Thirteen months before the 2016 presidential election, we’re already hearing about the candidates in the news every day. Personally, I am tired of listening to the same batch of politicians debating virtually the same issues from the last election cycle. In large part, this stems from the fact ...
“Poverty” is as much of a buzzword as “privilege.” In the decades when truly progressive Democrats ruled the stars and stripes, poverty commanded political importance arguably above that of the White House. It soon lost its status, only to experience a resurgence recently pronounced in a Brooklyn ...
If you’re currently a senior, a super-senior or an ambitious more youthful individual, you are probably beginning to have some existential thoughts as you look towards life after Middlebury. As Middlebury students, we spend our college careers in a place that is remote in all senses of the word. It ...
In last week’s Campus, Alex Newhouse ’17 wrote an opinion piece, “Confronting Life’s Big Questions,” in which he issued a plea for greater enthusiasm and openness, especially from friends, in discussing “vulnerabilities and those deep, philosophical fears.” In effect, he wants to talk ...
On Sept. 23, the College filed to appeal U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha’s order to temporarily re-enroll John Doe, the student anonymously suing the College to reverse his expulsion following an alleged sexual misconduct charge against a non-Middlebury student. In a preliminary injunction ...
The week of Sep. 29 officially launched Green Dot, the College’s new program to prevent violence and promote student safety on campus. Director of Physical Education Noreen Pecsok, who helped implement the program, said the response from students has been overwhelmingly positive. “It’s very empowering ...
In this Sunday, October 4th 2015 broadcast, the editors of The Middlebury Campus join host Nathaniel Wiener to discuss their plans for the paper during the 2015-2016 academic year and discuss the week's editorial, "Disrupt the Finance Pipeline". [embed]https://soundcloud.com/campusvoice/the-campus-voice-october-4-2015[/embed] ...
Andrea Olsen gives me hope. If you are anything like me, you have also spent countless hours deliberating over various premade professions, wondering which hole fits your peg best, only to be frustrated by incompatibility at every turn. Nothing seems to match that idyllic happiness we have always been ...
When the name Annie Lennox is mentioned in conversation, it invariably leads to someone providing their perceived best take on “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” which no one had asked for. When Eurythmics released their second album in 1983, which shares its name with the song, the soaring and ...
On Sunday, Sept. 20, Ingoma made its first appearance at the Middlebury A Cappella Jamboree. But rather than mmm-bopping through a Billboard Hot 100, the group performed music from another source: the African continent. Ingoma, which gets its name from an African drum, was created in the fall of 2013 ...
On Apr. 7, 2009, legislators at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier cast an historic vote legalizing gay marriage in Vermont. “Those voting yes, 100. Those voting no, 49. One hundredneeded to pass, you have voted to override the veto,” announced Representative Shap Smith (D). The courtroom erupted ...
This past Saturday, Sept. 26, the Tour de Farms bike ride kicked into gear with a new route including more of the northeastern part of Addison County. Now in its eighth year, the Tour de Farms is an annual 37-mile bike ride around the Vermont countryside that stops at various farms, features local foods ...
One. Two. Three. Four. Motions repeated, counting up to 60, restarting, repeating, repeating. How long will this continue? When will it finally end? These were the questions evoked by “reRace: a movement study,” the first piece of Barack adé Soleil’s keynote performance of this year’s Clifford ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams hit the courts this past weekend on Sept. 25-27 in the USTA/ITA New England Regional tennis tournaments. The men’s team traveled down to Williams College for the weekend, while the ladies stayed home for a beautiful weekend on campus. Due to ...
Panthers’ volleyball kept the ball rolling on this past weekend’s road trip, extending its winning streak to six games and improving its overall record to 9-2 on the season. Having started the week off on the right foot with a Wednesday win over St. Michael’s, the team spent four sets taking care ...
The women and men’s cross-country teams competed at the Purple Valley Classic at Williams College this past Saturday, Sept. 26. While the weather was more cooperative than the previous weekend, the Williams course is notoriously “challenging, yet rewarding,” according to Erzsie Nagy ’17. The ...
The women’s golf team traveled south on I-91 last weekend, Sept. 26-27, to The Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley, Massachusetts for Mount Holyoke’s fall invitational. The Panthers finished third in the 14-team field and collectively shot 646, good for 70 over par, for the weekend. Williams won ...
The Middlebury Women’s Soccer team came up short against NESCAC foe Bowdoin, losing 1-0 on Saturday, Sept. 26. Bouncing back from an arduous week in which the Panthers played a total of 290 minutes in four days, the team travelled to Brunswick, Maine to take on the Polar Bears. From 2009-2013, Middlebury ...
In a battle to maintain a perfect record, the fourth-ranked women’s field hockey team traveled to Bowdoin on Saturday to take on the second-ranked Polar Bears. Although Middlebury put up a solid effort, they were unable to beat the Polar Bears and surrendered their undefeated record in a 2-1 loss. ...