On Sept. 13, a record number of students came to Dana Auditorium where they attended Senior Meetings. 661 students attended the three sessions at 12:30 p.m, 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. — an increase of 94 students over the same number last year. This is the first time Senior Meetings have been attended ...
BUENOS AIRES — I seem to understand my host family a little better every day. Sometimes they come to me with English questions, and they have even asked me about things on eBay. I have been to some unforgettable places here in Argentina, and I’ve eaten at some stellar restaurants, but most of ...
Call it a most beautiful marriage of music and film. Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips — two musicians currently performing with a band under the moniker Dean & Britta — were commissioned several years ago by the Andy Warhol Museum and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to compose music accompanying ...
Andrew Massey, Middlebury College orchestra conductor, has been at the helm of professional ensembles for over 30 years. His career has taken him across the pond, from England to the United States, and most recently to Vermont. This year will be his second with the College. He sat down with The Campus ...
Much to the chagrin of those who demand that personal tales must color a man’s professional output, Roman Polanski, the scourge of feminists and the right-wing culture police alike, has made a fine, spare thriller that has nothing to do with its director’s own sordid story. The Ghost Writer is at ...
It’s hard to image Middlebury’s arts scene without the Gamut Room. Nestled in Gifford Hall at the foot of a small outdoor amphitheater, the Gamut Room has developed into both a beloved Middlebury entertainment venue and a quirky study zone. With its painted walls and cozy décor, the Gamut Room ...
For students, the image of Public Safety may be of the officer walking down a hallway on a weekend night or the Public Safety car circling campus during the day. However, an officer’s job is much more — telecommunicators dispatching officers, security protecting the art museum, unlocking cars, ...
Our very own Officer Jacob Chamberlain has seen quite a bit in his day. By the time he left the Navy he had been to 13 countries and all across the United States. So how could his journeys have led him to Middlebury Vermont, watching gaggles of drunken kids trip across Battel Beach every Saturday night? ...
A face less known to the student body, Director of Public Safety Lisa Boudah has brought Public Safety to its current high level of efficiency. A resident of Vermont since she was eight years old, Boudah explained how she had to grow up being told “I am not a Vermonter.” After college, Boudah, unsure ...
Public safety officers come from all walks of life, but it is probably safe to say that very few come from a background in dairy farming, like Officer Mike Dykstra. Although Dykstra no longer farms, he still sells horse hay all around Addison County and helps out a friend on his dairy farm. But, as ...
As one of the three female Public Safety officers on campus, not many expected Officer Marcy Gosselin to pursue a career in police work. “I learned that a lot of people didn’t expect me to become a police officer one, because of the way I looked and two, because I’m not this big, huge, tall female,” ...
There are no games that can be taken for granted. This is a lesson that the 11th-ranked Middlebury women’s soccer team learned in their season-opening weekend, as they returned from their road trip with a loss and a tie against Tufts and Babson, respectively. Although the Panthers had beaten both ...
About 60 percent of Middlebury students study abroad during their junior year. While most of these students spend only a semester in a different country, a sizeable amount is away for the entire year. The study abroad experience is formative, and students who spent considerable time away from the ...
This column is written as a reminder that our community transcends the physical boundaries of the campus and encompasses a beautifully diverse group of people; it’s written under the conviction that the ‘Middlebury bubble’ exists only if we let it exist. In each column, I relay the stories of ...
Unprompted, Fifelo Aganga ’13 turned to me and declared, “If I had to sum myself up in three words I would have to say black, British – and I’m torn between two words now: drunk or lackadaisical.” More than a tad off-color, Aganga definitely gets noticed at a place like Middlebury, a place ...
The Middlebury men’s tennis team opened up the fall season with a bang this last weekend, taking home victories in the A, B, C and D singles flights as well as one of the two doubles flights of the annual Middlebury Invitational tournament. The Panthers recovered seamlessly from the departure of last ...
The first weeks of fall always seem to carry an air of relief. As students settle into their lives at Midd, it feels as though all things temporarily misplaced have suddenly been reclaimed. Along with yearnings for the magnificent landscape and warm atmosphere, there is yet another craving that ...
This summer, while sitting in a coffee shop in Montpelier, the most peculiar thing happened. A man touched my knee. It doesn’t sound that weird, I know, but I didn’t see it coming at all. He wore a wedding ring and he chatted idly about his wife of eight years. He looked only at my face despite ...
While I was sitting in my office this summer, my co-worker turned to me and said, “Hey. Did you know that nearly one in four couples in America sleep in separate bedrooms?” (He was obviously getting distracted on the internet). Surprisingly, he was right — even in 2005, the National Sleep Foundation ...
The Middlebury men’s rugby team bested the Harvard Crimson this weekend in a tough warm-up match that resulted in a Panther victory of 33-17. Although Harvard had possession of the ball for most of the first half, the MCRC was relentless as they reclaimed control in the second half and came out on ...