The men’s tennis team demonstrated its dominance at the top of the lineup as well as its impressive depth by taking three of the six flights at its own invitational on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 23 and 24. In its first tournament of the fall season, Middlebury hosted Bates, Hamilton, Tufts, Brandeis, ...
The seventh-ranked field hockey team won its only Nescac game of the weekend by defeating No. 10 Bowdoin 1–0 in a double overtime thriller on Saturday, Sept. 23 at Bowdoin, before traveling to Babson, where they fell to the Beavers 2–1. With the split, the Panthers move to 4–2 overall and 3–1 ...
In the weeks after protesters disrupted Charles Murray’s planned lecture at Middlebury College last March, administrators here investigated a student whom a Public Safety officer said was at the protest. The student, Addis Fouche-Channer ’17, insists she was never there. “I pulled a student off ...
In response to threats of violence following student protests of Charles Murray’s lecture last spring, as well as recent hostilities at the University of Virginia, administrators moved to revise the college’s policies on events and invited speakers. Provost Susan Baldridge first announced the changes ...
In the wake of President Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the college has continued to publicly and internally support DACA-mented and undocumented students. College president Laurie L. Patton and chief diversity officer Miguel Fernández did not mince ...
The Panther volleyball team remained scintillatingly hot, notching a win at St. Michaels on Tuesday, Sept. 19, before sweeping the Roadrunner Invitational with victories against Farmingdale State, New York University and the hosts, Ramapo. The wins on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23, were welcome ...
The cross country teams were able to put out stunning performances at the Purple Valley Classic last Saturday, Sept. 25. In 26-team fields, the men’s team was able to capture fourth place while the women’s team took sixth. The men took fourth with a total of 117 points. SUNY Geneseo took first ...
Education Studies will be offered as a double major for the first time this semester, after the faculty voted to approve the new degree program last spring. Previously, Education Studies was only offered as a minor. The double major is available only to students who are pursuing the coursework required ...
Last weekend, Sept. 23 to 24, the men’s and women’s golf teams were back on the tees as they continue tuning up for Nescac events at the beginning of October. In preparation for its visit to Connecticut for the Nescac qualifier, the men’s squad was in action at Williams’ Taconic Golf Course ...
The men’s soccer team (5–2–0, 2–2–0) extended their win streak to four games on Wednesday, Sep. 20, with a win over Keene State (3–1–2, 1–0) before seeing their streak snapped with a a 3–1 loss on the road to Bowdoin (5–2–0, 3–1–0) on Saturday, Sept. 23. The Bowdoin was a ...
Middlebury fell from fourth to sixth place in the U.S. News & World Report’s latest “Best Colleges” rankings. Published on Sept. 12, the list places Williams and Amherst first and second among all liberal arts colleges, respectively. Middlebury and Pomona are tied at sixth behind a three-way ...
This past Saturday, Sept. 23, a tough contest against Nescac foe Bowdoin saw the Middlebury women’s soccer team fall victim to many of the same troubles that they’ve been dealing with for much of the season. Despite a 17–9 advantage in shots taken and a 9–6 lead in shots on goal, they ultimately ...
Next month, Middlebury trustees will vote on a new mission statement to replace the existing version, first adopted in 2006. While many on campus may not know the current college credo, its importance should not be understated, nor should the shortcomings of the proposed replacement. A mission statement ...
The men’s water polo club hosted its first tournament of the season last Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 23 and 24. After just nine days of practice, the Panthers had a packed schedule, playing two games each day against fellow New England Club Division members. “Water polo is a fun sport because it’s ...
The first concert of the fall 2017 season involved such a large and skilled ensemble playing such important music that it can only be termed a triumph for the Middlebury community. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra performed four works in the following order: Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Dance of the ...
We were dismayed to read the article, “Former Student Was Falsely Accused as Charles Murray Protester,” posted on The Campus’ website last Friday. Seeing the false accusation and mistreatment of Addis Fouche-Channer ‘17 by our staff and administrative colleagues laid out in such chilling detail ...
After squeezing by the Wesleyan Cardinals for their season opener, the football team soundly handled the Bowdoin Polar Bears 41–14 on Saturday, Sept. 26, improving to a 2–0 record. Against Wesleyan, the Panthers only mustered 384 total yards. Against Bowdoin, quarterback Jared Lebowitz ’18 made ...
The first WRMC show is still memorable. On a chilly September morning, my two co-deejays and I shook ourselves out of our beds, trekked to Proctor , and climbed to the WRMC studio. Excitement kept our heads up as the bell tower struck 4 AM in the morning. We slipped our headphones on our heads, opened ...
Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer is liaison to the Anderson Freeman Center, the Arabic department, the French department, the Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS Program), the Language Schools, Linguistics and the Spanish & Portuguese departments. These affiliations are ...
Hello, welcome to my new column! Here, I will be talking about culture, Middlebury culture, of which there is undoubtedly much to appreciate. As the editorial this week discusses, our community’s ethos is special and beautiful. It is one of diversity, intellectual rigor and curiosity, and physical ...