Spring thaw marks the start of maple syrup season in Vermont. Across the state, trees will be tapped, sap will be boiled, and pancakes will be doused in fresh syrup to mark the beginning of spring. Vermont is known as the maple capital of America with 1500 sugarhouses producing 40 percent of the nation’s ...
After an American-led coalition of world powers and Iran announced the outline of a nuclear accord last week, it is difficult to be optimistic about its chances to survive the U.S. Congress. While Pope Francis praised the agreement at his Easter Mass, he does not command the influence of Israeli Prime ...
The first half of the Theatre Department’s The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls this past weekend was a welcome treat – a delightfully original weave of fairytale whimsy and post-Soviet Russian grit. Katie Weatherseed’s portrayal of Annie, the show’s naive and relatable Russian-American study-abroad ...
From our vantage point in rural Vermont, the border may seem so far away as to be irrelevant, but in fact, our everyday actions and inactions, consciousness and lack of consciousness, impact the immigration system and the people who live within its grasp. For this reason, MAlt El Paso, working together ...
Like many Catholics, I spent last Sunday nodding off in Mass or trying to get the toddler in the pew in front of me to laugh. Like still more Catholics, I promptly forgot the sermon and jostled with my fellow parishioners to exit the Church when the one hour time limit was reached. I went to Church ...
Governor Jerry Brown of California issued the first major water restrictions in the state last week. It has been a long time coming. For a few years now, California has been feeling the effects of its drought. I, like many other Middkids, come from the Golden State and have been trying to cut my shower ...
Circa-2002 environmentalism begged for more bikers, lower thermostats and less polystyrene. The jets of today’s movement make a braver thunder: they hinge on justice. A decade ago, your shopping-mall forays, half-hour showers and globe-trotting airfare was under scrutiny, but now are your ears, which ...
Middlebury is hard. I have found attending this college to be challenging and exciting, and my experience here has shown me that learning for the sake of itself may be the most rewarding of adventures. This adventure can be characterized as leisure: we are lucky to have this opportunity to study, to ...
I myself lost my father to suicide when I was 22 years old, as a senior in college, and I know how terribly painful this can be. I knew something was wrong in the days before his death, but I didn’t have the tools or understanding to make sense of what I was experiencing. Afterward, I felt not only ...
When the Middlebury community learned of the death of one of our own – Nathan Alexander ’17 – we were shocked and saddened. We at the Campus deeply felt this loss and decided that at this time no other subject was as important to the community as the death of one of our students. We cannot hope ...
The track teams have started their seasons with a trio of scored meets: the Ross & Sharon Irwin Meet at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) in San Diego on Mar. 21, the PLNU Collegiate Invitational on Mar. 28 and the Middlebury Invitational on Apr. 3 — the first meet hosted by Middlebury in ...
The Middlebury baseball team’s struggles continued again this weekend as Amherst swept the Panthers in a three game series on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4 by scores of 22-2, 18-2 and 20-10. The three losses in Auburn, Mass. brought Middlebury’s record to 0-12 on the season and 0-6 in the ...
Over spring break the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team traveled to Baltimore to play the second-ranked Rochester Institute of Technology at Homewood Field, the home of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays. Though the trip was ultimately an unsuccessful one, resulting in a 21-11 defeat to end the Panthers’ ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams returned to action this past weekend after traveling to California for multiple matches over spring break. The women played five matches while on the West Coast, emerging with a 2-3 record with wins against Chicago and Pomona-Pitzer and losses to ...
The softball team has opened its season with a strong 9-5 start. The spring break trip to Florida was a success, where the Panthers went 7-3 before finally returning to Middlebury. They did not get much time to rest before sweeping a two game NESCAC series against Wesleyan, the third game of the series ...
Improving their record to 8-1, the third-ranked Middlebury women’s lacrosse team avenged last year’s pair of one-goal losses to the second-ranked Colby Mules with a satisfying 7-5 victory at Bill Alfond Field on Saturday, April 4. The Panthers struck early and often by jumping out to a 5-0 lead ...
All the time we ask queer people what their sexual identity is. We ask their friends, they ask each other, we take guesses. The world is obsessed with finding out who is queer. On the surface level, this doesn’t seem like that big of a social issue. Labels serve a convenient purpose of seeing who ...
Dear Frank, I’m graduating in May and have realized that a lot of the people I’m hanging out with aren’t really people I want to be friends with in the long term. I’m a little disappointed in myself for not finding better friends at college, but mostly I’m wondering how much or little ...
Have you ever wished your clothes could better express the creative and fun person you are? Have you ever looked at your shirt pocket and thought, “What a complete waste of space!” Then look no further than the Flippant t-shirt company, founded in part by Middlebury students seeking to do something ...
In Feb. 2015, the Board of Trustees announced the construction of two new residential buildings to be erected in Ridgeline and Adirondack View. Plans for the project, which at the moment still await approval from the administration, include residences targeted specifically toward upperclassmen. The ...