After watching “Race to Nowhere” — a film in the documentary series put on by the Education Studies Department, (apart from critiquing what invisible layers were missing from the film in terms of race, gender and socioeconomic inequities and the larger, more dominating pressures and problems with ...
After a season of extremes — from starting off with six straight wins to losing four in a row in conference play — the Middlebury women’s basketball team saw their roller-coaster ride end in the NESCAC quarterfinals last Saturday, falling 67-64 to the Mules of Colby. The close loss was in stark ...
Last weekend, thirteen first-year women represented Middlebury at the NESCAC Championship hosted by Williams College. Though they lacked depth with such a small squad, the girls had an extremely successful meet, finishing in ninth place ahead of Bowdoin and Trinity and coming up two points shy of ...
The Middlebury College women’s squash team finished in 13th place at the College Squash Association (CSA) National Championships played at Princeton University and The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey last weekend. Seeded 10th at the tournament’s outset, the Panthers competed for the Kurtz Cup, ...
This past weekend, Middlebury College celebrated its 88th Winter Carnival — continuing the longest-running student-led Carnival in the country. Apart from the much-appreciated three-day weekend, the College sponsored several performances and events. This weekend also marked the triumphant homecoming ...
Anne Hoover, recipient of Spirit in Nature’s 2011 Eco-Spirit Award, leads a life comparable to the busiest of Midd Kids. Though Hoover admits she has slowed down in recent years, her involvement and leadership in a myriad of causes is undeniable. Hoover, who lives in Middlebury, is currently a volunteer ...
It’s not too often that we get a chance to see a production of student-written play here at Middlebury, but this weekend provided one of those opportunities. Noah Mease, a double major in Spanish and Theater (with a Playwriting focus), spent the fall writing Green Eden as his 700-level project, a ...
Game |9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors Platform |Nintendo DS Rating | Mature For those of you who read my column, you may have noticed an unsettling trend: I have only reviewed sequels or new additions of long-standing franchises. This deeply bothered me, as someone who advocates strongly for the independent/small-developer-based ...
The Campus has taken a lot of heat in the last week over our coverage of hazing among members of the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. As the editor-in-chief, I feel I should respond to misinformed readers who think we did not cover it at all, to readers who wanted coverage sooner and ...
Last Thursday, Verbal Onslaught kicked off Winter Carnival by pairing up with non-profit organization Reclaim Childhood in an evening dedicated to self-empowerment. The event was held at 51 Main and as the night went on, the space became progressively more packed with students and other enraptured ...
On Jan. 7, 2010, Vermont Yankee, a nuclear power plant located in Vernon, Vt., discovered tritium leaking from one of its groundwater monitoring wells. More than a year later, some, like Governor Peter Shumlin, hope the plant will shut down, as they believe it poses a risk to the state. Opposition remains ...
Journalist Eric Schlosser delivered an address titled “The Future of the Food Movement” and took questions from a capacity crowd at McCullough Social Space last Tuesday night, Feb. 15. In addition to being the executive producer of There Will Be Blood and Food Inc. and producing two plays in ...
I’ve written many times on Middlebury’s traditions, and I’ve exhausted the subject. However, the sub-zero temperatures have slowed my usually enormous imagination. Furthermore, the cold front coincides with Middlebury’s recent cold shoulder to the housing wants of our students. It’s with some ...
This week, I plan to use my column in a rather self-serving manner. First, some context. Last week I was fact-checking an article in the Campus office, or as I fondly call it, Hepburninhell, when I came across a list of all the deans at our fine institution. Apparently, there are 25 of them! Who knew? ...
I’ll never forget the day I saw democracy at work. It was June 26, 2009 — Michael Jackson had just died and the House of Representatives was voting on a massive climate and energy bill. I was working for 1Sky — a campaign devoted to the very principles that the bill embodied: reductions in carbon ...
What is this place we call Middlebury? We exalt our college as a place of intellectual inquiry that shapes well-rounded students who lead balanced lives; however that description glosses over too much. From the minute I entered Dana Auditorium for the packed screening of “Race to Nowhere”, I knew ...
It is natural for human beings to look towards the future, to dream of what tomorrow, or twenty years from now may bring. We work for the future, save for the future and plan for the future. It is impossible to conceptualize life without an assumption of a future, and having been born with the ability ...
Blue Valentine Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance, was notorious well before its release: after screening to high praise at both the Cannes and Sundance Film Festival, the MPAA bestowed an NC-17 rating on it, the most restrictive rating short of that reserved for pornography (the rating is ...
The Farmers Diner in Marble Works closed its doors for the last time on Feb. 14, a few months shy of its second anniversary, for the reason that worries most small businesses. “We just didn’t make enough money,” said Tod Murphy, co-owner of the diner. “It was totally a bottom-line decision.” Murphy ...