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Field hockey set to host 2027 NCAA Championship
By Jack Mcguire | October 10, 2024Middlebury’s Peter Kohn Field is set to host the 2027 Division III Field Hockey Championship. This marks the first time that Middlebury will host the national championship for field hockey.
Students mail in ballots, register to vote ahead of November election
By Phoebe An | October 10, 2024As conversations about the upcoming presidential election build on campus, Middlebury students continue to register to vote and request absentee ballots from their home states across the country. Historically, Middlebury students have had a widespread interest in voting: During the previous presidential ...
“Boycott, Divest, Sanction” is not the answer
By Claire Shapiro | October 10, 2024“In the arsenal of diplomacy, economic sanctions are crude weapons, slow-acting and unpredictable. When they work, innocents suffer. The bad guys, after all, are usually the ones with the bunkers and gas masks — or, in this case, the power and cash — to endure a war of attrition.”
Cricket Blue and the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra set to perform at Middlebury Town Hall
By Violet Wexler | October 10, 2024 On Saturday, Oct. 12, Cricket Blue, the folk duo composed of Middlebury alumni Taylor Smith ’12 and Laura Heaberlin ’12.5, will return to Middlebury for a show with the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra at the Town Hall Theater. The duo will perform orchestral renditions of their debut ...
Photo of the Week: Twilight over Twilight
By Delphine Wu | October 10, 2024Delphine Wu ’28 captured a gloomy autumn evening over Twilight Hall, with autumnal colors in full display. On Oct. 10 through Oct. 16, the Green Mountain State will be flushed with warm foliage, when the changing of the leaves is expected to crest before subsiding into late October and November.
College Street stabbing case holds hearing, requests sanity assessment
By Caroline (Xiaoyuan) Jiao | October 10, 2024On Oct. 7, 2024, the Criminal Division of the Addison County District Court heard a brief competency hearing for Jerry L. Hoffman, who was charged last spring with attempted murder in the second degree, aggravated assault with a weapon and resisting arrest.
Former police chief assumes role as Interim Town Manager
By Mandy Berghela | October 10, 2024On Sept. 23, the town of Middlebury welcomed back a familiar face to take over as the interim town manager. Tom Hanley — who retired in February 2024 from his 32 years in service to the Middlebury Police Department as police chief — took over the chief executive officer position after former Town ...
Volleyball wins 10th straight match this fall
By Ting Cui | October 10, 2024The volleyball team (11–4) notched a 3–1 victory over Tufts University (7–6) this past Saturday, marking their 10th consecutive win this season.
In defense of banning screens
By Daniel Allen | October 10, 2024Almost all of us would do better in class if we took notes on paper and did our readings from physical books. I will be the first to admit it: I love to take notes with my laptop in class. It stores them all in one place, I do not have to worry about deciphering my writing after the fact and it means ...
Underpaid and understaffed: Why Middlebury is losing its librarians
By Madeleine Kaptein | October 3, 2024Senior Research and Instruction Librarian Brenda Ellis retired on Wednesday after over 23 and a half years in her position, making her the seventh librarian to depart from the college in the past two years and the third in the past five months.
Crossword 10/03/2024: Solutions
By Ella Charnizon | October 3, 2024Crossword 10/03/2024: Solutions!
Hendrik Dey ’99 on “Colonnaded Streets and Urban Theater in the Later Roman Empire”
By Yuhan Zhang | October 3, 2024Architecture, political standards, everyday ways of life — how did these concepts interact with each other in the Later Roman Empire? On Sept. 26, Dr. Hendrik W. Dey ’99, Middlebury alumnus and Professor of Art History at Hunter College of City University of New York (CUNY), shed some light on this ...
Middlebury’s Hirschfield International Film Series fall season opens with the Sundance Short Film Tour
By Anthony Cinquina | October 3, 2024Middlebury’s Hirschfield International Film series opened Thursday, Sept. 26 to a packed theater, as Sundance Film Festival’s 2024 Short Film Tour — currently traveling its way across the country — made a gracious stop at Dana Auditorium. Of the seven shorts shown, four were undeniably worth ...
Middlebury falls to 19th in U.S. News & World Report ranking
By Hugo Zhang | October 3, 2024On Sept. 23, U.S. News & World Report released its 2025–2026 national liberal arts colleges rankings, which dropped Middlebury to 19th place — eight positions lower than last year, tied with Grinnell College and Washington and Lee University. This ranking is Middlebury’s lowest since its first ...
Women’s Rugby cruises in home opener vs Bryant
By Josh Harkins | October 3, 2024Under the warm September sun, Middlebury Women’s Rugby rolled over the Bryant University Bulldogs 30–0 this past Saturday in a slightly shortened game.
PFL Weekly 10/03/2024
By Jake Mcguire | October 3, 2024Welcome back to PFL Weekly! The stoke continues as we recap our UNDEFEATED sports week here at Middlebury. We talk about parents' weekend and discuss what’s to come. Two great men’s cross country runners, Benjamin Hughes ’27 and Ray Pavlik ’27 joined us in the studio for a special interview. ...
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A liberal arts education won’t cost you a career, we promise
By The Editorial Board | October 3, 2024As conversations on campus and in the national discourse continue on the value of a liberal arts education, we chose this week to reflect on what the liberal arts can and should provide to Middlebury students in the 21st century. A distinction has emerged in the past decade between those who find the ...