Following a year of traveling throughout New England, local artist Kate Gridley’s latest exhibition, Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults, has returned to the town that inspired it. With seven portraits on display in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) and ten on display ...
Both the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams showed that they can compete with the best players and teams in New England at the 2014 ITA/USTA New England Regional Championships this past weekend, Sept. 26-28. The men’s team hosted the championship at the Proctor Courts during the day and ...
This year marks the launch of a new arts-themed social house on campus. Located in Prescott House on Ridgeline Road, the Attic was founded by Hannah Giese ’16, Emma Gee ’16 and Jackie Wyard-Yates ’16.5, and currently houses thirty students. Last year, Giese, Gee and Wyard-Yates heard that there ...
When the Emperor Was Divine is slow. That is not to say that it is boring or disengaging. To the contrary, its slowness is a powerful stylistic choice by author Julie Otsuka. The novel follows the lives of four members of a Japanese-American family struggling through the racism and gross injustice of ...
After falling to Hamilton in a NESCAC matchup on Friday, Sept. 26, the Middlebury volleyball team bounced back to win a pair of matches in the Skidmore Classic on Saturday, defeating St. John Fisher and Skidmore each in straight sets. The Panthers entered the match against Hamilton with newfound momentum ...
After a hard-fought opening-day loss to Wesleyan, the Middlebury football team made the long trek up I-95 to Waterville, Maine for a matchup with the Colby Mules on Saturday, Sept. 27, coming away with both a win and clarity on the subject of their quarterback situation. In only his second career start, ...
Coming off a seven-day resting period after their loss to Bowdoin, the Middlebury women’s soccer team collected the win against Colby College in an away game in Waterville, Maine on Saturday, Sept. 27. The Panthers broke the ice 29:48 minutes into the first half when midfielder Hannah Robinson ’16 ...
Last week Erin, in support of the “People’s Climate March,” argued for policies called “cap-and-trade” which essentially set emission caps on companies and then allow them to buy and sell these emission permits with each other. However good or bad this program may be, it is not the only “pro-climate” ...
While I don’t agree with the manner in which the College administration revised the tailgating policy, I understand it. Especially with the advent of social media, we have the need to play up our college experiences. There’s the constant pressure to make our normal college experiences align with ...
You may already know about my campaign to get Heinz ketchup in all of our dining halls. Between the WeTheMiddKids petition, the go/heinzforall posters, and my somewhat unconventional ketchup solicitation in Atwater last week, I feel as though “Heinz Girl” has become something of a campus character. ...
So where were you over the summer? Well, you know, I was back at home in Palestine-Israel. Oh, wow, how was it? Umm, I mean, if you wanna talk about it… Ah, yeah, I mean, I guess it’s important to talk about it. But it’s not the casual response. What do you mean? I mean, you might not enjoy ...
A large majority of you reading this letter will not recognize my name, so as a way of introduction, I was the football coach at Middlebury from 1973 to 2000. With that experience, I would like to add my thoughts to the continuing dialogue expressed by some students and alumni regarding the administration’s ...
Over the last 10 years, accessibility and diversity have become buzzwords in higher education. They are the benchmarks for admissions — signs that elite colleges and universities are doing more than simply securing a future for the already privileged in an era of diminishing social mobility and growing ...
Middlebury College's recent policy to ban alcohol at tailgates created an uproar. Some believe that this necessary policy will prevent out-of-hand drinking. Others think this is another example of Middlebury's social police state. We hear all these perspectives this hour. Plus, we ask students: What's ...
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is facing a serious ramification for a GMO labeling bill he recently passed, in the form of a major lawsuit. The bill on genetically modified food products (GMOs), approved this past spring, will require GMOs sold in Vermont to be labeled by July 1, 2016. Vermont will ...
Funding for maintenance and repairs on I-89 was slashed this year, According to state officials. The decrease in funds can be attributed to the downgrade in Vermont’s fiscal budget this July, by $31 million, as well as decreased revenue from the “gas tax,” as consumers switch to more fuel-efficient ...
On a recent Sunday, two girlfriends and I went to the Starry Night Café for dinner. Having heard from many sources (including Jim in the Proctor bakeshop) that it was one of the best restaurants in the area, we were anxious to try it. He was not wrong. After learning that it had reopened following ...
Middlebury College hosted the MiddAction Fair in the Wilson Social Space on Sept. 16. Community volunteer organizations from Middlebury and surrounding towns came to connect with students interested in offering their time to valuable causes. The organizations that came to the fair had a wide variety ...
Over the last few weeks, an internet blog has been making the rounds throughout Middlebury students. At this point, you’ve probably heard of it. Called the Middlebury College Disorientation Guide, the blog contains several posts outlining some of the problems with Middlebury’s approach to environmentalism ...
Everyone knows that as soon as you create an account anywhere online, there’s a danger of having everything in your life taken from you by a teenager in an internet café somewhere. Somehow, that fear isn’t enough for me to take an active, defensive stand when it comes to my cyber-privacy. Perhaps ...