For local Vermont farmers Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack, cheesemaking has been a way of life since 1982. The proud owners and primary operators of Orb Weaver Farm in New Haven, Vt., Susman and Pollack produce two artisan cheeses sold exclusively in Vermont, including at local businesses 51 Main, ...
Middlebury Women Leaders is a new club on campus founded and run by Jialong Wu ’17.5 and Mariah Levin ’17.5. The club works to empower women and equip them with skills to promote their professional and personal development. Their first workshop, on conflict resolution, will be held on Thursday, ...
When it comes to large events on campus, students are accustomed to seeing mainstays like Wilson Hall or an athletic arena as the setting for such an event. Thus, it came as a welcome surprise to many that one of the largest events of Winter Carnival weekend, a “1980s skiing” themed party, would ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, several biochemistry students performed a magic show using science for local children of Addison County. This event, held in McCardell BiCentennial Hall, is an ongoing tradition of the department, spearheaded by Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Roger Sandwick. The show ...
In college, so much socializing occurs in the bedroom. In high school, no one other than my closest friends had reason or desire to be in my bedroom. But suddenly, even acquaintances are granted that privilege. Close friends might bring hangers-on, uninvited, into your private space, where they can ...
On Feb. 25-27 in the Hepburn Zoo, The Vagina Monologues returned in its third consecutive year at the College, but the fresh form and delivery of the play, renamed Beyond the Vagina (Monologues), explored changing definitions of femininity and womanhood in an inclusive and ambitious showcase of thought-provoking ...
Fun fact: Vermont is home to more writers per capita than any other state in the country. Must be all the Frost in the air. Now, as the sun’s warmth makes the campus shed its crystal shell, the wonderful works of those writers emerge to our very own stage, to be performed aloud by your friends and ...
In the mind of bandleader Michael League, Snarky Puppy was born out of a passion for jazz. League studied the form and started the band of like-minded musicians at the University of North Texas. The band later transplanted to a base of operations in Brooklyn, N. Y., and has grown in both members and ...
Written in 1987, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner is an intimate fantasy novel set in a renascence world – a world full of swordsmen and challenges, nobles and intrigue, jewels and assassinations. The stunning opening line, “Let the fairy tale begin on a winter’s morning, then, with one drop of blood ...
Were the Paris climate talks of 2015 a success or a failure, and where do we go from there? These were the central questions in a talk entitled “Adequacy and Equity under Neoliberal Climate Governance: Assessing the Paris Moment” on Thursday, Feb 25. Co-sponsored by the Geography Department and ...
About a month ago, Old Navy released a children’s sweatshirt with the label “Aspiring Young Artist President.” Being an artist for its own sake is indeed worthwhile, asserted every criticism that proceeded to light up the Internet. What a soul-sucking world we would live in, they continued, if ...
Last week’s editorial is a hypocritical mess and falsely claims that The Campus gives students an adequate space to voice their opinions. In “A Paper for the People,” the editorial board takes pride in publishing any article that’s not outright slander. “This section is a reflection of ...
Brains are funny things. We wander around the world with brains inside of our heads. They dictate who we are, how we are and what we do. And — on top of it all — they are so unbelievably sensitive. Ever since the day we were born, our brains have been sponges. The most absorbant kind of sponge ...
To the Middlebury Community, I want to take the opportunity to apologize for featuring a picture of myself wearing a culturally appropriative outfit in the sports section of The Middlebury Campus newspaper. The aforementioned photo in which I am wearing a sombrero has been featured in the weekly “Editor’s ...
This column is written by white students and for white students. Each week, we will discuss topics or themes regarding race and, more specifically, the role of whiteness in race relations. If you would like to reach out to us personally to continue these conversations, please feel free to do so. “Why ...
On Feb. 15, a group of cultural organizations sent an email to the student body in protest of The Campus. They called upon this publication to make a number of changes in order to remedy the institutionalized silencing of marginalized communities at this school. We addressed many of the issues raised ...
The road to the CSA Team Nationals, held this year at Yale’s Brady Squash Center, is far from easy. Composure, desire and mental toughness are key components to reach the tournament. The Middlebury Panthers conquered these elements throughout the season and it paid off. The 15th ranked Middlebury ...
The Middlebury women’s hockey team clinched the host site for the NESCAC championship for the fth time in six years and the ninth time overall. The Panthers (18-4-3), seeded rst in the tournament, defeated eighth-seeded Colby 4-3 on Saturday, Feb. 27 in a quarter nal game in Chip Kenyon ’85 Arena ...
The men’s basketball team punched their ticket to the Division-III edition of March Madness by beating the NESCAC’s two best regular season teams on championship weekend. Two weeks prior, Middlebury (17-10) lost to Trinity (19-7) and Amherst (22-5) by a combined total of 24 points, but that meant ...
The men’s squash team rounded out its season last weekend, on Feb. 26-28, when it travelled to New Haven, Conn., for the CSA National Championships. Ranked 15th in the CSA’s final regular season rankings, the Panthers qualified to play in the second division at nationals for the first time since ...