Men’s and women’s Swimming and Diving started their 2014-2015 season last Saturday, Nov. 15 by traveling to New London, Conn. to take on Connecticut College in a dual meet. Both teams fell to the Camels, the women losing 153-127 and the men falling short with a score of 172-90. Despite Middlebury’s ...
The Middlebury men’s basketball team began its season as well as it could have by winning the Ramada Roundball Invitational this past weekend, Nov. 15-16. On Saturday, the Panthers routed Mitchell College 101-71, setting up a matchup with the host University of New England in the final. The squad ...
The Middlebury women’s field hockey team has earned a spot in the NCAA Division-III semifinals this past weekend, winning their own regional tournament to move on to the final rounds, hosted in Lexington, Va. on Nov. 22 and 23. The Panthers earned a pair of victories in the regional rounds on Peter ...
The Middlebury women’s basketball team began their season with a pair of victories on the road against out of conference opponents Endicott and Smith on Saturday, Nov. 15 and Sunday, Nov. 16, respectively. The squad participated in the Tyler Tip-Off Tournament at Smith College, earning a win over ...
The Panther squash teams kicked off their 2014-2015 seasons in Connecticut last weekend as both the men’s and women’s teams began play in the Rosenbaum Squash Center at the Wesleyan Invitational tournament. The women’s team began by stomping out Smith College with nine matches to zero. The Pioneers ...
On Saturday Nov. 15, the Panther cross country teams competed in the NCAA New England regional meet hosted by Williams College, with both teams finishing high enough to qualify for the upcoming NCAA championships. In the regional, the top two teams and top seven non-qualifying individuals earned invitations ...
Students, staff and community members gathered in the Robert A. Jones conference room on Nov. 12 to discuss the feasibility of creating a “microgrid” on Middlebury College’s campus. A microgrid is a smaller, more localized version of a larger power grid that brings distributed energy resources ...
On Saturday, Oct. 25, ten seniors were inducted into The College’s official chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest honor society, and it recognizes students for extraordinary academic achievement. Middlebury’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1868, making it the ...
Community Council had several guest students attend the meeting on November 10, 2014 that offered new perspectives on student social life at Middlebury. The council discussed current issues surrounding social life at Middlebury as well as how the council can create a forum to continue discussing possible ...
Middlebury was ranked 7th overall in The Daily Beast’s list of the “25 Most Rigorous Colleges,” ahead of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. Middlebury is the highest-ranked NESCAC school on the list; Amherst is the only other to make the list, at spot 14. According to The Daily Beast’s website, ...
On Oct. 30, a letter was delivered to the Vermont Governor’s administration and to political candidates advocating for the return of Vermont prisoners that are being held in out-of-state, private, for-profit prisons. Nearly thirty Vermont organizations, groups and businesses signed the document. ...
Lawmakers will recieve a report this January on marijuana in Vermont: potential market prices, distribution locations and the revenue that full legalization might provide. The study is not intended to advocate for legalization, rather, it will focus on these specific policy areas that must be addressed ...
Green Mountain Power (GMP), an electricity provider to three-quarters of Vermont residents, has recently been approved by federal energy regulators to upgrade its three hydro-electric dams along Otter Creek, in the towns of Proctor, New Haven and Weybridge. The project is expected to cost about $19 ...
Dr. Laurie L. Patton was named Middlebury College’s 17th president, and the College’s first female president in its 214-year history, at an announcement ceremony in Mead Chapel on Nov. 18. Patton, who is currently dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University and the Robert ...
"You couldn’t say we’re bringing Big Freedia in just for the music and completely ignoring this identity. That wouldn’t be smart or the right thing to do. But WRMC never put the identity before the art, like “oh yes we should bring a gay person or “we should bring a person of color.” Whether ...
Last Sunday, I walked into the editorial office a few minutes before 5 p.m., as I’ve done most Sundays for the past two years, eager to discuss whatever it was we had decided to editorialize on that week. But instead of being greeted by the rest of the editorial staff, I found an empty and dark office. ...
In late September, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced its plan to divest its money from investments in fossil fuels. The fund, with nearly $860 million in assets, announced that it would divest roughly seven percent of its funds currently invested in fossil fuels. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) convened on Sunday, Nov. 2 and Sunday, Nov. 9 to discuss old and new resolutions. Notably, they re-introduced a discussion concerning the AAL requirement. At the Nov. 2 meeting Treasurer Ilana Gratch ’16.5 presented the Financial Committee’s (FC) biweekly ...
On Oct. 30, Michael Geisler, vice president for Language Schools and Schools Abroad, Chief Risk Officer, and Professor of German and Dr. Mark Peluso, the College Medical Director and College Physician, sent out a school-wide “Important Ebola Update.” The message included new policies that will ...
There has been considerable confusion and debate among students about Middlebury’s party registration policies following the Nov. 2 forum on social issues hosted by the administration. The policies, which can be found at go/party, distinguish between three types of parties: licensed parties, registered ...