Whether you eat there once a week, or just enjoy a sub from time to time, we can all agree that Costello’s Market is a staple of Middlebury. Many students of the College frequent this Italian market in the Marble Works Many move in and out quickly, rushing to class or to a club meeting, just picking ...
Unbeknownst to many students at the College, there lies a world past Porter Hospital — a picturesque community of charmingly identical houses and apartments called Eastview. Within that community live Heather and Charles Robinson, two very proud College Alumni. I was greeted at Eastview last Wednesday ...
Climate change scares Fran Putnam, but it hasn’t paralyzed her. Instead, she leads the Weybridge Energy Coalition and has spearheaded the town’s latest energy related success – becoming the first town in Vermont to complete the Vermont Home Energy Challenge. The Challenge, which was prompted ...
“It was like a scene from the Godfather,” Derk Sauer said as he was speaking in front of the audience in the RAJ conference room last Thursday. He was describing a scene in which he met with a Russian oligarch who wanted to offer him protection, in a casino in Moscow; it was 11 a.m., and he was ...
For the third time in as many NESCAC games, the Middlebury women’s soccer team scored in the final minutes to ensure a 2-1 road victory – this time against Tufts on Saturday, Oct. 5. The Panthers were hit with a sense of déjà vu from last week’s game against Colby, as, despite a strong start, ...
Trailing by 13 and driving into Lord Jeff territory to begin the fourth quarter at Amherst, the Middlebury football team had an opportunity to draw within striking distance and recover from their worst half of football of the 2013 season. But on a first-and-10 from the Lord Jeffs’ 22-yard line quarterback ...
Middlebury (8-2) stomached a 4-2 loss to last year’s national champion Tufts Jumbos (7-1) on Saturday, Oct. 5 but recovered to celebrate a 5-0 win against M.I.T. on Sunday Oct. 6. The team covered many miles, both literally and figuratively. The trip to Boston and back was a long one, during which ...
They gather on the steps of Mead Chapel, some dressed for the occasion, others wearing the clothes they wore to class, and make small talk while waiting for the one or two inevitable latecomers. When everyone is in place, materials in hand, they come together and perform an age-old hand ritual to determine ...
The Middlebury women’s volleyball team’s winning streak came to an end on Friday, Oct. 4 at the hands of Wesleyan. On Saturday, Oct. 5, the Panthers bounced back against NESCAC contestant Trinity by winning 3-0, before they topped Keene State in a 3-1 win. Middlebury had begun the season with 10 ...
The Panthers lost by a single goal for the third time this season on Saturday, Oct. 5, at Tufts. The Jumbos scored just before halftime and recorded a shutout for the seventh time this season and the 1-0 victory. Both coaches and players felt that the team played exceptionally well, especially in the ...
For the second consecutive tournament, the Middlebury women’s golf team finished as the runner up, trailing only hosts Williams at the Williams Fall Invitational at Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown, Mass. The women claimed second place with a score of 639 strokes, 10 strokes behind rival Williams. ...
Filling Nelson Arena with pure, raw and powerful vocals, Angelique Kidjo asserted her musical abilities from the first spine-tingling note of her Oct. 3 concert. Backed by a band from international origins that included guitar, bass, bongo and western-style drums, the Beninese artist and philanthropist ...
“Are Our Political Beliefs Encoded in Our DNA?” Surrounded by news of the government shutdown, Iranian negotiations and Obamacare, this was the headline that caught my eye as I scanned the New York Times headlines. I think it was the jarring association of the two phrases, “political beliefs” ...
Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater screened Othello last Thursday through the London National Theater’s program NTlive. The program broadcasts certain plays from the National Theater to theaters all around the world — over 1,000 people total were watching this version of Othello at the same time. Doug ...
A little less than two years ago, Drake’s second album Take Care – an 80 minute epic on love, failed relationships and the pressures of budding fame – was released to staggering success. Demonstrating marked growth in maturity and spawning as many singles as the standard Beyoncé album (as well ...
Without looking, what underwear are you wearing today? Are you certain? I believe that we are prone to overestimating how often we are right. By acknowledging the likelihood that we are wrong, we can protect ourselves from this irrational tendency. As a thought experiment, consider if you were randomly ...
“Government shutdowns [are] an unpleasant but integral part of the legislative-executive power struggle ... built into the American Constitution,” former Republican Speaker-of-the-House Newt Gingrich wrote in a recent blog post. Gingrich knows this firsthand, having negotiated with President Clinton ...
So what do we think of “insert great author of literature” and their work, “insert great work of literature?” Crickets chirp. Chairs creak. A class of Middlebury students looks down at their books. The professor waits…and waits…and waits. A brave student raises their hand. The tension is ...
Editors’ Note: The following text contains vulgarity. As both members of and allies to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community at Middlebury, we are appalled by the homophobic letter that was written and taped on a student’s door two weeks ago. The letter included the phrases: ...
I write to us all from Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada. For the past three years, a coalition of First Nations people, French Acadians and Anglophones have been working together to keep Southwestern Energy Company (SWN), a hydraulic fracturing company, from polluting the water and land ...