Coming off of a training trip to Florida during the first week of winter break, men’s and women’s Swimming and Diving started the New Year with a splash. The men have had a three-meet winning streak in their matchups with Colby on January 3 (206-83), Springfield College on January 10 (175-123), ...
Middlebury squash continued its strong start to the season, as both the men’s and women’s squads swept the weekend to improve to 6-1, both teams’ only defeat coming at the hands of second-ranked Trinity. The 19th ranked men’s team set the tone on Friday, Jan. 9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts against ...
The fourth-ranked Middlebury women’s hockey team grabbed a pair of conference wins this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9 and 10, defeating Wesleyan in both games of a weekend doubleheader on the Panthers’ home ice. Entering the weekend’s games, the Panthers sat in third in the NESCAC conference standings ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team has begun to turn things around. In their last two home games of the fall semester the Panthers lost 5-3 to Amherst and then shelled Hamilton in a 6-2 victory. The team then returned to action on Jan. 2 in the New Years College Hockey Classic in Lake Placid where they ...
With its victory in the conference opener Friday, Jan. 9 at home against Bates, the Middlebury women’s basketball team got its eighth victory of the season, one more than the seven that the team secured in 2013-14. Since the New Year began, the Panthers have gone 2-2, adding an exciting OT win over ...
The Middlebury track teams opened their seasons on Sunday, Jan. 11 at the 46th running of the Dartmouth Relays. Despite its name, the Dartmouth Relays are not a relay-only meet, and the teams contested the normal compliment of events. Due to the meet’s proximity to the recently completed cross country ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Campus-Voice-Ep-10.mp3"][/audio] The town candlelight Vigil for Michael Brown and Eric Garner's deaths took place at the Middlebury Green Triangle. The Vigil was organized by town resident Joanna Colwell. This photo was taken by town ...
Students returned from Thanksgiving Break to new and improved dining halls. All three — Ross, Proctor and Atwater — received a makeover with new features that include silver serving platters, cereal options for all meals and relocated silverware and sauce-dispensing stations.
The Ebola virus outbreak that is currently plaguing Western Africa has dominated international headlines since the first deaths were officially confirmed in March this year. The outbreak was first reported in the southwestern region of Guinea, Gueckedou, where a young child was suspected of consuming ...
Many students are presently surprised during finals to find free snacks in BiHall and Davis Library, but few know the source. So who provides these treats? The Student Wellness Leaders. Though their finals snack initiative may be their most well-known (and perhaps most appreciated) project, the Student ...
If my sexuality and race were their own person, my sexuality would walk straight out of the room at the sight of my race and wait patiently outside. My sexuality would spectate through the window and wait for my race to leave. He would be present, but at a distance. Silenced, yet still breathing. It ...
Divest-Middlebury invites you all to read our new mission statement: Divest Middlebury believes Middlebury College has the potential to be a leader in social responsibility and sustainability. Middlebury College’s mission statement identifies environmental stewardship and global engagement as critical ...
I know that there are plenty of issues floating around just in time for holiday conversations with your politically extreme family members. So in anticipation of this inevitable reality, I have chosen to revive an old topic that has recently lost some of its steam: the minimum wage. For those of you ...
After I saw Mockingjay Part 1, I was a bit of an emotional wreck. Not because I love Peeta and couldn’t stand to see him hurt and turned evil or because Jennifer Lawrence’s acting was so moving, but because a lot of the movie resonated with so much of what is going on in the world today. The Hunger ...
In 20 years, our children may ask us where we were when Michael Brown was shot. When Darren Wilson’s non-indictment was handed down. When people took to the streets because they have had enough police brutality, dead children, distorted justice and militarization. Michael Brown’s death was a wake-up ...
Burlington is looking to undergo an approximately 200 million dollar project on its mall, Burlington Town Center. Mayor Miro Weinberger, Governor Peter Shumlin and the owner of Burlington mall as of December 2013, Don Sinex, revealed construction proposals on Nov 20th. The commencement of a process ...
The Vermont State Board of Education (SBE) has drafted a strategic five-year plan for education statewide, specifically addressing the unusually high cost per pupil in Vermont and the achievement gap. The board has approved a draft of the plan and is seeking public comment on the plan until Dec 4. ...
[video width="480" height="270" mp4="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4-Romance-Products-All-MiddKids-Need-Mobile.mp4"][/video] As you walk through the pink saloon-style doors with “And things that buzz in the night” written overhead, you immediately find a display ...
On Nov. 20 to 22, the Theatre Department presented its second faculty production of the semester, Englishman Snoo Wilson’s 1973 play, Vampire, in the Seeler Studio Theater. Vampire is a play about ... well, no one really knows. And indeed, after an hour and a half of brash sexual exploration, one ...