Last week, the College’s Board of Trustees approved the school’s first study abroad program to India. Starting next year, the school will send eight students, current sophomores in strong academic standings, to New Delhi. The school will be operated as a C.V. Starr Middlebury School Abroad. The ...
The outspoken and oft-controversial University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma made headlines again last week advocating that the NCAA should lower the rims in women’s college basketball in order to make the game more popular. Auriemma’s comments created a firestorm of responses ...
The men’s and women’s rugby clubs both won handily over the weekend. The men’s side beat visiting American International College (AIC) 48-19, and will advance toward the season’s final two matches with a 5-0 record. The women defeated Bates on the road, 59-5, in the final regular season match. The ...
Last week, Amherst College’s student newspaper, the Amherst Student, published one of the most talked-about articles in recent college journalism, a former student’s chilling first-person account of being raped in May 2011. The article sparked an international conversation about rape on college ...
The Middlebury men’s and women’s cross-country teams both placed second out of the 11-team fields in the NESCAC Championships held at Bowdoin College this past Saturday. The second place finishes were great signs of success for the Panthers as the NESCAC is notorious for its highly competitive cross-country ...
For many students, MiddExpress transcends the services of a basic convenience store. Or maybe it is the bone-chilling excursion on a Vermont winter night that can turn a simple toothpaste run into what makes MiddExpress a true staple. Be it the offering of a wide variety of chasers on a Saturday night, ...
The football team’s run at a perfect season came screeching to a halt Saturday in Hartford, Conn. where the Panthers (5-1) were mauled 45-7 by Trinity (6-0). With the blowout victory, the Bantams extended their home winning streak to 46 games — the longest such streak in the nation. The Middlebury ...
In the olden days, dating began with a process of courtship. There was an emphasis on chivalry, and a girl expected to be wooed in order to be “in a relationship.” In the 50’s, in order to be “going steady,” as they called it, a boy would have to give a girl his high school ring or his fraternity ...
Everyone is talking about the upcoming election. It is the first time for a lot of my friends to vote. Although I’m the same age as them, and the change of Chinese government is happening later this year, I cannot vote. We have to learn Chinese politics from the 7th grade to the 12th grade, but none ...
It was an up and down week for the Panthers. While the Middlebury women’s soccer team secured the top seed in the NESCAC tournament with a 3-1 away win against Williams on Wednesday, Oct. 24, its short run in the tournament ended just days later on Saturday, Oct, 27 after a 2-0 upset against eighth-seeded ...
After wrapping up the regular season with a win over Williams, the top-ranked Middlebury field hockey team rolled past eighth-seeded Connecticut College in a NESCAC tournament quarterfinal match on Saturday, Oct. 27, jumping ahead early and never looking back en route to a 7-0 victory. Having already ...
Within the next week, Americans will take to the polls and cast their votes for the country’s next president. Anticipation has been high across the country, and the atmosphere at Middlebury is no exception. One need only stop by Crossroads Café during one of the recent debates to appreciate the fact ...
Humans have a natural attraction to disaster. Often traffic gets bad after a car accident not because the accident didn’t get moved to the side quickly enough, but because we can’t look away. We often stare at dead animals in the road not because we want to, but because there’s a certain fascination ...
I am a proud Republican. But last week, I filled out my absentee ballot and voted for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate. When I first announced that I planned to vote for a third-party candidate, many of my friends were a little angry. “This may be the most important election of ...
President of the United States Barack Obama’s first term has not been the uninterrupted tale of disappointment and broken promises that the media, his opponents and even pessimistic liberals might have you believe. Obama promised to reform health care and subsequently passed a bill that will allow ...
Most people in the world who look at Middlebury College see a bastion of decency, fairness and social justice. Most people see Middlebury’s continued commitment to carbon neutrality amidst difficult economic conditions as evidence of an exceptional dedication to the future of our planet. Most people ...
With so much focus on the economy in this election cycle, much of the electorate has been paying little attention to foreign policy. However, with our College’s reputation as an internationally diverse institution, its strong international studies, foreign language programs and global activism on ...
This summer, I went a little Bible-crazy. It’s fine, you guys. I’m fine. I had no conversion experiences, no brush-with-death leaps of faith, no immaculate conceptions. I was neither saved nor born-again. The last time I went to church was once this summer, and I spent most of the time like ...
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 ...