“Like the mother bird at her plundered nest,” Hecuba says. Grieving, suffering Hecuba. “Do you even remember, King of the gods, that we exist, while the very air explodes around us, and fire reduces our city to ashes and stone?” Troy is to be burned. The most agonizing of Hecuba’s wails ...
I support the goals of the dining hall meat-reduction proposal with enthusiasm. The methods, however, are all wrong.
The fellows of the eighth annual Middlebury Fellowship in Narrative Journalism will present their year-long radio documentary projects to the Middlebury community on Friday, May 12 in the Axinn Winter Garden from 4 to 6 p.m. The fellows — Matthew Blake ’17, Will DiGravio ’19, Izzy Fleming ’17 ...
Ross Commons hosted its first “Rosstaurant,” a restaurant style dinner event, on Saturday, April 29, in Atwater Dining Hall. Ross Community Council tri-chairs Zorica Radanovic ’19, Trisha Singh ’19 and Oriyomi Adeliyi ’20 planned the event to replace Viva Ross Vegas, which had been Ross Commons’ ...
The first official judicial hearing for students who participated in the March 2 protests against Dr. Charles Murray is scheduled to take place today, May 4, as of press time. The hearing will examine the cases of at least 18 respondents — the official term for students who have been charged with ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a resolution at their April 23 meeting that recommended a series of changes to the “Demonstrations and Protests” section of the College Handbook. The bill aims to change the language of the Handbook in order to better protect the rights of student ...
CW: sexual harassment Last week, the Campus published an op-ed by alumna Esme Valette ’16 about “predatory pack behavior” on campus — male students dominating the Middlebury party scene in a culture of men “hunting” women. Thank you, Esme, for talking about this facet of campus culture. ...
Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a series that will examine the current financial state of the College. In recent years, the College has run budget deficits and has been forced to rein in spending in order to ensure long term financial stability. These articles will aim to inform the Middlebury ...
Starting in the fall of 2017, a swipe system in Proctor, Ross, and Atwater will track when and where Middlebury students eat. This system will provide accurate counts for dining services in terms of preparing food as well as reducing waste. The system will also prevent guests not on the meal plan from ...
This spring, the Vermont Women’s Fund, a program of the Vermont Community Foundation based in Middlebury, is awarding $124,000 in grant money to 14 organizations throughout the state. The funds will be used to teach financial literacy to girls from ages 12 to 25 and to help them develop jobs, skills ...
Dear Dr. Patton: We write to protest the Middlebury administration’s punitive response to students involved in the events surrounding the Charles Murray lecture on March 2, 2017. Middlebury students have reported being placed on probation and having disciplinary letters added to their files for protesting ...
After clinching the sixth seed in the NESCAC tournament last week when they were on the brink of elimination, the men’s lacrosse team kept the momentum rolling with an upset victory over NESCAC no. 3 seed and no. 11 nationally ranked Amherst last Saturday, April 22, in Amherst, Mass. The 12-11 win ...
About a month ago, on April 1, the Middlebury women’s lacrosse team trounced Amherst 13-3. This ten-goal margin, however, would not be repeated in the first round of the NESCAC tournament. The top-seeded Panthers hosted the Mammoths at Kohn Field, looking to start their postseason title defense. Amherst ...
Last weekend, April 29-30, both the men’s and women’s tennis teams rounded out their last matches of the regular season, posting wins across the board. The men’s team ended their season with a 6-3 win at no. 8 Amherst, while the women swept both Amherst and Skidmore 9-0. The women’s team has ...
Hosting their final three-game series of the season, the softball team geared up to compete against Williams on Friday and Saturday, April 28-29. The Panthers lost the first contest in heartbreaking one-run fashion. The Ephs scored on an error in the top half of the first frame. Williams’ Jessica ...
The Middlebury Track and Field teams kicked off their postseason at the 2017 NESCAC Outdoor Championship hosted by Bowdoin this past weekend. The women, paced by two event titles and a school record, finished third (97.66 points) out of the 11 teams in the conference behind Williams (239.83) and Bates ...
The men’s golf team saw its streak of winning the NESCAC tournament end at three last weekend, April 29-30, when they played at the Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown, Mass., for the second time in as many weeks. Williams dominated the event, shooting a collective 18-over 586 with the tournament’s ...
The Middlebury Panthers are currently on a three-game winning streak after doubleheaders versus Trinity College and Skidmore College. The Panthers sit three games above 0.500 with a season record of 16-13. On Saturday, April 29, the Panthers split a doubleheader against the Trinity College Bantams. ...
I would’ve liked to know more about staff members’ personal interests, hobbies and opinions about the College. Questions that were more critical of the way students treat staff would’ve been more valuable (and interesting) to read, than simply a list of “memorable interactions.” Instead of ...
Racial and economic oppressions recently have been thrown at each other in Trump era politics as if one contradicts the other. In part, the white poor have started claiming oppression as their own, claiming that policies like affirmative action or individual prejudices amount to “reverse racism” ...