The recent increase in fines for parking violations — from $10 to $50 for a single ticket — brings our attention to the complex relationship between students and Public Safety officials at the College. Public Safety plays an important role by protecting students, faculty and staff and working ...
Montpelier, Vt. – Last Thursday, the Vermont state Senate passed a bill by a margin of 22-8 to allow Vermont physicians to help terminally-ill patients take lethal dosages of prescription drugs. Passage of the bill came only after many hours of debate in a deeply divided senatorial chamber. ...
Coming up this weekend on Sunday, Feb. 24, a local poverty-fighting organization called HOPE will host the fundraiser “Ski and Ride for HOPE” at the Snowbowl and the Rikert Nordic Center in Middlebury, Vt. The Middlebury Campus interviewed Sue Byers, the vice-chair of the board for the organization, ...
Despite the immense benefits of solar energy — it can be used to generate electricity for domestic, commercial or industrial purposes — recent developments in the solar energy industry are a concern for many residents of Charlotte, Vt. The Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) recently approved ...
It was a straight hour of laughter. Middlebury's improv group, Middlebrow, performed in the Chateau on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Inspired by a "Harlem Shake" theme, the eight-member group (3 girls, 5 boys) were chuckling to themselves by the final scene. The group is holding auditions next week. All are encouraged ...
Annie Wymard '15, a student in Peter Lourie's Adventure Writing & Digital Storytelling Winter Term course, shares her final video. During the month, Wymard worked with yoga instructor Prem Prekash. Together, they studied both walking and sitting meditation. Her first experience with walking meditation ...
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxTH8-SfABc?rel=0&w=640&h=360] It was only a matter of time before Middlebury hopped on the Harlem Shake train. Filmed on Sunday afternoon in the Great Hall of BiHall, MiddKids from all walks of campus donned neon, spandex, costumes and the like ...
For the second installment of The Campus Voice, News Editor Bronwyn Oatley '13 discusses the topic of sexual assault on campus with It Happens Here (IHH) Co-Founder Luke Carroll Brown ’14, and Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) President Mark Isbell ’14. The conversation was prompted by IHH’s recent Map Project, ...
Middlebury's 90th Winter Carnival, the oldest in the nation, brought many to the Rikert Nordic Center and the College's Snow Bowl for ski racing festivities. Overall, the team placed third behind UVM and Dartmouth, and the Men's GS finished second, the best team result of the weekend. Three ...
[gallery type="slideshow" ids="18269,18268,18267,18271,18272,18270,18274,18273,18275,18276,18277,18278"] On Friday, Feb. 15 the Middlebury Mountain Club hosted its event "Northern Lights" on McCullough Lawn where pre-registered teams competed for a $100 gift certificate to Flatbread. Events included ...
At 8 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16 approximately 50 students gathered outside of Old Chapel, welcoming members of the Board of Trustees to their morning meetings. Several members of the Board spoke with students and accepted orange squares, the "new color" of the divestment movement, according to students. ...
Is physical contact necessary for love? Is seeing, touching sensing someone's intimate presence necessary to feel the strongest connection to another? Falling in Love Through the Phone tells the story of Elizabeth Pope, a woman who fell in love over the telephone line. It was created by Claire Smith ...
On Wednesday, Feb. 13 the Crossroads Café buzzed with activity. Students and faculty gathered in support of Eve Ensler's One Billion Rising Campaign, seeking to end violence against women. Ensler advocates for communities to join in "solidarity, joy, rage, recklessness, and happiness" to fight the ...
Ex-Girlfriends is a cleverly written story about the perils of tiptoeing around the subtleties of dating as a 20-something in New York City. But do not take the film at face value. Alex Poe’s ’03 first feature-length film delivers a unique spin on a perhaps overused story that is saturated with ...
Valenetine’s Day is here, and even over in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, talk has turned towards love. This past Tuesday, Philip Battell/Sarah Stewart Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeff Byers gave a talk on “Love, Pain, and Chocolate: Musings of a Structural Scientist on the True Meaning ...
I’ve played a lot of video games in my time, and I know that plenty of games are able to tell stories of love, such as Shadow of the Colossus. This game centers on a man named Wander, who must kill legendary colossi to resuscitate a dead girl named Mono. There are also the games where romance manifests ...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Catherine Cabeen, also artistic director of Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC), proves through her work that artistic creation can be an intellectual activity. While many students were enjoying the change of pace offered during winter term, Cabeen was busy creating, ...
If you’re looking for some laughs this weekend, a local production by the Middlebury Community Players won’t disappoint. They are presenting the hilarious show Play On! at The Town Hall Theater Feb 14-17. The local theater company, dedicated to producing musicals, comedies and dramas in Addison ...
One of the many striking images in Toni Morrison’s slim but forceful novel, Home, involves three men playing scat and bebop in a small smoke-filled room. “Clearly,” the narrator writes, “there would be no musical end; the piece would stop only when a player was exhausted at last.” And though ...
Three overtimes, 205 combined points and nearly two-and-a-half hours after the opening tip, the third-ranked men’s basketball team finally succumbed to Amherst 104-101 in triple overtime on Tuesday, Feb. 12, Joey Kizel ’14’s 60-foot heave at the buzzer clanging with finality off of the ...