It was James S. Davis ’66 and his wife, Anne, who in 2007 kicked off Middlebury’s $500 million capital campaign with an anonymous donation of $50 million. It was the Davis family that — for the past five years running — anonymously matched every alumni pledge to the College, dollar for dollar. ...
On Saturday, May 1, GlobeMed held a 5K Fun Run on the Middlebury Cross Country Course. GlobeMed is a network of university students wthat works to improve the health of the impoverished. Each GlobeMed chapter partners with a grassroots health organization in a developing country to collaborate on ...
The Middlebury German Theater Group took home the top prize at the 33rd Annual German Theater Festival and Competition last Thursday, April 29, which was held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. This is the sixth year in a row that the Middlebury group has participated in the competition ...
In an effort to increase College revenue, maintain the College’s leadership in language education and expand language education in America, Middlebury joined forces with online education leader K12, Inc. in April to create Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL). MIL will serve students in eighth through ...
Before these games, the Panthers were 8-4 and just 4-4 in conference play, a sub-par performance for a team used to finishing in the top echelons of the competitive NESCAC conference. However, the season has reached its turnaround point, where failure spells elimination and victory leads the team one ...
Due to multiple errors in the election software used for the recent Senate elections, the Student Government Association (SGA) has voted to hold re-elections. Voting for re-elections will be open from 12 p.m. Thursday, May 6, until 12 p.m. Friday, May 7. Re-elections will be held for all elections except ...
It is the last week of classes, and the highly anticipated “crush lists” are starting to be posted on the Proctor bulletin board and in the entrance to Ross. There, seniors list their past indiscretions and their plans for future ones. Yet not all ‘love’ at Middlebury is reserved to late-night ...
I have been meaning to write this column for a while and seeing as this is my last chance, I decided to get my frustration out in words. I was devastated after moving from Cleveland to Connecticut when I was 11. I had to leave my beloved Indians but eventually I learned to love the Red Sox. Maybe ...
Facilities has seen an upswing in the amount of instances of dorm and house damage that have been reported on campus this semester. In the last three weeks, especially, “it seems like it’s spiked,” said Assistant Director of Facilities Linda Ross. This second semester has seen a marked increase ...
On Friday, April 30 Assistant Director of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Jennifer Grotz gave a reading of her work in the Abernethy Room of the Axinn Center at Starr Library. The event was sponsored by The New England Review, Cook Commons and the Department of English and American Literatures. ...
Middlebury’s track and field teams traveled to Tufts University to compete in the New England Championships last weekend, and both teams saw a number of strong performances. On the women’s side, Margo Cramer ’12 was Middlebury’s top finisher in the 800m run, placing third with a time of 2:13.52. ...
Walking into Vermont HoneyLights is a breath of fresh air. Located on Main Street in Bristol, Vermont HoneyLights is a family-owned and operated business that sells beeswax candles and accessories. The store’s interior is complete with whitewashed wooden floors and displays of ornately molded beeswax ...
The 13 new members of the College’s judicial boards have been chosen for the 2010-2011 academic year, selected from a record-breaking pool of 69 applicants. Six students have been appointed to the Community Judicial Board (CJB), and seven to the Academic Judicial Board (AJB). Two of the AJB members ...
Somewhere in rural New Mexico the dinner bell rings. An Israeli student and Palestinian student linger in the indoor swimming pool, dynamically conversing between laps. They look up to see a former investment banker glancing around. He first asks them their names, where they are from, and he is startled ...
I’ve been thinking recently about where people hook up (have sex, make out, whatever your definition is). Since sophomore year, I personally haven’t been doing it anywhere interesting — ah, the benefits of a single room. Before that, however, I graced half the campus (or at least most of the ...
It’s towards the end of “Shame, Shame,” Dr. Dog’s sixth LP, where the band describes itself better than any reviewer could: “I’m just a memory … there’s no reflection here at all.” Dr. Dog is an apparition — a “memory” of a past era, a feel-good mood that was born during the ...