I have been focusing too much on distinctions. Coming to a new culture, it is natural to encounter little differences to huge cultural shocks that remind me of all the distinctions between home and the place I am living now. I wrote about how Americans and Chinese have different perceptions ...
Walk into the basement of Forest Hall these days and you will find a transformed space. Thanks to the efforts of a few inspired students, this once stark, industrial area is now the site of an open-ended art project that aims to turn the basement into a viable social venue through weekly Sunday night ...
Men's Basketball defeated Curry 68-66 on Saturday, March 2 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The team now heads to Cortland State for a 3PM, March 9 match-up. Watch highlights from their recent victory! GO MIDD!
As part of Alumni Appreciate Week, the Senior Committee organized a Kick-Off Dinner in Atwater. Seniors flocked to the candlelit, Asian-themed meal on Monday, March 4. Mark Benz '56 and his son, Eric Benz '88, who both now live in Middlebury, spoke to the group. Mark, a former General Electric engineer, ...
Levi West '15 hails from a Dutch background, but he lives in Dordogne, France, located in the southwestern area of the country. The sophomore recently discovered his passion for art and he is working on an exhibit to be displayed at 51 Main this April. His project, a series of ink portraits of the Dordogne ...
Students in HARC 361: Minimalism devoted out-of-class hours to installing a Sol LeWitt wall drawing in the Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of a new "Linear Thinking" exhibit. The class officially completed Wall Drawing #394 on Monday afternoon. The "Linear Thinking" exhibit and the LeWitt ...
From ballet to Guitar Hero to One Direction, hypnotism can put the most normal people in the most abnormal situations. Certified hypnotist Paul Ramsay demonstrated the tricks of his trade, which included making participants forget their own first names. See the video of highlights above!
Seen a better artist than this? I don't think so! The Current interviews Levi West '15. Check back later this week for the full story.
Despite sore lower backs and cramping calves, Middkids doned snowshoes to race up a 1200' vertical, 6.5-mile loop. The Pittsfield, Vt. Ultra Snowshoe Race included a 100-mile option (over a 36-hour period), in addition to options for a Snowshoe Marathon, a Snowshoe Half-Marathon and the single, 10K ...
On Sat., March 2, students had an opportunity to attend Burlington's very own Mardi Gras celebration as part of the 18th Annual Magic Hat Mardi Gras on Church Street. The event benefitted the Women's Rape Crisis Center of Chittenden County, and attendees were treated to an array of floats in the event's ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, Kristin Bright, spoke about her current book project. Building upon her doctoral dissertation, which explored traditional medical methods in India, Bright's book investigates the growing strain between the practice of traditional ...
On Friday, March 1, the Robert A. Jones ’59 House hosted presentations and a Q&A follow-up with students who participated in J-Term courses associated with the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS). After a decade-long relationship between the College and MIIS, and the more recent ...
The Campus Current will be liveblogging the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity's workshop on novel writing, activism, and refugees. The event, facilitated by VT Refugee Resettlement Program Director Judy Scott, is part of the 2013 CCSRE 2013 Symposium, "No Place Like Home, Imagining ...
Trickling water echoes softly through the glass room overflowing with a riot of lush green vegetation. In one corner, potted orchids perch alongside an old hot tub in which goldfish placidly float. A Norfolk Island pine towers to the sloping ceiling. The McCardell Bicentennial Hall greenhouse is a tropical ...
There are two very specific genres of video games that I love above all others: third person hack-and-slash games that have no regard for realism (Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, God of War etc.) and grid-based turn-based strategy role playing games (Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Advance ...
Although I knew she was recently a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel Swamplandia!, I hesitated, at first, to read Karen Russell’s new collection of eight stories. This was mostly out of fear that a collection with “vampires” in the title would be too whimsical, too ...
Last Saturday night, Feb. 23, words flew in the McCullough Social Space as the American Sign Language (ASL) poetry troupe, the Flying Words Project, took the stage. The event was hosted by Middlebury’s ASL club and sponsored by a variety of campus organizations and departments. Two poets performed ...
Snapping, crying, shouting and, if they weren’t bolted to the ground, throwing some chairs onto the stage. Speaking to a packed Dana Auditorium, award-winning performance poet Joshua Bennett invited an audience of over 300 students, faculty and Middlebury community members to react actively ...
On Feb 8, the Middlebury College Museum of Art opened their new exhibit, Linear Thinking. The exhibit features pieces by artists such as Matisse and Picasso, and its focus on starkly contrasting shapes, repeating patterns and sharp edges demonstrates a wide variety of artwork from the 20th century. ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 26, Be Bright, the College’s energy literacy campaign, held a kick-off dinner event to launch its initiative. The dinner was held in Atwater Dining Hall and featured Professor of Environmental Studies and Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben. The dinner was the first ...