Every day we accelerate toward longer life, healthier life, fewer diseases, and better recovery from those diseases we can’t cure. Every single day our technology progresses, building on itself in all sorts of ways that we can’t imagine yet, slowly but steadily directing us toward an ultimate end ...
Mesopotamia was the birthplace of civilization. Its fertile lands allowed for the first instances of agriculture and organized society. From between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris emerged the first empires. From within that crescent of land came the first accounts of writing and the rest, as they say, ...
Over the past few years, many students and faculty have expressed their frustration over the efficacy – or lack thereof – of Middlebury College’s flagship moral doctrine, the Honor Code. Cheating has thrived while students’ willingness to report one another for such offenses seems rarer and ...
On March 1, the College notified all students that it will conduct a survey about alcohol use and drinking culture at the College in conjunction with other NESCAC institutions. The confidential NESCAC alcohol survey was first administered in Spring 2012 and was coordinated by Bowdin’s Dean of the ...
The Community Council meetings held over the last two weeks focused on the environmental impact of the College and the possibility of a new policy for smoking on campus. Director of Sustainability Integration Jack Byrne and a number of student members of the Environmental Council attended the Community ...
On Monday, Mar. 2, College President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced the creation of the new Fund for Innovation in a schoolwide email. The fund, established by a group of donors looking to inspire innovative programs and initiatives throughout the college, will be accepting applications from students, ...
The Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) changed its policies on funding for unpaid student summer internships at the beginning of this year, which has started to generate concern among students as they begin to make their summer plans. The CCI now offers only one-time $2500 Summer Internship ...
A discussion on the lack of enforcement of current smoking rules and the possibility of a future tobacco ban is catching the attention of the College community. The discussion began in November when the SGA Senate passed resolution F2014-SB12, the 2nd Hand Smoke Prevention Initiative, co-sponsored ...
A few days before Sola was to be performed at the Middlebury College Dance Theatre this past weekend, I received an email from the box office stating that the Friday night show would be an abbreviated version of the full concert. I wondered what their apology was really for — and considered that if ...
This Saturday, two French/Catalan sisters, a Swede and a Scot cross the puddle to give the College one of the most vibrant and impassioned quartet performances of the millennia. The Elias String Quarter has risen like a meteor through the chamber music universe and into our own Performing Arts Series. Too ...
I did not realize the brilliance of Neil Gaiman’s writing until, attempting to recommend his novel Neverwhere to a friend, I realized what a difficult time I had describing the plot. This was not because the book was difficult to understand or fractured into excess subplots; to the contrary, it is ...
Child of Light is a platformer role-playing game that takes place in the fantastical world of Lemuria. You play as the young girl Aurora, an Austrian princess who wakes up to find herself in a strange world with even stranger creatures. Over the course of the game, you meet the different characters ...
The track teams were in action this past weekend in the final round of meets before the NCAA Championships. Several Panthers were making last-ditch efforts to qualify for the NCAA meet while others sat tight and hoped they were not bumped by other competitors around the country. The top 15 men, top ...
The Middlebury men’s lacrosse team earned its first NESCAC victory of the season with a 13-9 win at Connecticut College on Saturday, March 7. After surviving a strong early push from the Camels, which involved a four-goal first quarter, the Panthers went on a tear in the second half that included ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team came out firing this past Saturday, March 7, to seal a 19-2 win over Connecticut College on Kohn Field. Coming off of their loss last week, the Panthers were focused and determined to respond. “After our Tufts game we went over the film with our coaches and ...
Trinity junior Cheeky Herr deflected a puck over the shoulder of Middlebury goalkeeper Maddie Marsh ’15 in the first minute of overtime to send her team to their first ever NESCAC women’s hockey title on Saturday, March 7 in Kenyon Arena. The Middlebury squad — 4-2 winners over Bowdoin in Saturday’s ...
How many times in a single day do you hear or say the following phrases? “I need to go do work.” “I have so much work to do.” It seems that this is the Middlebury College anthem. But it should not be. It is like a broken record or a cacophony on repeat. I myself am guilty of contributing to ...
Driving down Route 30, you will pass one of the most beautiful facilities on our campus. Built for the benefit of all students, this facility is open all year long, contains some of the most valuable items the College owns and exists as a resource for students looking to enrich their Middlebury experience ...
Around a month ago, I was scrolling through BuzzFeed (my procrastination website of choice) and noticed the headline ‘Here’s How to See What College Admissions Officers Wrote About You.’ The article went on to describe that Stanford University students had uncovered a little-known clause in the ...
Last week Erin defined feminism more or less as a movement towards equality, as it should be. I think everybody agrees, whether or not a person identifies him/herself as a “feminist,” that women should be equal to men in the eyes of the law. That having been said, I find Erin’s classification ...