The Middlebury Off-Campus Project
The Librarian Is In
By Cmcconville | May 9, 2018Library Reserves Coordinator Kellam Ayres is liaison to the Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. “Advice from the Lights” by Stephanie Burt, 2017 The What Stephanie Burt, a poet, critic, and soon-to-be Breadloafer, is a Professor of English at Harvard, an author ...
Farmers’ Market Kicks Off Spring Season
By Jaehee Park | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39020,39021,39022,39023,39024"] The Middlebury Farmers’ Market (MFM) started its summer market season last Saturday, May 5, featuring a variety of products including fresh produce, prepared foods and other Vermont crafts. This year’s outdoor summer market will run every Saturday and ...
Reel Critic: “Avengers: Infinity War”
By Devin Mcgrath-Conwell | May 9, 2018The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) began with “Iron Man” (2008). It was a risky move by a company that had spent most of the prior decades selling off movie rights to characters in order to stay afloat. It was a comeback story, one strengthened by the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as the eponymous ...
State Renews Effort to Address Opioid Addiction
By Isabel Emsfeld | May 9, 2018Every day, over 115 people die from an opioid overdose in the United States. The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50 is drug overdose. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the “economic burden” of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States ...
College Executives Make Up Elite of Addison County
By Amelia Pollard | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39002,39004,39003"] In recent months, executive pay has sparked controversy among faculty, staff and students as tax forms and op-eds have prompted a negative response to the salaries of the college’s top administrators. Executives at universities across the country earn high salaries ...
Marijuana in Vermont: What’s Been Happening and What’s to Come
By Kenshin Cho | May 9, 2018Over the past year, the legal use of marijuana has been attracting more and more attention in Vermont. Just last month, PhytoCare, a cannabis company from Waterbury, opened the state’s fifth licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Bennington. The dispensary is capitalizing on the interest in cannabis ...
Maple Run Brings Together College and Town
By Chloe Fleischier | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39016,39014,39010,39015,39008,39013,39012,39017,39007,39009,39011"] Over the past weekend, Middlebury students and townspeople alike laced up their sneakers to join in the Middlebury Maple Run. This half marathon and relay run, which took place on Sunday, May 6, is nicknamed “The Sweetest ...
Women’s Tennis Loses to Williams Again, But Will Host NCAA Regional
By Andrew Rigas | May 9, 2018“To be perfectly honest, given the talent on both teams, I think the match could have gone either way,” said Christina Puccinelli ’19 after the women’s tennis team’s 5–4 loss to Williams back on April 7. “They happened to come out on top this time, but we came away from the match with ...
Martinez Takes First at DIII New Englands
By Jordan Howell | May 9, 2018Exceptional performances against top-notch talent highlighted last week’s DIII New Englands meet for the track and field teams. “I thought overall we had some really solid performances,” said Jonathan Perlman ’19. “After a big meet like Nescacs, it can be difficult to compete the next weekend ...
Softball Season Ends on Another Walk-Off
By The Sports Editors | May 9, 2018The Middlebury softball season ended last Saturday, May 5, when the Panthers gave up a late lead to Bowdoin in the Nescac quarterfinals in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Panthers were ahead 2–0 and five outs away from advancing to the semifinal, in which they would have faced Amherst, before Bowdoin ...
May Madness: Men’s Tennis to Host NCAA Regional
By Jack Kagan | May 9, 2018The men’s tennis team went into the Nescac playoffs as the hottest team in the country. Newly minted as the top-ranked team in the nation, the Panthers had not lost a match since April 7. Even though they entered as the third seed in the conference tournament because of a tiebreaker amongst them, ...
Drive for Nescac Championship Cut Short
By Jenny Langerman | May 9, 2018On Friday, May 4, Hamilton beat Amherst, handing the Mammoths their third loss in the Nescac and setting up the most important series of the Nescac West season. For Middlebury to make the Nescac baseball playoffs, they needed to win two out of three games on Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6. The Panthers ...
College Plans to Fundraise for Growing Financial Aid
By Elaine Velie | May 9, 2018Although Middlebury College has yet to set targets for its goal to increase the number of students receiving financial aid, the incoming first-year class will have more students on financial aid than this year’s first-year class. This unexpected increase is due to Middlebury’s need blind admissions ...
Patton Forms New Cabinet of Senior Administrators
By Bochu Ding | May 9, 2018President Laurie L. Patton announced changes this week within the senior leadership group, the 17-member advisory council. A nine-member cabinet will be formed out of that group to “improve the efficiency of decision making” in Old Chapel. The new cabinet represents some of Patton’s closest advisors. ...