The word ‘emo,’ with regards to music at least, normally evokes a couple of common reactions for graduates of the American teenage experience. First, a wave of nostalgia washes over your glazed and jaded eyes, bringing you back to those icky formative middle school years where everyone was horrible ...
The men’s lacrosse team lost its second consecutive NESCAC game to open the 2014 season by a score of 6-3 to visiting Connecticut College on Saturday, March 8 on Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium. The Panthers jumped to an early lead but could not stymie a string of third-quarter Camel goals as Conn. ...
The Middlebury ski teams took part in the 2014 NCAA Championships held at the University of Utah March 5-8. Alpine events were held at the Park City Mountain Resort while the nordic events were held at the Soldier Hollow Resort. The conditions out in Utah were unique, but Heather Mooney ’15 believed ...
The Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams started off the spring season strong on Saturday, March 8 with wins against Colby and Brandeis. The men’s team first defeated Colby 8-1, while the women shut out Colby 9-0. Later in the afternoon, the men blew past Brandeis 8-1, and that night the ...
The women’s lacrosse team continued to demonstrate early-season dominance with a 12-4 victory over the Connecticut College Camels in New London, Conn. on Saturday, March 8. Despite letting up a goal early on in the game and being held scoreless for the first 10 minutes, the Panthers received the spark ...
The Middlebury track and field team rounded out the final week of competition before the NCAA championships by taking part in the Tufts Last Chance and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECACs) meets. One relay and two individuals ran in the Tufts Last Chance meet on Thursday March 6 at Gantcher ...
As I was walking down the Axinn hallway for my interview with John Hawley ’14, I noticed him from 20 feet away. He was wearing a bright, but soft, yellow button-down shirt with simple faded blue khakis, sophisticated rectangular glasses and a classic pea coat thrown over the chair next to him. We ...
On Wednesday March 5, the Christian holiday of Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, a six-week long period of discipline and devotion. Ash Wednesday emphasizes human mortality and Lent traditionally asks observers to take up a specific discipline. Many students describe this period as a specially ...
Room 404 may not be the most recognizable student-run publication on campus, but its little-flaunted presence could be intentional. The publication’s distribution strategy, developed by the organization’s founders Moss Turpan ’14.5 and Dylan Redford ’14.5, does not rely on the typical grab-and-go ...
I am your new sex columnist for the semester, nice to meet all of you! We are always hearing or talking about the “hook up culture” here at Middlebury, yet it seems that people here (girls especially, though I’m biased) never talk openly about sex! Instead, sex conversation is relegated to anonymous ...
Robert Stowe, Head Baker, will retire this spring after a long career in the basement kitchen of Proctor. “According to human resources, it’s 49 years. Which is fine with me,” Stowe said. “That’s long enough.” Stowe began working summers before starting high school when Proctor was still ...
On Feb. 28, students and professors gathered in the Robert A. Jones Conference Room to discuss a topic of global proportions as part of the International & Global Studies (IGS) Colloquium. They attended in hopes of garnering a fuller understanding of a particularly sweeping idea the College has ...
The recent assassination attempt on a former editor of a major newspaper has caused international outrage. This event does not exist in isolation. Over the past year, four editors and founders of local media have been assaulted in Hong Kong. The application for a new television station has been debated ...
To guarantee themselves a spot in the NCAA Tournament, the Middlebury men's basketball team needs to win three straight NESCAC tournament games and claim the conference crown. The Road to Salem followed the team for a weak as they fight to keep their season alive.
At 9 p.m. local time on March 1 in Kunming, China, a group of men dressed in black began stabbing people with long knives at random, aiming for the head, neck and shoulders, according to witnesses. The attack left 33 people dead, including four of the assailants, and another 130 were wounded. Four more ...
The Middlebury College Orchestra will not perform this semester due to an extreme decline in membership. This announcement is the latest development in a trend of declining interest in the program. Membership has fallen from 45 musicians three years ago to 16 in the fall term. In speaking with colleagues ...
On Sunday, March 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Chellis House will be holding the Red Tent event, an activity designed to help members of the Middlebury community that identify as female relax and pamper themselves for a day, in the McCullough Social Space. The Red Tent Foundation is helping to sponsor ...
After months of planning, the Socially Responsible Investment Club (SRI) and the Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) started the spring term with an event called Socially Responsible Investing Week, a speaker series focusing on investment as a tool for social change. “One of our major goals ...
Students Caitlin Haedrich ’16.5 and Larson Lovdal ’16.5 are imagining a whole new kind of dining for the College. The duo has submitted a project proposal for an outdoor wood-fired pizza oven, or “cob oven,” to be built at the Organic Garden this summer. “It’s an idea that’s been tossed ...
On Feb. 28, 12 Middlebury students travelled down to Washington D.C. for XL Dissent, a student-organized protest of the the Keystone XL Pipeline. They were joined by 1200 other protesters — primarily students — from across the country. The event culminated in an act of civil disobedience, during ...