On Oct. 1, the Obama Administration launched healthcare.gov, a government-run website aiming to provide Americans with easily adopted and inexpensive healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). From its conception, ‘Obamacare’ prompted intense partisan divisions, impassioned political ...
Dear Editor, I write in response to Zach Drennen’s recent ill-informed and unfortunate column, “End the Feb Program,” with the following points. 1) Mr. Drennen’s assertion that the College “only reports the diversity statistics of fall admits” is simply untrue. All the information on class ...
To hear the players' post-game reactions click on their names below. With Middlebury trailing 24-20 and facing fourth-and-goal from the Trinity seven-yard line with less than 90 seconds remaining in the game, quarterback McCallum Foote ’14 connected with wide receiver Matt Minno '16 in the end zone ...
The Middlebury women’s soccer team finished the regular season at the top of the NESCAC, remaining unbeaten in its past 13 games. The Panthers capped off a successful fall break with a 1-0 win over Bates on Saturday, Oct. 19 before besting Williams in a thriller on Tuesday, Oct. 22 and finishing off ...
On the final week of its regular season schedule, the Middlebury College Rugby Club (MCRC) traveled to Boston College on Saturday, Oct. 26 with the hopes of securing an unbeaten record and knocking off the only side to beat the Panthers last season. In yet another dominant display in the club’s impressive ...
Hannah Deoul ’14 and Chrissy Ritter ’16 invigorated a second half masterpiece against Wesleyan on Saturday Oct. 26 to win the game by a final score of 3-1 and clinch the fourth seed in the NESCAC tournament with a 12-2 record. Catherine Fowler ’15 knocked in her 17th goal of the year and supreme ...
The Middlebury men’s soccer team had their five-game winning streak snapped in their conference regular season finale with a 1-0 loss at Wesleyan on Saturday, Oct. 26. The streak began with a doubleheader two weeks ago at home against Trinity and Hamilton, continued with a conference win on the road ...
The Middlebury volleyball team suffered a tough set of losses over the fall break as the Panthers first dropped a match against Connecticut College 3-1 on Friday, Oct. 18 and then lost 3-2 at Tufts the next day. Middlebury rebounded the following week with a 3-0 win against Plymouth State a 3-1 win ...
[audio m4a="http://middleburycampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/What-does-it-mean-to-be-green_-2.m4a"][/audio] To accompany the annual Green Issue, online editor STEPHANIE ROUSH asked the Campus' staff, "what does it mean to be green?" Listen to their thoughts above.
1. Eating Beef is horrific for the environment. Eating beef results in an enormous amount of carbon emissions, to the tune of around 2.7 kilograms of carbon dioxide per 100 gram serving (or around 214 calories of 90 percent lean beef). In fact, a drive from Middlebury to New York City actually releases ...
Dear President Liebowitz, the College administration, and the Board of Trustees, Thank you for your transparency in your statement regarding divestment and the Board’s internal processes and preliminary proposals. We appreciate the time you have dedicated and your willingness to collaborate with ...
This column is sponsored by the Service Cluster Board (SCB), a group of student leaders involved in volunteer service, activism, and advocacy work on and off campus. In close collaboration with the SGA Finance Committee, the SCB provides a flexible and responsive administrative structure to support ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has a number of high-profile environmental cases on deck for this term. As Greenwire reports, the Court can choose to hear cases that concern challenges from independent parties and 17 states calling for a broad review of the Environmental Protection Agengy’s (EPA) greenhouse ...
Trigger Warning: References to sexual assault. It’s the green issue – hip hip hooray! For so long have we waited for this very day! A day to discuss the power of Green! ‘Cause Green runs our school, you know what we mean? It takes Green money to keep this place sterile and clean – We should ...
To the Middlebury Community, On Friday midday, we, the undersigned, will gather outside of Old Chapel to greet the Middlebury College Board of Trustees as it prepares to make decisions about Middlebury’s future. We will be holding “Student Office Hours” as members of the Divest Middlebury campaign. ...
This past July I was at a festival in Geneva, Switzerland waiting for Best Coast to come on stage when I realized that I was actually seeing Beach House and not the aforementioned surf-pop duo. When I told people which bands would be playing at the festival I would say, “Neil Young, Santana, Phoenix, ...
“What did you do over your Febmester?” I looked around the room full of new acquaintances. One had traveled to Africa. Another had ridden on horseback across part of Patagonia. A third had trekked through Nepal. How could I match that? I’d simply enrolled in another college for the fall semester. ...
We owe much of what we enjoy here to the decisions and guidance of the Board of Trustees. But considering how much this group impacts us every day, how well do we really understand the board? While some student groups engage directly with the trustees through positions like the Student Liaison to ...
When the Biomass plant, a lynchpin of Middlebury College’s carbon neutrality goal, shuts down, it is a massive undertaking. Starting the night of Thursday, Oct. 10, the plant’s input of wood chips was stalled, the burners died down and steam pumping through the College’s pipes was heated by oil ...
Patrick McConathy is an entrepreneur of diverse interests and accomplishments. From Colorado, he joined the Middlebury College Board of Trustees in 2005. McConathy brings to the table a Western-U.S. perspective, enthusiasm for the institution, decades of experience and networks in the energy industry ...