The Middlebury men’s hockey team moved closer to the playoffs with a two-win weekend over UMass-Boston and Babson College. The men have won their past four games, including a stellar victory over Williams, the previously top-ranked NESCAC squad. This victory catapulted the men into second place in ...
`Picking up four points on the road over the past week, the women’s hockey team looks to be shaping up nicely for post-season play. After earning a 1-1 tie with number one-ranked SUNY Plattsburgh last Wednesday, the Panthers demolished SUNY Potsdam on Friday in an 8-0 shutout. The SUNY schools faced ...
Here at Middlebury, students are used to a general atmosphere of athletic success. The Middlebury sports teams routinely compete for NESCAC championships and often see action in National playoffs as well. It has become something Panther fans expect out of their athletic teams. This week, Middlebury ...
Abby Hoeschler ’10 has been log rolling since the age of four. Her mother is a seven-time world champion. Her oldest sister, Katie Hoeschler ’03.5, is the current world champion. Together with her sisters Katie and Elizabeth Hoeschler ’05, who started teaching log rolling on campus when they attended ...
Seventh-ranked Middlebury men’s basketball continued its NESCAC rampage this past weekend at Trinity and Amherst with two double-digit victories to finish off regular season play against league rivals. The Panthers, 21-2 on the season, knocked off Trinity, at 10-12, on the road 71-57 last Friday ...
The thrills and excitement from Vancouver are coming to Middlebury College next weekend as the Olympic-themed Winter Carnival kicks off next Thursday, Feb. 25. The theme, “Go Gold,” seems even more fitting given that two Middlebury alums, Simeon Hamilton ’09 and Garrott Kuzzy ’06, are competing ...
On Dec. 29, 2009, the New York Times ran an article by Kate Zernike titled “Career U: Making College ‘Relevant.’” The article outlined the changes that liberal arts schools across the country are making, seeking to prepare graduates for careers and to eliminate seemingly “irrelevant” or ...
Last Thursday, Feb. 11, the seven seniors of the environmental science 401 seminar (taken during this Winter Term) presented their research findings about the effectiveness of forests at sequestering carbon. The students’ message about the College, the environmental studies program and its relationship ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz reaffirmed the College’s pledge for mandatory senior work despite the acknowledgement that departments would not have the 25 additional faculty positions envisioned to realize that goal, during his address on Feb. 12. The decision attracted both praise ...
“Broken Embraces,” by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, is a love story noir chronicling the life of a filmmaker and his close relationships to his work, his agent and her son, and an actress in his film. The film opens on Harry Caine, a blind writer that we later learn is the pseudonym for Mateo ...
The Middlebury College Museum of Art’s newest exhibition is a collection of American Paintings and Prints from the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt. The exhibition will run until June 6 and features a selection of 28 pieces from the Shelburne Museum’s collection of over 150 paintings and prints. The ...
My wife and I are writers and though I have enjoyed what some might term more professional success (my work has appeared in a number of prestigious publications with sophisticated readership including, in autumn 2006, a letter to the editor of the New York Review of Books), Suzy is a talented woman ...
In a heavily attended speech in Mead Chapel on Feb. 12, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz unveiled a bold new financial model that would rely more heavily on alternative funding sources like the summer Language Schools and the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS) to support ...
The next time you find yourself in the Cayman Islands feeling nostalgic and longing for a little taste of home, look up Kirk Supermarket on Grand Cayman. A trip to the frozen section will yield five different varieties of American Flatbread. Conceived in 1990, American Flatbread’s wholesale operation ...
On Feb. 10 and 11, the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) held two open houses at the Weybridge Congregational Church in order to gauge public support for the possibility of extending the North Country National Scenic Trail through Addison County. Josh Phillips, executive director of MALT, aims to connect ...
Members of the student-led Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing (ACSRI) have submitted a proposal to the Board of Trustees to invest one percent — approximately $7.5 million — of the College’s endowment on sustainable ventures. The program’s tentative name is the Green and Blue ...