Middlebury (10-3) kept their impressive streak rolling Saturday with a dominant 4-1 victory over the Bates Bobcats (4-9), the team’s eighth straight win. More importantly, the win clinches home field advantage for the 13th-ranked Panthers for the first round of the upcoming NESCAC final tournament. The ...
Everything is better after a win –– just ask Panthers head football coach Bob Ritter –– particularly when you can run the ball effectively. The Panthers (2-3) ended a three game losing streak Saturday by beating Bates (1-4) 22-9. Though less than crisp at times, the Panthers offense totaled ...
The Middlebury College Rugby Club faced their hardest test of the season this Saturday, taking on rising Northeast power Boston University at home in front of what was the biggest fan turnout of the year to date. The Panthers rose to the occasion, jumping out to an early lead and never looking back ...
Fall is mountain bike season for the Middlebury Cycling Club, which has seen a huge groundswell in interest this year and now boasts a team of 10 racers who competed at four of the five races in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC) series. This is a marked improvement from previous years, ...
In the wake of a weekend that saw three players get fined $50,000 or more for illegal hits that knocked Desean Jackson, Josh Cribbs and Todd Heap out of games, the National Football League recently took its biggest leap forward in attempting to protect players from concussions by announcing that players ...
After defeating Plymouth State at home earlier in the week on their Senior Night, Middlebury women’s volleyball traveled to Holyoke, Massachusetts to compete in the 19th Volleyball Hall of Fame Classic. After a heartbreaking showing at Amherst over Fall Break, the team roared back and handily defeated ...
Following its first loss of the season back on Oct. 2 to Colby, the Middlebury men’s soccer team has been on a roll. Leading up to Saturday’s NESCAC matchup against Bates, the team had reeled off four straight wins, outscoring opponents 6-1 and pushing its record to 11-1, 6-1 in conference, during ...
This weekend the Middlebury men’s water polo team played dual roles as hosts and underdogs, and very nearly added spoilers to their resume as well. The Panthers entered the Natatorium as the fifth seed in the New England Club Water Polo Championships determined to make a name for themselves on their ...
Rookie sensation Scarlett Kirk ’14 burst onto the Middlebury sports scen two weeks ago in spectacular fashion, providing the offensive spark that helped propell the Middlebury College Women’s soccer team to one of their most exciting wins in recent memory. “That game was awesome,” said Kirk, ...
Over the past week, the communications office has been rolling out its new battle strategy against dishware thieves. You might have seen the posters with the oh-so-creative spaghetti font telling us that “[we] can dish it out, but [we] can’t take it.” Or the strange film noir-esque YouTube video. ...
Students Find Family Away From Home There’s no wrong way to spend fall break. You can stay on campus with friends, admiring the fall foliage and catching up on homework and some much-needed sleep. Or you can go home to Mom’s meatloaf, Dad’s corny jokes and an eager puppy who’s missed you terribly. Or, ...
TGIF! But what is there to do to kick-off the weekend? Friday Night Coffeehouses. Every Friday in the Grille, the Health and Wellness Center hosts celebrations of good music, food and company. The relaxed atmosphere of the Coffeehouse events provides students with a mellow option for a Friday night ...
After three years at Middlebury College, in some cases more, all students must face the nagging question of what comes next. The Career Services Office (CSO) strives to give students tangible tools to transition from Middlebury into their chosen career fields. With a surprising number of students bustling ...
“U.S. Poverty: It’s Timed to be Ashamed,” declared the first slide of director of Washington and Lee University’s Shepherd Poverty Program, Dr. Harlan Beckley’s Oct. 25 presentation. Beckley was the keynote speaker in this week-long symposium: American Poverty in Context. The title, taken ...
During the afternoon after the first snow of the year (well, okay, flurries- but it still counts), a small group of students met on Battell Beach for the opening event of the Cameron Cup. Huddled closely around the hot apple cider and hot chocolate dispensers, students sipped on warm beverages as they ...
When you enter Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science Murray P. Dry’s office he appears, dare I say it, quiet. The man who sits behind the desk in Monroe 221, the stately office with the pocket-sized constitutions outside of it barely seems to resemble the same man who, after 43 years of teaching ...
So, I made a bad decision. Well, a series of bad decisions that led me to one place: a required 8 a.m. class my senior year of college. In the midst of midterms one of my classmates sat down next to me and started ranting about how tired and stressed he was, ending his speech with a semi-coherent “Need ...
You are beautiful. When I say this, I don’t mean it as some feel-good, wake-up-in-the-morning-feeling-like-P-Diddy sort of mantra that you are supposed to use to greet the day. It’s a simple fact. You, the reader, are a beautiful person, in the sort of way that is undimmed by age or weight ...
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 ...