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 ...
We at the Campus would like to extend our condolences to the five students who lost their house in the fire over the weekend. We are deeply relieved that all the students are safe but heavyhearted for the losses that they have sustained. We are also profoundly grateful to the efforts of the Middlebury ...
An unprecedented number of Middlebury students are declaring economics majors. As featured in last week’s edition of the Campus, however, the College’s faculty supply is currently unable to meet this student demand. Between overenrolled classes and overworking professors, there are many problems ...
Governor Peter Shumlin told the Associated Press that Pollina’s proposal was “an idea worth exploring.”
Mike Rainville’s woodcraft has received various different awards and amount of press throughout his career. The most recent plaque he’s received is the prized 2014 Vermont Woodworker of the Year given to him by the Vermont Wood Manufacturer’s Association. He also won the Vermont Design Competition ...
The ski teams finished the EISA carnival circuit this past weekend, Friday-Saturday, Feb. 27-28, at the St. Lawrence carnival in the Lake Placid, N.Y. area, which served as the EISA championship. The alpine teams in the carnival competed competed at Whiteface while the nordic teams raced at Mt. Van ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team’s season ended this past Saturday, Feb. 28 in the NESCAC quarterfinals. The seventh-seeded Panthers were shut out on the road by second-seeded Amherst 3-0. After they were shut out by Amherst 4-0 the week before, Middlebury came out strong and dictated play for much ...
The Middlebury squash season officially ended last Saturday in Princeton, N.J., where Andrew Jung ’16, Charlotte Dewey ’15 and Saskia Pownall-Grey ’16 competed in the College Squash Association Individual Championships. Jung competed in the men’s “B” bracket for the Molloy Cup in which he ...
Emily Fluke ’15 has scored 18 goals during the 2014-2015 season, but the most recent was also the biggest: a rebound that she shot past Hamilton goalkeeper Sam Walther in the 127th minute of play in NESCAC women’s hockey quarterfinal action on Saturday, March 28. Fluke’s goal sent the Panthers ...
The track teams continued their postseasons on Feb. 27 and 28, competing in the Open New England Championships. “Opens,” as the meet is nicknamed, takes the top athletes across all NCAA divisions and brings them together to compete at Boston University’s Track and Tennis Center, home of one of ...
The women’s lacrosse team hosted the Tuft Jumbos for their season opener on Kohn Field this past Saturday, Feb. 28. The Panthers entered the game ranked third in the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches’ Association preseason poll, while the Jumbos ranked 14th. The Panthers fought and battled ...
Despite leading by two goals at the start of the second half, the Middlebury men’s Lacrosse team fell to first-ranked Tufts by a score of 17-10 after the defending national champions staged a 13-4 run to earn a victory in the season opener. The result on Saturday, Feb. 28 stands as an improvement ...
Beginning on March 5, the Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) will launch a six-week pilot program of interactive workshops targeting first and second years. The workshops will seek to encourage students to identify areas they are passionate about by addressing the question “What matters to you?” ...
For the 2014-2015 grant year, Middlebury was ranked sixth on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institutions list for liberal arts colleges with 12 recipients, a College record. These numbers were likely higher than past years due to an increase in application volume, according to Associate ...
Last Thursday, students applying to study abroad in the 2016 Spring semester were asked to consider changing their program and go during the Fall 2015 semester through an email sent by Jeffrey Cason, Dean of International Programs and Knox Professor of International Studies and Politics. In the email, ...
On Saturday night, a large fire engulfed a non-College house at 107 Weybridge Street rented by five College students. None of the students were harmed. After battling the fire well into the night amidst freezing temperatures, firefighters were able to get the blaze under control and by late Sunday morning ...
In light of the recent release of 50 Shades of Grey and the upcoming Porn Party at the Queer Studies House, we thought a good topic for this week would be a list of porn and kink-related vocabulary and their misconceptions. Some of the terms you will find are very commonplace while others are not. The ...