Every decade, American colleges and universities must go through a rigorous examination to prove their effectiveness as an institution. The College is now in the midst of this reaccreditation process. For the past 18 months, the Reaccreditation Steering Committee and numerous subcommittees have investigated ...
SAT essay question stirs controversy Online discussion forums such as College Confidential have been filled with complaints about an essay question on the most recent SAT. One-third of the test-takers were reportedly asked about reality TV and its influence on modern society. Students who are not familiar ...
From April 7-9, the College will host “Land and Justice: A Symposium on Race, Ethnicity and Environment.” The symposium is co-sponsored by the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Environmental Affairs, Middlebury College Organic Garden, the American studies program and ...
The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship announced its 2011-2012 recipients on March 15, among whom are two Middlebury students. Austin Davis ’11 and Sarafina Midzik ’11 will begin their fellowships this summer after surviving the application process, which began with their nomination from a pool of 34 Middlebury ...
Sometimes I get fed up with this place. There may be better reasons to dislike Middlebury, but so often I come back to the same restless discomfort: I am always surrounded here. I am always watching. I am always being watched. Maybe you can relate — you know those days when the perky girl on your ...
Recently, I was lucky enough to be one of the 200 people to attend a Monday Atwater dinner. In this case the theme was French Cuisine. As a lover of any sort of French fare, I was hoping for a feast of steak and frites, baguettes with decent cheese, coq au vin, ratatouille, savory crepes, chestnut soup, ...
While Rebecca Black, thirteen-year-old YouTube love/hate sensation, was dominating the viral airwaves with her prepackaged hit “Friday,” another Internet sensation was brewing, this one far smarter and far more important to the Middlebury community. If you’re not one of the million people who ...
As the Middlebury men’s basketball team advanced to the Division III Final Four for the first time in school history over the weekend with victories over Rochester and St. Mary’s, the Panthers are quickly becoming the living embodiment of the old phrase “defense wins championships.” “It’s ...
Senior goaltender Alexi Bloom achieved her record-breaking 11th shutout of the season as the Panthers edged Manhattanville 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The Panthers held a commanding 30-20 shot advantage over the Valiants who they outshot in every period. Although the teams combined ...
It didn’t take long for the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team to take control of its 2011 season opening game this past Saturday against Bates. It took even less time for David Hild ’11 to net his first hat trick of the season. On the back of Hild’s career-best offensive effort (six goals and one ...
The 2011 NCAA Ski Championships were all about revenge. After finishing in the runner-up position three years in a row, the University of Colorado (CU) finally got to hoist the winner’s trophy this past weekend. A prolific skiing power, the Colorado Buffalos now have 18 national ski titles in their ...
The men’s tennis team began its defense of its 2010 National Championship season with three wins this weekend against Oneonta, Brandeis, and Connecticut College. The Panthers dropped just one match of a possible 27 over the weekend sweeping Oneonta State and Connecticut College 9-0, while downing ...
The 15th ranked Panthers (1-0, 1-0 NESCAC) won their season-opener in overtime against the Bates Bobcats this past Saturday in Lewiston, Maine. The team came from behind to secure a 10-9 victory with the help of Sally Ryan’s ’11 five goals and two assists, Liz Garry’s ’12 three goals, 15 saves ...
The Middlebury women’s tennis team started off their season with two indoor games at home on Saturday. They started out the day against Brandeis, winning eight out of nine games. Five out of six of the single matches were won in only two sets. Middlebury’s number one singles player Victoria Aiello ...
On Friday, the women’s indoor track and field distance medley relay (DMR) team joined an elite group, comprised of only three other athletes in Middlebury track history; they can now call themselves NCAA Champions. Kaitlynn Saldanha ’11, Margo Cramer ’12, Juliet Ryan-Davis ’13 and Sophia Spring ...
Since the first Posse Scholars arrived at Middlebury in 1999, the program has continued to flourish on campus. One of the group’s biggest events is the annual PossePlus Retreat, which this year hosted Posse Scholars and their “plussers” for a weekend in Farilee, VT. The Campus explores Posse history ...
In honor of losing an hour to the cruel, cruel design of Daylight Savings Time, let me say this — everyone’s clock runs differently. For some of us, this means that we end up an hour late everywhere we go, awkwardly sidling in, smelling of liquor and shame. (Sorry, Professor.) Others end up sitting ...
On International Women’s Day at the Chellis house, Associate Professor of English and American Literature Marion Wells announced that Colleen Carroll ’12 had been unanimously chosen to receive the prestigious Fraker prize from a pool of 12 nominees. The prize was conceived in honor of Alison Fraker, ...
Whether you hear of it through e-mails from your RA or by looking down your decimated hall, the problem of dorm damage is a reality. With several weeks still remaining in the academic year, the College’s monetary tally for dorm damage exceeds $53,000 — more than the cost of one student’s yearly ...
Dearest Blueberry, You don’t know a lot about me, and I don’t know a lot about you, but we are in love. Here is the story of how I met you. Doing homework is one of the loneliest parts of my day. I came to this realization this past weekend, when I spent every waking hour of my actual birthday ...