Despite a strong effort by the ladies of Middlebury volleyball in their first home game of the season, an efficient Bowdoin squad ultimately proved too much this past Friday as the Polar Bears wore down the Panthers over four sets (25-21, 25-22, 23-25, 25-18). In a match that saw almost too many lead ...
Both the women and men’s cross country teams competed on their home course, hosting the Aldrich Invitational this Saturday, Sept. 19. Five teams constituted the women’s competition: Middlebury College, Le Moyne College, Saint Michael’s College, Norwich University and Paul Smith’s College, ...
After falling short in the NCAA tournament two years ago, the Middlebury men’s tennis team was looking for a new spark to help lead the team towards a national championship. In September of last year, they got just what they needed in Noah Farrell ’18. Standing at only 5’7,’’ Farrell arrived ...
In Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, the world ends almost quietly. There are no bombs or devastating nuclear holocausts, no alien invasions or apocalyptic meteor crashes, no bizarre and wholly unanticipated environmental disasters, no anthrax or genetically engineered superb ug or villainous ...
Family. Environment. Change. These are the three simple yet strong words with which award-winning director Chad Stevens describes his new documentary, Overburden, which was screened on Thursday September 17 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. The title of the documentary refers to all the material that ...
The Middlebury men’s soccer team suffered a tough 1-0 loss at the hands of Amherst last weekend. After breezing through a 10-0 victory against Green Mountain College last Tuesday, Sept. 15, the Panthers geared up to play their conference foe on Saturday, Sept. 19. Greg Conrad ’17, one of the team’s ...
On Sunday morning, I watched time-lapse panoramas of rolling Utah skies and sunrises over looming, copper cliffs, before finally settling in the living room with award-winning CNN reporter Lisa Ling and Becky Jeffs, the daughter of the man who founded the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). Ling ...
Let’s talk about Battell bathtubs. Seriously. How, how, how are they still a thing? There are currently eleven bathtubs in Battell. Eleven! That’s more than most old people homes, which average 5.7 bathtubs per building. College records show that the last person to have bathed in one of these godforsaken ...
This past July, the Skihaus of Vermont located on 6 Merchants Row closed its doors. In its place, Edgewater on the Green Gallery and Otter Creek Kitchenware Electronics have opened. The Skihaus has been a fixture of downtown Middlebury for over 51 years. After an extended period of vibrant success ...
Before much of the campus was up and about Sunday morning, students had secured winning places in both the men’s and women’s divisions of the 18-mile TAM Trek race. The race began in Wright Park at 8 a.m. on a 18-mile loop on the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM). In first place overall and in the ...
Over 2,000 people turned out this past Saturday for Shelburne Farms’ 37th Annual Harvest Festival, a jubilee of food, music, animals and crafts. The festival, located on a 1,300 acre farm off the eastern coast of Lake Champlain, is a unique opportunity for small business owners to advertise their ...
The cross country teams began their season at the Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 12. Squaring off against five teams across all levels of NCAA competition, the women finished third while the men finished fifth. Due to the length of the season and the race’s falling on the sixth day of ...
The Middlebury women’s soccer team opened conference play with a 1-1 home draw against Connecticut College on Saturday, Sept. 13. Despite an unusually short preseason and annual difficulty of forging a new team with lots of new faces, Head Coach Peter Kim went into the match positive of what his ...
The men’s golf team began the fall season teeing off in Williamstown, Mass. at the Williams Fall Invitational at Taconic Golf Club last weekend, Sept. 12-13. The Panthers shot 630 for the weekend and finished twelfth in the 20 team field, 29 shots back of Trinity, which carded a 601 en route to victory. ...
The Middlebury men’s soccer team opened its season with two 1-0 wins over Norwich and Connecticut College, giving the team its first 2-0 start since the 2010 season. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, the Panthers traveled to Northfield, VT to face off with Norwich in their season opener. Just 3:58 seconds ...
In November of 2014, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) be- gan to wage a price war on American oil producers. Fearing the seemingly inexorable rise of sophisticated and productive North American shale producers, OPEC decided not to temper their ...
It is 10 a.m. the week before the start of school, but a group of students is already focusing intently. Forming a circle on the stage of Wright Memorial Theatre, the students stand with their eyes shut. Over the sound of a loud fan, they listen to each other, waiting for the right moment. Suddenly, ...
Hard sciences might not be the first association most people make with Middlebury College. But the critical thinking and spirit of discovery that the liberal arts curriculum seeks to promote are well in line with the skills needed to operate in a real-world laboratory setting. This summer, many students ...
Over the summer, a prospective student visiting the Middlebury College Organic Farm asked Jay Leshinsky, “So, does this place run itself?” Leshinsky, the very tan full-time farm educator who manages the farm year-round, chuckled. The question sounds absurd but many Middlebury students, myself ...
Less than five miles from the College, one company is working to transport the benefits of Vermont agriculture to urban millennials across the United States. A few years ago, Cam MacKugler ’09 was housesitting at a dairy farm in Middlebury when he had an epiphany. As he pulled weeds from the fertile ...