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Football ends year with a win

The 14 graduating seniors of the Middlebury football team ended the season, and their careers, on Saturday with a dominating win over the Tufts Jumbos. Unfazed by the downpour and the muddy conditions, the Panthers exhibited their strength and talent with a 26-7 victory. “After starting 1-3, I feel ...

Women’s cross country team takes first at NCAA Regionals

As the rain came pouring down Saturday morning, the Middlebury women’s cross country team led the NCAA regional race, and ultimately finished in a tie for first place with rival MIT. The regional championship was held at the Twin Brook Recreation Center in Cumberland, Maine. Middlebury and MIT each ...

Rugby advances on the road back to Nationals

Rugby traveled to the UMass-Amherst campus this weekend for the national semifinal tournament. In their first matchup on Saturday, the Panthers took on the Stony Brook Seawolves. The horrendous weather was not ideal for either team, but the Panthers played a hard first half to gain a definitive lead ...

The Campus Winter sports Preview

Skiing After placing eighth in the 2009 NCAA Skiing Championship, the Middlebury Nordic and Alpine ski teams are gearing up for another successful run in the Eastern Carnival Circuit this winter. Each team can field six men and six women in the events, and hope to qualify all six participants in the ...

Panther athletics adopts environmental outlook

When thinking of the words “sustainable” and “Middlebury,” the word “athletics” doesn’t usually fit in between. The first things to come to mind are usually the biomass plant and maybe Dining Services’ efforts to use local foods; the idea of sustainable athletics — not only the idea ...

Field hockey falls to Trinity in NCAA duel

After a tremendous season of hard-fought battles and uplifting performances, the 2009 Middlebury field hockey season came to an end last weekend with a 2-1 loss to Trinity in an NCAA regional game at Ursinus. The team had a stellar year, despite a rocky start. It lost to Tufts in the season opener, ...

Arts brief: town boutiques offer ‘green’ options in clothing and gifts

Up until famed department store Barneys New York highlighted sustainability in fashion through its “Give Good Green” holiday theme in 2007, the most memorable “green” moment in fashion had involved Jennifer Lopez, an exposed navel, and a Versace dress-cum-swimsuit-cover-up in a chintzy palm ...

The reel critic: small screen edition

“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose” is the sappy but never-tired mantra of Coach Eric Taylor who recently began a new era as coach of the East Dillon Lions on the new season of “Friday Night Lights.” Coach Taylor’s path of leaving the powerhouse Panthers for untested waters is familiar ...

Matt Birnbaum '12

Readers who are familiar with the “Cow Parade” popular in various cities worldwide will be able to picture Matt Birnbaum’s ’12 ultimate goal — large-scale artistic turbines scattered around the Vermont country-side. The Campus’ Joanna Rothkopf sat down with the Old Stone Mill tenant and ...

For the record: concert edition

Artist: Umphrey's McGee The Green Apple Festival is America’s largest celebration of Earth Day. Since its birth in 2006, the event has grown to 10 major cities across the United States. Each year, bands play in the festival to educate audiences about environmental issues. Specifically, the Green ...

Audience learns how ‘Rome’ was built

Countless works of art are produced every year that revisit and rehash our historical past, both immediate and ancient. What is it about these histories that proves to be so consistently compelling to us? The story of ancient Rome, in particular, demonstrates again and again that it is endlessly fascinating ...

Debauchery takes over the ‘Road’

Loose women and men in shabby coats settled into a disheveled Seeler Studio Theater this past weekend, bringing to life director Richard Romagnoli’s show, “Road,” written by Jim Cartwright. The stage was dim, first lit by a match, and run through with broken furniture, establishing the dismal ...

Professor encourages sustainability using media

For anyone that’s stepped onto Middlebury’s campus, the bent toward environmental awareness quickly becomes apparent. Reminders to save energy grace signs above light switches, a plethora of recycling bins dot dorm rooms and offices and even the toilets in the Axinn Center save water by reneging ...

Land(e)scapes: students use conventional mediums in an unconventional way

In September, the students of “Re-Imagining the Landscape: Painting, Drawing, Photography and Glass” were given magic markers and four-by-six foot sheets of paper and sent to find a spot on campus to draw. Over the course of three weeks, they continued to capture their chosen scenes, moving from ...

Video: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Without Walls

Klare rethinks U.S.-China resource relations

“I believe that, more and more in the 21st century, conflict will be driven over resource competition rather than ideology or politics,” Professor Michael Klare, professor and director of peace and world security studies, began his lecture on last Thursday, Nov. 12. Klare spoke about the future ...