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 ...
Last Saturday, March 9, the Middlebury women’s ice hockey team played in the quarterfinals for NCAA tournament against Norwich University. The Panthers put up an outstanding fight and 60 minutes of regulation play ended in a 2-2 tie. After 14:28 of overtime play, Katie Sullivan ’15 tapped in the ...
Five members of the women’s indoor track team competed over the weekend at the 2013 NCAA Championships in Naperville, Ill. on March 8 and 9. On Friday, the women of Wisconsin-Oshkosh upset the top-ranked distance medley relay (DMR) team from Middlebury, made up of seniors Sarah O’Brien ’13, ...
The Middlebury men’s tennis team opened its season by fending off three teams at home this past weekend, including NESCAC foe and no. 12 Bates College. The depth of the Panther squad came into play once again, as it remained dominant in the lower part of the singles and doubles lineups. This crucial ...
For the first time since last May, the Middlebury women’s tennis team was able to experience the thrill of a dual match. Head coach Mike Morgan wanted a strong start to the season, and he got his wish as his team took all three matches this weekend as the Panthers dominated their opponents with final ...
This past Saturday the men’s lacrosse team traveled to Maine to compete against Bates in their first game of the season. They beat the Bobcats 10-8, in spite of the 18-point shot advantage that Bates held over Middlebury. Members from all four classes contributed to the 10 goals, with first-years ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team came out firing this past Saturday, March 9, in their season opener against NESCAC foe Bates, winning by a final score of 20-4. Senior Ellen Halle ’13 pointed to the team’s extensive preseason preparation as integral to its early success. “The team has ...
On Tuesday, March 12, students flooded an Axinn classroom in support of the Delta House. The social house faces possible disbanding due to violations of the Inter-House Council and college regulations. While the Residential Life Committee was set to reach an agreement yesterday, there was no majority ...
To whom it may concern, As Delta alumni, we are writing to express our collective concern over the potential disbandment of the Delta student organization at Middlebury College. To a significant portion of campus, Delta represents a welcoming and inclusive environment where students may gather to enjoy ...
Girl is a few drinks in. Feeling a good buzz, but maybe had a couple too many. It’s one a.m. and this Ridgeline basement is crowded, the floor is sticky and the playlist is beginning to lose its sophistication. Unknown Boy approaches and without even a pleasantry, proceeds to latch himself onto her ...
This week, I had a hard time writing my story for the news section. On Monday evening around 6 p.m., just as we were about to begin layout for the newspaper, we received word that four students had been arrested while attending a protest at the TransCanada northeast U.S. office in Massachusetts. The ...
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, has died. One of the last bastions of old-school socialism has passed away. He was undisputedly among the most important and frantically adored national leaders during the early years of the 21st century, and hundreds of thousands of his followers have since ...
The banner brandished by the dozens of students marching down Storrs Walk last Monday read “Divestment is a tactic; justice is the goal.” There’s often a good deal of talk about the j-word in any number of settings — legal, environmental, social, economic, etc. — and I think more often than ...
In my past columns, I’ve discussed the value of a liberal arts education in its ability to endow us with critical-thinking and writing skills — everything a future graduate needs to take the world by a storm. However, I am now of the opinion that there is a crucial gap in our education. This last ...
The Sexual Assault Oversight Committee (SAOC) has been dedicated to the development and implementation of an advocacy program, and we are so excited to finally set this much-needed project into motion. The advocates will consist of a diverse group of students, faculty and staff, with the desired effect ...
At a family party over the holiday break, I got to talking to a friend of my parents, a man in his 50s who graduated from Middlebury in the early 80s. In our conversation we covered all the basics of typical college small-talk – majors, abroad plans, clubs, you know the drill – but kept returning ...