Mark McGoey ’26.5’s visual art exhibit “Far Out” opened on the evening of Oct. 25 to a warm crowd of friends and faculty. The collection is modest, and each individual work is made all the more memorable for it.
On Nov. 2, the Jerusalem Quartet flooded the Mahaney Arts Center with passionate string music ranging from classical to modern. Celebrating their 30th season, Jerusalem Quartet returned to Middlebury with a program of Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorák.
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Tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 8, faculty members will vote on whether to decrease the credit requirement needed to graduate from 36 credits to 34 credits. Additional changes would allow students to declare their majors later in their Middlebury careers and prevent future classes of students from using ...
Two Saturdays ago, I traveled to Brooklyn to see the band American Football on their tour commemorating the 25th anniversary of their first album’s release. “American Football” — sometimes nicknamed LP1 — was released on Sept. 14, 1999, and changed emo music forever. Though there have been ...
Welcome back to PFL Weekly! We had a great episode this week, discussing NESCAC playoff excitement, the upcoming Saturday of all Saturdays and the Battell Bike Bandit strikes again! We talked with Ally Kennedy ’27 and Megan Fuqua ’27, sophomores on the no. one nationally-ranked field hockey team, ...
Vermont’s bat population, like many across the country, is in trouble. For over a decade, a fungal disease called White-nose syndrome (WNS) has devastated bat populations nationwide. The disease has spread from the east to west coast in both the U.S. and Canada, killing 90% or more of certain bat ...
Up front, to address the orange elephant in the room after Tuesday: It has never been more critical for Middlebury to properly invest in the staff that calls our college on a hill home. I recently read an excellent article by Madeleine Kaptein ’25.5 about Middlebury's 44% turnover rate in college ...
If Shawn Ryan ’88 has anything in common with the hard-nosed shows that make up his acclaimed career, it’s that he’s as easy to talk to as a seasoned officer by the water cooler. Ryan is the award-winning writer, showrunner and producer of shows including “The Shield,” “The Chicago Code,” ...
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the college hosted its third annual Día de los Muertos (DDM) celebration. The procession began in front of the Anderson Freeman Center (AFC), where a group of about 30 Middlebury students, faculty and residents from the town gathered to learn about and celebrate the holiday. Programming ...
Every other week in the second half of the 1980s, students gathered for what began as a book club. As Associate Professor of Political Science Sebnem Gumuscu tells the story, students and faculty packed onto sofas and rugs to socialize and discuss what they had read. The event, which inspired ...
Crossword 11/07/2024: Solution!
As a Jewish-Israeli journalist embedded in the long-term historical conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, Amira Hass lives between worlds. Hass has lived and reported in Gaza for the past three decades, including the first six months of the current conflict; in her role as a reporter, she documents ...
Madaket Rzepka ’26, originally from Reading, Mass., is in the midst of her third season on the Middlebury field hockey team. In this edition of Seven Questions, she explains how she landed at Middlebury, what it’s like to be part of such a successful program and how Middlebury has changed the trajectory ...
In the center of downtown Middlebury, the thrift store Buy Again Alley caters its clothing selection specifically to young people, distinguishing it from the town’s four other thrift stores. As a nonprofit, its mission is to support young people in their creative endeavors and bring them into the ...
For me and many other students, this past year has been a journey through a grief that feels endless. There are moments when sadness resurfaces unexpectedly, bringing the painful reminder that one of my closest friends is no longer here. Nov. 7 marks a year since the passing of my good friend ...
“DIMOG.” The confused jumble of letters painted on their chests spelled out nonsense. “I thought Middlebury students were smarter than that,” one of the course officials joked. Eventually the final “D” ran across and the message was rearranged: “GO MIDD.”
The inner workings of Middlebury’s 30-year-old Recycling Center on College Street is a mystery to much of the Middlebury community. Whether Middlebury actually recycles, how it recycles and how one should effectively recycle on campus remain common questions even 30 years after the Recycling Center ...
Welcome to The Side Hustle. Inspired by ESPN8: The Ocho — ESPN’s annual segment where the sports network highlights more obscure sports — this column highlights the sports that The Campus typically reports on less frequently… until now.
Community members gathered at the Congregational Church of Middlebury (UCC) to celebrate the 100th annual Holiday Bazaar, which ran from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2.