In its mad dash to complete the 34 panels set to comprise the InSite house in the 2013 Solar Decathlon competition, the Middlebury team, while somewhat familiar with construction and carpentry, needed some outside help. Enter Lance Waterman, a Middlebury-born contractor and University of Vermont ...
Next weekend, March 15 and 16, Professor of Dance Christal Brown’s dance company INSPIRIT will premiere their new work, “The Opulence of Integrity.” Choreographed by Brown, the performance draws its inspiration from the spirit and legend of Muhammad Ali, featuring elements of boxing, hip-hop and ...
On Friday March 1, 54 current Middlebury Posse scholars and 76 of their student, faculty and staff guests, called “plussers,” traveled to Silver Bay, N.Y. for the nationwide PossePlus Retreat. The PossePlus Retreat is an annual program in which the Posse Scholars of all 44 participating colleges ...
This past Saturday the Hirschfield International Film Festival screened Tuesday, After Christmas, a Romanian movie that was not only selected for the Cannes and New York Film Festivals, but also received rave reviews from critics across the country. It has been touted as “deeply affecting, brilliantly ...
Three students have taken an initiative to start MiddPIG (Middlebury Philanthropic Investment Group), a club focused on integrating microfinance and philanthropy. MiddPIG president and co-founder, Josh Kruskal ’15.5, wants to add Middlebury to the growing number of colleges and universities with ...
Nature Transformed, which is on display in the Museum of Art through April 21, presents a selection of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of the Vermont quarry industry in the 90s. Burtynsky, a Canadian 2005 TED prize-winner, is a photographer who has achieved international recognition for his ...
As film-lovers and celebrity-followers alike settled in for the three-and-a-half hour Academy Awards ceremony last Sunday evening, big name actors and directors were on everyone’s minds — from Quentin Tarantino to Daniel Day-Lewis to the lovable Jennifer Lawrence. However, by the end of the night, ...
On Wednesday Feb. 20 Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant released a statement saying that it will be conducting its 30th refueling since its opening in 1972. The refueling will happen this spring and require the plant to shut down for several weeks. “[The refueling process] is basically a ...
On Thursday, Feb. 28, a group of 50 gathered at the American Legion in Middlebury, Vt. to connect with the Vermont Right to Know GMO coalition, a group that is campaigning to require the labeling of all food derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the state. Representatives from ...
Track and Field After an indoor season which has seen numerous school records fall and a new Division III national record in the women’s distance medley relay, the Middlebury track-and-field teams look to improve on last year’s success as they gear up for the outdoor season. Jack Davies ’13 ...
Members of the women’s and men’s indoor track and field teams split up to compete in two meets this Saturday, March 2. While much of the team traveled to the ECAC championship in New York, N.Y., those who were looking for NCAA qualifying marks competed in the Tufts Last Chance meet. Several athletes ...
Coming off an upset win in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC tournament against Amherst, the men’s hockey team traveled to Brunswick, Maine for a shot at reaching the program’s second consecutive NESCAC title game. Despite getting within two goals of Bowdoin on Robbie Dobrowski’s ‘15 third ...
The 2013 NCAA Skiing Championships is well underway at the Snow Bowl and the Rikert Nordic Center. Described by Athletic Director Erin Quinn as a “once-in-a-decade” Middlebury event, the Championships required comprehensive and meticulous preparation work. From submitting a bid back in 2009 to running ...
This past Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, the Middlebury women’s ice hockey team hosted the NESCAC tournament in Kenyon Arena, falling short in their quest for a consecutive conference championship. On Saturday the Panthers took on Connecticut College in the semifinals of the tournament and won ...
The seventh-ranked men’s basketball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the fourth consecutive year, escaping with a 68-66 win over Curry College on Saturday March 2. The Panthers’ two-point win marked the third game in the last four that was decided by one possession ...
Next Tuesday, Community Council plans to vote on whether Delta, the social house commonly known as ADP and which currently occupies Prescott house, will be disbanded as a recognized social organization. The vote comes in the wake of dorm damage that once again exceeds the maximum set by the College. ...
“After living in a big city and growing so much, it’s hard to shrink back down to fit into Middlebury to adjust back to all this stuff,” a friend who had recently returned from a semester-abroad-in-a-major-European-cultural-and-historical-urban-environment said to me in an Atwater stairwell on ...
Last week’s op-ed, “A Call for a More Inclusive Movement,” attempted to show how white privileged men are excluded from feminist and other activist discourses on campus. It is important that all members of our college community, including those who are viewed as vehicles of oppression, feel welcomed ...
My last column talked about divestment — how I believe that it has powerful symbolic value but that it must not be used as a substitute for personal or community-level changes that would directly reduce the amount of carbon emissions for which we are responsible. Although I appreciate Hannah Bristol ...
Last Friday, President Obama began the gradual enactment of the long-dreaded “sequester,” a series of budget cuts that will cut funding from nearly every American government agency. Nearly everyone seems certain that in failing to avoid this “last resort,” bipartisanship has yet again proved ...