For sports fans, applying to college usually means making a decision between big-time athletics and big-time academics. Sure, there are select schools where you can find both, such as Duke (gross), Georgetown (you better be a basketball fan), and Stanford (good luck getting in), but for the most part ...
After holding off a scrappy, out-of-conference Springfield team on Wednesday afternoon at Kohn Field, the fifth-ranked men’s lacrosse team traveled to Wesleyan on Saturday to play the then 4–0 Cardinals. In Connecticut, 29 seconds into the first overtime period, Middlebury suffered its first defeat, ...
The women’s hockey team ended their season Saturday in dominant fashion, skating past Gustavus Adolphus 5-0 in the third place game of the NCAA tournament. The impressive victory came after the Panthers fell 5-2 in the Frozen Four to top-seeded Rochester Institute of Technology. With a national championship ...
The 13th ranked Middlebury Panthers had a definitive victory over the Wesleyan Cardinals this past Saturday on Kohn Field. The Panthers improve to 2-0 in the season with both victories against NESCAC opponents. The win was a solid team effort, as seven different scorers netted goals. Sally Ryan ’11 ...
In their third match of the season, the women’s tennis team came out victorious, beating Rochester 9-0 at home. So far this season, the team lost only one match out of the 27 played, and entered the match against Rochester ranked 12th nationally. This week 16th ranked Victoria Aiello ’12 beat 17th ...
All good things must come to an end as the Middlebury Men’s basketball team record-breaking season came to an end Friday at the ends of St. Thomas (29-3), narrowly missing the team’s first Division 3 Championship appearance. However, the Panthers did not go down without a fight. Middlebury jumped ...
On Friday morning, I opened my window for the first time since November. Sunlight lay in long strips across my quilt and I could feel the warmth on my face as I struggled with the crank, still half lying in bed, my mouth full of the rosemary bush that dwells on my windowsill. Rising to my knees, I leaned ...
Beginning in the fall of 2011, the College will recruit 10 Posse Scholars from Chicago in addition to the roughly 10 students selected each year from New York City. For the past 12 years, Middlebury has been a partner school to The Posse Foundation, offering full four-year scholarships to students ...
When Jay Saper ’13 clicked “Reply All” to James B. Jermain Professor of Political Economy Peter Matthews’ two-department-wide (Economics and Sociology) email advertising an upcoming speaker, he roused a discussion about the College inviting controversial guest speakers to lecture. That he took ...
My phone is the most basic model sold at the Verizon store. It can take pictures (but not videos); it has a speakerphone and texting options. Beyond these ‘bare essentials’, it has no multimedia or Internet capabilities. I had the option to upgrade my phone two months ago and I chose this model ...
The past few weeks, there have been several op-eds printed in the Campus protesting the stifling nature of Middlebury’s rigorous academic demands. Although I agreed with many of the arguments presented in the op-eds, as a lifelong nerd with no hope of salvation and a puppet of the administration, ...
A few days before the Japanese earthquake (and ensuing nuclear power and human crisis), the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in this country approved Vermont Yankee’s request for a new 20-year license. Despite the local plant’s questionable history (radioactive hydrogen was found leaking into ...
The Middlebury College Snow Bowl welcomed skiers from age five to age 50 to participate in the second annual Iguana Cup, a fundraiser for the Quarry Hill School. The private preschool, located on Quarry Rd. in Middlebury, hoped to raise approximately $2,000 to support the school’s day-to-day activities ...
Last week the economics department sponsored a lecture on “Early Non-Marital Childrearing and the Culture of Despair,” by Phillip Levine, an economist from Wellesley. Levine posited deeply problematic and racist conceptions that devalued a “culture” from which he retained much distance. ...
The College takes great pride in the quality of the food served in its dining halls. Matthew Biette, director of dining services, seeks local and organic products whenever possible. Though just 19 percent of the College’s food funds purchase Vermont products, Biette stressed that the statistic “depends ...
On Friday, March 18, Tiffany Rhynard, artistic director of Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) dance, introduced the troupe’s most recent performance in the Town Hall Theater in downtown Middlebury with the following rules: everything is intentional, and the piece will be performed as it was ...
Middlebury students are taking advantage of their location and many are getting involved in the maple syrup and sugaring industry. Max Godfrey ’13.5 and Sam Koplinka-Loehr ’13 have each discovered a love for the classic Vermont tradition. Koplinka-Loehr and Ford Van Fossan ’13 began researching ...
On behalf of the Better Middlebury Partnership I want to thank the wonderful Middlebury College volunteers who helped us with the Chili Festival and to thank all the great students who showed up to sample the more than 70 types of chili provided by more than 50 vendors. It was a great day made greater ...
On March 1, The Blossom Basket, previously located at 56 College St. next to Sama’s Café, moved to 8 Bakery Ln. The store, which was vacant when owner Jennifer Hill bought the space, sits across from Jackson’s on the River. Sandy and Jack Burkholder opened The Blossom Basket in 2001, but Hill will ...