Things I will not be talking about in this column: the War on Women, the GOP (and how much it hates women,) Roe v. Wade and the threat of overturning it, etc. We already know how much the Republican Party hates women, so I’m not going to talk about it right before the election — I’m over it. Vote ...
We are happy to announce the return of the Cameron Cup at Middlebury! In years past, the Cameron Cup was awarded at the end of each academic year to the Commons which had won the most number of points through a series of inter-commons challenges and competitions. This year, we have formed the Cameron ...
Treasurer Candidate Wendy Wilton is reasonable, reliable and respectful. She has worked with the State Auditor’s Office over the past few years to improve municipal transparency and financial management and to foster prevention of embezzlement legislation. Wilton is the VT Municipal Treasurer of the ...
On Oct. 29, Vice President for Academic Affairs Timothy Spears sent out an email to the entire college community to announce that the College would close from 3 p.m. that day until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, due to predicted inclement weather caused by Hurricane Sandy. All classes, lectures, events, ...
This past weekend, the College hosted over 14 global health professionals as part of the annual GlobeMed Hilltop conference during which students, healthcare professionals, professors and community members gathered to discuss global healthcare in the context of sustainability and connectivity, which ...
On Oct. 22 Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott sent an all-student email inviting students to participate in the new Community Working Group. In her email, Smith Abbot explained that the decision to form this group — which will be comprised of students, faculty and staff — is a result of a recommendation ...
On Monday, Oct. 29 Library and Information Services (LIS) announced the launch of a new online discussion board. The online forum is intended to serve as a way for the campus to communicate through a less formal medium than all-school emails. The forum allows for members of the college community to ...
Candlelit dinners, which the College’s Campus Sustainability Coordinators (CSCs) began last year, are continuing to be held in Proctor or Ross every Wednesday night this semester. The dinners initially occurred once every other week. Last spring, in order to have a greater impact on the college community, ...
For as long as I can remember I have always loved taking public transportation. As a child I loved swiping my plastic fare card during family trips to the Big Apple. When in Washington, D.C., I worked to memorize the rainbow tangle of the metro system, as it granted me access to an exciting world of ...
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been in the news this year for its progress in democratization. Since 1989, the Southeast Asian nation of 60 million has been ruled by a military junta. The military crushed popular protests in 1988 and refused to honor the results of elections held two years later. Recognized ...
In response to the Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee’s (DLWC) email, in which students sent out a mock press release to hundreds of students, faculty and staff claiming the College decided to divest from arms and fossil fuels in light of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit, Community Council Co-Chair ...
This past weekend, Greater Tuna ran in the Hepburn Zoo from Oct. 25 - 27. The show was directed by Teddy Anderson ’13.5 and performed by Nathaniel Rothrock ’12.5 and Nicholas Hemerling ’15. This play was Rothrock’s 700-level senior work for the theater major. The highlights of the two-man show ...
Pianist Paul Lewis performs Schubert's Klavierstücke in E Flat Major, D. 946 No. 2 in a previous recording. On Friday, Oct. 26, he performed the powerful finale to his Schubert cycle. Last Friday night Paul Lewis performed to a packed concert hall in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. ...
Outside the Seeler Studio Theater on Friday night, a palpable excitement filled the air. Students, professors and community members crowded the upper lobby of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts, all grinning and whispering to each other, “that was great.” And it was. They were talking ...
Standing in front of a crowd of some 50 faculty, students and community members during lunch last Thursday, Oct. 25, Executive Director of Équiterre and Ashoka Fellow Sidney Ribaux explained how his organization, Équiterre, built the greenest building in Canada with no money, land or building experience. The ...
Something strange has happened to the stealth game genre this generation. While there have been plenty of stealth games, from entirely new franchises (Assassin’s Creed) to new installments of older series (Splinter Cell and Hitman), all these games had something in common: they weren’t really stealth ...
Arnav Adhikari belts out a song that he wrote with his band back home. Arnav was one of four talented Middlebury students who performed in the Gamut Room on Tuesday evening. (Campus/Rachel Frank)
IT staff members Rick James and Dave Guertin gave a presentation on Middlebury's facilities, including a look behind the scenes in the basement of Voter Hall. (Campus/Rachel Frank)
Student band Stoop Kid set up on top of a pick-up truck on Friday, Oct. 26 for an impromptu performance. Band members include Taylor Bickford (guitar), Joel Feier (drums), Paul Donnelly (bass), Erik Benepe (guitar), Elias Alexander (saxophone), and Parker Ziegler (trombone). You can watch a older performance ...
As previewed last Thursday, Middlebury's Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble played for a large crowd at 51 Main on Friday evening; their opening piece can be streamed above.