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Divestment Debate Continues

By Bronwyn Oatley | January 23, 2013

Over the course of two evenings, the College community saw its leaders “do the math” on divestment in two radically different ways. On Sunday evening, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben and others spoke to over 150 college and local community members at Mead Chapel in the last stop on ...

Simply Light

By Alan Sutton | January 23, 2013

Tomorrow evening, the Dance Company Middlebury will begin its tour of Simply Light in the Mahaney Center for the Arts before travelling to Smith College, the Monterrey Institute for International Studies, and various public venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Six students and one alumnus, Paul Matteson ...

Science Spotlight: Trees and the Urban Forest

By Will Henriques | January 23, 2013

The class gathered outside of Voter, looking up at the wire strung between two diverging trunks of an elm. “You see that wire, the slack there? In the summer, when the tree leafs out, it will pull the wire taught. That slack is a good thing this time of year,” explained Tim Parsons, Middlebury College’s ...

Theater Production Leaves Room for Interpretation

By Grady Trela | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Midd MD: Nutrition

By Deirdre Sackett | January 23, 2013

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, ...

Women’s Hockey Splits Pair With Bowdoin

By Mary Claire Ecclesine | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Panthers Swim To 1-1 Weekend At Union

By Fritz Parker | January 23, 2013

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 – ...

What I’ve Learned About Feminism at Middlebury: A Manifesto of Sorts

By Sam Kaufman | January 23, 2013

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 ...

The Best-Laid Plans

By Eliza Wallace | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Men’s Hockey Skates By Colby, Suffers 3-0 Loss To Bowdoin

By Owen Teach | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Other Lands

By Jack Apollo George | January 23, 2013

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 ...

The Middlebury Epidemic

By Guest Contributor | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Squash Teams Drop Pair At Yale, Collect 11th Win Of Season

By Gabe Weissmann | January 23, 2013

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 ...

MIL Promotes Online Learning

By Emma Eastwood-Paticchio | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Indoor Track And Field Competes Against UVM

By Alex Edel | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Corrections: “Room 404 Features Unconventional Stories”

By Guest Contributor | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Byerly To Become Lafayette President

By Sam Simas | January 23, 2013

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 ...

Ski Teams Combine For Fourth Place Finish

By Lok Sze Leung | January 23, 2013

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, ...

College Grants Tenure to Seven Faculty

By Kyle Finck | January 23, 2013

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 ...