On May 1-4, the Middlebury Community Players staged John Cariani’s 2004 play Almost, Maine, a series of nine interlocking vignettes about a group in the northern reaches of Maine who haven’t quite yet organized themselves into an official town. The work recently surpassed A Midsummer Night’s Dream ...
This past weekend four seniors shared their senior thesis dance works with the College community in their concert “Reconstructed Notions”. Dance majors Hai Do ’14, Rachel Nuñez ’14, Cameron McKinney ’14 and Jill Moshman ’14 choreographed and performed deeply personal explorations that gave ...
The physicist Richard Feynman once wrote “we are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries… and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.” Although I’m skeptical that science will come to an end ...
Ali Smith’s unusual new novel Artful, published in 2012 by Penguin Books, begins with a poem, a Child Ballad from the early fifteenth century: “The wind doth blow today, my love, / And a few small drops of rain; / I never had but one true-love, / In cold grave she was lain. / I’ll do as much for ...
This is my last column for the Middlebury Campus, so I decided to write something a little bit different than my usual game review. With the arrival of the new console generation, the recent surge of independent game releases, and the ongoing debates about games as an artistic medium, I figured that ...
After blowing past Bowdoin 5-0 in the NESCAC semifinals on Saturday, May 3, the Middlebury men’s tennis team could not cap their conference tournament with a championship-game victory on the following day, losing to fourth-ranked Amherst 5-1 in the title match. Third-ranked Middlebury fell to an ...
On Friday and Saturday May 2 and 3, a portion of the track and field team headed south to Springfield, MA, with the sun shining for the first meet in some weeks, to compete in this year’s Division-III New England outdoor championships. The Panthers sent over forty athletes to the meet, and emerged ...
Middlebury’s run for the NESCAC softball championship fell just a little bit short last weekend. The Panthers fell to the nation’s top-ranked team, Tufts, in their first game of the conference tournament on Friday, May 2, and then knocked Bowdoin out of the double elimination tournament on Saturday, ...
Middlebury (5-24, 2-10) capped its rebuilding season this weekend by splitting a close double-header against Bowdoin on Saturday, May 3 and falling twice to a terrific Tufts squad on Sunday, May 4. Captains Alex Kelly ’14 and Dylan Kane ’14 delivered memorable final performances for an appreciative ...
In anticipation of the Student Government Association (SGA) elections, a discussion was held on Wednesday, April 23, between Taylor Custer ’15, the candidate for SGA president, and Ben Bogin ’15 the Student Co-Chair of the Community Council candidate. Editor-in-Chief of the Campus, Kyle Finck ’14, ...
A group of students who have identified themselves as Midd Included, an organization centered on creating a more inclusive environment at the College, has drafted a bill to reform the Cultures and Civilizations distribution requirement, specifically the African, Asia, and Latin American (AAL) cultures ...
In an email sent to students, faculty and staff at the College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) on April 16, Chair of the Presidential Search Committee Al Dragone ’78 announced the roster of the Presidential Search Committee. The announcement is the first step in finding ...
All bikes on campus will be adorned with a front light courtesy of the student-run, non-profit organization Concussions Speak on Friday, May 2. The detachable snap bike lights will act as a precautionary measure for both bikers and runners around campus to help avoid accidents and subsequently, injuries ...
There is a discussion underway on campus about whether we should create a multicultural center, and if we do, what it would be like. This is an important discussion for several reasons. First, those who think a multicultural center is necessary are explaining why and sharing their concerns with us, ...
From April 30-May 3, the Middlebury College Departments of Theatre and Dance are presenting Sarah Ruhl’s Tony Award-nominated play “In the Next Room” (or The Vibrator Play). Associate Professor of Theatre Claudio Medeiros ’90 will direct the work, which stars seven students and serves as the ...
Cellist Sophie Shao and violinist Soovin Kim were the stars of the 2014 Middlebury Bach Festival opening concert on Friday, Apr. 25. The performance, presented by the Middlebury Performing Arts Series, was held at the Concert Hall of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. Very few seats remained ...
Throughout the past semester, brightly colored posters calling for writers, illustrators, graphic designers and “any other interested parties or persons” have graced bulletin boards across campus on behalf of “The Storytold Project”, a student initiative born out of The Old Stone Mill. While ...
The Rotten Tomatoes description of Noah says that it succeeds in “… bringing the Bible epic into the 21st century.” That’s a case of damning with faint praise if I’ve ever seen it. What does it mean to “modernize” an old, canonical story? What sorts of prejudices are inherent in that kind ...
Since 2011 the United States has increased its hydrocarbon production faster than any other country. As mentioned in this column before, this tremendous growth has been driven almost entirely by the combination of two independent drilling technologies, as well as the practices of horizontal drilling ...
Here in idyllic rural Vermont, Middlebury College is a bastion of beauty, tradition, stewardship, and of course — safety. In order to foster elite learning, we have a multitude of mechanisms to protect us from any possible interference from danger outside our marble walls. But according to the Community ...