The Middlebury women’s basketball team earned a split on their season-opening weekend in the Colby Sawyer Tournament, rebounding after a narrow, hard-fought loss to Fitchburg to down the hosts in a decisive victory that Middlebury dominated from the opening tip. In Saturday’s loss to the Falcons, ...
The men and women’s swimming and diving teams opened the season on Saturday, Nov. 16 hosting Tufts and Connecticut College at the Natatorium. The women topped Tufts 190-108, but narrowly lost to Connecticut 148-140. The men were defeated in each matchup, falling to Tufts 216-84 and to Connecticut ...
From Rockland County, to the University of Vermont, to Middlebury College, Jeff Brown leads the Panthers on their Road to Salem. Part 1 of a ten part series chronicling the stories behind the 2014 road to the Final Four in Salem.
Dear friends, Today, on Nov. 14, I am going to voluntarily fast for a whole day in solidarity with the Filipino delegate to the UN COP19 climate talk, Mr. Yeb Sano. I chose this day because on the same day, Divest Middlebury is holding a candlelight vigil to commemorate the lives that have been lost, ...
As we once again gripe and groan about the inadequacy of BannerWeb, it’s easy to lose sight of other registration frustrations many students face as we choose how to spend the chilly month of January. Instead of enrolling beachside at some Southern Californian college or braving the hustle and bustle ...
As rain sprinkled onto Dragone field on Sunday, Nov. 10, members of the Middlebury women’s soccer team jumped up and down in their puffy blue jackets, counting down the final seconds of the NESCAC Final against Williams. The moment seemed light-years away from the teams season-opening loss to Amherst ...
Running off the field for the final time in a Middlebury uniform with his team leading Tufts 52-10 late in the third quarter, McCallum Foote ’14 began celebrating with his teammates. Foote had just thrown his seventh touchdown pass of the game — a single-game program record — but the source of ...
Middlebury triumphed over Bowdoin on Sunday, Nov. 10 by a final score of 5-4 to win the NESCAC final in dramatic double-come-from-behind fashion. Bridget Instrum ’16 scored all four regulation-time goals and Alyssa DiMaio ’15 landed the title-winning punch in overtime. The Panthers knocked off Amherst ...
On Saturday, Nov. 9, the cross country teams traveled to Bristol, RI, to participate in the ECAC Championships hosted by Roger Williams University. Due to the meet’s timing — a week after NESCAC Championships and a week before the NCAA New England Regional meet — the Panthers, as well as most ...
Middlebury’s volleyball squad ended its season sooner than hoped last Friday, Nov. 8, exiting the NESCAC tournament in the first round. The Panthers capped off the season with a quarterfinals match against Amherst, an opponent they had faced twice already this year, ultimately losing 3-1. This was ...
Skiing A year after hosting the NCAA Championships at the Snow Bowl and Rikert Nordic Center and placing 10th as a team, the Middlebury men’s and women’s nordic and alpine ski teams hope to repeat that level of success next March in Utah. A big part of achieving that goal will rest on the skis ...
An entirely sophomore-driven and remarkably thought-out production, “Cock” was the collaborative brainchild of director Jordan DuBeau ’16 and producer Alexander Burnett ’16. Written by British playwright Mike Bartlett and debuted in 2009, the Hepburn Zoo production starred Burnett, Arnav Adhikari ...
Long-time Saturday Night Live (SNL) Director Don Roy King, who was invited by the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) Speakers Committee to give an overview of his storied career and insights into the world of entertainment, performed this past Thursday in the McCullough Social Space,. In keeping ...
Every Saturday in Dana Auditorium at 3 and 8 p.m., the Hirschfield International Film Series screens foreign and independent movies to the Middlebury College community for free. And yet, little is known of its history. The Hirschfield Film Series was originally called the ‘College Street Film Series’, ...
If I could write a devotional power ballad to the WRMC Concert Committee, I would. Aaron Slater ’16 and Arnav Adhikari ’16 are a dynamic, if skinny-legged little duo, and they are not messing around on the concert agenda this year. The annual Grooveyard concert is coming at you this Saturday, Nov. ...
This summer I had the opportunity to be part of an interdisciplinary research team trying to build an automated biosensor to detect aromatic hydrocarbons in the water supply. As a rising sophomore, I had never done research before, and had only just declared myself a molecular biology and biochemistry ...
I cannot imagine anyone — except perhaps a fanatic of the history of hot-air ballooning — who could pick up Julian Barnes’ new novel Levels of Life in a bookshop and find the first few pages compelling. The first pages read like a collection of museum captions, alternatively describing three historical ...
Six sophomores have been selected as the second annual cohort of fellows by the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship (MCSE). The six students — Gaby Fuentes ’16, Sarah James ’16.5, Rabeya Jawaid ’16, Winson Law ’16, Debanjan Roychoudhury ’16 and Prestige Shongwe ’16 — will ...
On Oct. 28, Associate Professor of Theatre Claudio Medeiros sent an email with the subject line “Invitation to African, African-American and Latino Women” to nearly 100 recipients, soliciting female students of color for the part of Elizabeth in Sarah Ruhl’s play “In the Next Room.” The role ...
Last week, on Thursday, Nov. 7 the College admissions office began formally reviewing early decision applications, which Dean of Admission Greg Buckles projected would be around 691 applications. This year, however, admissions is hoping to reduce the class size from 600-610 to 575 students for September ...