On Saturday, April 25, the fifth annual Bach Festival Concert presented a thrilling combination of students, community members and professionals in an enthusiastic display of musical colors to a packed audience in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Now celebrating its fifth ...
Few things give me more satisfaction than experiencing peers’ and professors’ work. Sometimes it’s too easy to get lost in the system of Middlebury and forget the passion and purpose driving this college experience. So many students are working on so many incredible things that we often take our ...
Despite the polarization of politics, Republicans and Democrats continue to unite on at least one issue: National Institute of Health, or NIH, funding. I was pleasantly surprised by Newt Gingrich’s Op-Ed, “Double the NIH Budget” in the New York Times last Wednesday, in which he argued in favor ...
In 1980, Billy Joel was established as a global superstar in the music world. He had released a string of remarkably successful albums, starting with 1976’s Turnstiles, which brought him well into the public eye with anthems such as “New York State of Mind.” This popularity exploded the next year ...
The Middlebury baseball team won twice and lost twice last week , defeating St. Michael’s and St. Joseph 7-2 and 4-2 respectively before falling to Trinity in a doubleheader 4-2 and 8-0 on Saturday, April 25. The 2-2 record on the week brings the Panthers to 3-19 on the season. In the first home game ...
The Middlebury softball team finished up their busy regular season this week by winning a double header against Plymouth state and dropping the final game against Wesleyan on Sunday, April 26 to finish the regular season 19-9. The first game of the home finale was a defensive battle, with the only run ...
The third-seeded Middlebury men’s lacrosse team fended off a strong sixth-seeded Williams side in a NESCAC quarterfinal game on Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium on Saturday, April 25. Not only did the victory mean that the Panthers’ season would continue into the semi-final round — a matchup with ...
On a sunny, breezy day in western Massachusetts, the track teams competed in the NESCAC Championships, hosted by Williams College on April 25. As the one true team competition of the year, the winning team retains bragging rights for an entire year. When the dust settled after over 8 hours of competition, ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams faced NESCAC rival Amherst on Saturday, April 25, as both teams concluded their regular season schedules. The men dropped their season finale match to the Lord Jeffs on the road, falling to 16-3 overall and breaking their eight-match winning streak ...
After a tough loss to Trinity last weekend, the Panthers came ready to fight on Wednesday, April 22 against Williams and Saturday, April 25 against Amherst. On Wednesday, the team fought fiercely throughout the game with several lead changes. Bridget Instrum ’16 scored a career high six goals and ...
The Panther men’s golf team won its fourth NESCAC title in the last five years last weekend, April 25-26, on their home Ralph Myhre Golf Course. The victory clinches a trip to the NCAA Division-III Championship tournament at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, North Carolina to take place from May ...
Since last week’s issue, some students have voiced concerns regarding the editorial board’s endorsement of Caroline Walters for SGA President and Durga Jayaraman for Student Co-Chair of Community Council. We would like to explicate the process by which the editors came to this decision. Process ...
People worry about campaign finance, and reasonably so. There’s something unsettling about millions of dollars being shuffled around during political campaigns, especially when the process is so opaque to the public. What really bothers me, though, is the opportunity cost – I’ve ...
The Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Club’s mission is simple: we believe that Middlebury’s $1 billion endowment should reflect our College community’s values. This process must be as transparent and inclusive to all stakeholders as possible, and we work closely with the administration to ...
It’s been a hard winter and a hard spring semester. We grow restless as the cold weather drags on long into April, and we’re given only a few of the most tantalizing warm days to enjoy. Project upon test upon essay upon book piles up before us, each clamoring to be completed and each weighing down ...
Phil Hoxie’s column “Unions and Unfunded Pension Liabilities” blames middle-class workers – teachers, nurses, bus drivers, firefighters – and their organizations for the crises that are now plaguing many large cities. Hidden behind a veneer of economic “common sense,” his argument is actually ...
In the April 23 issue of the Campus, the editorial board of the paper chose to publish a political endorsement regarding the SGA elections. The paper put their support behind SGA presidential candidate Caroline Walters. The editorial outlined Walters’ various credentials, celebrated her non--SGA ...
Highly-educated. Self-motivated. Hard-working. Unpaid. These adjectives describe a growing proportion of the current national work force: the undergraduate intern. The US Department of Labor defines an internship as “a formal program providing practical learning experience for beginners in an occupation ...
“Hey, how are you?” “Fine, but I have so much work to do.” How many times have you heard this exchange? Presumably, too many to count. We at Middlebury are perpetually busy, treading water in a proverbially stormy (and decidedly cliché) sea of academic and extracurricular pressure. ...
Instead of publishing student stories this week, I’m using this space to write about student activism on Twitter. This column will continue to serve as a platform for your personal narratives, so please keep on sharing them! At the same time, however, I think our expectations surrounding sex in college ...