that on average, each person in China in 2013 produced 7.2 tons of carbon dioxide compared with 6.8 tons in Europe, 16.4 tons in the U.S. and 1.9 ...
Why do we tell stories? How do we tell stories? How do the stories we tell shape our identity? These are the questions at the center of filmmaker Sarah Polley’s 2012 documentary feature, the aptly named Stories We Tell. Polley asks each of her family members (and a few family acquaintances) to tell ...
Following a year of traveling throughout New England, local artist Kate Gridley’s latest exhibition, Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults, has returned to the town that inspired it. With seven portraits on display in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) and ten on display ...
This year marks the launch of a new arts-themed social house on campus. Located in Prescott House on Ridgeline Road, the Attic was founded by Hannah Giese ’16, Emma Gee ’16 and Jackie Wyard-Yates ’16.5, and currently houses thirty students. Last year, Giese, Gee and Wyard-Yates heard that there ...
When the Emperor Was Divine is slow. That is not to say that it is boring or disengaging. To the contrary, its slowness is a powerful stylistic choice by author Julie Otsuka. The novel follows the lives of four members of a Japanese-American family struggling through the racism and gross injustice of ...
In honor of the endless technological innovations that shape the way the College community communicates, learns and engages, the 2014 Clifford Symposium centered on the theme of “Transforming the Academy in the Digital Age.” On Sept. 18 and 19, distinguished visiting scholars and faculty members ...
On Sept. 18 at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Dance Theatre, artists brought together by connections to North Carolina and Vermont presented NC Dances VT, an evening of dance works by The Van Dyke Dance Group, the University of Vermont’s Coordinator of Dance Paul Besaw and Assistant ...
In early November, the Rosetta space mission will land on a comet. Arguably as momentous as putting a rover on Mars or a man on the Moon, this space expedition also gets my vote as the coolest to date. I say this because the comet in question, 67P/Cheryumov-Gerasimenko, is moving 85,000 miles per hour ...
As this semester’s new videogame columnist, I will cover games ranging from small indie releases to big name games like Halo and Call of Duty. I want to start the column off with a review of a game I picked up this summer called Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Brothers was released on August 7, 2013 ...
The first weekend of the fall semester started with an artistic bang – at least for music lovers. On Sept. 12 and 13, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB), in collaboration with WRMC, our college radio station, and Middlebury Music United, a student group focusing exclusively on the college ...
The fall semester is a time of transition for Middlebury’s Dance Program, as three new faculty members begin to make their mark in the wake of the retirement of longtime Professor of Dance Penny Campbell and the imminent retirement of Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen, who is on sabbatical leave this ...
At the end of last semester, the artists behind The Storytold Project were gathering momentum to debut a revitalized and reorganized organization at the start of the fall term. As promised, the program is now taking flight with a new, user-friendly website, faculty advisor and ambitions to expand the ...