On Saturday, Oct. 13, the Campus interviewed His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism before his morning lecture at the College. No other media outlets were granted access to the Dalai Lama during his visit to the College. A transcript of the interview in its entirety can ...
As noted above, the Campus' Kathryn DeSutter interviewed His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Saturday, Oct. 13 before his lecture to the general public. Upon analyzing His Holiness' responses in the interview, "think", "laughs", "community", "people", and "faith" were the most commonly used words; see the ...
On Friday, Oct. 12, His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a crowd of faculty, staff, students and community members at Nelson Arena in his lecture “Educating the Heart.” The spiritual leader touched on issues of education, faith, the corruption of money and the importance of affection. Friday’s ...
In preparing for the arrival of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Middlebury Magazine's Maria Theresa Stadtmueller provided the following explanation and information: What is a Dalai Lama? And how is His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama different from (and similar to) the previous 13? A week before ...
No member of the football team had ever beaten Amherst. Not a single member of the team had ever been 3-0. Until Saturday Oct. 6, that is, when Middlebury dominated the defending NESCAC champions Amherst, 24-3 in a tour de force performance, handing the Lord Jeffs their first loss in over a year and ...
The second-ranked Middlebury field hockey team pushed their record to an unblemished 11-0 with three wins in the span of four days, outscoring their opponets 22-0. The Panthers began by blanking visiting Hamilton 8-0 on Saturday, Oct. 6 before going on the road to Connecticut College and emerging with ...
For the past 15 years, the College’s Environmental Council (EC) has worked to further the College’s efforts on sustainability and to spread environmental awareness in the community. The EC recommends changes on the College’s sustainability policy and acts as an adviser to its President. Avery ...
As a steady trickle of rain fell onto the soggy pitch, the Middlebury women’s soccer players, their socks caked in mud and shirts drenched, battled to a 1-0 win against Hamilton on Saturday, Oct. 6. Just a day later, however, on Sunday, Oct. 7, the Panthers’ undefeated season came to an end with ...
The Middlebury men’s soccer team defeated Hamilton 2-0 on Saturday, Oct. 7 and tied Connecticut College 1-1 on Sunday, Oct. 8. Harper Williams ’15 scored in the eighth minute on an assist from Dan Skayne ’15 to put the Panthers ahead. The pair connected again for Middlebury’s second goal in ...
Saturday Oct. 6, the Middlebury College Rugby Club (MCRC) fell in the finals of the East Coast Rugby Conference (ECRC) Sevens tournament in Amesbury, Mass. in extra time, 12-7 to Northeastern. With the win, Northeastern received a bid to the USA 7s tournament in College Station, Texas in November. The ...
The Middlebury men’s tennis team heads into the last part of the fall season with tremendous confidence after the men split into two squads to pick up wins at both the Dartmouth Shootout in Hanover, N.H. as well as the Bates College Wallach Invitational in Lewiston, Maine, Oct. 5-7. “[It was] nice ...
The Middlebury women’s volleyball team bookended a mixed weekend in Hamilton, N.Y. with a shutout win against Colby-Sawyer on Wednesday, Oct. 3 and another shutout Tuesday, Oct. 9 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. against Skidmore. Middlebury boasted a third shutout in the first leg of a double-header against ...
This weekend the Middlebury women’s golf team placed fourth in the pouring rain and wind at the Williams Invitational, their final tournament of the fall. Weather conditions have not been easy on the Panthers. “Saturday’s conditions were really challenging. There was a lot of wind and a down-pour ...
The Middlebury men’s and women’s cross country teams continued their recent string of success by securing wins in both races at this past Saturday’s Westfield State Invitational. The men and women won their respective 40- and 43- team meets by a substantial point margin. Each Middlebury runner ...
Directing through Research, Education, Adventure, and Mentoring (DREAM) is about building community, and in my opinion, working towards building community has been the most important and most rewarding experience I have encountered. There is a beautiful old African proverb, “It takes a village to ...
Middlebury College has the reputation of being one of the most environmentally friendly colleges in the United States. With that in mind, one might assume that the editorial for this year’s “Green Issue” would take the route of applauding or congratulating the College on being a leader in the ...
Before his verse on that Justin Beiber song “Baby,” Ludacris laid down one of the hottest and most forgotten records of 2003, called simply, “Chicken-n-Beer.” This title has stuck with me for some reason, as has the album cover, a lovely image alluding to sex, fried chicken and generic American ...
Republican politicians and talking heads including W. Mitt Romney have made a big deal lately of the Obama Administration’s supposed “war on coal.” It’s a phrase that no doubt tests well with blue-collar focus groups in the states needed to win the election, and the evidence seems to match the ...
We are the co-chairs of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance, each affected personally and practically by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans enforced at American Red Cross blood drives. The accounts below are our personal reflections. Petr Knor ’15: Each of us has approximately five ...