Many Middlebury students know that Noonie’s Deli, a sandwich shop in Marble Works, sells some of the biggest, tastiest, reasonably priced sandwiches around. Owner Bryan Phelps, along with his fiancée Jenny Condon, a graduate of Middlebury, bought the deli from Karen Phelps in March of this past year. Born ...
While doing my normal snooping around sports websites, I came across a headline that made me shriek with joy –– “Lebron says quote misinterpreted, compares self to Randy Moss.” As a Cavaliers fan, I was ecstatic to discover the new public relations nightmare that Lebron was about to create by ...
Women’s volleyball ended their season with a loss to UMass Boston in the second round of the NCAA tournament. After what might possibly have been the Panthers’ best season ever, the team fell in a close match Saturday afternoon. Despite this disappointment, the team picked up several distinctions ...
Wednesday night, the Ilsley Public Library hosted a talk by Dan Kittredge, founder and director of the Real Food Campaign. The presentation, which was open to the public, was co-sponsored by the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACoRN) and the Middlebury National Foods Co-op. Kittredge’s talk ...
The Middlebury College Rugby Club captured their fourth-ever Northeast Rugby Union championship on Sunday, defeating 21st-ranked William Patterson 43-5 at Bowdoin College. The second-ranked Panthers automatically qualify for the national tournament in the spring, where they will most likely be one of ...
Anyone who has been at Middlebury College longer than a few months knows there is a time when each of us needs saving. It may catch you in putting on a second pair of socks, in the nights walking alone across Battell Beach in a bitter wind, or maybe after six hours in the library, when you realize Midd ...
Sir Riel Nov. 18, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Head down to the Town Hall Theater on Thurs. night to witness an evening of “eccentric manipulation,” performed by Sir Riel, a street artist who has created a one-of -a-kind show for the Middlebury audience. The performance will feature juggling feats, some of ...
Coach Terry Aldrich put it best when he said that the Panthers had “the most historic weekend for the Middlebury Cross Country team in the program’s history.” The teams raced at Williams in the NCAA regional meet for New England schools with an eye on qualifying for the Division III NCAA finals. ...
On Saturday afternoon in Middlebury, Vermont, one senior from Poway, California shone brighter than any other player on the field. From the time his name was announced to the final pass of his career — a 10-yard touchdown to wide receiver Matt Rayner ’12 — Donnie McKillop ’11 was nothing short ...
Since 1998, the Spirit in Nature Interfaith Path Sanctuary has been a place where various faith groups walk, pray and promote environmental conservation. The trail is located off of Route 125 on Goshen Road in Ripton, Vt. It spans 80 acres of land and is the ideal environment for solitude and spiritual ...
Most students at Middlebury are athletes. Just over one in four students participate in varsity sports, and the percentage increases dramatically if we include JV, club and intramurals. In fact, if you don’t participate in an organized sport of some kind, you are in the minority on campus. Even then, ...
Last December hopes were high, and expectations soared as 197 countries sent representatives to the city of Copenhagen to take part in the United Nations sponsored talks on greenhouse emissions and global climate change. Despite President Obama’s comment that these talks were “meaningful,” these ...
This past week, we once again awoke in the early hours of the morning to stare at the lifeless blue screen of BannerWeb. Typing in those CRNs we made choices — we chose the shape of our spring semester, our possible majors and perhaps our future careers. Some of us registered for classes like The ...
I was excited to get an email in my inbox with the words: “You are the 2010-2011 recipient of the Anonymous Scholarship, a donor-funded scholarship that supports your financial aid. Congratulations on this special honor!” But when I looked at my new financial aid balance, my joyful bubble popped: ...
The Vermont winter makes a solid argument against the existence of global warming, especially when gusts of icy snow get involved. Admittedly, this time of year provides some evidence for climate change — from chilly to colder to Winter Term — but except for a few strangely sunny days, Middlebury ...
When the woman in the most significant position of international climate policy power says that she does “not believe we will have a final agreement on climate change … in [her] lifetime,” one would approach work in this sphere with precious little hope. The woman is Christina Figueres — a 53-year-old ...
To the Middlebury Campus, My family drove from New Hampshire to New York City this weekend to attend the Fourth Annual Quidditch World Cup. This was our third cup. Our son is a senior at Middlebury and has played quidditch all four years. In fact, he saw someone in a Middlebury Quidditch t-shirt on ...
In the HBO series, Bored to Death, Ted Danson’s magazine-editing character hears that the board of his publication has voted to cut his column — to which he responds, “I am my column. I mean, I’m writing it in my mind, all the time.” Similarly, I too write my column in my mind, all the time. ...
Last fall I had the tremendous benefit of arriving on this campus and beginning my Middlebury journey in the classroom of Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Tara Affolter. I was immediately challenged in numerous ways to critically analyze the complexities of systems of oppression and ...
Technically speaking, Jeff Klein ’09 and I were co-editors of The Campus Sports section for three semesters in 2008, but that distinction doesn’t do justice to either our friendship or the weekly lessons he gave me in sports reporting. A small and somewhat sterilized office, the Hepburn basement ...