On Saturday, March 15, GlobeMed at Middlebury held a dodgeball tournament to raise money for Gardens for Health International. GlobeMed is a national organization that has chapters at over 50 college campuses across the U.S. Each chapter is partnered with a unique, non-governmental organization to ...
A late winter blizzard on Thursday, March 13 blanketed the campus with over a foot of snow. Despite treacherous roads, high winds and inaccessible sidewalks, the College conducted daily operations as usual, albeit with a limited staff. Many of the College’s staff members were unable to come to work ...
When I go to 51 Main, I feel as though I am close to a little piece of home (Brooklyn, New York) because I run into all types of people there. Not just students. Not just townspeople. But everyone imaginable. They are enjoying a shared interest, mingling, being together in the same place. Worlds collide ...
This past Saturday, the Middlebury College Men’s Cross-country team was hard at work by 6 a.m. cooking 24 gallons of chili to serve to students, Middlebury residents and chili connoisseurs at the Sixth Annual Vermont Chili Festival in Middlebury, VT. Their Wild Rumpus Chili took home first place ...
On Friday, May 9, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) will welcome Brooklyn-based alt-indie band Matt & Kim to perform the 2014 Spring Concert. Due to student demand demonstrated through online surveys, the concert will be held outside, weather permitting, most likely in the space between ...
The Middlebury College Board of Trustees met over Winter Carnival weekend to discuss a range of issues including a 2.94 percent increase in tuition, a new Korean language school and various construction projects underway between the main College campus and Monterey Institute campus. According to Vice ...
A Brainerd Commons policy of fining students for leaving items in the hallways of residence halls has led to Brainerd’s levying fines of hundreds of dollars on students. Each Commons attempts to discourage students from leaving items in the hall, and when contacted for comment, representatives from ...
Middlebury College staff members will show off their skills outside of the workplace at an arts and crafts exhibition this Saturday, March 15 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Middlebury College Staff Council, with support from the Office of the President, is hosting the show that will showcase work from nine ...
On the afternoon of Thursday, March 6, members of the Middlebury community gathered in Le Chateau Grand Salon to celebrate the Alison G. Fraker Essay Prize and its nominees. Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Professor Sujata Moorti and Director of Chellis House Karin ...
On Monday Mar. 10, Community Council met to discuss the proposal of the new Chromatic Social House, continuing last week’s discussion. During the meeting, the Council passed the motion to recommend the approval of the house to Ronald Liebowitz, President of the College. This new organization will ...
At 9 p.m. local time on March 1 in Kunming, China, a group of men dressed in black began stabbing people with long knives at random, aiming for the head, neck and shoulders, according to witnesses. The attack left 33 people dead, including four of the assailants, and another 130 were wounded. Four more ...
The Middlebury College Orchestra will not perform this semester due to an extreme decline in membership. This announcement is the latest development in a trend of declining interest in the program. Membership has fallen from 45 musicians three years ago to 16 in the fall term. In speaking with colleagues ...
On Sunday, March 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Chellis House will be holding the Red Tent event, an activity designed to help members of the Middlebury community that identify as female relax and pamper themselves for a day, in the McCullough Social Space. The Red Tent Foundation is helping to sponsor ...
Students Caitlin Haedrich ’16.5 and Larson Lovdal ’16.5 are imagining a whole new kind of dining for the College. The duo has submitted a project proposal for an outdoor wood-fired pizza oven, or “cob oven,” to be built at the Organic Garden this summer. “It’s an idea that’s been tossed ...
On Feb. 28, 12 Middlebury students travelled down to Washington D.C. for XL Dissent, a student-organized protest of the the Keystone XL Pipeline. They were joined by 1200 other protesters — primarily students — from across the country. The event culminated in an act of civil disobedience, during ...
Heartbeat — a collective of young Israeli and Palestinian musicians — performed in the McCullough Social Space on Feb. 27 as a part of their 2014 U.S. tour. Through music, the group shared with audience members a message of mutual peace and understanding. “I believe deeply that music holds incredible ...
A native Vermonter, Calvin McEathron ’16 grew up on a small farm 10 minutes from Montpelier, the state capital. In an interview, McEathron said he has been passionate about politics since his freshman year of high school, when controversial legislation on the operation of Vermont Yankee, the state’s ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, roughly 100 student athletes from 30 teams met in the McCullough Social Space to discuss homophobia and athletics as a follow-up to Wade Davis’ visit in January. The discussion, organized and facilitated by James Clifford ’15 and Katie Linder ’15 and co-hosted by Queers and ...
The International Students’ Organization (ISO) will be hosting Middlebury’s first ever Food and Globalization Week. Running Mar. 4-11, the event — dubbed “F&G Week” for short — will tie together global issues with the academic study of food. ISO Vice President Mika Tan ’15 has been ...
When the trustees were here last weekend, I shared a compelling article with them — “5 Ways Today’s Students Are Radically Changing Our Colleges” from AGB Trusteeship magazine. The article reviews the findings of a six-year national study involving 33 campuses and thousands of students and concludes ...