Soon the campus will empty. Dorm rooms will be stripped down and cleared out, cars will be packed, Commencement caps will fly in the air and the academic year will be done. The custodial staff will busy themselves scrubbing the campus from top to bottom, and then Language Schools will open their doors. ...
As the spring semester winds down, the 2013 Middlebury Solar Decathlon team’s work is just beginning. Twenty-one team members, comprised of students and recent graduates, are set to begin work the day after Memorial Day (May 28) to complete the design and construction of the InSite house before an ...
Last Sunday, the Middlebury Film Society hosted a screening of “Syrup,” an edgy comedy set in the cut-throat world of advertising, based off of the best-selling novel of the same name by Max Barry. The film was produced in part by Middlebury alumni Aaron Becker ’10, Shane Mandes ’10 and Baird ...
On May 3 and 4 an ensemble of dancers and musicians presented “Music, Dance, Light: Performance Improvisation” at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Dance Theater. The performance was the capstone experience for a group of students enrolled in Senior Lecturer in Dance Penny Campbell’s ...
This past Thursday through Saturday, May 2 through 4, the College’d theatre program presented the play “The Castle: A Triumph” by contemporary British playwright Howard Barker in the Seeler Studio at Mahaney Center for the Arts. The college website says the play is “blasting with humor, bawdiness, ...
“Oblivion” is the result of some macabre thought-experiment, wherein every device necessary to tell an effective story is eliminated in favor of Tom Cruise’s face and the basic tropes of pop science fiction. It’s a structure that broaches questions about why we care about science fiction in ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team fell short of the NESCAC championship in a nail-biting, overtime tournament final, falling to Trinity this past Sunday in Hartford, by a score of 8-7. After a come-from-behind win against Colby on Saturday in the NESCAC semifinals, winning by a score of ...
With the clock showing double zeros and the final horn having sounded, members of both the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team and the visiting Wesleyan Cardinals celebrated on Middlebury’s Youngman Field. Just seconds previously Jon Broome ’16 — the NESCAC Rookie of the Year, and the conference’s ...
After a convincing 5-1 victory over fifth-seeded Tufts on Friday, May 3, third-seeded Middlebury suffered a heartbreaking 4-5 loss against eventual champion Williams in an epic five-hour battle on Saturday, May 4 in the NESCAC semifinals. The Panthers now sit at 18-4 on the season and are ranked 11th ...
From the cross country course to the lacrosse field, Middlebury athletes have accomplished a lot this year. During the fall, the field hockey team put together a historically dominant season and, while they fell in the NCAA tournament, the team racked up gaudy numbers all year. Men’s basketball went ...
The Middlebury College track and field teams participated in the New England Division III Championships this Saturday, May 4, at Colby College. The men’s squad finished 10th among 26 teams, and the women placed 10th in a field of 25 teams. Juliet Ryan-Davis ’13 ran a remarkable 2:07.73 in the ...
Despite a strong start to the NESCAC Tournament, the Middlebury softball team was unable to progress beyond the semifinal round, falling to Tufts and Bowdoin on the second day of play of the double-elimination tournament. The Panthers advanced in the winner’s bracket on Friday, May 3, after defeating ...
Over the weekend, Middlebury split both of its series against NESCAC East opponents Bowdoin and Tufts. On the road, the Panthers took game one before dropping the afternoon effort in Brunswick on Saturday, returning home Sunday to divide their final double header of the season against the Jumbos. The ...
The Middlebury women’s tennis team took part in the NESCAC tournament this past weekend, May 3 and 4, at Amherst College. The team competed against Tufts in the quarterfinals on Friday, May 3, and came out on top by a score of 5-1. With the win over the Jumbos, they advanced to the semifinals on Saturday, ...
As Middlebury faculty and staff, we hope our trustees will commit to fossil-fuel divestment and a new kind of investment, investment that yields high returns and embodies the promise of this challenging age. Health technologies designed to perform miracles; clean-energy electricity for the world’s ...
This weekend, the Middlebury College board of trustees may decide whether or not to divest our endowment of holdings in fossil fuels and arms manufacturing. This community has engaged in conversations about divestment since September. Questions have been raised about the potential financial impact ...
Student government at Middlebury is currently based on the principle of representative government; we elect a handful of senators with whom we entrust our decision-making power. Beyond voting every spring, the average Middlebury student does not participate at all in the process of student government. ...
I’ve been writing this column for the whole of this school year. During that entire time there has been one conflict of major international importance which somehow has never been quite topical enough for me to discuss in depth. I refer, of course, to the civil conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. ...
May 2012, I was elected to be a new Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) President, or “President of the gays” as one of my exchange friends used to call me in her strong Russian accent. It was a very random decision of mine and I accepted the role with a lot of excitement; over the summer I designed ...
Our chosen school is pretty big on tradition. Every year, graduating Febs ski down the Snow Bowl in their gowns. Every year, when springtime hits full bloom the Adirondack chairs come out. Every year, the homecoming football game tailgate blows up, DKE throws a righteous party and everybody wins. But ...