The first weekend of the fall semester started with an artistic bang – at least for music lovers. On Sept. 12 and 13, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB), in collaboration with WRMC, our college radio station, and Middlebury Music United, a student group focusing exclusively on the college ...
The fall semester is a time of transition for Middlebury’s Dance Program, as three new faculty members begin to make their mark in the wake of the retirement of longtime Professor of Dance Penny Campbell and the imminent retirement of Professor of Dance Andrea Olsen, who is on sabbatical leave this ...
At the end of last semester, the artists behind The Storytold Project were gathering momentum to debut a revitalized and reorganized organization at the start of the fall term. As promised, the program is now taking flight with a new, user-friendly website, faculty advisor and ambitions to expand the ...
The first round of class assignments and some surprisingly brisk weather have ushered in the fall semester more quickly than many of us would have liked. However, before you send a fifth email to that professor who won’t let you into their class or get geared up to find new ways to procrastinate (read: ...
This past summer, I was fortunate enough to be paid to spend exorbitant amounts of time listening to music – along with more logistical responsibilities – here at WRMC, Middlebury College’s student-run radio station. Aside from getting a hold of the biggest releases in the college radio world, ...
In their opening weekend of play, the Middlebury women’s volleyball team (1-3) lost three of four matches on Sept. 12 and 13 while competing in the UMass-Boston Tournament against out of conference opponents. The Panthers opened the weekend in Boston with a loss to Whitman College by a score of ...
The Presidential Search Committee has reviewed more than 50 applicants for the soon-to-be vacant position of president of the Middlebury College, and is now starting to interview candidates in person. “We’ve been narrowing down candidates and now we are in the process of interviewing the applicants ...
After starting the season strong with a decisive 3-0 win over Castleton State College, the Middlebury Women’s soccer team faced mixed results in their three games this week against Amherst, Keene State and Connecticut College, Coming off the Castleton win, the Panther women hosted conference rival ...
This past Saturday, Sept. 14, the cross country teams opened the season with a quick trip to Hanover, NH to run in the Dartmouth Cross Country Invitational. Squaring off against five teams across all NCAA divisions, the women secured a fourth place finish while the men finished sixth. Due to the length ...
The third annual International Politics and Economics Symposium, “Crisis and Confusion: Responses to Global Economic Turbulence,” was held at Middlebury’s Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs last Friday. Michael Bordo, a professor of Economics at Rugters University, spoke at the first panel of the ...
The Middlebury field hockey team extended their perfect start to the 2014 season this weekend, dispatching conference foe Connecticut College by a score of 4-1 on Saturday, Sept. 13 before handily defeating Smith College on Sunday. Entering the road matchup against Conn. College with a 2-0 record on ...
The U.S. News & World Report released its college rankings for the 2014-2015 year on Sept. 9, and with them came a drop in Middlebury College’s standing. Previously fourth among all liberal arts colleges in the country, the College’s ranking has moved to seventh. It now places right behind ...
The Middlebury men’s soccer team (2-0-1, 1-0-1) opened the season before classes began with a home draw against ninth-ranked Amherst, followed by two shutout victories this week at home against Norwich and in New London against Connecticut College. On Sunday, Sept. 7 the men played in front of a ...
This past April, Middlebury College entered into a one-year contract with TurboVote, online software that seeks to streamline the voter registration process. “It takes three minutes to sign up, and you can register in any state,” said Hannah Bristol ’14.5, who worked at TurboVote this past summer ...
Dear Middlebury College Community, I know some of you have taken exception to our decision to ban alcohol at football game tailgate events. Let me tell you in the plainest terms why we have done this. For some time, we have been dealing with issues arising from incidents of overuse of alcohol by some ...
When Erin first approached me about writing this column I had some…reservations. I just couldn’t help but feel I had been down the path of being a vocal Republican in a very liberal environment. Well, that would be because I have been down that exact path many times, and I have come to embrace it. Much ...
The summer before my senior year of high school I joined a pretty radical group working for environmental justice in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, Calif., my hometown. I had read about the new group in an article online and asked to join in its efforts. We ran a free environmental education ...
Jolted out of bed at 2 a.m. by the wailing of the fire alarm, I flail around in my dark room to find some resemblance of an outfit. After what seems like an eternity, I reluctantly go outside to join the other Battell residents huddled together in the cold, experiencing what has become a rite of passage ...
You have probably heard of the rapper Gucci Mane. You might have a song or two of his. Or you remember his cameo in 2013’s Spring Breakers, in which he played Big Arch (and actually fell asleep while filming a sex scene). Perhaps you’ve seen his Bart Simpson chain or his ice cream cone tattoo ...
Editors’ note: The following text contains vulgarity and obscenities. Printed with Ada’s permission. They say that if you forget your history, you are doomed to repeat it. So, Middlebury, I think it’s time to do some remembering. A year ago today a student received a rape threat at Middlebury ...