Today the world faces a water crisis of unprecedented gravity. According to the U.N., 85 percent of the global population lives on the driest half of the earth and water is estimated to become scarcer with the projected increase in population. Yet as population expansion and development raise ...
Boasting 6,000 square feet of gallery space, the Middlebury College Museum of Art represents an invaluable part of the College’s academic and artistic resources. To maintain this integral part of campus and the greater Middlebury community, the museum employs a diverse array of staff members ...
Officials, coaches, corresponding staff and one hundred forty-eight racers traveled across the country to Middlebury this year for the NCAA Skiing Championships. Of course, with this influx of visitors also came an astounding boom in business for the Middlebury community. Andrew Gardner, Middlebury’s ...
This winter term, Jeff Dobronyi ’13 and Oliver Sutro ’14 lived every Middlebury student’s dream: they spent nearly every day at the Snow Bowl. These avid skiers weren’t simply there for fun, or even for work (although Dobronyi is on Ski Patrol and Sutro works at the Snow School). Both were ...
On Wed Feb. 27 the highly debated bill that would impose an excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages was approved by the Vermont State House Health Care Committee with a vote of 7-4. The bill was first proposed in December by lead sponsor Rep. Dave Sharpe of Bristol with the support of the Alliance ...
On Monday, March 18th, Middlebrow presented "Paddy O'Furniture" in the Abernethy Room. The improv group entertained the watching crowd with scenes based solely around the suggestion "Horse Track."
On Friday, March 15th, the Middlebury College Orchestra held their first concert of the spring semester in the CFA Concert Hall. The Concert included Bruce Jia '16 on alto saxophone leading the group in "Scaramouche" by Darius Milhaud. Jia is the winner of the 2013 Alan and Joyce Buecher Concerto ...
On Friday, March 15, guest speaker Eli Wolff from Brown University spoke to a crowd of students and coaches about “the power of sport.” Wolff is the leader of the Sport and Development Project at Brown, where he received his undergraduate degree. He has competed on the Paralympic soccer team twice ...
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs is hosting the First Annual International Conference (go/waterconference), "The Politics of Freshwater: Access and Identity in a Changing Environment" from Thursday, March 14 through Saturday, March 16. The Campus Current will be live blogging the conference's first ...
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and other international best-selling works of both fiction and nonfiction, will deliver the commencement address to the class of 2013 on May 26. Safran Foer will also receive a Doctor of Letters degree at the ceremony. Other honorary ...
TEDxMiddlebury 2013, the “independently organized TED event,” took place on Saturday March 9, with students gathered in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall to listen to a diverse group of speakers, including one current Middlebury student. The theme for the event ...
On Saturday, March 9, the 37th anniversary of International Women’s Day, around 50 female students and one male journalist filled the McCullough Social Space for ElectHer, a five-hour political leadership workshop designed to help women get elected into political office. Each student at the event ...
The Aliens, a play written by Massachusetts-based playwright Annie Baker, premiered in Hepburn Zoo last Thursday and drew packed crowds during its three-night run. The show starred improv actors from both Otter Nonsense and Middlebrow: Greg Dorris ’13, Adam Benay ’14 and Tom Califra ’14, with ...
On March 17, Alexander Twilight Artist-in Residence Francois Clemmons will debut his 10th and final annual St. Patrick’s Day Concert, an exploration of traditional Irish music, brimming with skirling bagpipes, penny-tin whistles and tweeting flutes. Clemmons will retire after this semester at the ...
What happens when you take the genius fourth wall breaking moments, boss design and plot of industry veteran Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear series and combine it with Platinum Games talent of removing every inch of subtlety and realism from combat systems? You get something like Metal Gear Rising (MGR). MGR ...
The 2013 Solar Decathlon, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Oct. 3-13 in Irvine, Calif., is a competition challenging 20 student teams from universities all around the world to construct the most affordable, reproducible, energy efficient and attractive solar-powered home. Middlebury fields only ...
The Escher String Quartet dazzled a packed house on Friday, March 8 at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall. The group derives its name from the contemporary graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by his use of individual components working together to form a whole. The free concert, ...
There are endless proverbs about relationships. “Love is blind.” “You never forget your first love.” But what about this one: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”? Is it true? Does being apart make a relationship stronger? Or does distance cause it to slowly deteriorate? A long-distance ...
Creating a stimulating introductory-level science course is challenging. There’s a host of information thrown at students: terms to memorize, concepts to learn, lab techniques to familiarize oneself with. The prospect is daunting for some, terrifying for others. These courses are challenging and rigorous, ...
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 ...