On Wed Feb. 27 the highly debated bill that would impose an excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages was approved by the Vermont State House Health Care Committee with a vote of 7-4. The bill was first proposed in December by lead sponsor Rep. Dave Sharpe of Bristol with the support of the Alliance ...
On Monday, March 18th, Middlebrow presented "Paddy O'Furniture" in the Abernethy Room. The improv group entertained the watching crowd with scenes based solely around the suggestion "Horse Track."
On Friday, March 15th, the Middlebury College Orchestra held their first concert of the spring semester in the CFA Concert Hall. The Concert included Bruce Jia '16 on alto saxophone leading the group in "Scaramouche" by Darius Milhaud. Jia is the winner of the 2013 Alan and Joyce Buecher Concerto ...
On Friday, March 15, guest speaker Eli Wolff from Brown University spoke to a crowd of students and coaches about “the power of sport.” Wolff is the leader of the Sport and Development Project at Brown, where he received his undergraduate degree. He has competed on the Paralympic soccer team twice ...
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs is hosting the First Annual International Conference (go/waterconference), "The Politics of Freshwater: Access and Identity in a Changing Environment" from Thursday, March 14 through Saturday, March 16. The Campus Current will be live blogging the conference's first ...
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and other international best-selling works of both fiction and nonfiction, will deliver the commencement address to the class of 2013 on May 26. Safran Foer will also receive a Doctor of Letters degree at the ceremony. Other honorary ...
TEDxMiddlebury 2013, the “independently organized TED event,” took place on Saturday March 9, with students gathered in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall to listen to a diverse group of speakers, including one current Middlebury student. The theme for the event ...
On Saturday, March 9, the 37th anniversary of International Women’s Day, around 50 female students and one male journalist filled the McCullough Social Space for ElectHer, a five-hour political leadership workshop designed to help women get elected into political office. Each student at the event ...
The Aliens, a play written by Massachusetts-based playwright Annie Baker, premiered in Hepburn Zoo last Thursday and drew packed crowds during its three-night run. The show starred improv actors from both Otter Nonsense and Middlebrow: Greg Dorris ’13, Adam Benay ’14 and Tom Califra ’14, with ...
On March 17, Alexander Twilight Artist-in Residence Francois Clemmons will debut his 10th and final annual St. Patrick’s Day Concert, an exploration of traditional Irish music, brimming with skirling bagpipes, penny-tin whistles and tweeting flutes. Clemmons will retire after this semester at the ...
What happens when you take the genius fourth wall breaking moments, boss design and plot of industry veteran Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear series and combine it with Platinum Games talent of removing every inch of subtlety and realism from combat systems? You get something like Metal Gear Rising (MGR). MGR ...
The 2013 Solar Decathlon, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Oct. 3-13 in Irvine, Calif., is a competition challenging 20 student teams from universities all around the world to construct the most affordable, reproducible, energy efficient and attractive solar-powered home. Middlebury fields only ...
The Escher String Quartet dazzled a packed house on Friday, March 8 at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall. The group derives its name from the contemporary graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by his use of individual components working together to form a whole. The free concert, ...
There are endless proverbs about relationships. “Love is blind.” “You never forget your first love.” But what about this one: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”? Is it true? Does being apart make a relationship stronger? Or does distance cause it to slowly deteriorate? A long-distance ...
Creating a stimulating introductory-level science course is challenging. There’s a host of information thrown at students: terms to memorize, concepts to learn, lab techniques to familiarize oneself with. The prospect is daunting for some, terrifying for others. These courses are challenging and rigorous, ...
Cemeteries rarely make the pages of a newspaper. Graveyards tend not to interfere in the affairs of living individuals, confining the dead beneath endless rows of slate tombs, engraved with reticent epitaphs, and haunted by silence. Though people have performed burial rituals since before they were ...
I appreciate what you are trying to do, Lynn Coady. Making your protagonist a large, scary-looking, yet sympathetic man was bold. Rank could easily have come across as whining about winning the genetic lottery, but instead he presents a frank account of what life is like for a peaceful man to be stuck ...
Margaret Cramer '12 presenter her "Commando" line of lingerie and swimwear at the Senior Job Fling on Wednesday, March 13 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall.
The Middlebury ski team concluded an impressive season at the 2013 NCAA championships at home by garnering the men’s team slalom title and five individual All-American honors, with two of them from junior Ben Lustgarten ’14 on the cross-country course. Senior David Donaldson ’13 ended his exceptional ...
The Middlebury men’s basketball team (24-3) advanced to the Sweet 16 for the third consecutive season after a 67-63 win at Cortland State on Saturday, March 9. The Panthers handed the Red Dragons their first home loss of the season, ousting the 23rd-ranked team nationally in the process. Junior ...