The Middlebury Off-Campus Project

Liveblog: Panel on the Endowment

By Gregory Woolston | January 22, 2013

Following Sunday evening's discussion on divestment by Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben, the Campus Current is back with another liveblog from McCullough Social Space, starting at 7:30 p.m. Tonight will feature a "wide-ranging panel [discussing] the ongoing debate over whether environmental ...

Let Freedom Sing!

By Gregory Woolston | January 21, 2013

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Departments of Music, Theater and Dance organized the 15th annual "Let Freedom Sing!" celebration in Mead Memorial Chapel at 8:00 p.m. With light snow falling, many took part in the Candle Vigil and Peace Walk from the Davis Family Library to the Chapel ...

Liveblog: Midd Does the Math

By Gregory Woolston | January 20, 2013

The Campus Current will be liveblogging "Midd Does the Math" beginning at 7:30 p.m. from Mead Memorial Chapel. The event, which is sponsored by Divest for Our Future, will feature Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben. Middlebury is the latest of many stops for McKibben, who traveled around ...

Alpenglow Plays Mead Chapel

By Gregory Woolston | January 20, 2013

Alpenglow, a five piece folk-band with origins at the College, performed for a large crowd in Mead Memorial Chapel on Saturday, Jan. 19. Burlington-based singer Maryse Smith opened the concert at 7 p.m. before Alpenglow played both new and old songs for more than an hour. The concert was one of many ...

Pain, Passion and Possibility

By Maggie Cochrane | January 19, 2013

In a keynote lecture entitled "Pain, Passion and Possibility: Building Community Through Difficult Subjects," Professor Trisha Rose of Brown University kicked off the College's first ever JusTalks on Friday, Jan. 18 in the McCullough Social Space. As Anna Chamby reported last week, JusTalks is a forum ...

Archives Under Construction

By Middlebury Campus | January 19, 2013

Please excuse our appearance as we update our archives. If you're looking for a specific article in this issue, you may access the PDF archive above. Thank you for your understanding.

Doing It the Ugandan Way

By Maggie Cochrane | January 19, 2013

On Friday, Jan. 18 Samuel Bakkabulindi, a master drummer and dancer from Uganda, taught a workshop entitled "Doing It the Ugandan Way" to students, faculty and community members in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theater. The afternoon concluded a week of events on percussion, dance and ethnicity. ...

UN Secretary General Speaks at Monterey Institute

By Kathryn Desutter | January 18, 2013

On Friday, Jan. 18 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gave a speech titled "Advancing the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Agenda: Seeking Peace in an Over-armed World" at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), a graduate school of Middlebury located in Monterey, Calif. The ...

Science Spotlight: Methane Tractor

By Will Henriques | January 17, 2013

The garage sits on the edge of the fields to the west of campus along Rte. 125. “Henry” the tractor is parked inside. The years have only slightly tarnished the fire-truck red paint job on the 1950’s Ford 8N. It was the top selling tractor in North America in its day, the “tractor that replaced ...

Alpenglow Sets Stage for Concert, New Album

By Gregory Woolston | January 17, 2013

Alpenglow, a five-piece folk band formed in Vermont, will perform in Mead Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19. The band features students Graeme Daubert ’12.5 and Elori Kramer ’13.5. Peter Coccoma '12, Kenneth Root and Colin Weeks complete the group. This is the band’s second concert ...

MYethioPIA Explores Themes and Awareness of HIV

By Deirdre Sackett | January 17, 2013

On Monday, Jan. 14, a solo performance titled MYethiOPIA ran in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. The performance was written and performed by Burlington-born David Schein. It was based on his experiences forming and directing the Awassa AIDS Education Circus (now called One Love HIV/AIDS ...

Reel Critic: Holiday Movie Wrap-up

By Ben Anderson | January 17, 2013

Quentin Tarantino has proven to be one of the more divisive directors in Hollywood. Three of his films have received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture, one of his films, Pulp Fiction, won him both the Palm D’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Original ...

Midd M.D: Stress

By Deirdre Sackett | January 17, 2013

It seems as though stress is par for the course in college. All of us are loaded up with exams and essays galore, along with expectations of success. However, the semi-permanent sense of dread and anxiety that most students experience should not be a routine feeling. Stress is a function governed by ...

The Method Gun Explores Risky Technique

By Santiago Azpurua-Borras | January 17, 2013

Imagine an acting technique so extreme that it took all those who used it to an entirely new level, a technique designed to inject even the smallest role with a dose of sex, violence and death. Such a technique exists, and is known as “The Approach.” It was created by acting instructor Stella Burden, ...

Ski Team Opens With Vermont Carnival

By Lok Sze Leung | January 16, 2013

The Middlebury ski teams opened their season with laudable performances on both sides as they represented the College in Vermont and Utah. The alpine team scored a solid fourth place finish at the University of Vermont Winter Carnival over the weekend, while Annie Pokorny ’15 and Heather Mooney ’15 ...

Women’s Hockey Improves to 9-1-2

By Mary Claire Ecclesine | January 16, 2013

After a quick winter break, the Middlebury women’s ice hockey team came back to campus to take on Utica and Wesleyan. Even without students in the stands the Panthers still captured the victory against both opponents to end the holiday with a 7-1-1 record. “Coming back from break we were all very ...

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Women’s Basketball Team Improves to 2-2

By Alex Morris | January 16, 2013

After starting off the new year strong earning their first win in NESCAC play in over a year against Bates Jan. 4, Middlebury continued with a 60-44 win over Suffolk on Jan. 8. Despite falling to Connecticut College 66-57 on Friday, Jan. 11, Middlebury quickly put the loss behind them to finish the ...

Men’s Hockey Lose Six of Seven, Fall to 5-7-2 on the Season

By Owen Teach | January 16, 2013

Following a promising start to the season that saw the Middlebury men’s hockey team with a record of 4-2-2 at the end of first semester exams, winter break and early January were far less kind to the Panthers. After a disappointing Holiday Classic hosted at Kenyon Arena that saw Middlebury drop consecutive ...

Swimming and Diving Returns with Breakthrough Wins

By Fritz Parker | January 16, 2013

After a week-long training trip in Florida, the Middlebury swimming and diving teams returned to take on Colby and Bates in a pair of dual meets at home on Jan. 5 and 6. Both the men’s and women’s teams came away from both meets with convincing wins. From Dec. 27 to Feb. 3, the Panthers benefited ...

Housing Demystified

By Stephanie Roush | January 16, 2013

While most students have a distant relationship with the housing department, limited only to the ups and downs of the annual housing lottery, Melissa Childs ’14 has a different perspective. As a ResLife intern this past summer, Childs worked closely with Residential Systems Coordinator Karin Hall-Kolts ...