Horatio Seymour’s tomb does not look like one belonging to a much-celebrated man. A stone stump shadowed by grand monuments, the grave attracts little attention. Yet while Seymour’s tombstone might not capture the esteem of the late United States senator from Vermont, it certainly honors his soft-spoken ...
Sword & Plough, the company founded by alumna Emily Núñez ’12, had the kind of launch on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter that most start-ups can only dream of. On its April 15 launch, the company received pledges that surpassed their $20,000 goal in two hours. At the time of print, ...
“I never would have dropped out of college if I had my Posse with me.” This remark is the reason that over 50 students are here at Middlebury College today. It was this statement that inspired the foundation of the posse Scholarship program in 1989, and since then, Posse has sent over 4,800 students ...
Last Wednesday, the College Democrats and College Republicans joined for a debate on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. The event was the second of a series, following a recent debate on gun control. These events are part of a larger push to alter the political discourse on campus. “There ...
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury resident Bernard Kimball, 65, was shot outside of his Jackson Lane apartment last Saturday. Police report that the incident occurred at 1:12 a.m. on Saturday morning. The Middlebury Police Department and other local authorities are still looking for the suspect in the ...
FERRISBURGH— Soaring fuel prices, increased development of local and sustainable food systems and growing environmental concerns have caused farmers across the country to reevaluate the manner in which food is grown and distributed. One Vermonter is looking to the water, the wind and the past for ...
MIDDLEBURY — Caroline Rose, a Long Island native, has recently made her way to Burlington to produce and release her first major musical album, America Religious. A collaboration between Rose and her musical partner Jer Coons, a musician native to Middlebury, the album will be released on June 11, ...
On Monday, April 22nd, students and faculty gathered in the McCullough Social Space. Student organization, It Happens Here, organized a reading of Middlebury student monologues detailing personal experiences with sexual violence. Of the twenty-three submissions, seventeen were read anonymously and five ...
As the 2013 Middlebury Solar Decathlon team continues its construction on the InSite house in Ridgeline parking lot, the “Solar D Update” presents the second half of its preview of October’s competition with a look at the next five contests that comprise the 10-event decathlon. Last month, past ...
On Friday, April 12, the dance department presented their rehearsal of “Dance, Music, Light: Performance Improvisation,” which will take place on May 3 and 4. Penny Campbell, senior lecturer in dance, discussed how dancers, musicians and a stage lighting designer study improvisation. During the ...
Punk rock may never die – and it is certainly still alive today – but punk rockers eventually grow up. Way out in southern California, where burnout skaters have been churning out snotty noise rock cuts drenched in distorted reverb and don’t-give-a-f*** demeanors with steady consistency over the ...
Walking out of Davis Family Library the other day, I overheard a professor consoling a frantic senior with the following: “What you’ve got to keep in mind about your thesis is that it’s your first work, not your last one." His comment brought to mind a line from Plato’s Symposium that discusses ...
Tomorrow evening, Davis Anderson ’13, Jessica Lee ’13 and Hannah Pierce ’13 will present their senior work in the Senior Thesis Dance Concert. Each artist’s work has a distinct approach and subject matter, all exploring personal connections to various dimensions of the contemporary human. Pierce ...
Inside the Pepin Gymnasium on Friday night, with stage lights blazing in all directions, hundreds of students aglow crowded around the stage, feet moving to the beat, hands reaching for a leather-jacketed band-boy with more cool strut than flashy flaunt. Hip-hop duo Timeflies blasted the house ...
The tale of Cinderella is one well known throughout the world. In the classic story, a fairy godmother transforms Cinderella into a beautiful girl, a spell that will fade when the clock strikes midnight. She goes to the ball where the Prince falls in love with her, but runs away to make her ...
The Middlebury men’s and women’s track and field squads competed at Army against four Division I schools on Saturday, April 13. The men finished second with a score of 120.50, behind Army but well ahead of Binghamton, Columbia and Colgate. The women’s team scored 87 points and finished ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team suffered its first loss of the season this past Saturday, April 13 against top-ranked Trinity College. Middlebury fell to the Bantams by a score of 10-9 in a nail-biting game that was tied at nine going into the last two minutes of play. On Tuesday, April ...
The third-ranked women’s tennis team traveled to Maine April 13 and 14 to take on NESCAC foes Bowdoin and Colby, falling just short against the Polar Bears on Saturday before returning to rout the Mules in nearby Waterville the following day. The first match of the weekend was a significant ...
The Middlebury men’s golf team competed at the Manhattanville Spring Invitational at Lyman Orchards Golf Club in Wallingford, Conn. last weekend, April 13 and 14, coming away with a seventh-place finish. Skidmore won the tournament with a score of 601 strokes, narrowly edging Williams, St. Thomas ...
The women’s golf team returned to action for the first time this spring in this past weekend’s Vassar Invitational at the Dutchess Golf Club on Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14. The Panther women finished in second place behind their conference foe, Williams, posting a team score of ...