Women’s volleyball improved their season record to 11-3 after an impressive three-win week. After traveling to nearby Colby-Sawyer earlier last week, the team made the long trek to Lewiston, Me. on Friday to take on both Bates and Colby College. The Panthers rebounded from a disappointing previous ...
Founded by local author and environmental advocate, Bill McKibben, as well as several other Middlebury alumni, 350.org is an international organization whose mission is “to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis.” It focuses on reducing carbon emissions and reaching the ...
Playing their toughest match so far this season, the Middlebury College Rugby Club won a hard-fought match against the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Saturday with a final score of 39-12. As the competitors represented the final two teams with undefeated records in New England coming into this past weekend, ...
Sporting a head of frizzy brown hair and wearing a pink dress, tights and boots, Abigail Washburn certainly fit the appearance of a bubbly bluegrass songstress during her Sept. 29 concert at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Effervescent from the moment she walked onstage, Washburn shouted ...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Center, which was founded in 1980 to provide critical services to refugees resettling in the state. Since efforts began in 1975, the US has resettled about 2.6 million refugees, as of 2009. Around 300 refugees a year arrive in ...
Some things just never seem to change about Middlebury Athletics, and the glowing success of the men’s tennis squad is certainly no exception. Last weekend’s less-than-exemplary performance at Williams’ ITA Tournament has quickly been forgotten as the Panthers returned this weekend in top form ...
Middlebury Arts October 8, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Come join fellow Middlebury residents for the Arts Walk, a leisurely promenade through downtown Middlebury and Marble Works. There will be much art on display, as well as music and food. This month over 40 different venues are showcasing their artistic masterpieces. ...
The women’s soccer team is rising. With a dominating 2-0 shutout at Colby last Saturday, not only did the team redeem Middlebury’s honor in far-off Waterville, Maine., they took a big step forward in improving their standing in the NESCAC. Now the Panthers have the momentum of three straight wins ...
This season, the one question on the minds of the Panther football team is not the win tally for the fall or the number of records QB Donnie McKillop ’11 will break, but when was the last time Dola got a haircut? Defensive lineman Chris Dola ’12 is not only distinguished by completing the second-most ...
The College is currently in the process of reaccreditation, a process that all institutions of higher learning must undergo every 10 years. The New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) performs the reaccreditation; a team from that organization will visit campus in the fall of 2011 ...
On Sept. 30, the College released its annual security report, including statistics of on-campus crime from the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. According to Associate Dean of the College and Director of Public Safety Lisa Boudah, the report is designed to “make sure students are familiar with safety procedures” ...
Despite the financial setbacks the College has faced during the economic downturn, the administration has continued to actively search for and hire new faculty members, including members who will occupy tenure-track positions. According to Dean of the Faculty Jim Ralph, the College most actively recruits ...
During its Oct. 3 meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed ways to decrease waiting time for students who need to print few pages, yet find themselves waiting for long periods of time to use the printer as other students release large printing jobs. One of the proposed solutions ...
As part of the College’s “Meet the Press” lecture series, acclaimed New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer will visit campus on Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m. to give a talk on civil liberties and torture. Though Mayer has an impressive resume, including a 12-year stint with The Wall Street Journal where she was ...
On Sept. 30 the citizens of the world’s only totalitarian state were able to view the individual who will likely succeed their current dictator. Through a low-resolution image fed to the state-run national newspaper, they saw a round-faced young man in between his father and a general, unsmiling and ...
The Saturday night of my first full weekend in Madrid, there was a huge festival in the center of the city called “La Noche en Blanco.” In the week leading up to this big night, I could not walk down any main street without seeing an advertisement for the event, yet no one seemed to know what it ...
Students wishing to relax and play online video games have been denied access to the college’s online network on three separate occasions during the first term, prompting outrage among the campus’s devoted online gamers. While the first two periods lasted only three days each (Aug. 8-11 and Sep. ...
US Senate examines for-profit college practices For-profit colleges have recently taken a huge hit in public perception after being exposed in U.S. Senate hearings as falsely inflating their post-college employment statistics. An employee at Education Management Corp.’s Art Institutes testified ...
How do we interpret “helping our fellow man?” Are we ethically responsible for helping to solve global health issues? These are just some of the questions posed at Friday’s Clifford Symposium event, “Roundtable: Teaching at the Intersections.” At the 4 p.m. event held on Sept. 24, professors ...
Keynote speaker Dorothy Roberts knows how to grab an audience’s attention, and Friday night she did it by announcing that in 2002, there were 83,570 “excess” black deaths. If the mortality gap between blacks and whites was eliminated, she said, these 83,570 people would still be alive today. She ...