When I was in middle school, my travel soccer coach told me to stop “playing scared.” I kept playing scared, so I quit soccer and inevitably became a runner. Yet there is plenty to be scared of in cross country and track, and soon I learned that you generally can’t outrun your fears in sports. ...
Four years is a pitifully short time for something so blatantly, absurdly wonderful: being an undergraduate on this campus. It would be remiss of every Middlebury student to take for granted the fact that everyone they know is within a 15-minute walk. It would be remiss to forget that the gym, the ice ...
It's the seasonal act: Leaves detach from trees with a last flaming breath, dry wind chills your throat and chest and the sun sets quickly towards the heavens, leaving us aching for more of its intangible warmth. There is an emptiness in fall, yet its warmth is immortalized in the digital world. We ...
Breaking their two game losing streak, an anomaly for the decorated Panthers, Middlebury field hockey defeated Bates 2-1 on their home turf this Sunday. After four losses this season and falling in the national and NESCAC rankings, the squad pulled out a hard-fought win against the Bobcats, reasserting ...
In late October of 2022, during my first year at Middlebury, I drove over the Green Mountains and into New Hampshire to see one of my best friends from high school for the last time. Though his eyes shone with their same flinty strength, cancer had weakened his body. After catching up for an hour in ...
The Johnson Exhibition Gallery hosted a screening of the documentary film “Beyond Bars: Reimagining Justice and Healing in VT” on Oct. 24 in collaboration with its exhibit “Finding Hope Within.”
Amid an overcast homecoming weekend, the Middlebury football team took on the Bates Bobcats at Alumni Stadium. The Panthers cruised past the Bobcats, tallying their 50th win in the matchup first contested in 1948 and improving their all-time record to 50-15-3.
Crossword 10/31/2025: Solutions.
For nearly four years, after long sessions in any number of hidey-holes where I pretend to do work, I have traipsed home in the dark. This is hardly unique at Middlebury, upon Davis’ closing at 12:00 a.m., students stream out of the building, returning to their dormitories like careworn monks. A late-night ...
Vermont Cookie Love opened its second location on 40 Main Street, the former Chim Chimney location, in downtown Middlebury on Oct. 23, bringing its signature warm cookies and award-winning creemees close enough to campus that one student playfully called it “dangerous.”
Last Saturday, No. 10 -ranked Middlebury women’s soccer celebrated its Senior Day against Bates, recognizing its graduating class: goalkeeper Livia Davidson ’26, defender Roshan Purcell ’26 and forward Carolina Espinosa ’26. The festivities complemented a hard-fought 1–0 victory.
On Friday, Oct. 24, the Axinn Center for the Humanities hosted the Middlebury Migration Conference in McCardell Bicentennial Hall as part of its “Migrant Justice in Vermont and Beyond” initiative. The event brought together a range of artists, advocates and academics to discuss their experiences ...
There are many rites of passage that come along with becoming a Middlebury student: an overstimulating orientation week, your first year roommate, the first winter day in single digit temperatures when you realize what you’re really in for. However, another less obvious rite of passage that I think ...
On Wednesday evenings throughout the summer and fall, a line of cyclists have gathered outside Little Seed Coffee Roasters on Merchants Row to embark on a bike ride. At 6 p.m., the group starts their ride together, cruising along backroads and quiet trails for what has quickly become one of the town’s ...
Acclaimed fictional coach Ted Lasso once said the happiest animal in the world is a goldfish. Why? Because it has a 10-second memory. The Panthers need to have the memory of a goldfish and keep confidence high following their struggles at the New England Challenge.
Lia Smith ’26 has passed away at Middlebury College. She was found dead in the afternoon on Thursday, Oct. 23 by Vermont State Police (VSP) in a field near the Knoll, the college’s organic farm on the west end of campus.
Vermont State Police (VSP), New York State Police and the FBI have stepped in to help the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) in investigating the disappearance of Lia Smith ’26, who was last seen on campus at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17.
Yale University Senior Conservator of Works on Paper Theresa Fairbanks-Harris delivered a lecture titled “Piranesi’s Prints: Paper, Process, and Preservation” at the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) on Oct. 16. The event, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Visions ...
“Liberal-Republicans” often seem like an oxymoron in today’s politics. In a time when political identity feels like a team sport, it’s hard to picture a Republican being called a liberal without some irony. Yet in the Green Mountain State, that phrase has historically represented an entire political ...