I’m gay. I’m Mexican. I’ve never been both, but I guess I am. This last week Chris Woods, Program Administrator at the New York University LGBTQ Student Center, came to the College and gave some presentations on the intersection of identities pertaining to faith, ethnicity and sexuality and how ...
Jerry Seinfeld has Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. I have “Broke College Students in Cars Getting McDonalds.” The premise is pretty straightforward: you let me drive your car, we go to McDonald’s, I buy us a magnificent feast and I write a “thorough” and “well-researched” review of your ...
They say that when man (or woman) makes plans, God laughs. Visiting Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology Pam Berenbaum started her academic career thinking she would end up a clinical psychologist, a far cry from where she ended up in the field of public health. “So many of the patients really ...
The student production A Small, Good Thing, which ran from Nov. 13-15 in the Hepburn Zoo, grappled with topics of death, sorrow and despair as based on Raymond Carver’s 1989 short story of the same name. A piece of devised theater, the play was built from the evolving visions of the four-person cast, ...
On Saturday, Nov. 15 in Wilson Hall, the Middlebury International Students’ Organization (ISO) brought a splash of cultural celebration to campus with their annual cultural show, this year titled “Crossing Borders.” Students often hear about Middlebury’s “international focus,” and the ISO ...
One week ago, I saw the Tony-nominated Broadway production of John Steinbeck’s American classic Of Mice and Men - in Middlebury. Due to technological advancements and a recent partnership between major performance companies and theaters around the world, the financial and geographic barriers to experiencing ...
“On the scale from ballet to naked, shaking myself in the corner with lipstick on, I’m about a five. Whatever that means.” -Scotty Hardwig Come to the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) this Friday or Saturday at 8 p.m. to witness a profound expression of human emotion as Middlebury ...
Lawyers are expensive, and many Americans can’t afford quality legal representation. Last Friday, Nov. 14, Vermont Law School Professors Oliver Goodenough and Jeannette Eicks gave a lecture called “Computer Science and Social Justice” about applying recent advances in computer science to the ...
Every year, a phenomenon occurs where the best games of the year seem to be coming out at the same time. What time is this, you ask? Well, I wouldn’t be writing an article about it if it were not right now. October and November are historically the best times to buy new video games. Companies love ...
One of the most beautiful and terrifying aspects of college life is the perpetual change. These four years are some of the least constant of our lives. We build our days around dorms and classes and teachers and friends that will inevitably shift in a few months. Academically, we immerse ourselves ...
In my last article, I focused on China’s plan to convert a number of coal-fired power plants to power stations running on synthetic natural gas. The premise of the article was the huge increase in greenhouse gas emissions this shift would create and the apparent indifference of Chinese leadership ...
Two Saturdays ago I saw Joey Bada$$, a 19 year-old rapper from East Flatbush, Brooklyn, perform in New York City at Irving Plaza. The concert was the first of two New York shows marking the conclusion of Joey’s U.S. tour, a crazy run of 36 shows in 46 days, and it was absolutely bonkers. The night ...
The cold has finally arrived. Snow has carpeted the grass and framed the buildings with a border of white. Temperatures are dropping and freezing drizzles make walks to class ordeals. Those poor unfortunate souls who have to make the trek to Twilight or the Mahaney Center for the Arts know the pain ...
We are in a different place than we were last time. During the last public divestment from fossil fuels campaign, that is. Personally, as a first-year last year, the word “divestment” seemed taboo on this campus and I could not fully wrap my head around it. On the one hand, it was sullied because ...
Millions of years ago our common ancestor with chimpanzees made an extraordinary decision. It gradually took its knuckles off the ground and began to walk on two legs. Of course, this was not actually a conscious decision. Evolution selected for this occurrence because, for some arcane reason, it was ...
Erin has selected for this week one of the most complex and nuanced problems America has grappled with over the past fifty years: abortion. However, she also previously discussed another complex issue in Voter ID laws. I feel the need to address both, at least in part. I’ll start with Voter ID laws. ...
To the Faculty, We write to you as the student leaders of the group MiddIncluded. We are spearheading the campaign to change Middlebury’s current cultures and civilizations requirements. This letter is an effort to clarify what our campaign stands for, to explain why these changes are necessary ...
After months of speculation, the College announced our 17th president on Tuesday — Dr. Laurie Patton, the current dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. In last week’s editorial, we laid out the qualities we wished to see in our next president, and in all of these areas, ...
The Middlebury Men’s Hockey team did not start out the season the way they would have liked. The Panthers fell to Bowdoin 6-0, then tied Colby 2-2 in back to back away games on Nov. 15 and 16. Vincent Gisonti ’18, who scored the first goal of his collegiate hockey career, and Jake Charles ’16 ...
The Middlebury women’s hockey team opened their 2014-2015 season this past weekend, Nov. 15 and 16, with a doubleheader against conference foe Colby. The Panthers outscored the visiting Mules 9-1 on the weekend, en route to a pair of wins. After narrowly missing qualification for the NCAA tournament ...