Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile will be speaking at Middlebury on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. in Mead Chapel. The event, titled “Political Outlook: Comprehensive Picture of What’s Going on in Washington,” will be free to attend and open to the public. Brazile ...
The College held its ninth annual Spring Student Symposium last weekend from Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 10, with over three hundred students presenting on their academic and creative endeavors. Many students gave oral or poster presentations on their independent work in Bicentennial Hall, while ...
Early this year, HBO released “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” a six-part documentary examining Robert Alan Durst, an alleged serial killer and person of interest in over four missing person cases. Recently it has been discovered that Durst is also connected to the College. Durst ...
Often I find myself debating against people who argue that it is impossible to know the best way to live a life, or the best moral code, or the best way to understand the universe. More often than not, I find that Middlebury students especially hold subjectivism as their method of approaching these ...
This week, the lauded scholar Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. of Harvard gave a lecture entitled “An Address from the Humanities to Science” at the inaugural Eve Adler Memorial Lecture in celebration of the endowment of the Classics Department. Prior to the event, a number of students and some faculty ...
The Sacramento Bee reports that the State of California is the world’s eighth largest economy, valued at about $2 trillion (USD); it is tied with Italy and the Russian Federation. Agriculture in California accounts for around $21.4 billion in revenue, which leads all other states (Iowa is second with ...
Last week’s center spread of this newspaper focused on problematic spaces on campus. In this week’s editorial, we would like to add one more to the list. With all of the discussion on social life, one crucial part that has been largely missing from the discussion is hard to miss and sits near the ...
Admitted students are visiting campus this week during Preview Days to explore all that Middlebury College has to offer; some of these students will be traveling from around the world to see our school. Concurrently, the Davis United World College (UWC) Scholars Program is celebrating its fifteenth ...
One of many exciting productions featured at the Town Hall Theater this April, The Last Five Years directed by Doug Anderson, proved to be a compelling rendition of Jason Robert Brown’s popular 2001 musical. Starring Mike McCann ’15 – who initiated this production as part of his senior thesis ...
The most recent winning streak of the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team came to an end on the afternoon of Saturday, April 11 with a road loss to a hot Bates team, who improved to 8-4 overall and 5-4 in the NESCAC following the win. With the loss the Panthers fall to 10-3 overall and 6-2 in NESCAC play, ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams faced nationally-ranked opponents at home on Saturday, April 11. The sixth-ranked men’s team ousted second-ranked Emory by a score of 6-3. With the victory the squad improves to 14-2 overall while boasting an impressive 6-0 record at home. Also ...
The track teams traveled to Williamstown, Mass., on Saturday, April 11, to compete in the Dick Farley Invitational hosted by Williams College on a blustery New England spring day. Though the meet was not scored, the Panthers raced against Williams for the second time in three weeks. Also participating ...
Dejima and everything it stood for is at the heart of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. This novel by David Mitchell, best known for writing Cloud Atlas, is set at the turn of the 19th century, in a secluded and suspicious Japan. Dejima, a small, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki that functioned ...
The Middlebury Panthers displayed incredible toughness this weekend by outlasting Hamilton to win the series 2-1. The weather played a factor – a common theme for the softball team this season – as the first game had to be moved to Saturday at Hamilton to accommodate Friday’s storm. In the first ...
The Middlebury baseball team finally got off the schneid this weekend, defeating Hamilton 11-5 on Saturday, April 11 before losing the final two games of its home-opening series, 10-8 and 5-1. In the Panthers’ home opener on Saturday, Eric Truss ’15 took the mound for Middlebury. Both teams went ...
You are dropped suddenly into a strange Tim Burton-style world with nothing but empty pockets and one objective: survive. Welcome to Don’t Starve. Don’t Starve is a survival horror game that was released in 2013 by Klei Entertainment. The goal of the game is given in the title, and also includes ...
The second-ranked Middlebury women’s lacrosse team once again dominated on Kohn Field Saturday April 11, against NESCAC opponent Bates. The bleachers and sidelines were packed with barely any room to stand due to the visiting alumni who were there to celebrate Head Coach Missy Foote’s farewell tour. ...
The men’s and women’s golf teams began the spring season last weekend in the greater New York metro area. The women finished fourth out of the 12 teams competing in the Vassar College Invitational and the men placed third out of the 13 teams competing in the Manhattanville/NYU Spring Invitational. The ...
Last Friday, April 3, the Vermont House adopted a House Resolution, H.R.8, that expresses “strong opposition to state religious freedom restoration legislation that authorizes discrimination based on sexual orientation.” This comes as a response to Indiana’s passage of the controversial Religious ...
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 ...