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 ...
The Middlebury men’s squash team finished their season with three resounding wins over Connecticut College, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan this past weekend at the national championship tournament at Yale University. Coming into the weekend ranked 17th nationally, the Panthers qualified for entrance into the ...
Middlebury ended their most successful season since 2002 with a hard-fought 59-49 loss to Williams in the NESCAC semi-final at Amherst on Saturday, Feb. 23. “I though we played really well against [Williams], but player for player we were just out-manned,” said Coach Noreen Pecsok. “They were ...
Competition is getting increasingly intense each week for the ski teams as the National Championships is just around the corner. Last weekend, Panther skiers went neck-to-neck with University of New Hampshire (UNH) at the EISA Championships at Bates College in Maine. Unfortunately, they missed ...
The indoor track and field team continued to show their speed at the Open New England Championships at Boston University on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22 and 23.While the team had several top finishers, the women’s Distance Medley Relay (DMR) had an outstanding race, convincingly breaking the previous ...
The Middlebury men’s swim and dive team competed in the NESCAC championships at Wesleyan this past weekend, Feb. 22-24, finishing fifth in a fast field of 11 teams. Ian Mackay ’14 set the tone for the Panthers throughout the weekend, winning two individual titles with conference-record performances. “I’m ...
The fourth-ranked men’s basketball team fell for the third time in less than a month, exiting the NESCAC tournament with an 87-80 overtime loss to the seventh-ranked Ephs of Williams on Saturday Feb. 23. The semifinal game was a rematch of a 64-63 Ephs victory in Williamstown, Mass. a month ...
The NESCAC tournament began this past Saturday, Feb. 22, in Kenyon Arena where the Middlebury women’s hockey team went head-to-head with Colby in quarterfinal action. The Panthers came out on top with a 6-0 win and will now advance to the semi-finals next weekend. As the fourth-ranked team ...
Heading into this past weekend’s NESCAC tournament quarterfinal matchup against Amherst on Saturday, Feb. 23, the Middlebury men’s hockey team did not have recent history in its favor. Middlebury was 0-5 in its last five games against the Lord Jeffs heading into last Saturday’s contest, ...
Mackenzie Stewart ’13 returned from a semester abroad in Valparaiso, Chile disappointed and looking for answers. Student strikes, communication issues among staff and a lackluster program director led her to try to change the program for future students. “The girls who went to Chile and I took ...
After the Community Council approved two proposals introduced by the Inter-House Council in December, social houses will change their admittance policies. Starting in the fall of 2013, second-semester first-years will be able to pledge social houses and first-semester sophomores will be able to live ...
The Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) recently convened a working group to discuss the possibility of integrating internships, fieldwork and other types of experiential education formally into the curriculum, possibly for academic credit. The working group, made up of faculty from a variety of disciplines, ...
Textbook sales at the College Store have been declining in recent years, with only approximately 55 percent of stocked textbooks sold in the fall 2012 semester, down over 20 percentage points from the previous semester. While the College has yet to identify a particular reason for the decline in sales, ...
On Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1, the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) will host its annual symposium. The theme for this year’s event is “No Place Like Home? Imagining Race, Ethnicity and Migration.” The symposium will kick off at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday with ...
After just 15 days in Cameroon’s chaotic capital city, I am still in the process of starting anew. I still haven’t braved the outdoor marché without the reassuring presence of my host mother by my side, and many of my days are governed by the overwhelming desire to find a good Wi-Fi connection ...
Pope Benedict XVI, formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, officially leaves his post as the Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church at 2 p.m. EST today, beginning a tumultuous transition in the Vatican during a period of scandal, factionalism and religious decline ...