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 ...
A musical collaborative of East African artists drawn from eleven countries touching the world’s longest river will visit the College Mar. 30 through Apr. 3. The Nile Project uses music to raise awareness for the Nile Basin’s sustainability challenges. During four days of residency activities including ...
It opens with a view of sand. Dark tan and flashing in the sun’s rays — this is clearly the desert. The camera pulls up and shows heatwaves emanating from the sparkling sand, and behind a hill the large sun beats down on the land. The yellow sky is striped with clouds. The camera then pans over ...
Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard is a comedy about the kind of adults who have toy lightsaber battles in their parents’ basements, and it is surely the most unsettling movie ever made to feature such a scene. Its hero is a man named Marty who appreciates the comforts of frozen-pizza sandwiches stuffed with ...
"We [the SGA] think that having an 'eliminate it' option—we don't think that will pass—but we think it will scare enough people into thinking about it and to vote... Honor codes can and do work in some places but they only work if students buy into the concepts. If a large number of Middlebury students ...
This week, we follow-up with Hannah Bristol '14.5, one of the writers of the controversial "It's Actually Just a Game" opinion article, on the numbers that show athlete privilege is real, the backfire, and the gendering of athletic privilege. Before this op-ed, no one was talking about the athletic ...
Myriad voices filled the lofty ceilings of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) Concert Hall this past Saturday, as the College’s annual “Songs and Arias” performance began. Seven vocal students sang in the event, performing a mix of solo songs and duets. The show started about ...
It was a harsh Vermont winter in December 1963 and, in the midst of the subzero temperatures, a landmark student life initiative had also frozen over. “The ‘question of honor’ at Middlebury College seems to have plenty of support as an ideal and not so much as a working system,” read a December ...
In my junior year in high school, I used to believe that people who didn’t choose to come out to their friends and family were part of the problem. Their “being in the closet” was detrimental to the visibility of LGBT+ people in the world and, therefore, was slowing down the biggest challenge ...
“There’s something surreal about it. You feel like God,” Will Jacobs ’16.5 said. Jacobs drives a Snowcat: a 20,000 lb. hulk of metal capable of grooming sub-par snow into quality skiing terrain. In Germany, where the machines are made, a Snowcat driver is called “Helder der nacht,” which ...
On February 9, a mobile app created by a collaboration of students at the College won third place in the (Em)Powering Grid Resilience Competition. The student-led initiative designed the app ReGrid to create a direct connection between utility companies and their customers as a way to diminish environmental ...
Class is not dismissed yet, folks — acclaimed journalist and senior editor for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates still has a lot to teach us at Middlebury. Last Wednesday night, hundreds of Middlebury students packed Mead Memorial Chapel to hear Coates’s lecture on his Atlantic cover story “The Case ...
Ladies and Gentleman, fret not, the Campus’s greatest car column is back (yes, I know you don’t care, but I care, so show some respect). I assure you that I used my time off wisely. Over the course of J-Term, I dedicated myself to the grueling and complicated task of figuring out the conversion ...
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin recently proposed cuts in the prison education system that total $1.7 million. These cuts affect the budget of the Community High School of Vermont, an institution that provides high school courses to people in the Vermont prison system. The Community High School of Vermont ...
Has this warm, sunny weather got you itching to get out of the library and walk around town, even though it’s not quite warm enough for ice cream and popsicles? How about a warm bowl of chili - or, better yet, chili samples from over 40 restaurants, groups and clubs in the area? It sounds like the ...
Researchers at the University of Vermont released a study investigating the use of antipsychotic medications on children in the March edition of Pediatrics. While the results concluded that the inappropriate use of the drugs is not a concern, about 50 percent of prescribers failed to meet best practice ...