The University of Vermont ski team kicked off its season in a dominating fashion by taking a commanding victory in the first carnival of the season, hosted by St. Laurence University. Of the eight races held last Friday and Saturday, UVM had the best team score in all but one race, in which the Catamounts ...
The Middlebury men’s squash team had another great weekend. On Jan. 15 and 16 they faced off against Amherst –– ranked 19th, Hobart –– ranked 25th –– and Hamilton –– ranked 21st. The Panthers are ranked 17th. The Panther’s winning streak continues with their third, fourth and fifth ...
The Middlebury women’s basketball team hit a bit of a rough patch to open conference play last weekend, falling on the road to both Tufts and Bates by double digits. The losses dropped their record to 9-3 overall, and an unexpected 0-2 in NESCAC play following a very strong start to the season. “The ...
Coming off wins against Bates and Colby, the Panthers looked to continue their success against Hamilton on Saturday. The men scored a narrow 122-109 victory while the women defeated the Continentals 156-87. The women’s team (4-3) is over .500 for the first time this year and the men’s team (3-4) ...
Seventy-six days ago, across the Unites State of America, contentious election after contentious election took place. At the end of the night, the Republican Party had taken back the house with a staggering sixty-three seat majority. The Democrats were narrowly left in control of the senate with only ...
The 24-Hour Play Festival, which began at 8:00 on Saturday and ended with performances at 8:00 and 10:00 on Sunday, was a definite highlight of this week. Full disclosure: I acted in the festival, playing an unemployed and promiscuous Princess Belle. It was mad fun, and I got to say, “I did it with ...
Dean of the College Shirley Collado’s Plates and Privilege article greatly bothers me. She distorts an issue of collective inefficiency into an opportunity to mount a self-serving moral crusade. Her argument is the same one that I’ve encountered many times, in one outfit or another: “If you’re ...
I am not going to write about what happened in Tucson two weeks ago. Obviously the events are tragic — although we can take a small measure of hope from the survival of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) — and enough has been said about the shooter. Nor am I going to try and lay this at ...
For many, Winter Term can become a graveyard for grand schemes that never come to fruition. Among many people I know, “we’ll do it in J-Term,” (or just “J-Term.”) is the half-joking default response to good ideas that seem like too big of an undertaking during the busy semester. But every ...
My basement at home has two sides: one is a finished section with a big television, computer desk and ping-pong table. A door leads to the other side, which is unfinished, poorly lit and filled with old paint cans and a tool bench. I usually spend my time in the former, but over Winter Break, I started ...
The Addison County Relocalization Network (ACoRN), an organization started in 2005 in response to growing concerns about peak oil and environmental challenges, recently released “The 2010 Strategic Plan for the Addison County Local Foods Collaborative.” The study addresses the ways in which Addison ...
Grades: they are the universally recognized symbols of our knowledge, skill and effort; they give us a platform on which to stand and proclaim our proficiency; they provide us something to work toward and something to complain about; they give colleges and employers standards by which diverse candidates ...
It’s Saturday at 8 p.m., and whether you’re getting ready to throw your hands up in the air another time or bundling up for a late night snowball fight, one thing is relatively certain — you’re not preparing for yet another all-nighter. At the very least, you wouldn’t be doing so voluntarily. Not ...
This fall, Otter Creek Bakery, located at 14 College Street, joined the town’s green efforts and installed solar panels on top of its roof. Growing up in eco-conscious families, both Ben and Sarah Wood, the bakery’s owners, have wanted solar panels for years. With the current tax rebate incentives, ...
Nationally renowned poet, actor and playwright Dael Orlandersmith staged a reading of two new short scripts in the Seeler Studio Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 13 as part of her Winter Term residency at the College. The two plays, Rave and Man of Water, were performed by actors Jack Gwaltney and Assistant ...
The aroma of fresh baked cookies that pervades Vermont Cookie Love is enough to make anyone’s mouth water. Owners Suzanna Miller and Paul Seyler opened the North Ferrisburgh retail store and 1,500-square foot production facility in December 2008 and have been baking fresh baked cookies ever since. Originally ...
A native third-generation Vermonter, Jeff Costello’s favorite spot in Middlebury is the Town Green. He grew up in town and often worked in his father’s eatery, the Middlebury Bakery, before the store was sold to its current owner Jim Rubright in 1979. The café was shortly renamed Middlebury Bagel ...
10) Menomena — Mines Menomena’s third proper album is one of the year’s most underrated, and it finds the Portland trio really hitting their stride, marrying their patchwork experimentalism with great hooks and an overall newfound pop sensibility. This yields their most varied and accessible ...
When I graduated from Middlebury in May of 1972, I had decided to seek election to the House of Representatives that fall, but I could never have imagined the journey on which I was about to embark. It’s an honor to be back on campus after all these years; I hope I can make a contribution by relaying ...
10) Fang Island— Fang Island Any band that takes its name from an article in The Onion about Donald Rumsfeld’s secret hideaway is bound to be a bit exuberant. Clocking in at only 31 minutes, Fang Island’s eponymous debut is a blood-rush of epic, carefree hullabaloo inspired by the likes of Los ...