As I counted the bruises up my shins, I also kept counting down the days until the bubble would be torn down. I thought that I would never miss that two-and-a-half lane track — one of the lanes just disappearing into nothingness, the sharp corners, and concrete straightaways disguised with a thin ...
The Middlebury women’s basketball team fell to 2-3 on the season with a 53-51 loss to Johnson State as they dropped two of three games over a two-week span. On Nov. 23 the Panthers fell 65-43 to Emmanuel, but rebounded three days later with a six-point win over Johnson State that featured a 20-rebound ...
The men’s and women’s squash teams both traveled to Clinton, NY to take on Hamilton on Saturday, Nov. 23. The Continentals provided the Panthers with their first NESCAC competition of the season. The Panthers, ranked 12th nationally, started the day off with four consecutive losses in match-play ...
Although mead is not typically stocked in fridges around campus, Ricky Klein, head brewmaster of the new Groennfell Meadery in Colchester, Vt., is confident that Vermonters will embrace the alternative drink. Though it is not known by many, mead is one of the oldest drinks ever created, steeped in ...
Coming off a huge state championship victory, Middlebury Union High School football coach Dennis Smith is grateful for many things. Every year, Smith and his players set the goal of being crowned state champions. In Vermont’s Division I, it is a difficult goal, but not out of reach. Smith believes ...
With less than 20 seconds on the clock on Sunday, Nov. 24, Scarlett Kirk ’14 battled against winds over 25 mph and a Johns Hopkins defender with her back to the goal and seemingly nowhere to go. In one quick motion, the Middlebury forward’s turn opened up space to tuck away the ball past the outstretched ...
[audio mp3="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/town_gown.mp3"][/audio] On Sunday, Nov. 17 hosts IAN STEWART and GRETA NEUBAUER spoke with the creators of Town vs. Gown, a short documentary produced by students at Middlebury Union High School. This follows discussion about the video ...
As a first-year I was elected into the leadership of the Student Investment Committee. As a sophomore I ran a handsome campaign for SGA President, and escaped the burden of winning by losing handily. As a junior I met the Dalai Lama and won the TEDx spot to talk about traveling. As a senior I’ve published ...
It is 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night. The campus is illuminated by a full moon, and the faraway thumping bass of music can be heard echoing across lawns as parties get started. Tom Raymond is on the clock, checking in for his shift as a night watchman. “The College campus is a lot different at night ...
Blackbird, a literary arts magazine, will present its new online branch, The Orchard, on Friday, Nov. 22, in tandem with the release of Blackbird’s biannual publication. The magazine’s Editing Board, which includes editors of both publications, will host a launch party at The Mill on Friday night, ...
At home in Hong Kong, I used to be able to just stand up and go anywhere. Right now, any means of travel requires meticulous premeditation. Sometimes I feel like I am stuck on an island, in every sense of the word (believe it or not, Middlebury is built on a slope so as to avoid a flood if there ever ...
On Saturday, Nov. 16, students took part in “Tour de Fracked,” a bike ride organized to peacefully protest the Vermont fracked gas pipeline that is proposed to run through Middlebury. The College has expressed its support for the pipeline, maintaining that it will provide an inexpensive, local ...
The goal of the 40 or more programs offered by the Rural Development Division is to provide funding for land, equipment, working capital, infrastructure and training or technical assistance, according to a summary of programs on the Vermont USDA Rural Development website. The owners of Champlain Orchards, ...
To the Editors of the Middlebury Campus, We would like to offer some comments and clarification on the article entitled “Reading and Ranking: Shaping the Class of 2018” in the November 14, 2013 issue of the Middlebury Campus. First, thank you for spending time with the Admissions Office to shed ...
Akrasia is the ancient Greek word for “weakness of will,” or, in other words, acting against one’s better judgment. This past week makes me think that the U.S. might have itself a bad case of the stuff when it comes to climate questions. As Greenwire and The New York Times report, the EPA lowered ...
Cheating at a competitive place like Middlebury will never go away, but it is possible to change the incentives that currently allow its tolerance. Beyond being lazy and counter-productive to education, cheating is a collective action problem. The best way to prevent cheating — in addition to investing ...
Double-tap. Explosion. Dust. Blood. Celebrations. It reads like a resume of a more traditional military confrontation but in these modern instances no one has to touch a gun or even look their enemy in the face. Welcome to the world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Many governments, private firms and individuals ...
8,446 miles. That is how far it is from Middlebury to Tacloban City, Philippines. When the Earth suffers, we suffer with it, but not everyone suffers equally. Today, the Philippines is bearing much of the burden. Since our community often tends to feel apathetic towards the people and communities that ...
Unpaid internships have become a nearly ubiquitous feature of the modern economy. For many students, they offer the opportunity to explore their field of interest before later attempting to find a paid job. While the prevalence of unpaid work opportunities creates a number of problems for those who ...