Daily fantasy sports (DFS) players in Vermont may soon earn something they hadn’t bet on: a substantial fine. On Jan. 15, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office said that betting on DFS was illegal in Vermont. Popularized on websites Draft Kings and FanDuel, players of DFS accumulate points based ...
Middlebury’s Charter House Coalition currently helps house and feed over 500 people per year through a number of ever-expanding programs. The non-profit has come a long way since the organization started hosting monthly community dinners back in 2004. “If someone had told any of us back in 2004 ...
The train tracks that run through town, seemingly broken down décor, are scheduled for a substantial improvement. The Vermont Agency of Transportation plans to lower the railroad beds to accommodate double-decker trains and renovate the two rail bridges in town. The replacement of deteriorating bridges ...
BLACKSMITH: BACK TO BASICS Warren Rinehart has been teaching Blacksmithing 101 workshops since Winter Term 2014. Students in his class last Saturday worked on small projects – metal spoons and hooks – that could be completed in the one-day course. Rinehart said that blacksmithing is simple, ...
For 72 hours, starting this morning, the campus will be consumed by an unusual tradition: a massive scavenger hunt. The stakes: $1,000 in cash. The Hunt is a three-day competition that might be better described as a team-based search-and-discover creative improvisational game. Two Hunt masters compile ...
On Dec. 21, 2015, Associate Chaplain Naila Blaloch at the College’s Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life was awarded the Vermont Women in Higher Education Carol A. Moore Scholarship. The scholarship celebrates women who are working in higher education, show dedication to women’s leadership ...
Just as the Lord Chamberlain’s Men playing company once toured England over 400 years ago to perform the plays of William Shakespeare, the First Folios of the man regarded as the most influential writer of the English language are about to embark on a grand tour of their own. As part of this yearlong, ...
On a tall chalkboard wall of one of the completed compost bins, a young North Haven Community School student wrote “Compost haps [sic] the earth.” The community gathered around the bins to admire the work of 10 Middlebury students whose sustainable design build is making waves in the architecture ...
Music has long been a source of community. Concerts have a way of bringing a cross-section of people together to appreciate the art unfolding before them. Middlebury is no exception to this tendency. With a population made up of those associated with the College and those who have never been involved ...
Last Thursday, Jan. 21, above the faint hustle and bustle of Crossroads Café, students, faculty and staff took the stage to take part in a night of poetry and spoken word performances. Organized by MOSAIC, Middlebury’s Interfaith Programming Board, and co-sponsored by the Scott Center for Spiritual ...
Your ship is shot down in orbit over an uncharted planet. You and one other shipmate manage to make it onto one of the remaining escape pods and are sent careening toward the planet’s surface. Unlucky for you, the escape pod doesn’t stop when it hits the surface. The escape pod buries itself deep ...
The College installed a charging station for electric vehicles (EVs) in the parking lot behind Proctor Dining Hall this Nov. The station is a level two charging station that can service two cars at once and charge an EV battery in three to six hours, depending on the EV model and other factors, such ...
Alice in Wonderland has been done a thousand different ways. From the original fantastical children’s book to Disney’s version to Tim Burton’s strange 2010 movie, we have a rich selection of Wonderlands to explore, all of them colorful, topsy-turvy lands in their own way. Something about the freedom ...
Join your peers this Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. or Sunday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theatre to enjoy the Dance Company of Middlebury’s annual performance. From Somewhere culminates the two-semester creative process of the group, guided by Artistic Director Tzveta ...
As the indoor season begins to pick up more steam, the Middlebury men’s and women’s track and field teams both had remarkable showings at the Smith College Benyon Invitational this past Saturday. En route to a second-place team finish for the women and a third-place finish for the men, a number ...
Middlebury Swimming and Diving had their last dual meet of the season at Williams on Saturday, Jan. 23. The Panther men and women fell to the Ephs 186-94 and 211-83, respectively, struggling to keep up with Williams’ nationally ranked teams. Head Coach Bob Rueppel explained back in Nov. that swimming ...
Senior Nordic captain Kelsey Phinney ‘16 picked up her second win of the season as the Alpine and Nordic teams combined for a fourth place finish last weekend, Jan. 23-24. Alpine events took place at Sugarloaf Mountain while the Nordic team took to the trails at the Quarry Road Recreational Area in ...
Last Saturday, Jan. 23 marked a historic day for the men’s squash team: their first-ever match victory against Williams, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, no less. The men’s team won 7-2, while the women’s side fell 7-2 for their third-straight loss. This team-first for the men’s side came just ...
Women’s basketball split a pair of inspired games this past week. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Panthers outlasted Smith for a 70-57 victory. The Panthers returned to conference play Sunday, Jan. 24, when they travelled to Williamstown, Mass. to play Williams in the Chandler Athletic Center. The Panthers ...
The men’s hockey team defeated Colby 4-2 on Friday, Jan. 22, starting last weekend’s trip to Maine on a high note, before falling 2-1 to Bowdoin the next. The Panthers hold steady in fourth place in the NESCAC, still in position to host a game in the NESCAC playoffs. Middlebury entered Alfond Rink ...