A handful of podium finishes, including Rob Cone ’17’s first-place finish in the slalom, propelled the Panther ski teams to a fourth place finish in the Middlebury Carnival this past weekend. The EISA Championship races were held at the Snow Bowl on Feb. 26-27 for the Alpine teams, and at Rikert ...
In a highly competitive Open New England Championships meet, which featured over 70 teams from all three collegiate divisions, the Middlebury track and field team continued to post the type of numbers that should allow them to finish their indoor season very successfully over the next two weeks. Although ...
The third time was the charm for the Middlebury men’s hockey team against Hamilton. After tying the Continentals in their first two matchups of the season, Jake Charles ’16 scored the winning goal 7:21 into overtime, and the Panthers defeated Hamilton 2-1 in Clinton, N.Y. on Saturday, Feb. 27, ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 16, Community Council welcomed Cheryl Mullins, Acting Associate Vice President for Human Resources. As the Council prepares in the coming weeks to tackle the issue of staff wages, Mullins gave a presentation explaining the College’s pay scale and why the College believes it pays a ...
On Feb. 21, the Student Government Association [SGA] passed a bylaws amendment to reform the organization’s election procedures. The bill, written by SGA Director of Membership Zak Fisher ’16, and sponsored by SGA President Ilana Gratch ’16, eliminated the use of single-transferable-vote (STV) ...
Middlebury Entrepreneurs is a Winter Term course that offers students the opportunity to create their own business or non-profit organization. Applications require a product proposal, and students often continue to develop and market their projects long after January. This year, the final products originated ...
The College hosted its annual Winter Carnival at the Snow Bowl this past weekend, requiring the production of a great deal of man-made snow due to unseasonably warm temperatures and a lack of snowfall this year. The current ski season has been particularly hard for the Snow Bowl due to the warmer weather. ...
The Middlebury Campus met with Ilana Gratch ’16 to discuss the first half of her term as president of the Student Government Association (SGA). In this profile, Gratch speaks on initatives she has worked on and goals for the remainder of her presidency. Middlebury Campus (MC): We interviewed President ...
During Winter Term, the dining halls welcomed a new brew at the beverage station: coffee by local roaster Vermont Coffee Company. Based in Middlebury Vermont, coffee from the Vermont Coffee Company is fair-trade and certified organic. The move to serve it in the dining halls has allowed the College ...
Harper Lee’s beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. The zeitgeist novel depicted in bare terms racism in America and reaffirmed the values of equality and unity. The book has sold more than 40 million copies globally and has become a staple ...
Months before Hillary Clinton declared her presidential candidacy online in April, leaders in the Democratic Party saw her as the destined choice to be the party’s standard bearer in the 2016 election. But no political pundit foresaw the rise of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in recent months, mostly ...
In response to a Feb. 15 email in which the SGA announced a new online textbook exchange, The Campus decided to investigate how less expensive textbooks came to top the student government agenda. Last fall Neha Sharma ’18.5 and Maya Woser ’18, co-directors for the SGA Educational Affairs Committee, ...
Vermont is revolutionizing the workplace, as the state has recently passed a bill requiring employers to provide paid sick leave for their workers. Currently, it is estimated that there are about 60,000 Vermonters who do not receive paid sick leave, many of whom are women who hold low-wage jobs. The ...
Bernie Sanders enjoys more popular support in Vermont than any other state in the nation. Yet even here, Sanders faces an uphill climb for the Democratic nomination. The reason: superdelegates. As Ben Kamisar explains in the Hill, superdelegates are “state party insiders given the freedom to support ...
Despite Senator Bernie Sanders’ 20-point margin of victory in Vermont’s neighboring state of New Hampshire, Senator Patrick Leahy reiterated last week that he will continue to support Clinton’s candidacy, and plans to cast his superdelegate vote in her favor. Leahy and Sanders have served alongside ...
The women’s basketball team made their final road trip of the season on Saturday, Feb. 20. The Panthers travelled to Medford, Mass. to take on top seeded Tufts in the NESCAC Quarterfinal playoff round. As the top seed in the NESCAC tournament, the Jumbos entered with a dominant 21-2 record, highlighted ...
The Middlebury men’s Swimming and Diving team competed in the 2016 NESCAC Championship meet last weekend, Feb. 19-21, at Williams’ Samuelson-Muir pool, finishing seventh as a team for the third consecutive year. The hosts racked up 1789.5 points to claim their fifteenth title to date against the ...
Wins by Nordic skier Annie Pokorny ’16 and Alpine skier Colin Hayes ’17 in the second day of racing led the Middlebury ski teams to a combined fourth place finish in the Williams Carnival on February 19-20. The University of Vermont won the competition with 992 points, followed by Dartmouth (919), ...
The Middlebury women’s club Water Polo team successfully opened their season at the Natatorium last weekend, Feb. 20-21, where they hosted the first tournament of the season for the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA)’s Women’s New England Club Division. The Panthers, who ranked 11th out ...
The fourth-seeded Middlebury Panthers defended their home court with an 86-74 victory over the visiting Wesleyan Cardinals in the NESCAC Quarterfinals on Saturday, Feb. 20. The Panthers were supported by one of the most energized crowds in recent memory as Matt St. Amour ’17 and Adisa Majors ’18 ...