The March 6 meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) began with a vote to recommend that President of the College Laurie L. Patton increase the Student Activities Fee by roughly $0.82 in order to keep the fee in line with changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Currently, the annual fee ...
This Monday, Mar. 21 marked the launch of SensusAccess, an application that allows Middlebury users to automatically convert documents into a variety of accessible formats. Now free to all students, faculty and staff members at both the College and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at ...
GrillMe, an online Grille delivery service, launched on Feb. 29 and is founded, owned, and operated by Andrew Jung ’16. In its first month of operation, GrilleMe has boosted total Grille sales and has satisfied student demand for a Grille delivery service. “I just noticed a gap in the food services ...
As the Student Government Association (SGA) begins to discuss how to budget student organizations, namely club sports, it looks to the College for potential financial support; however, the College is confronted with its own short-term fiscal concerns and has started conversations to address where changes ...
On the eve of Commencement 1985, a student crept into the meadow where McCardell Bicentennial Hall stands today, took a blowtorch to a tall, boxy sculpture and burned it. The sculpture, a four-sided closet-sized metal building with panels of six playing cards on one side and an entrance door painted ...
The 17 Middlebury athletes who travelled to Iowa last weekend (March 11-12) for the NCAA Division III Indoor Track Championships did more than hold their own against a highly competitive field. The Panthers entered in six different events — including both the men and women in the 4x400 and distance ...
As the sun shined bright and Main Street bustled with attendees of the 8th Annual Vermont Chili Festival, the seventh-ranked Middlebury men’s lacrosse team welcomed defending national champions and top-seeded Tufts to Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium on Saturday, March 12. After going down by three ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team continued their success with two wins this past weekend. Middlebury defeated Tufts 17-9 on Saturday, March 12 looking for vengeance from last year’s loss, and then beat MIT 19-7 the following day in a non-conference collision. The Panthers improved their overall ...
By some miracle, the men’s and women’s tennis teams played outdoors on the first weekend of the spring season, a rarity in Vermont, and they dominated. Both teams shut out Bates and Hamilton 9-0 on Saturday, March 12, to move to 2-0 in the NESCAC and overall. Nine different players for the men’s ...
After winning the NESCAC title and advancing to the NCAA Tournament, the Middlebury women’s hockey team defeated the University of Massachusetts Boston 4-0 in the quarterfinal round. The win was the Panthers’ 10th straight — nine of which were shutouts— and 21st on the season, one more than ...
In Kanye West’s song “Real Friends,” he raps, “We smile at each other, but how many honest?” Last Saturday night, I found myself preoccupied with that same question. I stood in a friend’s room on the fourth floor of Stewart and carefully folded a vomit-soaked comforter around itself to ...
The Alpine and Nordic ski teams combined for an 11th place finish at the NCAA Championships this past weekend. The Colorado Buffaloes hosted the Championship in Steamboat Springs, Colo. on March 9-12. The Panthers finished in 11th out of the 21 teams total, with 133 points. Meanwhile, Denver’s 567 ...
On Thursday, March 10, Dr. Catherine Kerr of Brown University presented “Mindfulness: Body, Breath and the Self,” which included a brief history of secular mindfulness in the United States and its growing acceptance in academic culture. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of secular mindfulness, defines ...
While students learn countless lessons from their professors — often through hours absorbing lectures and taking notes of problem set solutions or discussion points — there are certain subjects that, over months and years of class, go unaddressed. Last Thursday’s installment of “It’s Not What ...
While most students spent J-Term hitting the slopes or catching up on sleep, Maryam Mahboob ’18 was hard at work, albeit outside of the classroom. For Mahboob, J-Term marked a time for fundraising and for the first test of her food startup, Macaroni and Choose (M&C, formerly known as M.A.C.), ...
On Saturday, March 12, the 8th annual Vermont Chili Festival was held in downtown Middlebury. From 1 to 4 p.m. the sun was shining and the street was filled with around six thousand Vermonters on the hunt for chili from top restaurants and caterers, as well as good entertainment provided by local ...
Super Tuesday is called “super” for a reason. Out of all the primaries, March 1 alone awards candidates on the Democratic side a total of 862 delegates, the largest chunk given in one day. Winning a majority on Super Tuesday is therefore a strong indicator of a candidate’s chance of nomination. ...
Last Wednesday, March 9, Governor Shumlin visited North Bennington to hold a town hall style meeting with residents and discuss the ongoing water contamination crisis. Shumlin announced that water in the Bennington area had been contaminated by a carcinogen known as perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, ...
Only in a show entitled Sexpectations would it make sense to utter the words “biddy,” “Atwater” and “Grindr” within mere minutes of each other. Last weekend (March 11-12), students flooded the Hepburn Zoo to watch the first ever play based on Middlebury hookup culture. Written and directed ...
Once every year or so, ABC graces us with a season of television unlike any other; one lucky man (or woman) has the opportunity to date approximately 25 mostly-white women (or mostly-white men), all desperate for love. As the season goes on, the “bachelor” (or “bachelorette”) slowly eliminates ...