Tis the season – the season to hear Mariah Carey crooning her holiday hit “All I Want for Christmas is You.” It’s a sweet thought, the perfect gooey romantic message since it reminds us what the season is really about: Love. But let’s be honest: no one actually feels that way. In reality ...
I’m not the first one to taste cheese with chopsticks. There are numerous talented people who have come to a new place with their unique cultural backgrounds and produced masterpieces by connecting different cultures. Ang Lee is definitely one of them. He is a famous director who has produced well-known ...
Have you ever wished to relive the glory of your middle school years? Whether you were a confident kid or one who kept your eyes cast downward while walking in the hallway between classes, middle school was a difficult time. Sister-to-Sister (STS) mentors, however, revel in the opportunity to be 13 ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 21 two residents of Hancock, Vt., Steven Arnold and Michael Wood, appeared in court to respond to the allegations of manufacturing and distributing methamphetamines out of their home on Route 125. This is the first major meth case to be prosecuted in Addison County. Meegen Smith, ...
On Tuesday, Dec. 5 President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz sent the following email to students, faculty and staff with a subject heading, "On the College's Endowment": This fall, several student groups on campus have raised questions surrounding the College’s endowment, specifically with regard ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team hosted a pair of NESCAC opponents, Connecticut College and Tufts University, this past weekend, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. The two-game set started off with mild frustration, as the Panthers surrendered the game-tying goal to Conn. Coll. with 1:35 remaining in the third to ...
The third-ranked Middlebury men’s basketball improved to 6-0 Sunday, Dec. 2 in a 79-71 win over Johnson and Wales (2-4). Co-captain Peter Lynch ’13 led the Panthers with 22 points on 15 field goal attempts while pulling down 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season. Joey Kizel ’14, ...
The Middlebury swimming and diving teams hosted conference rival Amherst for a dual meet on Saturday, Dec. 1, with both squads falling to the visiting Lord Jeffs. The men were defeated soundly by a 208-86 margin, while the women were a bit closer, losing 162-132. “We probably had the heaviest week ...
Otter Creek Brewing Co. of Middlebury has made a name for itself within the nearby community and beyond. Recently they took home four medals (gold, silver and two bronze) at the Great International Beer Fest in Providence, R.I. Jed Nelson, director of brand marketing at Otter Creek Brewing, attributes ...
The women’s basketball team conceded another away loss, falling to Emmanuel 62-50 on Saturday, Dec. 1, but recovered at home on Tuesday, Dec. 4 with a decisive 72-44 victory over Norwich to improve to 3-4 on the season. The Panthers controlled the game in its early stages before Saints player Fiona ...
The Middlebury women’s ice hockey team began the month of December with a win and a tie on Saturday, Dec. 2 and Sunday, Dec. 3 against Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. The first game on Saturday ended in a 1-1 tie after both teams failed to convert in overtime. The next day, however, the Panthers ...
The Middlebury men’s squash team continued their early season string of success this past weekend, Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, going 2-1 over three days of matches this past weekend both at home and at Dartmouth. Despite falling 1-8 to the perennial powerhouse United States Naval Academy on Friday evening, ...
After having been long overlooked as an unavoidable part of playing contact sports, concussions have only recently started to get the attention they deserve. The rise in media coverage is partly a result of recent controversies in sports leagues such as the N.H.L. and the N.F.L, in which athletes have ...
Dear my fellow students: I encourage you to lay down your passions, lay down the issues you care about and learn to take no for an answer. I have seen all this “so-called activism” around campus, and yet it is clear that the administration is unwilling to change — accept it. The administration ...
The first op-ed I ever wrote for the Campus was titled “Keep Affolter.” Her anti-racist protest at last week’s affirmative action panel, however, “pushed [me] overboard.” I am “done beating around the bush.” It was a “destructive demonstration of [a professor] hijacking what could ...
Traveling in Australia and New Zealand, you quickly realize that people here are incredibly interested, informed and invested in the outcome of the American presidential election. The result matters to them on several levels. Mostly, of course, it’s symbolic; there was little daylight between the ...
Self-immolation may have become a somewhat grisly global phenomenon through the Arab spring, notably during the struggles in Tunisia, but recently it has tragically returned to where it has the most traditional associations: Tibet. Four Buddhists have set themselves alight in recent weeks in protest ...
[The following regards conversations on campus surrounding divestment, activism and diversity, which all directly relate to corporatization. It links newspaper reporting, silencing of oppressed voices and investing in unethical companies, while advocating for free and just existence on earth, an aim ...
Religious vocations used to be a big deal at this school. At the beginning of the 1800s, the majority of Middlebury graduates became ministers, who were required to read the Greeks and probably had to wash their own dinner dishes. I don’t blame us for forgetting these origins — we were a little ...
A good friend of mine told me about a conversation she had considering the dialogue present on campus, how people are always speaking about an issue, stringing eloquent sentences together and producing infallible logic that is birthed, lives and dies in the span of 15 minutes in the Proctor booths. ...