The women’s swimming and diving team competed in the NESCAC championship at Bowdoin over three days this weekend, Feb. 15-17, finishing fourth in a competitive field. The women were in third place for much of the weekend – trailing conference powers Williams and Amherst – but were overtaken by ...
This past Saturday, Feb. 16, the Middlebury women’s ice hockey team competed in their last regular season game against third-ranked Elmira. The game ended in a 3-1 win for the six-ranked Panthers, who locked down the top seed for the upcoming NESCAC tournament with the win. The first period of the ...
The College received a total of 699 Early Decision I applications this past fall, representing an eight percent increase from last year. Forty-two percent of applicants, or 295 students, were admitted. Of those admitted, 274 will arrive on campus in September as members of the class of 2017, and 21 ...
In a regular season filled with its fair share of high and low points for the Middlebury men’s hockey team, the squad managed to rebound from a lackluster 5-7-2 start to post a 12-10-2 overall record, good for fifth place in the NESCAC with an 11-5-2 mark in conference play. This past weekend saw ...
While the Middlebury men’s squash team has had a respite in matches over the past week in preparation for nationals, the women were busy competing in the national competition held at Yale Univ. this past weekend, Feb. 15-17. Going into the weekend, the Panthers were ranked 11th in the nation, and ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 26 the Sustainability Integration Office is launching Be Bright, a pilot program to raise awareness and educate students about energy consumption on campus in a semester-long energy literacy campaign. The Sustainability Integration Office hopes the project will inform students and push ...
On Feb. 10 Public Safety announced an increase in parking ticket fines from $10 to $50, a change that has been applied to weekday and night winter ban and faculty and staff lot parking violations. To decrease the number of tows required and increase compliance with the parking regulations, the fines ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) announced at their meeting on Jan. 27 that they had received 1,295 student responses on their survey dealing with campus life, sent out in an all-student email during the second week of winter term. SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 was pleased with the response ...
It’s the stuff you read about in sci fi novels and watch in thriller alien movies, but for the million residents in the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia last Friday, it was all too real. Just after sunrise on Feb. 15, the peace of the Ural Mountains was shattered by a once-in-a-century meteor explosion ...
“Guiri” is a colloquial term used in Spain to describe what is considered to be the stereotypical tourist or foreigner, and it is associated primarily with people from Northern Europe, the U.K. or the U.S. While I’ve heard it used in an endearing or light-hearted manner — “Of course you two ...
Both the men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams travelled to Division III New England’s. The men finished ninth out of 21 teams at fellow NESCAC school Bates while the women finished fourth out of 23 teams at Southern Maine University. Several athletes won events for the College, fulfilling ...
Student at University of Maryland is stabbed to death (The Baltimore Sun) University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) junior biology major Edmond St. Clair was stabbed to death on the University’s campus during a fight last weekend. St. Clair was driving with his brother and friend when they came ...
Facing a spring housing shortage, lounges in Gifford Hall, Hadley Hall and Milliken Hall were converted into to dorm rooms in order to provide an additional 14 beds for students, a change that permitted students to have greater flexibility in their late-January decisions about whether to return to campus, ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Department of Public Safety received two separate reports of burglaries to college faculty houses, one in Middlebury and one in Cornwall, which are currently under investigation by the Middlebury Police and the Vermont State Police. In a campus-wide email on Feb. 13, Associate ...
Last Saturday morning, the seven of us gave a 45-minute presentation in front of the full Board of Trustees advocating for divestment of Middlebury’s endowment from the fossil fuels and weapons manufacturing industries. We spoke for the hundreds of students across campus who have expressed their ...
Was my last article a little too Eat Pray Love-y? I feel like my last article was a little too Eat Pray Love-y. I hope you can bear with me if any more sentimental-study-abroad-blog, gag-if-I-see-one-more-Instagram-of-your-cultural-experience moments arise. This time I hope I can kick that association ...
This past Saturday during Winter Carnival, everybody and their mother showed up to the Snow Bowl, rowdy and retro and revved up to support the ski team. It was a sight to behold: dozens of kids tailgating in the parking lot, snagging free popcorn samples and trekking up the mountain to reach the “cheering ...
Romania joined the European Union on Jan. 1, 2007. Despite adhering three years after the majority of Eastern European countries, the country is still considered to be part of the fifth wave of expansion. The delay was due to widespread concern surrounding Romania’s high-level of organized crime and ...
It became clear in just a few days here over J-term that the issue of divestment has captured the imagination of the Middlebury population. In a school full of aspiring investors, targeting the endowment is a clever approach, and divestment is not a bad idea. It is the height of hypocrisy to rail against ...
Last week I experienced the curious feeling of missing someone. I actually didn’t realize I missed this person (who I will call Django) until I made what I then thought was an arbitrary and mindless decision to call him. When I hung up the phone I was overcome by an unexpected sensation of loss and ...