Do you beliebowitz? (I shall not shorten this to belieb because this column does not associate with overgrown babies who stage instagram videos of their basketball skills.) Because I beliebowitz. For whatever reason the Mr. President of this fine institution and the inspiration behind my top-secret ...
Spring Awakening is a difficult play: difficult in its dark subject matter and complex textual foundation, difficult in the inherent interplay between reality and expressionism and difficult to review in the context of multiple losses of community members and ensuing discussions of high levels of student ...
The final weekend of “Gaypril,” a month devoted to creating more visibility for LGBTQ groups on campus, was celebrated by the timely premiere of Millennium Approaches, Part I of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Written by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores ...
Dance-making has deep roots, in the experiences of choreographer and dancer alike. For the four senior dance majors whose choreographic work composed “Threshold” this past weekend, their research in various fields deeply informed their pieces. For all of the works, the choreographers engaged in ...
WRMC’s annual spring concert, Sepomana, offered an exciting and eclectic lineup of acts spanning genres and continents. Hosted in the McCullough Student Center’s Wilson Hall, acts made creative use of space, light and sound to create a consistently surprising experience. Opener and student band ...
The sun is shining, trees are blooming and Paul Lewis is returning to Middlebury. This Friday, the Performing Arts Series offers a sell-out concert to bring the season and the school year to a triumphant finale. Lewis will be performing Beethoven’s last three sonatas with the characteristic mastery ...
It is a bit of a break from the norm for this column to talk about a car company, but on April 30 Tesla Motors unveiled a product that transforms the electric car manufacturer to an energy storage company that has the potential to transform the way energy is used fundamentally. Elon Musk, the CEO of ...
In a general way, I think that the saddest stories are the ones that depict injustice against decent people. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan does more than this, processing an archetypal Russian film protagonist named Kolya through an almost-comically horrible downfall at the hands of political evil. ...
The Middlebury baseball team capped off this season with a 1-5 week, slugging its way past Skidmore before falling to Plymouth State and twice each to Bowdoin and Tufts. The Panthers end the season with a 4-24 overall record and a 1-11 mark in the NESCAC to finish last in the conference for the second ...
The track teams continued their postseason schedule on Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, competing in the New England Division III Championships hosted by MIT. Though the meet is scored, Middlebury traditionally does not attempt to win the team title, instead looking for strong individual performances. ...
The Middlebury Softball team concluded a successful season this weekend with a dramatic NESCAC playoff run, recording a win against a pair of losses in the conference tournament. The Panthers opened the playoffs with a shutout loss to the eventual NESCAC champion Tufts on Friday, May 1. The Jumbos ...
After exacting revenge against a sound Williams team in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC tournament on Saturday, April 25, the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team was demolished by the Jumbos of perennial powerhouse and NESCAC rival Tufts University in the conference semifinals on Saturday, May 2. ...
The fifth-ranked Bowdoin women’s lacrosse team beat the third-ranked Panthers 14-8 in the NESCAC semifinals on Saturday, May 2, at Trinity. Despite the loss, the Middlebury team was given an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament — as well as a first-round bye — when selections were announced on ...
The Panther men’s tennis team claimed the program’s first NESCAC title since 2010 this Sunday, May 3, when they beat Williams 5-2 on Proctor Courts. The women, meanwhile, advanced to the semifinal round of the conference tournament before falling to falling to Amherst. After earning a bye through ...
Designed by Casey Watters '15 Level: Medium* *Corrections: The print edition published on April 30, 2015 stated that the level of difficulty was easy. The actual level of difficulty is medium.
Glenn Lower ’84 does a little bit of everything to make the Co-op run smoothly. When asked what he does as general manager, Glenn Lower ’84 replied, “My kids—when they were small—used to say I sign my name a lot…they’d come upstairs and I’d be signing checks.” Despite the fact that ...
Last Thursday, David Huddle – who is currently a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished poet and novelist with eight published poetry collections and 11 works of fiction to his name – drew quite a different portrait of form in poetry through his lecture “Formal ...
Melissa MacDonald ’15’s directorial adaptation of Martin Crimp’s play Fewer Emergencies, Emergency 1A, was presented April 23-25 in the Hepburn Zoo. Above all, it is driven by stories. There is no true plot. The characters, in all of their variations, lack a history or true identity. Instead, ...
The second faculty show of the semester, Spring Awakening, will usher in a 19th-century tale of sexuality that proved to be far ahead of its times. Written by German dramatist Frank Wedekind in 1891, the play offers a harrowing perspective of suicide, rape, child abuse, abortion and other difficult ...