In honor of 100 years of commitment to foreign languages, the Middlebury Language School will celebrate its centennial with a special weekend of cultural events, lectures and panels on July 15 to 17. The wide assortment of activities, speakers and performances are open to all Middlebury students as ...
Next fall, Sandra Carletti, professor of Italian at the College, will assume the position of Head of Atwater Commons. The previous Co-Heads, Peter and Michelle Nelson, are resigning after a long and successful run. Although terms for Commons Heads generally last five years, the Nelsons were given a ...
The Community Council met twice in late March to address the end of the year agenda. On March 16, Community Council hosted two presenters form Weybridge house: Gabriel Antonucci ’17 and Laura Xiao ’17 for the purpose of clarifying Weybridge house’s mission. Weybridge house’s original mission ...
The College suspended the social house Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) on March 24 after it concluded KDR members had violated the College’s hazing policy. KDR residential members were required to move out of the house by April 6. The house will remain unoccupied for the remainder of the semester. A statement ...
On Thursday, April 2, Nathan Alexander ’17 was found in his room in Milliken Hall after taking his own life. President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced Nathan’s passing in an email addressed to students, staff, and faculty. “We know this comes as a great shock to his many friends, ...
On Thursday, April 2, the Nile Project’s four-day residency at the College culminated in an engaging, energetic and participatory concert extravaganza that combined education and performance to increase interest in the issues facing the Nile River Basin. Conceived in 2011 by Egyptian ethnomusicologist ...
What happens when fur coats, dangerously high heels and babushka headscarves clash with the otherworldly elements of ancient fairytales? This past weekend, the Seeler Studio Theatre of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts was transformed into a fantastical fusion between modern Russian reality ...
As this column has emphasized before, global environmental and climate trends will hinge on the emissions of the developing world. Just this month, China’s largest oil refiner, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), has indicated to the world that China may reach peak oil and gasoline ...
There are some names that, when you hear them spoken, just seem to to be made for music. They have a memorable ring that keeps them floating around in your head until you hear it spoken again. The trick for any artist is crafting songs that are equally as memorable as their name. For me, one of the ...
Young river birches line McCardell Bicentennial Hall’s Walk of Science, which leads up to one of the building’s second floor entrances. Of the ten famous scientists whose names are engraved into the path’s black tiles, conspicuously, only one – Marie Curie – is female. The Walk of Science ...
This weekend offers the gamut of classical indulgence, from the sublime brilliance of world-renowned pianist Dubravka Tomsic to the aural majesty of Middlebury’s own student orchestra to a comprehensive lecture by Professor Paul Nelson on the entire 95-year history of the Performing Arts Series. Come ...
Alison Maxwell ’15 sprinted past M.I.T.’s Maryann Gong with 100 meters to go in the NCAA Division-III Championship women’s mile final on Saturday, March 14, holding off the field down the final straightaway to claim the national title. The national championship was Middlebury’s first in women’s ...
Middlebury skied its way to an eighth place finish at the NCAA Championships last weekend. Middlebury posted their best result since 2009, highlighted by a team win in the men’s giant slalom and Rob Cone’s ’17 national championship in the same event. Cone, Christopher McKenna ’17 and Mary Sackbauer ...
The Middlebury women’s hockey team saw its season come to an end this past weekend when the fifth-ranked Panthers fell to in-state rival and fourth-ranked Norwich in an NCAA quarterfinal matchup on Saturday, March 14 in Kenyon Arena. Despite falling to Trinity in the NESCAC tournament final on March ...
Reactions to and repercussions for the racist chanting by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Oklahoma University have been swift. Two former members of the OU SAE chapter have been expelled, the fraternity has been removed from campus, President David Boren has been quoted as saying that ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team took the field and performed well in an important conference matchup, snagging a 15-8 road win at Wesleyan on the afternoon of Saturday, March 14. The ninth-ranked Panthers got off the bus ready to play and ran away with a 6-1 lead in the first half and never looked ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams emerged victorious from the opening weekend of the spring season. The third-ranked men’s team earned a pair of victories at home on Saturday, March 14, defeating Stevens and Brandeis by scores of 8-1 and 7-2, respectively. The women’s team also ...
The Middlebury men’s lacrosse team extended its winning streak to five games last Saturday, March 14 with a convincing 11-9 victory against Wesleyan and an upset win over Endicott on Tuesday, March 17. Instead of surviving early blows and relying on half-time adjustments to come out with a victory, ...
If you are a Freshman or Sophomore, you likely attended a mandatory “Active Threat” seminar put on by the school administration during J-Term. Those of you fortunate enough to have missed it the first time were offered a second opportunity a few weeks ago. The presentation included a video produced ...
The prison system has recently been put in the spotlight with new statistics and stories revealing its flaws. But while racial disparities have been widely publicized, and rightly so, there is another form of injustice manifesting itself within our carceral system: the treatment of those with mental ...