Identity is a broad, even baffling theme. It is intensely personal. It can be painful. It was thoroughly picked apart, laughed over and celebrated at an Oct. 21 event at 51 Main. MOQA -— the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance — organized the event, which featured Verbal Onslaught’s spoken word poetry ...
The Concert Hall was filled with eclectic music Saturday night as musician Dayve Huckett and friends took the stage. An affiliate artist with the College, Huckett’s solo performances included his own original music on classical, steel string and electric guitars. However, Huckett’s impressive repertoire ...
In the most recent installment of the Performing Arts Series, Middlebury College played host to Tamar Rogoff’s Diagnosis of a Faun. The piece focuses on a fantastic reinterpretation of the classical figure of the faun — a satyr with the aspects of both man and goat. It arrives at the interdisciplinary ...
The Castlevania franchise is one of those franchises that anyone who spends any of the time in the realm of gaming can instantly recognize, but it has little to no splash in the mainstream. By diverging from its 2-D sidescroller/ Dracula-hunting predecessors, Lords of Shadow hopes to change this obscurity ...
Generally, when watching the average Hollywood blockbuster, the discerning filmgoer has to resort to deriving pleasure not from the film itself, but from being the person who spites the film most creatively. The Social Network is not the average Hollywood blockbuster. In The Social Network, the characters ...
On Friday, in honor of homcoming weekend, the Grille hosted a special edition of the MCAB-sponsored “Music and Drinks” series, featuring a showcase of four bands with at least one member who graduated from Middlebury. As it was a Friday, the event was not as crowded as it might have been on a ...
From Oct. 15-19, native Vermont artist Sabra Field ’57 watched her mural “Cosmic Geometry” come to life on the back wall of the Wright Memorial Theater. Initiated by Kate Lupo ’10, “Cosmic Geometry” stands as the first outdoor mural in Middlebury history. Lupo initially proposed the project ...
Six resolutions were successfully passed at last weekend’s board of trustees meeting. At their Oct. 23 board meeting, the trustees moved to accept the College’s financial statement for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010; approve a $1.5 million upgrade to Kohn Field, to begin June 1, 2011; ...
Students taking natural science and introductory language courses routinely spend twice the amount of time in class than students in other classes, prompting a possible resolution by the Student Government Association (SGA) to add a half credit to classes with extensive lab time. Junior Senator Connor ...
Despite the effects of the economic downturn in the past two years, the Middlebury Initiative has raised approximately $338 million and is well on its way to its goal of $500 million. The Initiative is a fundraising campaign that is designed to raise money for the priorities of the College. The money ...
On Nov. 1, the Senior Committee unveiled this year’s senior class gift. After deliberating between three possible candidates, the class voted to donate the $100,000 gift to the Solar Decathlon project. The other two potential recipients for this year’s class gift were the organic garden and student ...
Jean Thompson Fulton Professor Emerita of French Carol Rifelj recently passed away after spending 38 years as an esteemed member of the faculty at the College. Although Rifelj retired this past spring, many students, faculty and staff on campus have been affected by her passing. Dean of the Faculty ...
The wide array of events that happen on campus, compounded by a lack of communication between student groups and a limited number of venues, make coordinating the College’s events a challenge. The Event Management Office takes on that challenge and is responsible for organizing and coordinating every ...
Everything I know and am is utterly false. This is what the British students at Oxford tell me. I cannot speak or spell or tell time. I cannot drive. I cannot even drink my tea the way I would like it, that is, without milk. This is incorrect, if you didn’t know. Civilization asks for milk in its ...
This past week, Student Government Association (SGA) passed resolutions urging the Administration readopt the outdoor orientation program — a move this column previously examined in full — and another, formally authorizing payment for this fall’s Midnight Breakfast. Both form reasonable and predictable ...
This week, the nation of Brazil added itself to the increasingly long list of countries that have recently elected a female leader. Campaigning on the same platform as her incredibly popular predecessor, 62-year-old Dilma Rousseff beat out political rival José Serra by 12 percent of the vote to become ...
This week, the private company Kiplinger released its “11 Best-Value Private Universities,” with Princeton, Yale and California Institute of Technology topping the charts, respectively. Kiplinger evaluated more than 600 private universities, using data from the college evaluation resource Peterson’s. ...
The Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) sponsored a week of identity exploration Oct. 20-28, replacing its traditional Coming Out Week, centered around National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, with a program of events called “(So) Over the Rainbow.” Coming Out Week has been a staple of MOQA’s yearly ...
The Communications Office has launched a new multimedia initiative to address the perennial problem of plates disappearing from the dining halls. Described as a “shame campaign” by Vice President for Administration Tim Spears, who oversees Dining Services and spearheaded the initiative, it has ...
The Staff Resources Committee (SRC) is continuing to grapple with the task of staff attrition and departmental streamlining as a result of the financial setbacks the College has suffered since the economic downturn in 2008. After the downturn began, the SRC recommended that the College decrease the ...