In one week, a student-created online petition to persuade the College to retract its statement of support for the proposed Addison County Natural Gas Pipeline garnered over 1,000 signatures. The student group, led by Cailey Cron ’13.5, Anna Shireman-Grabowski ’15.5 and others, aims to reach 1,500 ...
On April 23, Kathryn Wasserman Davis passed away at the age of 106. With her passing, the College, Language Schools and Monterey Institute of International Studies lost a key leader and source of inspiration. One of the world’s foremost agents of peace, Davis’ life work left an indelible ...
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, It Happens Here (IHH) brought Grace Brown, 20-year-old creator of Project Unbreakable, to Dana Auditorium on Monday, April 29 to share the history of her project and the stories behind some of the photographs. Project Unbreakable is a tumblr blog that captures ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) held meetings on Sunday, April 21 and on Sunday, April 28. Reminder to Vote SGA Elections for the 2013-2014 academic year end 12:00 pm on Thursday, May 2. If you are reading this article before that time and have not voted, you are still able to vote. Voting ...
Bangladesh is a country prone to natural disasters. Due to its location on a low-lying delta, Bangladesh sees more than its share of hurricanes and floods. However, last Wednesday, April 24, the country saw one of its worst man-made disasters. The collapse of an eight-story shoddy garment factory in ...
The number of museums in Paris will kill you. It’s enough that you could spend 100 percent of your time going to see art and never run out of things to see. This is true, too, of restaurants, pâtisseries and boutiques. You’re living in this museum of a city that’s the destination of so many ...
This weekend, the Middlebury Bach Festival will celebrate its third year, offering a variety of events about the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach to the community on April 26-28. The festival was started in 2011 by Associate Professor of Music Jeffrey Buettner and his wife Jessica Allen, who were ...
“Save me!” yelled the avatar of a complete stranger. The Harpy overhead flapped its massive wings looking for its next victim to devour with a devastating multi-hit combo that would demolish more HP bars. My other two teammates had begun to use their summoning or transformation spells. Since these ...
On Friday, April 12, Paul Donnelly ’15, Matei Epure ’16 and Chris Matteri ’13 travelled to Siena College in Loudonville, New York, to compete in the 18th annual Conference of the Northeast Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSCNE 2013). The three Middlebury students ...
In his class "Segregation in America: Baseball’s Negro Leagues," Emeritus Dean of Advising and Assistant Professor of American Studies Karl Lindholm does not spend an inordinate amount of time discussing Jackie Robinson. Though he acknowledges the Robinson story is “the greatest there is,” he’s ...
The Middlebury Campus got a chance to talk with Paula Bogutyn ’14, director and producer, as well as Jordan Ashleigh Jones ’13, costume designer, of The Igloo Settlement, a student-produced play written by Daniel Sauermilch ’13. Inspired by the Occupy movement, the play explored notions of American ...
On Wednesday, April 24th, Andrew Delbanco of Columbia University gave a talk based on his book College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be. Delbanco, Director of American Studies at Columbia, has published several books in relation to American Studies and has received the Lionel Trilling Award for two ...
This past Saturday, April 20, the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team suited up to take on Colby in front of parents, friends and alumni. The men had no problems with the Mules, running to a 16-10 win. “Having the alumni up here for alumni weekend is always a lot of fun, and it is encouraging ...
Middlebury continued its impressive streak with a string of wins consisting of a double header against Plymouth on Wednesday, April 17 and a series win against Williams on Friday and Saturday April 19-20. Middlebury was unable to build off a strong showing against Williams, falling 2-0 in their ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team displayed its NESCAC and Division III dominance this past Saturday in Waterville, Maine, in its highly anticipated match up against sixth-ranked Colby College. The women came home with a convincing 14-6 win. The Panthers came out strong early on in the game, scoring ...
The ninth-ranked Middlebury men’s tennis team went 2-1 during a three-match homestand Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21. On Saturday, the men scored a 6-2 win over Stevens Tech., but suffered a 2-7 loss to fifth-ranked Williams later that afternoon. On Sunday, they squeezed out a nerve-wracking ...
The Panthers played strong on Friday, April 19 beating Wesleyan 4-3, but dropped both games of the doubleheader Saturday, April 20, in a weekend series against the Cardinals at Forbes Field. Although Panthers moved to a 4-8 NESCAC record (9-14 overall) with three divisional series remaining on the season, ...
The men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted the Middlebury Invitational on Saturday, April 20 at the Dragone Track. The Panthers competed against University of Vermont, Plattsburgh St. and the women of Colby-Sawyer. Both teams won their respective competitions handily, winning a total ...
Security concerns following the marathon bombings in Boston forced the Middlebury women’s tennis team to cancel its match against MIT and postpone another against Tufts to Sunday, April 21. The Panthers ultimately defeated the Jumbos 7-2, improving their record to 9-4 overall. “While we had to ...
In its final tune-up before NESCAC Championships, the men’s golf team travelled to Williams last weekend, April 20 and 21, to compete in the Williams Spring Challenge at Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown, Mass. The team came away in fourth place, posting a total combined score of 649 strokes. Host ...