It is only two weeks into Winter Term, and JusTalks has once again hit the ground running. Between their keynote speaker, Robin DiAngelo, and their main event, which drew over 100 first-years in its third year running, many members of the Middlebury community were able to dive headlong into important ...
What [podcast] will make you a better person? Of course, I would be remiss to not say Serial, the new podcast by Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder. It has killer cliffhangers and incredible writing. It Has inspiring spoofs, spoiler specials and productive conversations about narrative, ethics in reporting ...
Getting on and off the chairlift for the first time can be terrifying. It can also be quality comedy. There is even a short film by Warren Miller, an iconic action sports filmmaker, solely devoted to the potentially traumatic experience: “Chairlift-Funny Disasters” – check it out on YouTube. But ...
Late afternoon on Saturday, Wilson Hall erupted in cheers. The 130 students who had just participated in JusTalks, an all-day, student led discussion event that encourages social justice dialogue, were wrapping up a day of heavy exchanges with dancing, loud whoops and even a birthday ballad to one lucky ...
Dr. Robin DiAngelo, an education professor at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, delivered the third annual JusTalks keynote address in Wilson Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 7. Entitled “What Does it Mean to be White? Developing White Racial Literacy,” and based on her book with the same title, ...
I’ve experienced my share of existential crises in my life, not surprisingly. But rarely have I had to confront questions of my own physical and mental existence. This is my body, and I’m inhabiting it. My mind controls my body, my consciousness is a part of my mind. Thus, I, my mind and my body ...
I look around me and so much of what I see is divided into separate categories like academic and extracurricular, useful and useless, justice and injustice, natural and artificial, rational and irrational, mind and body. These kinds of binaries can be useful as a way of understanding what is or is not, ...
During a recent survey, an overwhelming percentage of students said they wanted to see more storytelling events like TEDx, Moth and Cocoon. This Friday, Jan. 16 and Saturday, Jan. 17 in Wright Memorial Theatre at 8 p.m., students will have that opportunity. Mike Daisey is a monologist who demands ...
In an era when artists – especially young artists – are increasingly dependent on the success of formulaic three-and-a-half minute singles to spark their careers, and the tops of the popular music charts are filled with musicians like Taylor Swift who make carefully crafted business choices that ...
Visual art does not produce the kind of recognizable, household names typical of the performing arts - unless, of course, one is referring to Andy Warhol, the late 20th century icon whose often emotionless depictions of popular culture quickly gained him a definitive place among his subjects. This month, ...
On Tuesday, January 6, the Vermont Coalition to Regulate Marijuana held a news conference, a day before the state legislative session was set to begin. Advocates for marijuana legalization believe that 2015 could be a year of unprecedented progress. The leader of the coalition, the Marijuana Policy ...
On Thursday morning, the Vermont Legislature voted on a secret ballot to decide which candidate in the 2014 Vermont Gubernatorial election would be named the governor of Vermont for the next two years. Democrat Peter Shumlin beat Republican Scott Milne with a final vote of 110-69 among the legislature. ...
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear power plant shut down its operations at 1:04 p.m. on the 29th of December, and is no longer sending power to the New England electric grid. The 604-megawatt plant was responsible for producing 71 percent of all electricity produced and 35 percent of all electricity consumed ...
On Tuesday, January 13, about 45 people gathered in front of Mead Chapel for a “rejection rally” against the Keystone XL pipeline, joining over 130 rejection rallies nationwide. Encouraged by 350.org and 350 Massachusetts, rallies took place all across the country in the wake of Nebraska’s decision ...
The College has offered admission to 280 students for the Class of 2019 under its Early Decision I plan. Decisions were released on Saturday, Dec. 6, via an online portal, and physical copies were mailed to applicants’ homes a day prior. The admitted students will represent about 40 percent of the ...
Last week, Forbes released its third annual “30 under 30” list, highlighting young adults in different work fields. The list included three Middlebury alumni: Alexandra Cart ’08 and Emily Núñez Cavness ’12 were featured in the social entrepreneurs list, and Lisa Gretebeck ’10 was included ...
On Jan. 12, 2015, Community Council met to discuss the idea of students returning early to campus. Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott often reviews requests from students traveling from great distances to arrive on campus earlier than the Sunday before classes start, but students are not allowed to ...
This past Tuesday, Jan. 13, award-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author William C. Rhoden addressed the College community as the keynote speaker for the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Rhoden has been a sports writer for The New York Times since March 1983. Before ...
On Jan. 7, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced the launch of Middlebury’s new brand identity system. In an email to students, Liebowitz explained that the new system intends to clarify what had been a somewhat unclear relationship between the undergraduate institution and the other ...
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), ...