After he graduated last May, Dan Sheron ’10 packed up and left the States to spend some time in Russia. He ended up writing a set of songs that would become the forthcoming album October’s Road, performed by a newly-formed group they dubbed Balto. We talked to him about writing music in Russia, ...
It is an exciting time for young entrepreneurs at Middlebury College — and consequently, for everyone else as well. With the impending opening of the new student-run Juice Bar, the recent opening of the on-campus thrift store The Trunk, the new micro financing group MiddStart and the grocery-delivery ...
In the fall of 2008, I arrived on Middlebury College campus to learn, with some disappointment, that I would be living on an all-male hall for the duration of the year. My friends at other schools expressed sympathy for me, as I bemoaned the constant “sausage-fest” that would surely comprise my ...
They’re here. They’ve come. Amidst a campus of jaded liberal arts zombies, morosely trudging to class while praying for global warming to kick in, they enter the Middlebury community. I am, of course, referring to those little rays of sunshine we call “Febs” (aka Feblets, Febbies, Fmunchkins, ...
As the NESCAC championship creeps closer and closer, the Middlebury men’s basketball team keeps on rolling in the victories. With victories over previously undefeated Amherst and Trinity during the weekend, the team now finds itself 20-1 going into the final stretch of the regular season. The weekend ...
“Breaking the Huddle,” a lecture on the opening of a new gallery at the Middlebury College Art Museum, existed in my mind as something very stereotypical. The new gallery, Mixed Signals, seeks to discuss “popular notions of masculinity and sport.” As perhaps the least athletic person you could ...
The second half of the men’s hockey team’s season has certainly been prettier to watch than the first. The Panthers, coming off a pair of victories against UMASS-Boston and Babson this past weekend, are now 11-6-5 on the season with a 9-4-4 record in the NESCAC, putting them tied for first in the ...
On Sunday, the Middlebury College women’s squash team defeated Williams College for the second time in a seven days, shredding any doubt that the Panthers’ 6-3 victory over the Ephs in the NESCAC Team Championships two weeks ago was, in fact, an upset. By a narrow 5-4 margin, Middlebury eclipsed ...
The Middlebury ski team produced its best result of the year this past weekend, taking third place in the Dartmouth Carnival. Middlebury has had some great individual results this year, but this was the first time the Panthers collectively found their groove. UVM kept its stranglehold on the top spot ...
One in seven families in the state of Vermont cannot provide three nutritious meals for their loved ones each day. Statistics like these are what motivated Hunger Free Vermont, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1993 that works to combat hunger, to adopt the 3SquaresVT program, Vermont’s federal ...
With their NESCAC seeding and seniors’ pride on the line on Saturday, the Middlebury College Women’s basketball team came through with a big win over Trinity, which ended a four-game NESCAC losing streak and gave them confidence heading into the NESCAC tournament, which begins on Saturday. The win ...
Ever gone on a tour at one of Vermont’s finest local breweries and reached the end prepared to enjoy that long awaited (and perhaps necessary) pint, poured straight from the source, and then thought that the only thing missing was a cup of soup or a plate of fries? This spring, Middlebury’s own ...
Chicago’s Smith Westerns showed up late for the party — about 40 years late. The teenage quartet’s home-brewed combination of garage-rock guitars, Beatles melodies, T-Rex and Bowie-esque glam-rock throws us right back into 1971. But this is no revivalist cover band. Smith Westerns’ sophomore ...
Angie Wade has come a full circle. Upon finishing high school, she started work at Lazarus Department Store. Owned and managed by Stan Lazarus, the building sat at 20 Main St.; if you lived in Middlebury and you wore shoes, you most definitely bought them there. Wade worked there for two years, during ...
The Panther men played at home this weekend and had yet another great weekend on the squash court, winning three out of the five matches they played. The Middlebury men started the weekend off against ninth ranked Dartmouth, who proved to be a formidable match for the Panthers. The men fell 9-0 but ...
Recently retired Governor of Vermont Jim Douglas is not a man to sit idle. First elected to the Vermont legislature the same year he graduated from Middlebury with a degree in Russian studies, he rose rapidly through the state’s elected offices despite his unenviable status as a Republican in the ...
The women’s hockey team hosted then third-ranked Plattsburgh on Tuesday. Riding a seven-game winning streak in which they had allowed just three goals, the Panthers overcame their struggles against Plattsburgh, beating the Cardinals for the first time since the 2006 National Championship game. Middlebury ...
Pizza: there is something inexplicably appealing in the word, and the possibilities its myriad of forms suggest. In the United States, it has become a cultural icon and a phenomenon, a comfort food and, among other things, a bribe for family time. Whatever else it is, the majority of mouths agree that ...
On Feb. 3, the College began investigations into an incident involving both the men’s and women’s swim teams on Feb. 2. Dean of the College and Chief Diversity Officer Shirley Collado released a statement saying that “violations of the college’s hazing policy by the men’s and women’s swim ...