Have you ever counted how many napkins you grab in the dining hall at once? My friends and I tried a little social experiment this week, with interesting results. I went up to the napkin basket and made a conscious effort to grab a single napkin. My fingers were simply not nimble enough; I came back ...
The Duke Nelson Recreational Center, dubbed the “alien space craft center” by Yeasayer themselves, slowly began to fill with Middlebury students as the shaggy-haired members of DOM filled the air with unintelligible lyrics and fierce guitars. These were the students who chose, for whatever reason, ...
When the angels revolt against the senile God, the moon disappears and every item of food is turned into salt. Marisol, without the protection of her guardian angel, is left to survive on her own in the Bronx where a man attacks her with an ice cream cone, a woman is tortured for exceeding her credit ...
Mad Men Season 4 recap (Simran Bhalla): As my editor Toren once tweeted, AMC continues “KILLING IT with the serialized dramas.” Mad Men’s penultimate season drew to a close this October. It offered neither a numbing historical backdrop (such as, in previous seasons, Kennedy’s election and later ...
Kate Olen '11 Senior Quidditch enthusiast Kate Olen ’11 is one of the veterans of the magical sport, as she has served as one of the Tri-Commissioners for two years and has been playing Quidditch since her first year at Middlebury. Olen plays the position of chaser, which as many Harry Potter fans ...
As if a handful of NESCAC championships were not enough, this past weekend, Middlebury snatched up another victory at the 2010 Quidditch World Cup in New York City. Middlebury’s Quidditch players, who recently returned from the first off-campus World Cup event, are an unusual bunch indeed. This year’s ...
Whether we like it or not, winter is coming: Vermont’s sub-artic, snow-covered, frostbitten, I-don’t-want-to-leave my-warm-bed-ever-again winter. And yes, the same chilled air that quashes many a well-intentioned Friday night trip to the bar also forces us to drown ourselves in squishy down-feathered ...
This past Friday, Mead Chapel was home to a delightful concert that marked the Performing Arts Series’ 1000th performance since its creation. The concert focused on the musical expertise of Diana Fanning, an extremely talented local pianist and teacher, and celebrated her forty years as a performer. ...
On Friday, Nov. 12, the McCullough Social Space was filled with students twirling, skipping and stepping to traditional folk music. Sponsored by the Middlebury Mountain Club (MMC), the contra dance brought Vermont’s favorite folk dancing tradition to students and faculty alike. Contra dance originated ...
On Friday, the Women’s and Gender Studies department hosted a lunchtime lecture by Visting Professor of Spanish and Portugese Giannina Reyes-Giardiello. Sitting with fellow students and faculty in the living room of the Chellis House, she spoke on machismo in Mexico, her native country. This week ...
The men’s soccer team has a flair for the dramatic, to say the least. Coming off a gripping shootout win in the NESCAC tournament final against Bowdoin, the Panthers eliminated their first two opponents in the Division III NCAA Tournament with game-winning goals coming inside the last 15 minutes of ...
Less than 24 hours after a thrilling come-from-behind victory over their NESCAC rival Tufts to advance to the regional finals of the NCAA tournament, the Middlebury Panthers (13-5) saw their season come to an end with a 3-0 loss against Ursinus (20-1), the host school. Middlebury could not overcome ...
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the question, “Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?” and now having graduated from culinary school, I only hear the question more often. First, let me tell you one thing: going to culinary school didn’t help me answer this question and even after some ...
Last Saturday, the Panthers finished the 2010 football season in style, beating the Tufts Jumbos (1-7) to improve to 4-4, salvaging a .500 season and sending the 17 seniors off with a win. “It’s not everyday that you get to go out with some of your best friends, strap on a helmet and battle for ...
Men's Hockey The men’s hockey team enters the 2010-2011 season with big shoes to fill. The team won the NESCAC crown last winter and is currently ranked fourth in the nation among Division III teams. This year the team is setting out to defend their title and preserve the prestigious reputation they ...
What’s the sexiest thing you can wear? Confidence. Your gender doesn’t matter, your sexual preferences don’t matter, even your looks don’t matter — if you want to be sexy, feel sexy, have somebody else think you’re sexy, you’ve got to have some modicum of confidence. And sometimes that’s ...
When Jeanne Brink enrolled as a business student at the Vermont College of Norwich University in her late 30s, she never thought she’d graduate to become an Abenaki basket weaver. Balancing her job as a full-time secretary and mother of three children, Brink soon found her business courses unfulfilling. “Even ...
A new museum is bringing an old tradition to Middlebury residents. The National Museum of the Morgan Horse, located at 34 Main St., tells the story of the beloved Morgan horse, a breed known for its illustrious place in American history and characterized by its strength, endurance, arched neck and solid ...
Nine different landscapes sprang from the same assignment; their angles and depths, mirroring reality, are soaked with the light and color produced from the mind. Descend into the Johnson Memorial Building’s pit space to find the outside brought inside by means of the drawings, photo collages and ...
Linus Owens had a plan for his life. And then, things changed. We will start this story from the end: As many of you know, Owens is an assistant professor of sociology at Middlebury College. He teaches a large array of classes in this department, and is himself a sociologist. But how did he get here? “I ...