Being a Feb has, for better or for worse, defined much of my time at Middlebury thus far. I am now preparing to work as one of the leaders for Feb orientation after the end of winter term. I look forward to meeting the new class and re-experiencing some of the orientation activities alongside them, ...
Superstorm Sandy may be a bit of an afterthought now that both J-Term and winter in Vermont are well under way, but remnants of the catastrophic storm are still very much visible back home in New Jersey. Thankfully, my home and neighborhood managed to remain reasonably unscathed in the wake of the storm ...
I could not focus as I clicked through the questions. While I was supposed to select answers, it did not seem there could possibly be any. Twenty beautiful elementary school students were brutally massacred on the day I sat for my examination to be certified to teach elementary school. When I awoke ...
I believe in a strong correlation between rules and the game of sweet or sour. If you have ever played the game — and with a mom who rolled around the carpool circles in a station wagon, I have played my fair share of sweet or sour — you know that in theory it’s very simple: wave equals sweet, ...
On Friday, Jan. 11 jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut returned to Middlebury with bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Billy Williams as the Cyrus Chestnut Trio. They performed for a nearly sold-out audience at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall at 8 PM. "Virtuosic and playful, pianist Cyrus Chestnut's ...
On Thursday, Dec. 20 the News Room announced the promotion of seven faculty members to associate professor, as well as three faculty members to professor: Seven members of the Middlebury College faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor without limit of tenure. The board of trustees, ...
In the wake of a high-profile student protest and amid a growing university movement to combat climate change, Middlebury College announced in early December that it would initiate steps to address the feasibility of divesting its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. In a campus-wide email, ...
President Ronald D. Liebowitz and Dean Shirley Collado with Williams' Michael Reed at LADO's Presidents Forum in September 2012. (Courtesy/Lee Wexler) The Middlebury College News Room posted the following press release earlier today: Three liberal arts colleges ― Middlebury, Williams and Connecticut ...
On Sunday, Dec. 9 Alpenglow played for a large crowd at the Gamut Room and Performance Space. Alpenglow consists of students Graeme Daubert '12.5 and Elori Kramer '13.5, joined by Peter Coccoma, Kenneth Root and Colin Weeks. Their sound has been likened to that of the Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and the ...
On Saturday, Dec. 8 RIDDIM World Dance Troupe presented two performances of "Once upon a RIDDIM" to sold-out crowds at the McCullough Social Space. Co-Directors Julianna Mauriello '13 and Kelsanah Wade '13 prepared their 28-member troupe for the biannual production. Large crowds were treated to sixteen ...
Middlebury's International Students Organization recently published its inaugural issue of Translingual, a biannual journal featuring photographs from around the world and writings in nine different languages (in addition to the English translations). Editor-in-chief Winnie Yeung '15 explains, "[O]utside ...
Middlebury College employs several in-residence professionals. Whether it’s a scholar-in-residence or an artist-in-residence, these people function as resources for the students and other faculty. Writer-in-Residence Julia Alvarez, described these professionals as people with their feet in two worlds, ...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Tara Affolter addressed the entangled issues of race and education in her lecture on Thursday, Dec. 6 entitled “Tell Them You Saw Me: Invisibility, Race and Racism in the Liberal Arts Classroom.” Affolter is applying for a tenure-track position in ...
On Wednesday, Dec. 4 artist Marie Rim engaged students in her latest project, "Burka Fittings Across America." With a mirror and billboard set up outside of Ross Dining Hall, Rim asked passersby if they wanted to try on and look at themselves in a burka. "Through sensory means, the project explores ...
Following the Old Stone Mill's end-of-the-semester showcase at the Crossroads Cafe, Middlebury Magazine's Stephen Diehl and Blair Kloman produced a video about the event. They write: It may boast a stoic and traditional exterior, but behind the doors of Old Stone Mill, all kinds of crazy things are ...
In a posting on The Eighth Man, "a quiddicth media site designed to bring together elements of strategy and sports analysis," Benny Nadeau discusses the implications of Middlebury's recent losses and failure in qualifying for the World Cup: On November 17th, 2012 at the Northeast Regional Championship, ...
While the national media has intensified its focus on the negative impact of concussions in professional sports, the spotlight has largely passed over Division III athletics. Concussions, however, are an issue at all levels of competition — in October the New York Times reported that five Pop Warner ...
From Nov. 29 through Dec. 1, The Vanek Trilogy, a collection of three, interconnected one-act plays, ran in the Hepburn Zoo. The performance was directed by Paula Bogutyn ’13.5, whose direction counted towards 700-level senior work. The play was written by Vaclav Havel, an influential playwright ...
Spectators were treated to an entertaining blend of diversity, innovation, and beauty on the opening night of this year’s Fall Dance Concert, “Mosaics from the Underground.” Directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Catherine Cabeen, the performance presented the collaborative choreography ...
Scale is one of the miracles of modern technology. The earliest computers took up entire rooms and had less computing power than the smart phones we now carry around in our pockets. But is this as good as we can get? There are those who say no, it’s not. We can go smaller, faster, and more efficient.What ...