Last week, 270 Middlebury students across disciplines and class years came together to present the culmination of months of research in what has become an annual celebration of academic exploration at Middlebury — the student spring symposium. Now in its first year as a multi-day event, the symposium ...
Day 1, Friday: Throughout the day, Powershifters bid Middlebury, Vermont adieu and boarded buses to head down the coast. It was D.C. or bust — and 11 hours later, sitting in gridlock on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and missing Al Gore’s keynote speech, it was almost bust. Luckily, we tumbled ...
The Lady Panthers flattened Hamilton, scoring 30 runs with only 27 hits on Saturday. The Middlebury Women’s Softball team record now stands at 17-4 overall, and 8-1 for NESCAC West. They have been on a winning streak, winning nine games in the past few weeks. Against the Continentals, the Panthers ...
Each year, 60 percent of Middlebury juniors study abroad, but Lisa Luna ’13 and Ethan Galiette ’13 are switching things up. Both are currently spending the spring semester of their sophomore year abroad. Luna is studying geology and ecology at the Universidad Austral de Chile through Middlebury’s ...
Midd alum Mike Bender ’97 has just announced that his much-loved website, Awkward Family Photos (AFP), has been nominated for a Webby Award. Awkward Family Photos is exactly what its name suggests: a collection of photos featuring highly amusing and amazingly awkward families. Bender launched this ...
On Monday, April 16, Otter Creek Bakery celebrated its 25th anniversary. Two and a half decades after co-owners Ben and Sarah Wood began their business, the bakery is still going strong. “It is a real milestone,” said Sarah, a resident of Cornwall, Vt. “We feel lucky to be where we are and still ...
Dottie Neuberger ’58, community activist When Dottie Neuberger ’58 graduated from Middlebury, she had no intention of settling in town, but over 50 years later she’s still here. Neuberger remembers her time at Middlebury fondly. She was a sorority girl, an athlete and mixed and matched various ...
“I guess I’ve always had this kind of independent streak,” Zach Schuetz ’11 said halfway through our interview, as though that was not evident from the moment he strolled into the Grille. The bearded New Hampshire native had chosen to accent his hoodie and jeans with a plaid bathrobe, tweed ...
Cabaret performance April 21, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Enjoy a night out on the town! Tonight, singer Sarah Stone will perform at the Town Hall Theater (THT) as part of its ongoing cabaret series. Fred Barnes will accompany Stone, who plays Laverne Devoe, a singer attempting to make a big comeback. Refreshments ...
I go to a show to be convinced. It doesn’t have anything to do with good faith, or believing that something has meaning because I paid six bucks to watch it. It’s the respect for a performer’s ability to do their job: to make me think, not tell me what to think. In return, I don’t pretend it’s ...
Low Level Panic ran in the Hepburn Zoo from Apr. 14-16. The senior 700 work of Ele Woods ’11, Jess Spar ’11 and Lindsey Messmore ’11, the piece was written by Clare McIntyre during the decline of the feminist movement in 1987 Britain, and explored the tenuous dynamic between women, sex and objectification. ...
Anna Gallagher ’12, Alex Geller ’12, Maya Goldberg-Safir ’12, Mori Rothman ’11 and Bella Tudisco ’13.5 didn’t have high expectations when they traveled to Yale University on the first weekend of spring break for the northeast regional poetry slam qualifying tournament. They had heard about ...
On April 15-18, over 200 students traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the climate conference Powershift 2011. The conference — which attracted over 10,000 students from across the country — presented a diverse line-up of events and culminated in a march on Capitol Hill calling for a permanent ...
Though Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now was written in 2004, it remains one of my favorite books of all time. This book is so powerful because of the unassuming voice of the narrator, fifteen-year-old Daisy, and the casual but poignant observations that she makes. Because of Daisy’s candid way of speaking, ...
An Earth Day celebration at the Town Hall Theater on April 16 explored how writers and songwriters throughout the centuries have thought about our relationship to the planet. Natural Selections: An Earth Day Celebration in Prose and Song featured folksinger Geoff Kaufman ’69 alongside Assistant Professor ...
On April 24 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Gamut Room, Be H.I.P. (Highly Informed People) and Get H.I. (Highly Informed) will host an event featuring discussions on the current situation in the Middle East. The featured student panel, organized by student leaders Toby Israel ’14 and Mariam Boxwala ’13, ...
Musically speaking, 2009 was a dying year. But thanks to a team of indie superheroes including Animal Collective, Passion Pit and The Dirty Projectors, humanity was saved from the soul-sucking clutches of Susan Boyle and auto-tune. Although no definitive list of music’s heroes exists, one thing’s ...
On April 10, the Sexual Assault Oversight Committee (SAOC) presented a new sexual misconduct policy to the Student Government Association (SGA). This presentation was part of SAOC’s attempt to get student feedback on the policies they hope to implement in Fall 2011. “There is no question that the ...
In an all-campus email sent last Thursday, the College announced the addition of one reading day to the exam schedule, effective beginning with the fall exam schedule of 2011. “The change is designed to provide more flex in what feels like a very compressed week of exams,” explained Vice President ...
Over the years, Wikipedia has remained one of the most used and controversial sources available to students at the College. In 2007, the history department attracted national attention and controversy by banning Wikipedia as a credible source in papers. The department-issued statement also mandated ...