Recently, a series of incidents of vandalism brought unrest to the College community. Messages such as “Black Power Matters” and “If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat” have appeared, spray-painted or etched, on the walls of Ross Dining Hall, Warner Hall and McCardell Bicentennial Hall. ...
There is a perception amongst many people that the Civil Rights Movement was a wholly nonviolent effort. While there is indeed a rich history of nonviolence within the movement, largely attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., there is also legacy of self-determination and armed resistance. This legacy ...
Does anyone know how to disable the news column on your Facebook newsfeed? You know the little column that gives you 30-word blurbs about various nonsense happening in the world today? You know what I am talking about? It usually keeps me up to date on important things that qualify as “news” like, ...
At their meetings on March 8 and March 15, the SGA passed notable acts and resolutions. The Senate also voted to ratify Maddy Sanchez ’17 as the Director of Transportation, five new Finance Committee Members and six new members of the Awards Committee. The first issue of debate at the March 8meeting ...
Last Saturday, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) of Middlebury held a policy conference on divided government. AEI is a new club at Middlebury based on a public policy think tank in Washington D.C. Thanks to this new voice on campus, students can now tune in to a national network of free political ...
A new summer internship opportunity has been launched by the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship (MCSE) in conjunction with the The Center for Social Impact Learning (CSIL) at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) with the goal of supporting students as agents ...
College Digital Media Producer Ben Savard ’14 achieved Internet fame after a photo of himself taken by an octopus was featured on the front page of Reddit, a popular entertainment, news and social networking site. The photo of Savard dressed in a white lab coat rapidly circulated the Internet and ...
For 95 years, the Middlebury Performing Arts Series has brought world-class performers inside the “Middlebury bubble.” The series has showcased Yo-Yo Ma, Louis Armstrong, the Von Trapp family, Pablo Casals, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo (just to name a few). As the director of the Performing Arts ...
Earlier last week, a series of anonymous graffiti paintings appeared across campus, sparking debate and concern. The graffiti pieces were found at BiHall, Forest Lounge, the Center for the Arts, Virtue Field House, Warner, Hillcrest, Ross and Munroe, according to Facilities Services and student sources. At ...
Novelist, poet and College writer-in-residence Julia Alvarez ’71 will deliver this year’s commencement address. Alvarez, along with four others, will receive an honorary degree at the May 24 ceremony. Alvarez is the acclaimed author of novels, essays and books, including In the Time of the Butterflies ...
The discussion of abstinence in church youth group filled my mind with scenes from “Footloose,” with conservative pastors and teachers telling me that sex is the devil’s playground and invoking city council meetings to preserve my generation’s sexual purity. As a Christian, I’ve chosen abstinence ...
On Feb. 19, a group of 10 disgruntled students shook up a Community Council-sponsored “Community Conversation” event with loud allegations directed towards the College’s Residential Life team. These ten students, all former or current varsity athletes, complained that they had been unfairly treated ...
Last summer, Abby Woolf ’17.5 came across a book about winemaking and decided to buy it on a whim, thinking it might be a new hobby to invest in when she returned to Vermont in the fall. Although instead she ended up making cider and, most recently, beer, the process of brewing stretched from October ...
Do people attending Chili Fest really have discerning enough palates to judge chili? To get to the bottom of this, we decided to see what people thought about their own abilities to objectively determine how good the chili really it. To figure this out, we asked: Do you consider yourself a chili ...
Images have largely replaced sound in today’s media. In fact, we are so used to pictures accompanying sound that it’s strange just to listen to a story and to let our imaginations take over in creating mental pictures. It’s even stranger when we consider this within an academic context. Yet, ...
To be very straightforward, we decided to do capoeira this week because we wanted to learn how to beat people up. As trendy girls living in a downtown world, it seemed like a necessary life skill — or at least Maddie’s worrisome mom made it seem that way. **insert sweet, southern, high-pitched ...
This past Saturday, March 14, downtown Middlebury was transformed by thousands of people who gathered for the Seventh Annual Vermont Chili Festival. Chili Fest has been ranked one of the Top 10 Winter Events by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. The event went from 1p.m. to 4p.m. Proceeds from this ...
For over a decade, the College has annually celebrated Irish music and dance in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. This year saw a continuation of this tradition with some notable changes. Affiliate Artists Timothy Cummings, Pete Sutherland and Dominique Dodge joined with alumnus Caleb Elder ’04 and ...
Nobel Laureate Carol Greider gave a lecture last week on how she helped solve one of molecular biology’s fundamental mysteries: why are germ cell lines immortal? In the 1960s, biologist Leonard Hayflick noticed that adult human cells in a Petri dish can only divide 40 to 60 times until they stop ...
Over the past couple weeks, the brutal conditions of the slowly receding winter have caused leaks to occur at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA), which has played an integral role on campus since its construction in 1992. The affected area is located above the Middlebury College Museum ...