On a misty April afternoon, a class of 14 Middlebury students, dressed in hiking gear and carrying day packs, are spread out in groups of two or three throught a forest. It looks similar to most forests, except for the fact that most trees are so large that you cannot get your arms around them; they ...
For Yoni Ackerman and Noah Isaacson, seniors at Bowdoin and creators of AddSeven.com, the premise of their project was simple. “We wanted to create a site that people wanted to use and that was actually useful to them,” the pair wrote in an email. According to the Middlebury site’s “About” ...
Free tai chi May 13, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. AmeriCorps members will host a class on the Vergennes city green. The tai chi lesson is especially directed at those who struggle with arthritis. The event will be moved indoors, weather permitting. Benefits of tai chi include relaxation, fall prevention, ...
If our lives are stories we unfold, then leaving is punctuation — the friends we make, the lovers we fall for, often leave our lives in unexpected, often painful ways. Sometimes it is with an exclamation point, a final blow-up argument. Sometimes it is a long, drawn-out ellipses, a slow drifting away. ...
Bristol Concert May 6, 8 p.m. – 9 p.m. Join the father and son band, They Might be Gypsies, at the WalkOver concert room in Bristol. The music is inspired by Django Reinhardt’s gypsy jazz from the 1930s. Tickets for the performance are $10 online, and $12 at the door. For more information, call ...
Seventeen students. Twelve weeks. One 17th-century French comedy. L’Avare, a five-act satire by French playwright Molière, ran in the Chateau Theatre on April 29 and April 30. Translated as The Miser, the play was performed (entirely in French!) by the students of the French 306 course, “Study ...
The 17th century meets the world of the contemporary in Howard Barker’s Victory: Choices in Reaction. This past weekend, the College’s theatre department put on a fantastic rendition of this play, set in England around 1660, after the restoration of the English monarchy and eradication of the Republican ...
Most people are not strangers to the terrible limbo of indecision. The choices that face us in our daily lives affect how we move forward. Sometimes making a decision frightens us into hesitation or complete paralysis, unable to confront either option. Through music, dance and light, 10 students ...
Around 200 students packed into the McCullough Social Space on Tuesday night, May 3 for the open student forum “Alcohol: Use, Abuse, and Disrespect for Community.” The all-student email announcement for the forum provoked strong student reactions and helped boost turnout with the tagline “Is ...
Entering Hepburn Zoo, the audience finds the scene set up in a manner that looks like something ripped right out of an episode of Mad Men, liquor shelves and all, as the eternally familiar voice of Frank Sinatra fills the room. The lights dim, and the audience prepares themselves, because once Speed-The-Plow ...
Amidst talk of plummeting profits and financial instability, 51 Main played host to an event last Thursday, April 28, that transcended any monetary value. The gathering of students, faculty and community members was warm and lively, and the space was brimming with faces, all brought together to hear ...
Riley O’Rourke ’12 will return to serve his second term as President of the SGA for the 2011-12 academic year while Janet Rodrigues ’12 will assume the position of student co-chair of Community Council (SCOCC). O’Rourke secured his position by 15 votes after a contentious race that ended in ...
On April 29, the College held its annual Relay for Life in Kenyon Arena. The event was created by the American Cancer Society to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Attended by hundreds of students, faculty and staff, the event succeeded in raising nearly $125,000, an increase over last year’s ...
There are no such things as “good” or “bad” years for music, only relatively good or bad years for music. 2011 is shaping up to be a relatively awesome year. In only four months we’ve seen new and exciting albums by Panda Bear, Radiohead, James Blake and Cut Copy, and the next eight months ...
This is my last Reel Critic column for the Campus. It is difficult for me to believe that there is anything more enjoyable than writing about film, as fun as it would be to be embedded in Afghanistan with the Navy Seals (a onetime dream of mine). As I look back on what I’ve written, I recall the pleasure ...
Thanks to the work and vision of many students and faculty, the College community will likely see a dramatically new Atwater Commons area this fall. After months of planning and review, the College has begun to finalize plans for the area’s re-landscaping. The undertaking, more commonly known as ...
Students from across the northeast descended upon the College April 29-30 for the Campus Cultivation Conference. Hosted by the Middlebury College Organic Farm (MCOF), the conference convened to discuss the challenges of creating a garden or farm on a college campus. Approximately 20 students from Williams, ...
On Sunday, May 1 America’s most wanted fugitive was killed in Pakistan under the cover of darkness. Following a direct order given by President Obama, mission “Geronimo” was given the go-ahead, beginning a chain of events that would end the nearly decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Following ...
Students celebrate death of Osama bin Laden At 11:35 p.m. on May 1, President of the United States Barack Obama announced that U.S. special forces had killed Osama bin Laden. The news caused an eruption of varying emotions across the country, but college campuses proved to be mostly jubilant. Student ...
BUENOS AIRES — I went to an all-girls school for 10 long and, against my best efforts, formative years of my life. A relatively liberal, non-religiously affiliated all-girls school. They preached a very odd, though subtle, type-A version of “I am woman, hear me roar.” And, yes, before you ask, ...