Student newspapers, especially at a place like Middlebury, face many challenges when it comes to our coverage of difficult stories. We exist within a small, transitory and tight-knit community. Middlebury College is a unique space to try and report the news, where the subjects of each story come into ...
This past June, the College revealed its new joint initiative with the town of Middlebury to fund the building of a new town recreation facility, as well as a new town hall. The project altogether is estimated to cost $7.5 million. The College will contribute $5.5 million, and the town of Middlebury ...
Prescott House, former home to the members of the Delta social house (ADP), is currently serving as home to Cook Commons first-year students. President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz approved the Community Council’s decision to disband the social house last May, following the Residential Life ...
At their second annual meeting, held in May, the College Board of Trustees approved a $292.4 million budget for fiscal year 2014, and also approved plans to establish a new School of the Environment and a Hebrew Language Institute. The budget for the 2014 fiscal year was increased 2.1 percent over ...
Tree vandalism has been on the rise since 2008, with the majority of incidents confined to the north side of campus near Battell Hall and the Atwater residential and dining halls. The greatest destruction was recorded during the 2012-2013 academic year, with dozens of branches ripped down and trees ...
Following the disbandment in May of MOQA (Middlebury Open Queer Alliance), several students overhauled the organization’s image and mission to better serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. Renamed Q&A: Queers and Allies, the group is “essentially a new organization” ...
Al Schnier and Vinnie Amico are Buffalo-born musicians who, for over two decades, have been playing with one of the premier American jam bands, moe. — a group that sounds a bit like the Grateful Dead if they played a few sessions with Les Claypool. When these two powerful musicians joined forces with ...
It was a humid day in August when the trucks filled with deconstructed pieces of InSite, Middlebury’s 2013 Solar Decathlon house, rolled out onto College Street bound for Irvine, Calif. After a summer filled with long hours, great attention to detail, creative thinking, and problem solving, InSite ...
College Mourns Death of Ian Cameron ’13.5 On Saturday, June 29, Ian Cameron ’13.5 passed away after a car accident in Rhode Island. Cameron was 24 years old. A joint sociology/anthropology and psychology major, Cameron was an active participant in Ross Commons activities, Poor Form Poetry and ...
In case anyone was wondering, the litmus test for giving an artist free reign to spit outright venomous obscenities that pass unexamined by the critical eye is being really, really clever -- a 16-year-old Earl Sweatshirt proved as much back in 2010 on his semi-eponymous debut mixtape. One has to wonder ...
The 2012 U.S. presidential election began almost immediately after President of the United States Barack Obama was sworn into office in 2009. Down under in Australia, voters went to the polls on last Saturday, Sept. 7, barely a month after Parliament was dissolved and campaigning began. Prime Minister ...
A new theater opportunity for actors and theatergoers alike is coming to Middlebury this season through The Company at Town Hall Theater, a new acting company that will bring musical theater and paid acting jobs to students and members of the Middlebury community. They will start their inaugural season ...
One button dives, the other kicks. There, now you know everything you need to know to play Divekick. Created by Iron Galaxy, a studio comprised largely of fighting game enthusiasts and players, Divekick is a (literal) two button fighting game that began as a joke and transformed into much, much more. ...
Middlebury has always exposed students to a unique mixture of the arts, boasting world class performances and exhibitions alongside inspired faculty and student artists, but this fall, the arts at Middlebury promise to be particularly exciting. Featuring options from every genre of the arts, this semester’s ...
On Monday, Sept. 9, lawyers for former Middlebury College student Dong Yub “Don” Song were back in Addison County Criminal Court facing allegations of Sexual Assault, stemming from an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of May 12. The story of what happened that night was laid out ...
A 2,977 flag memorial was ripped out of the ground in front of Mead Memorial Chapel shortly before 3 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. The flags — meant to commemorate each of the 2,977 lives taken in the ...
On Sunday, Sept. 8 first-year students gathered in front of Mead Memorial Chapel for convocation in the late afternoon. (Campus/Paul Gerard)
In a letter sent to Community Council members dated May 16, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced the official disbandment of Delta House, revoking its residential and organizational status and putting to rest speculation that the social house might be spared. “After reviewing this ...
CLICK HERE to download the PDF of There's Only One [gallery columns="5" type="slideshow" ids="21209,21210,21212,21211,21208,21213"] CLICK HERE to download the PDF of There's Only One Welcome to the inaugural edition of There’s Only One Middlebury Sports Magazine, created by the editors of the Middlebury ...
This piece is in response to Michelle Smoler’s '13 “A Signed Professor Evaluation.” The professor to whom she refers advised our senior theses as well, but our experiences were so different that we felt compelled to respond to her evaluation. At the beginning of the academic year, our adviser ...