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College limits gaming bandwiths

By Middlebury Campus | October 6, 2010

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. ...

College Shorts

October 6, 2010

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 ...

The Clifford Symposium: Students and professors alike come together to take a deeper look into global health

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

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 ...

The Clifford Symposium: Keynote speaker Dorothy Roberts on “The New Biopolitics of Race and Health”

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

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 ...

The Clifford Symposium: “Making Medicines Essential - The Evolving Role of Pharmaceuticals in Global Health”

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Jeremy Greene is assistant professor in the department of the history of science at Harvard, instructor in the division of pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. With such a deep involvement in medicine in ...

The Clifford Symposium: “‘Doing’ Global Health Work — Different Perspectives”

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Saturday morning’s panel featured three women who have taken hands-on approaches to health care in their respective fields. Those in attendance learned about their respective endeavors through individual presentations and a Q & A. Though their approaches differ in nature, they share common senses ...

Men’s soccer remains undefeated

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Six games. No goals conceded. The 2010 Middlebury men’s soccer team has made a habit of shutouts. In fact, the last goal it allowed was the one that sent it packing in overtime of last season’s NESCAC championship game. Thanks to a three-win week against opponents Norwich, Bowdoin and Colby-Sawyer, ...

The Clifford Symposium: “Othering: Connecting through Differences”

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Susan Ray, assistant professor on the Faculty of Health and Sciences at the University of Western Ontario’s School of Nursing, delivered the opening lecture at this year’s Clifford Symposium. Ray first developed an interest in the phenomenon of “othering” while working on her dissertation, which ...

The Clifford Symposium: “Do Unauthorized Immigrants Have a Right to Health? Ethnographic Reflections on Contemporary ‘Deservingness’ Debates”

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Sarah Willen, assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University, continued this panel’s theme of deservingness by applying it to unauthorized immigrants through what she called “the lens of my own field”: medical anthropology. “This is a group we are trained not to see,” ...

Football lines up a win in home opener

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Head football coach Bob Ritter can exhale: his Middlebury Panthers opened the 2010 football season with a 24-21 win over the Wesleyan Cardinals. He may, however, have a few more gray hairs then he did before the game. Leading 24-14 with just over 10 minutes left in the game, the Panthers drove deep ...

Who gets the last laugh? Backstage with Middlebury Improv: Middlebrow

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

“Each birth is different,” said Andrew Powers ’11.5. With nostalgic looks on their faces, five-eighths of the Middlebrow improvisation troupe recapped some of their favorite moments from past performances. While they can’t decide on a favorite show (since each one is its own unique compilation ...

Who gets the last laugh? Backstage with Middlebury Improv: Otter Nonsense

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Turns out they can do more than open shells while floating on their backs. Whether you had the chance to catch one of their sold-out shows this weekend, or you’ve just seen their characteristic hand-drawn posters up around proctor, it’s hard not to notice that Otter Nonsense is making a big splash. ...

Bristol festivities draw large crowds

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

“OK, Ryan, don’t blow her up there!” shouted the loudspeaker, barely audible above the revving of the ’66 Mustang’s engine. The engine is weak, though, in comparison to the two cars at the end of the row, a ’67 Camaro and a ’23 Ford T-Bucket. Bristol’s Better L8 Than Never Car Show, ...

Panthers pounce in OT for first NESCAC win

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

Sometimes, the game comes down to a matter of inches. In Saturday’s 2-1 overtime victory, the Panthers women’s soccer team proved they had that extra determination to bring home a goal just 1:06 into the first extra period, and earned their first NESCAC win of the season. The game featured two ...

The L-Word - 9/30/10

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

This is a shout-out to the make-out. Last weekend I had some friends over for a rousing round of “Spin the Bottle” in the context of a “Come as your eighth grade self” party. Have you ever seen college students given license to kiss each other with total abandon in front of a room full of people? ...

Campus Character: Yuki Takeda

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

“Whistling” 。 “You don’t need an instrument. No money, no teacher, no room, no audience. Anywhere, whoever, it’s the music for any ordinary person. The melody just flows out from your body… That is whistling.” — Yuki Takeda With the arrival of every first-year class, a great diversity ...

Comedy at Middlebury

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

If you are interested in comedy, you are attending Middlebury College at the right time. Both of our college’s improv comedy troupes — the nearly two-decade-old Otter Nonsense Players and the younger Middlebrow, founded in the spring of 2008 — are enjoying high levels of popularity and exposure ...

Science fuels magic of fall foliage

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

When it becomes too cold for chlorophyll, tourists flock to Vermont. According to the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing, tourists spend over $370 million in the fall. “We’re on track for another spectacular fall season,” said Ginger Anderson, Chief of Forest Management for the Vermont ...

Field hockey falls in battle against Bowdoin

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

In Middlebury’s second matchup against a top-10 nationally ranked team in as many weeks, the Panther field hockey team came up short against the NESCAC rival Bowdoin Polar Bears, losing 1-0 in a defensive standoff uncharacteristic of the Panthers potent offense. The game was a close contest, as it ...

Learning the ropes of Res Life: First-time members of residential life staff reflect on their first month on the job

By Middlebury Campus | September 30, 2010

As students from the Class of 2014 arrived on campus this August they met their residential life staff (Res Life), first-year counselors (FYCs) and Commons residential advisors (CRAs), who said quick hellos, picked up their luggage and ushered them into their new home away from home. In the weeks ...