The occasion for this review of Don DeLillo’s historical tour de force Libra, first published in 1988, is its beautiful reprinting in the Penguin Ink series. In a wise attempt to make books worth purchasing, as opposed to the ever-more-popular (and purportedly environment-friendly) e-book, Penguin ...
Because the position of reel critic is tenured to ensure public opinion does not hinder free thinking, I loved Taken 2. I’m aware that the movie’s rating on Rotten Tomatoes stands at a firm 18 percent (the image of rotten tomato particles next to the figure emphasize this), but in spite of this ...
Video games and environmentalism, sounds crazy, no? However, even as early as 2010, the gaming industry has been taking steps to save itself some “green” and reduce CO2 emissions. Ubisoft, the developers of games such as Assassins Creed and Splinter Cell, has led this front by a making a small ...
In the atrium of the Johnson Memorial Building, sculptures featuring welded steel rods, paper, fabric, wood and many other materials have taken their final place in a new exhibit. This exhibit, “Line in Space: Just a Corner of Your Memory Palace,” features work from the studio art class Sculpture ...
The scenes read in “The Incredible Dramatic Life of Science and Mathematics” opened windows of collaboration between theatre and mathematics, illustrating a relatively new tradition that has captivated audiences the world over. In 1997, while directing a performance of “Arcadia,” Professor ...
Interest in computer science has been trending upward over the past four years at Middlebury College, but in the past four semesters, the computer science department has seen a massive spike in enrollment. Since 2008, introductory enrollment has quadrupled. The total introductory enrollment during the ...
There is a wonderful building that many of us walk past and through each day. Some see this place as a second home, a daily destination, a place of creation. To prospective students and their families who are bound to walk through it during their first brief visit to the campus, the Kevin P. Mahaney ...
Environmental issues are currently a hot topic, and Professor of Psychology Michelle McCauley has taken the issue to heart through her research in her conservation psychology lab. For the past decade McCauley has been researching how underlying psychological needs and motivations relate to pro-environmental ...
Julie Burstein was the personality chosen to make the keynote speech for the Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium last Thursday Sept. 27 in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center of the Arts. This year the symposium was dedicated to creativity, a topic that Burstein has studied extensively. In her latest book, ...
In honor of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts’ 20th anniversary season, this year’s Clifford Symposium was dedicated to the arts. Titled “Creativity and Collaboration,” the symposium was an appropriately collaborative effort backed by numerous sponsors, ranging from the history ...
Looking at the cover for Spec Ops: The Line, I see another generic military shooter: there is a gruff-looking soldier, in brown, with some action going on behind him. It is almost an exact replica of the cover art found on the Modern Warfare games. After reading some good reviews, I decided to give ...
A mixture of improv comedy and serious discussion defined the performance of Sex Signals in the McCullough Social Space on Wednesday night. The show touched on issues of dating, sex and — most importantly — the notion of consent. Since its 2000 debut, Sex Signals has been performed over 4,000 ...
A mixture of improv comedy and serious discussion defined the performance of Sex Signals in the McCullough Social Space on Wednesday night. The show touched on issues of dating, sex and — most importantly — the notion of consent. Since its 2000 debut, Sex Signals has been performed over 4,000 times ...
On the second floor of Johnson Memorial Building, there is a place for memories, art and imagination. Just after the entrance, one can appreciate a first glance of a new exhibition named “Living Portraits,” in which a group of students present a significant person using oil painting and ceramic ...
A breeze blows over Otter Creek, sweeping an earthy scent up from the riverbanks to the patio of Old Stone Mill. The M Gallery shines like a beacon from the first floor of the old building, and the sounds of conversation filter through the windows. Inside, visitors find ropes of flowers draped over ...
The 23rd annual Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium, which took place this past weekend was a pivotal moment for the astronomical sciences community at the College. It signaled another fruitful year amongst Keck Consortium colleges for summer astronomy research, as well as the last year at the College ...
As the McCullough Social Space filled during the 15 minutes before the show, excitement ignited the room and well-known pop tracks played in the background. Everyone had gathered for the return of Otter Nonsense, one of the most popular improv comedy groups on campus. When the lights dimmed, the Otters ...
The laboratory of Burr Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department Rick Bunt is a small, unobtrusive room tucked about halfway down the north hall of the fifth floor in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Pinned to a board outside the door are various published papers with ...
Borderlands 2 was a tough sell for me. The first game, Borderlands, was great in its own right: it was a four-player cooperative shooter that had you and any buddies you may have online join up and shoot some aliens while on the hunt for loot and ultimately, the vault, a legendary place said to be filled ...
Jonathan Franzen’s new collection, Farther Away, gathers together 21 highly readable essays, originally published between 1998 and 2011. The essays cover a wide variety of topics — ranging from birds and the environment, technology and the death of Franzen’s friend, the writer David Foster Wallace ...