The track and field team spent Saturday, April 12 in West Point, NY where they competed against five other teams in the Army Six Way meet, going up against a mix of schools that included four Division-I programs. The Panther squad as a whole took home five event victories and completed the day with ...
Super Bowl champion Steve Hauschka ’07 returns to his alma mater tonight for a Q&A with Sports Illustrated Senior Writer Alex Wolff. Tomorrow night, Friday, April 18, the town of Middlebury will have the chance to talk with the former Panther in a meet-and-greet style gathering at Middlebury Union ...
If you wanted to get an Adderall prescription written for you while at the College, you would need to go through a person like Dr. John Young, who works at the Counseling Service of Addison County. He is the consulting psychiatrist for the College and is on the front lines of the complex issue ...
Following the highly anticipated J-term production of Les Miserables, members of the College community will have another opportunity to enjoy a popular piece of musical theater when The Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) presents their Spring Term musical, RENT, at the Town Hall Theatre on Apr. ...
On the surface, A Clockwork Orange is a standard dystopian text, in the same line as classics such as Huxley’s Brave New World. It is complete with suitably wicked teenage males, beautiful young women and gratuitous violence. It is not so simple though; it is an intricate work. It is freedom and choice, ...
Forgive me, psych majors, if I am wrong in this, but I seem to recall learning in my Psych Disorders class two years ago about several studies which proved that the life-outlook of individuals suffering from Depression is, in fact, not overly pessimistic, but rather fairly realistic compared to the ...
On Friday, April 4th, Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA) buses resumed their regularly scheduled routes. This decision came after a tense, 18-day standoff between CCTA management leaders and drivers came to an end. The CCTA board of commissioners and representatives of the bus drivers ...
Vermont’s education may be in for an historical overhaul if legislation passed in Vermont’s house of representatives last month passes at the end of this legislative cycle. The proposed bill, H.883, would radically consolidate public education in Vermont by reducing the number of school districts ...
The College has announced that Diana Nyad will deliver the 2014 commencement address on Sunday, May 25. At the age of 64, Nyad made history last year when she became the first person to swim the 110-mile stretch between Havana, Cuba and Key West, FL without the protection of a shark cage. Nyad will ...
On March 21, the College mailed letters of acceptance to 1,422 prospective students representing all 50 states and 82 different countries in the hope that 575 of these students will enroll next fall. The College shrunk its target class size due to yield for the class of 2017 that was greater than ...
Following the recent restructuring of the Board of Trustees, July 1 will mark a wide-sweeping change in faculty governance. These changes come at a pivotal transition point for the College, as the new President will assume his position in 2015. President Ronald D. Liebowitz wrote in an all school email, ...
On Monday, April 7, the College hosted its third panel on the subject of Socially Responsible Investing and the College’s endowment in the past 15 months. Six investment experts were invited to speak on how fossil fuel investments are evaluated and how institutions such as the College can best incorporate ...
Digital scholarship and research has become crucial to a liberal arts education and the College has started to take significant steps to implement it more fully. The College recently received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled “Galvanizing Digital Liberal ...
This year 23 faculty and staff members were inducted into the College’s 25 Year Club recognizing those who have contributed 25 years worth of service to the community. This not only includes professors, but also the staff that are responsible for administrative affairs and the welfare of the students. “All ...
The sixth annual Gensler Symposium will take place from April 14 through April 18 and will include a student-led discussion, a poetry workshop, and lectures by visiting scholars. Entitled “Sexual Straightjacket & Queer Escapes,” it will highlight the relevance of queer studies and queer scholarship ...
Middlebury students are connected by no more than two degrees of separation: you either know someone or know someone who knows that person. Though there are many great things about this smallness, I always thought it presented a romantic disadvantage. The main reason: the gossip-mongering that roars ...
What do cheese, 3D visualization goggles, epi-pens, cowgirls and undocumented college students have in common? Not much more than the shared evidence of the creativity students will be pursuing this summer, with the help of grants awarded by MiddChallenge. On April 4 and 6, nine finalists presented ...
The next time you walk by a tree, and a dead branch does not come crashing down, knocking you off your feet, you can thank the College’s Facilities Services Maintenance and Operations. As spring thaw approaches, the College’s landscaping crew is busy pruning trees on campus before the snow melts ...
It took way too long for two college-aged girls to realize that the Middlebury Campus is released every Thursday. In other words, here is the very delayed Throwback Thursday edition of the Secret Life of NARPs. Ever wondered whether Maddie or Izzy have ever experienced athletic success? Or when they ...
On a beautiful Thursday last week, I accompanied the student initiative NOM (Nutrition Outreach Mentoring) to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. Inside a gray building on a side street in downtown Vergennes, about 15 local teenagers chatted and played cards and video games. However, the six ...