The Middlebury Off-Campus Project

Trolley Rides on Hepburn Road

By Leah Pickett | March 6, 2013

The Be Bright campaign, sponsored by Middlebury's Sustainability Integration Office, launched the "Pledge Ride" event Wed., March 6 on Hepburn Road. The Pledge Ride aimed to involve students in the energy literacy campaign by requiring them to take an energy pledge — in which they pledged to be more ...

Middlebury's Carillon Player

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 6, 2013

Annika Holmlund '15, a student in Professor Erin Davis' Winter Term Sound and Story: Documentary for the Airwaves, produced her own short radio piece. Interested in the "face" behind the Mead Chapel bells, Holmlund interviewed Middlebury's carillon player, George Matthew Jr., who has been playing the ...

Students March for Divestment

By Bronwyn Oatley | March 6, 2013

In the midst of a heavy snowfall on Monday, March 4, over 125 students marched from Proctor terrace to the College’s administrative center in Old Chapel, carrying signs, chanting and wearing orange squares, during what organizers called “a national day of action” for divestment. The event was ...

Taste Cheese with Chopsticks

By Jiayi Zhu | March 6, 2013

  I have been focusing too much on distinctions. Coming to a new culture, it is natural to encounter little differences to huge cultural shocks that remind me of all the distinctions between home and the place I am living now. I wrote about how Americans and Chinese have different perceptions ...

Painting Project Revamps Lower Forest

By Isabelle Stillman | March 6, 2013

Walk into the basement of Forest Hall these days and you will find a transformed space. Thanks to the efforts of a few inspired students, this once stark, industrial area is now the site of an open-ended art project that aims to turn the basement into a viable social venue through weekly Sunday night ...

68-66 WIN

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 4, 2013

Men's Basketball defeated Curry 68-66 on Saturday, March 2 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The team now heads to Cortland State for a 3PM, March 9 match-up. Watch highlights from their recent victory! GO MIDD!

Attention Seniors!

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 4, 2013

As part of Alumni Appreciate Week, the Senior Committee organized a Kick-Off Dinner in Atwater. Seniors flocked to the candlelit, Asian-themed meal on Monday, March 4. Mark Benz '56 and his son, Eric Benz '88, who both now live in Middlebury, spoke to the group. Mark, a former General Electric engineer, ...

West Discusses Artistic Endeavor

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 4, 2013

Levi West '15 hails from a Dutch background, but he lives in Dordogne, France, located in the southwestern area of the country. The sophomore recently discovered his passion for art and he is working on an exhibit to be displayed at 51 Main this April. His project, a series of ink portraits of the Dordogne ...

Students Complete LeWitt Wall Drawing

By Emily Singer | March 4, 2013

Students in HARC 361: Minimalism devoted out-of-class hours to installing a Sol LeWitt wall drawing in the Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of a new "Linear Thinking" exhibit. The class officially completed Wall Drawing #394 on Monday afternoon. The "Linear Thinking" exhibit and the LeWitt ...

Hypnotist Paul Ramsay Visits Midd

By Maggie Cochrane | March 4, 2013

From ballet to Guitar Hero to One Direction, hypnotism can put the most normal people in the most abnormal situations. Certified hypnotist Paul Ramsay demonstrated the tricks of his trade, which included making participants forget their own first names. See the video of highlights above!

Student Profile: Levi West

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 3, 2013

  Seen a better artist than this? I don't think so! The Current interviews Levi West '15. Check back later this week for the full story.

Off to the Snowshoe Races

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 3, 2013

Despite sore lower backs and cramping calves, Middkids doned snowshoes to race up a 1200' vertical, 6.5-mile loop. The Pittsfield, Vt. Ultra Snowshoe Race included a 100-mile option (over a 36-hour period), in addition to options for a Snowshoe Marathon, a Snowshoe Half-Marathon and the single, 10K ...

Mardi Gras in Burlington

By Leah Pickett | March 3, 2013

On Sat., March 2, students had an opportunity to attend Burlington's very own Mardi Gras celebration as part of the 18th Annual Magic Hat Mardi Gras on Church Street. The event benefitted the Women's Rape Crisis Center of Chittenden County, and attendees were treated to an array of floats in the event's ...

Traditional vs. Modern Medicine

By Charlotte Gardiner | March 1, 2013

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, Kristin Bright, spoke about her current book project. Building upon her doctoral dissertation, which explored traditional medical methods in India, Bright's book investigates the growing strain between the practice of traditional ...

Students Present J-Term Experiences with MIIS Programs

By Emily Singer | March 1, 2013

On Friday, March 1, the Robert A. Jones ’59 House hosted presentations and a Q&A follow-up with students who participated in J-Term courses associated with the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS). After a decade-long relationship between the College and MIIS, and the more recent ...

Liveblog: CCSRE Symposium's Workshop on Refugees

By Leah Pickett | March 1, 2013

The Campus Current will be liveblogging the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity's workshop on novel writing, activism, and refugees. The event, facilitated by VT Refugee Resettlement Program Director Judy Scott, is part of the 2013 CCSRE 2013 Symposium, "No Place Like Home, Imagining ...

Science Spotlight: Greenhouse Cultivates Plants, Curiousity

By Will Henriques | February 28, 2013

Trickling water echoes softly through the glass room overflowing with a riot of lush green vegetation. In one corner, potted orchids perch alongside an old hot tub in which goldfish placidly float. A Norfolk Island pine towers to the sloping ceiling. The McCardell Bicentennial Hall greenhouse is a tropical ...

One Life Left: Fire Emblem Awakening

By Santiago Azpurua-Borras | February 28, 2013

There are two very specific genres of video games that I love above all others: third person hack-and-slash games that have no regard for realism (Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, God of War etc.) and grid-based turn-based strategy role playing games (Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Advance ...

Booking It: Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By Michael Gaffney | February 28, 2013

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 ...

ASL Poetry Group Performs on Campus

By Vedika Khanna | February 28, 2013

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 ...