Middlebury squash has proven nothing short of dominant as both teams close out the first third of their seasons. After both squads opened with losses to NESCAC powerhouse Williams, the 18th-ranked men and 13th-ranked women have been on a tear. During this streak of 12 straight combined victories (five ...
In its first meet of the indoor season, the Panther track and field team put up some impressive results. The squad traveled to Dartmouth last Sunday to compete in the 41st Dartmouth Relays. Teams from around the area on both sides of the border came to Hanover to participate in the meet. Overall, ...
President Emeritus John McCardell’s recent decision to leave Middlebury caused a wave of conflicting feelings and responses within the College community. On the one hand, it’s hard to watch someone leave who has contributed so much to the advancement and general success of Middlebury College. On ...
When the Strokes burst onto the scene in 2001 with their monumental debut, “Is This It,” many deemed them the saviors of rock. They would resurrect the dead garage and punk sound of the late 1970s and rescue the suffering public from the talentless grasp of boy bands and teen pop divas. For a while, ...
The first time I heard the name John McCardell was during my first couple days at Middlebury. My junior counselor (this dates myself) told our hall about the former president, who continued teaching a couple of classes annually. He’s a wonderful professor as well, she added. That was enough for me. ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team started the second leg of its season successfully, emerging victorious in the 18th annual Middlebury College Holiday Classic the weekend of Jan 2-3. The men first defeated Babson on Saturday afternoon, earning a spot to play in the tournament final against the University ...
Sharon MacNair realized her animal loving nature as a teenager, thanks to a fuzzy duckling friend, Daisy. She watched Daisy hatch and quickly developed a mother-daughter relationship with her. “She even walked me to the school bus in the morning,” MacNair said. A pivotal moment in MacNair’s ...
Members of the Board of Trustees discussed the College’s financial state and promoted two faculty members to the position of associate professor at their Dec. 10 meeting in New York. The one-day meeting focused on discussions of the budgets for the fiscal years of 2011, 2012 and 2013. Members of ...
Moonlit Alpacas holiday open house Dec. 3 – Dec. 6, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Don’t miss the Moonlit Alpacas Holiday Farm Weekend. Meet the alpacas, take a farm tour and enjoy an introduction to the fiber arts at 2170 Rte. 125 just a few miles west of the College Organic Garden. Bring the whole family ...
Jen Anderson wakes up every weekday at 2 a.m. to begin work at 4:00 a.m. as leader of custodial team 7 at the College. The three members of team 7 clean and maintain Hillcrest, the Robert A. Jones ’59 House, Sunderland, Chellis House, Farrell House and Gifford Hall. The Sisyphean task of the custodians ...
Do you believe in Santa Claus? Thanks to Cliff Douglas, the children of Vermont do. He has been preserving the magic of Christmas, and sporting the big red suit and white beard, since he was in the eighth grade in Rochester, Vt. Fifty-two years later, he no longer needs the red suit for kids to pick ...
Starting off the holiday season with international flair, the Middlebury Baptist Church held its annual Ten Thousand Villages Craft Sale the weekend before Thanksgiving. Holiday shoppers were able to get a head start on purchasing gifts at the craft sale on Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21. Held ...
I always get especially sentimental around the holidays. Perhaps it’s how they don’t change. In my family, the month of December means skiing, cookies, a Christmas tree and my mother’s nutcracker collection parading across the mantel in our living room. There are things about the holidays that ...
If the proposal is not greatly altered by outside suggestions, there will be three new expansions, one to the Middlebury Shuttle, another to the Tri-Town Shuttle and the last to the Burlington Link on Saturdays. The goals are to expand services to areas that are not currently covered and to simplify ...
The Panthers’ quick and dominant start to the season — four wins against non-conference teams in one week — has been characterized by large margins of victory and an impressive depth from the injury-plagued team. “Sweep the week,” said Bill Greven ’10, one of the team’s senior players, ...
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams opened the season with a few intense meets at home the weekend of November 21-22, competing against Tufts and Connecticut College on Saturday and Springfield on Sunday. The Panther men put up a strong fight, but unfortunately were unable to pull ...
The women’s hockey team had much to be thankful for this weekend as the Panthers moved to 4-0 on the season, taking on two Maine teams in post-Thanksgiving play. Moving up a rank to third in Division III over the weekend, the women picked up a 4-3 win over Bowdoin on Saturday before bruising Colby ...