Rita Pfeiffer ’15 did not expect much to come out of her band-mate Maeve Bell entering their band’s song into a Battle of the Bands contest. In mid-August, however, Pfeiffer got a call from Bell that their band had won the contest. The band, called “Bea, Rita & Maeve,” submitted a song called ...
African pop diva Angelique Kidjo recently brought an international crowd of 7,000 people to their feet, dancing together to an upbeat song about global peace and harmony at the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway. This is just what Kidjo does, seamlessly entertaining and provoking social ...
Hip-hop “choreopoem” “Word Becomes Flesh” played to a packed Wright Theater on Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21, preceded by student spoken word poets and followed by a talkback moderated by dance department faculty chair Christal Brown. The first of the Performance Art Series’ 2013-2014 ...
On Sept. 7, Joe Kloc wrote on The Daily Dot about the New York Times’ coverage of recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) access to online banking records. “If in fact the agency did crack the encryption schemes used for bank transactions (the Times is somewhat unclear ...
The era of indie rock is dwindling. Thirty years or so is a good run, all things considered; but the young teens of today simply aren’t interested in taking the time to hone their six-string skills for the heartthrobs of freshman year creative writing class when more immediately accessible instruments ...
In this week's spread, "Get Out While You Can: A Guide to Exploring Vermont in the Fall/Live it Up in the Fall Foliage," editors JESSICA CHEUNG, ISABELLE STILLMAN and OLIVIA ALLEN help you decide how and where to explore around Middlebury, Addison County, and Vermont.
A group of nine faculty members hosted a series of seven forum discussions last week to encourage a community conversation about protest and civility on campus in light of the vandalism of the flag memorial on Sept. 11. The forum events, which took place from Monday, Sept. 16 to Thursday, Sept. 19, ...
Thirteen percent of students in the class of 2017 are the first in their family to go to college, according to data released by the College admissions office. This number is the highest percentage of first-generation students in a class on record and likely in the school’s history, said Dean of Admissions ...
The College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) are teaming up for the first time to co-host the annual Clifford Symposium. This year’s symposium, titled “Translation in a Global Community: Theory and Practice,” will run from Sept. 24 to Sept. 28, and will feature faculty ...
The Middlebury Sexual Assault Oversight Committee (SAOC) received a $272,528 grant from the US Department of Justice’s Office (USDOJ) on Violence Against Women. In the grant application submitted to the DOJ, the SAOC wrote that the funds will be used to “significantly strengthen student, faculty ...
E-books, online textbooks and computer-based note-taking programs are growing in number and popularity, but faculty at the College remain divided over the use of computers in classrooms, opting for course-by-course policies instead of department-wide regulations. While a lack of cohesion among professors’ ...
On Saturday, Sept. 21, the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Shabaab attacked an upscale shopping mall in the northwestern part of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 175. As the siege continued into its third day on Monday, Kenyan security forces were continuing ...
We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in class, and someone in front of you is watching the soccer game on his computer or browsing New York Times headlines. Despite your best efforts to focus on the professor, you find your eyes drift as you wonder about the New Jersey Senate race or why Paul Krugman ...
An increasingly dominant strain of thought at American universities and colleges embraces a certain materialism. Materialism here refers not to a consumerist urge or to a Marxist ethic, although neither is wholly unrelated, but rather to a worldview that treats reality as no more than what can be observed ...
In November 2011, a student at Williams College painted the wall of a dormitory with a racist, profanity-laced death threat aimed at African-Americans. In response, the administration canceled all classes, athletics and extracurricular activities to hold a school-wide discussion and lunch as a college ...
By now, I would hope that the majority of students at Middlebury College have heard of the whistleblower Edward Snowden and know why he is currently stuck in legal limbo in Russia. Most people have probably also heard of “Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management” (PRISM), ...
We are, I have been told, part of the worst generation ever: the entitlement generation, the lazy generation, the generation of Facebook, mass connectivity and environmental activism. Now, there is a certain tendency in this country to look down on the up-and-coming youth while glorifying the deeds ...
Bill McKibben, one of the nation’s leading environmentalists, actually pollutes far more than the average American. And he’s justified in doing so. Last week I presented why a concept known as “earning to give” may be, counter-intuitively, a better strategy to do good than working in the non-profit ...
Ted Cruz really does not want you to get health insurance. Through a combination of snark and a false bravado that might trick his constituents into thinking that the Canadian-born Senator from Texas was actually at the Alamo, Cruz, Utah Senator Mike Lee, and the Tea Party were able to convince the ...
At a news conference at City Hall on Monday, Sept. 23, former Governor Madeline Kunin announced that Vermont will be joining a new initiative to support women wishing to seek elected positions in Vermont. As the only female governor in the history of Vermont, Kunin announced that Vermont is partnering ...