Last Friday and Saturday evenings, The Rude Mechanicals (The Rude Mechs) performed their original play The Method Gun at the Seeler Studio Theater. The performance by the Austin, Tex.-based ensemble occurred alongside a week-long residency at the College, in which they provided workshops for and gave ...
At Middlebury, students have access to three dining halls with essentially unlimited food. Whether you’re going vegan or paleo, there are food options for you on a daily basis. Indeed, it’s quite easy to choose from a range of choices in order to properly balance your personal nutritional needs. However, ...
This past weekend, Jan. 18 and 19, the Middlebury women’s ice hockey team traveled up to Maine for a doubleheader against Bowdoin, splitting the two-game set against the host Polar Bears. The first game, on Friday night, was a challenge for Middlebury. They failed to put the puck in the back of the ...
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams went on the road to Union College this past Saturday, Jan. 19, to take on the host Dutchmen in the team’s last away dual meet of the season. While the Panther women won convincingly, the men – with several key contributors out due to illness – ...
As I approach the very end of my time here, I occasionally wonder how much my perspective has changed over the years. I still worry about many of my freshman concerns: Am I happy? Do I have enough friends? Do I like them? Did I take the right class? Presented with an absurd time crunch, these issues ...
Some things I did over winter break: yoga, Catholic mass with my grandmother, an ex-dudefriend. My New Year’s resolution for last year was “be not afraid.” For me, “be not afraid,” meant to shake off my tendency to over-plan and overthink, to take risks and to accept when things don’t ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team finds itself in an increasingly tenuous position as the heart of the conference schedule carries on. The team, which on Nov. 26 saw itself pegged as the eighth-ranked school in Division III hockey, has dropped seven of its last nine contests dating back to Dec. 8 and ...
On the 10th of January 2013, after Islamist forces from the north of Mali started advancing south towards the capital Bamako, the Malian government demanded help from the French military. Through either post-colonial guilt or neo-colonial greed, the French committed to ensuring political stability ...
Winter term is wonderful for so many reasons: more fun with friends, homework for only one class and ample time to plan elaborately themed parties, make a kickass broomball team or construct an igloo outside your dorm. These are the parts of winter term that we like to remember — the memories that ...
The Middlebury squash team had another action-packed weekend this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 18-20, with both the men’s and women’s teams traveling to New Haven, Conn., for the Yale round robin. Both teams played three matches over the course of the weekend. The men’s team took on ...
On Monday, Jan. 14, Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) and the College introduced a new initiative that will give up to 30 schools across Vermont discounted access to online language learning, developed specifically for K-12 students. The $2.6 million Vermont World Language Initiative was created ...
The men’s and women’s indoor track and field athletes traveled to University of Vermont on Friday Jan. 18 to compete in their first dual meet of this season. While UVM came away victorious, Middlebury athletes snagged a new school record and several top finishes. While Conor Simons ’16 may not ...
Last week the Campus published an article on Room 404, a new student publication. They ran an early draft of the article that was largely inaccurate. If you’re interested in the publication, here are some notes to give you an idea of what it’s actually about. Last week’s article stated that Room ...
On July 1, 2013 Former Provost and Executive Vice President Alison Byerly will leave the College after 23 years of service to begin her term as the first female president of Lafayette College in Easton, Penn. “People want to see [Lafayette] balance a need to innovate and change and move into the ...
Despite the absence of key members from the women’s nordic squad, the Middlebury ski teams delivered yet another strong showing this past weekend, Jan. 18 and 19, as they came fourth overall in the St. Lawrence University Winter Carnival at Whiteface Mountain and Mount Von Hovenberg in Lake Placid, ...
The College awarded tenure to seven faculty members at the end of December, a decision which provides the opportunity to examine the thorough and complex process by which a professor becomes a permanent member of the College faculty. The Board of Trustees promoted Assistant Professor of Biology Catherine ...
Are you ready to do the math? I am too ... but in the last few days, I’ve also been doing the history. Yes, doing the history, the history of social movements, and I’ve been asking: “What makes movements work?” I’ve looked back to 1960, the year I was born, when four students from the Agricultural ...
From Jan. 24 - 26, the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship (MCSE) will host its second annual Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Justice. The event will feature student presentations on social issues in Addison County, Vt., workshops led by six champions of social entrepreneurship ...
As we start to review the results of the SGA Student Life Survey (Don’t worry! There’s still plenty of time to #takethesurvey), a trend is starting to emerge. A number of students are dissatisfied with the Middlebury social scene and are unable to pursue their “preferred weekend lifestyle.” But ...
From the Aurora Theater shooting to the horrifying Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, the widely publicized mass shootings of 2012 provoke an important social question on whether or not the Second Amendment right to bear arms should be readdressed. In the wake of these tragedies, politicians and ...