The Middlebury Off-Campus Project

Midd Gone Wild: New Student Environmental Club Takes to the Outdoors

For students who may be interested in engaging intimately with the environment, the Wild Middlebury Project is a great place to start.

SGA and Community Council to Hold Elections Thursday

This week, the Middlebury student body will elect a new SGA president for the 2019-2020 academic year. The position involves directly overseeing the SGA Cabinet and Senate and supporting the work of 11 Cabinet committees and five Senate committees. The President is viewed as the de facto leader of the ...

Women’s Lacrosse on Fire, Continues 11-0 Streak

The Panther women’s lacrosse team moved to an 11-game win streak, picking up two conference wins this past weekend against Trinity and Hamilton, scoring double digits against two impressive teams. Moving forward, the Panthers are on a blazing trail, hoping to close out the season against Tufts and ...

In Defense of Jeff Byers

A month ago, I took a chemistry test that asked me to calculate the lethal dose of hydrogen cyanide.

Softball Splits Wednesday’s Doubleheader, Sweeps Wesleyan Over the Weekend

Last week, when asked about softball’s recent defeats, captain Irene Margiotta ’19 said that the team was “young but extremely talented [...] and we are looking forward to giving it our all in the next few conference weekends to come.” Margiotta and the rest of the team lived up to the mindset ...

Reporter on ISIS Beat Discusses ‘Speaking to the Enemy’

Rukmini Callimachi has built a career out of talking to terrorists. Callimachi joined the New York Times in March 2014 as a foreign correspondent covering Al-Qaeda and ISIS. WIRED magazine called her “arguably the best reporter on the most important beat in the world.” She is a four-time Pulitzer ...

A Piano Mastermind’s College ‘Finale’

Iwata’s senior piano recital, “The Finale,” exuded a Romantic whirlwind of grand scales, mountainous runs and daring chords.

The 1vyG Conference and First-Gen Issues

When I chose Middlebury College, it was not because I loved Middlebury during Preview Days but because it truly overwhelmed me.

Sex Panther: Let’s Talk About STIs (And Other Things) Baby!

If you don’t start honing your communication skills, then you are setting yourself and the people you interact with up for failure and frustration.

Men’s Tennis Takes Weekend vs. Tufts and Williams

After tough losses to No. 3 Emory and No. 5 Wesleyan, Panther men’s tennis stormed back in a big way last weekend with a nailbiter win over No. 10 Williams, in addition to a 6-3 victory over No. 18 Tufts. Middlebury tumbled down the rankings last week after an upset from then No.7 Wesleyan, while ...

Parton Looks to Upgrade Mental Health Services this Fall

Parton Center for Health and Wellness will make changes to its mental health offerings beginning this fall, after joining a national program earlier this year which helps schools improve their suicide prevention services as well as support for substance abuse and other mental health issues.

Photos: Spring Student Symposium

Over 275 students presented at the annual Spring Symposium on April 12, a day filled with intellectual inquiries and inspiration.

Men’s Lacrosse Cooks the Chickens, Defeats Trinity

After a successful mid-week game against Springfield College, where Middlebury won 15-7, the Panthers tried to ride that momentum into their NESCAC showdown against Trinity on Saturday, April 13. With their highest attendance of the season and a number of Midd alumni coming out to show their support, ...

Expert Panel Talks ‘Climate Grief’ and Environmental Action

Last fall, days after Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Dan Suarez gave a talk branding climate change the impending end of the world, Kyle Freiler ’19 walked into Suarez’s office in a panic. He was experiencing what the American Psychological Association now recognizes as climate grief: ...

Foreign Correspondents: Returning to Childhood in Paris

There were countless things I looked forward to when preparing to study abroad in Paris, but the idea of having a semester in which I felt more like a child than I have for over a decade, was not something that had crossed my mind.

The Lookbook: Parlour Salon

A feature of Parlour Salon, which just moved to Main Street and offers hair styling, waxing and more,

The Complicity Projects Launches Display in Davis Library

From far away, this week’s display in Davis Library appears a brightly-colored mosaic of posters. But upon closer inspection, the set-up reveals a carefully-curated collection of quotes and photographs that address ideas of campus complicity in issues of sexual assault and harassment at Middlebury. The ...

Baseball Goes 1-2 for Weekend, Beats Dartmouth Tuesday

The baseball team (15-8, 3-3) capped the week with a 2-2 record, unable to hold off the Williams College Ephs (3-3, 16-5) in the final game of the week, dropping the rubber match of the series 5-4 in extra innings on Saturday, April 13.  Strong pitching resulted in a midweek 12-2 win for the Panthers ...

Track and Field Women Place First, Men Second at Silfen Invitational

The Middlebury track and field team continued its dominance during the Silfen Invitational on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13. The men came in second place, and the women came in first.   Nathan Hill ’20 said, “I thought the team performed really well this weekend. Everyone seemed to meet ...

Quidditch Caps Historic Nationals Weekend