Snake Pit with Adeline Cleveland ’13.5 & Alan Sanders ’13.5 Middlebury Campus (MC): How did you form? Addy: Both of us came together at the beginning of this semester. We’ve been friends for a while and we’ve each had different shows all four years. We’re in our last semester, and our ...
Axinn 229 was filled to capacity on Nov. 4, as students, faculty and administrators perched on windowsills and tables after chairs were filled to get an opportunity to participate in “Unpacking Chance the Rapper: Exploring the complexities around Community Standards, Artistic Expression and Academic ...
Construction of the College’s new $47 million squash courts and field house, which began in June, has caused unprecedented disruption to many of the teams and coaches who routinely use this space. The construction, which called for the demolition of “The Bubble,” has left the Athletic Department ...
Old Chapel released a comprehensive report of student policy violations via a new webpage on the College’s site unveiled Monday, Nov. 4. The page details incidents and consequences of student conduct violations and disciplinary actions since 2007, and its release marks a new commitment to transparency ...
TEDxMiddlebury event takes the mic this weekend on Saturday, Nov. 9, featuring 11 speakers presenting ideas and stories on the subject of “Research, Rethink, Rebuild.” The annual event will again feature a student speaker, and will be introducing a new tradition of a faculty speaker. Amanda Wiggans ...
The first two months of the fall semester saw a reduction in overall dorm damage, with just 24 student damage work orders being placed. Dish damage, however, continues to be problematic, as less than 15 percent of the College’s initial stock of bowls remain. Of the 24 work orders placed this semester, ...
Anyone who knows me knows that I believe strongly in the value of dialogue. I believe that sharing ideas, opinions, and feelings directly with others is what keeps people connected—to their communities and even to themselves. Lately, it seems as if there is an unusually high level of frustration ...
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Community Council met to discuss hard alcohol policies, party registration and party monitors. In the previous meeting, Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott and Coach Bob Ritter, co-chairs of the 2011-2012 Task Force on Alcohol and Social Life, spoke about Task Force’s report, the ...
In the middle of the town of Middlebury, along Main Street, sits a row of restaurants and bars all within 50 yards of each other: Two Brothers Tavern, Otter Creek Bakery, Samas Café and the Champagne and Sparkling Wine Bar. The Champagne and Sparkling Wine Bar catches the eye, and not just because ...
At first the decision looks simple — Middlebury’s town offices are outdated and something needs to be done. Renovation? Relocation? As it turns out, the problem is not so simple, nor is the solution. The town offices are currently located across the street from Alexander Twilight Hall and are, ...
McCallum Foote ’14 threw five touchdown passes and just four incompletions in the final home game of his decorated career, leading Middlebury to a 40-13 blowout victory over Hamilton on senior day and improving the Panthers’ record to 6-1 on the season. Tight end Billy Sadik-Kahn ’14 caught three ...
The mark of a powerful moment is how it affects us when we reflect upon it. Sometimes we cannot predict the effect something will have down the road. Other times we know immediately that we have witnessed something great. The night of Wednesday, Oct. 30 was one of the latter. Standing on my charming ...
The Middlebury volleyball team ended the regular season on a positive note, winning both of its last home games to finish with a solid record of 18-6. On Friday, Nov. 1 they bested Bowdoin 3-1, then followed up by beating Bates by the same score on Saturday, Nov. 2. The Panthers improved to 5-5 in NESCAC ...
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the cross country teams traveled to Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn., to run in the NESCAC Championships hosted by Connecticut College. The women’s team gained NESCAC supremacy for the first time since 2010, winning the meet by a mere 29 points while the men put ...
A year after suffering a first-round upset against Wesleyan in the NESCAC tournament, the Middlebury women’s soccer team learned from previous mistakes to record a comfortable 3-1 victory over Colby on Saturday, Nov. 2. The Panthers will host the semi-finals and finals of the NESCAC tournament for ...
Middlebury crawled over the Colby Mules on Saturday, Nov. 2 by a score of 3-0 to win the quarterfinal round of NESCAC tournament play. With their season hanging on the Kohn field scoreboard, Lauren Berestecky ’17, Bridget Instrum ’16 and Katie Theiss ’14 hustled to hammer home the difference-making ...
Middlebury saw its season end in a frenetic final few minutes at Cole Field at Williams in the NESCAC quarterfinal, as the third-seeded Ephs bested the sixth-seeded Panthers 3-2 on Saturday, Nov. 2. After Harper Williams ’15 blasted a penalty into the lower left-hand corner of the net in the 84th ...
Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto, the largest city in Canada and fourth-largest in North America, found himself fighting for his political life last week after the Toronto Police recovered a video that allegedly showed the mayor smoking crack cocaine. Ford was elected mayor of Toronto in October 2010 on a ...
It is Saturday night, roughly 11:50 p.m., and the crowd facing the Chicago-born Chance the Rapper in Nelson Stadium is getting antsy. The show thus far has been nothing if not a tad bizarre, and Chance is running out of concert staples to fill the venue’s echoey crevices. “Smoke Again” and “Juice” ...
The Department of Theatre and Dance celebrated Halloween with a presentation of Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom, a subversive tale of witchcraft and female power running from Thursday, Oct. 31 through Saturday, Nov. 2. Audience members entered the Seeler Studio Theatre in the Kevin P. Mahaney Center ...