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Activities Fair Fall 2013

By Maggie Cochrane | September 16, 2013

After being postponed due to rain, the Activities Fair was held on Hepburn Road on Monday, September 16th. Students from various clubs and organizations set up tables, offering students opportunities to join groups related to the arts, world cultures, religion, sports, music, and more.

The Campus Voice: Breaking the Silence

By Gregory Woolston | September 16, 2013

On Sunday, Sept. 15 Greta Neubauer and Ian Stewart discussed the role of the media in the conversation about sexual assault on college campuses on WRMC. "How do we talk about sexual assault on college campuses? Who is represented in media coverage? Should this conversation look differently?" They were ...

Shorthanded Women’s Soccer Team Loses in OT at Amherst

By Alex Morris | September 12, 2013

The Middlebury Women’s soccer team started their season with an overtime 1-0 loss to Amherst on Saturday, Sept. 7, after losing 11 first-years to mandatory MiddView orientation trips. Looking to build on an impressive season last year, over one-third of the team was absent from the first game of ...

Updated: Community and Country React

By Gregory Woolston | September 11, 2013

As Kyle Finck reported for the Campus earlier this week, "a 2,977 flag memorial was ripped out of the ground in front of Mead Memorial Chapel shortly before 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 by a group of five protestors claiming that the flags were on top of a sacred Abenaki burial site." This coverage ...

Students Replant Memorial Flags

By Gregory Woolston | September 11, 2013

Following a midday protest, in which five individuals removed a temporary memorial commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, students gathered on Wednesday evening to replant flags in front of Mead Memorial Chapel. Additional coverage regarding both the protest and response will continue throughout ...

Trio of Students Cycle in Vermont Bike Race

By Owen Teach | September 11, 2013

  The young talent of the Middlebury Cycling Club was on display over Labor Day Weekend, as three underclassmen Panther bikers delivered impressive performances in the Green Mountain Stage Race, held from Friday, Aug. 30 through Monday, Sept. 2. Sam O’Keefe ’16.5, Kai Wiggins ’16 and Zachary ...

Hooking Up Sober

By Shannon Fieldler | September 11, 2013

Nothing says possibility like the first day of school. With each autumn, we lucky youth are given the opportunity to start from scratch. In third grade, it’s new crayons, in high school it’s new sneakers, and now, in college, it’s new everything. New classes, new dorms, new faces, new sushi ...

Folwer's Hat Trick Catapults Panthers

By Damon Hatheway | September 11, 2013

In a result strikingly similar to the last time these teams squared off in the NESCAC semifinals, the Middlebury field hockey team slid by Amherst in a 4-3 overtime victory, as NESCAC Player of the Week, Cat Fowler ’15 netted a hat trick. Though tumbling over the Lord Jeffs — as Fowler did on her ...

Fall Varsity Sports Preview

By Damon Hatheway | September 11, 2013

Cross Country Both the men’s and women’s team claimed second place at NESCACs last year, as well as first and third place for men’s and women’s respectively at the NCAA regional. Men finished eighth at the NCAA championships while the women finished 11th. Both squads begin their competitive ...

In Defense of Intervention

By Ben Kinney | September 11, 2013

“I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad ... [that] the use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable ... if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons ... you will be held accountable,” President Obama stated last December. However, while Secretary Kerry has now confirmed ...

Shorthanded Women's Soccer Team Loses in OT at Amherst

By Alex Morris | September 11, 2013

Dive$ting for Dollar$

By Zach Drennen | September 11, 2013

Forget everything you thought you knew about why Middlebury College must divest. It is not about abandoning profitable investments for moral reasons. It is about abandoning investments with little hope of future growth. It is about getting out of a bubble that is about to burst. Last year, we watched ...

Depleted Men's Soccer Team Falls in OT at Amherst

By Joe Macdonald | September 11, 2013

A weakened Middlebury men’s soccer squad traveled to Amherst for a matchup with the heavily favored Ephs on Saturday, Sept. 7. Middlebury played well against its eighth-ranked NESCAC rival, taking a 1-1 tie into overtime before Amherst ended the drama quickly with a goal in the fourth minute of extra ...

The Content of our Character

By Julian Macrone | September 11, 2013

On Aug. 28, each member of the Middlebury community hoping for a statement from the College concerning the divestment of our endowment from fossil fuel companies received what they had desired. However, the news contained in the email sent out by President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz wasn’t ...

Pandora's Sarin Box

By Jack Apollo George | September 11, 2013

He didn’t want to tell us the story, but he did. The man at the dinner table this summer had dug up the bodies of murdered Kurds in the early nineties. He had recovered samples in order to help prove that Saddam’s regime had been responsible for using Sarin against defenseless citizens. He was then ...

Welcome Back

By Thea Volpp | September 11, 2013

Students returned to campus this week, marking the beginning of classes; the inevitable all-student email from Matthew Biette after hundreds of students simultaneously converge on Proctor’s panini machines; and the myriad a cappella groups roaming the campus, removing bleary-eyed first-year vocalists ...

Divestment 101

By Guest Contributor | September 11, 2013

What is this “divestment”? To those of you new to Middlebury or just returning from abroad, I wish to say welcome and keep an eye out for us. The issue of divestment from fossil fuels and arms manufacturing has been a hot topic for the past year, and it will continue to be. Let me get you up ...

Globalizing World Threatens to Change Language School

By Jessica Cheung | September 11, 2013

There has been a long-standing myth at the college: in halcyon summer days on an idyllic campus, chatter in Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish twirl in the open air like dandelion seeds dance across campus. Students fill the campus with passion and curiosity for a language, entering a new world but ...

MiddView Enforces Mandatory Attendance

By Isabelle Stillman | September 11, 2013

It is a rare feat to find 140 college students spending their Saturday night playing cards, board games or doing puzzles – and liking it. But the Common Ground Center found nothing less on Saturday, Aug. 30, as 140 soon-to-embark MiddView leaders whiled away the last night of their retreat in a mountainous ...

Doubling Down to Bring You the Best

By Kyle Finck | September 11, 2013

The Campus has two contracts to uphold this year. A contract with you, the reader, and a contract to pursue the truth at all costs. We don’t write for Old Chapel. We don’t write for the Board of Trustees. We write for you, the Middlebury student. This year, we have made slight changes to try and ...