It starts with the egg –
By Lucia Snyderman | March 2, 2023Uncertain and starving across this wondrous white They trust and remember
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Breaking: College investigating impacts of data breach at third-party ticket vendor
By Abigail Chang | February 26, 2023The third party vendor AudienceView, which Middleury uses for event ticketing, experienced a nation-wide data breach and informed the school about it on Feb. 23, the college told the community on Sunday.
Valentine's Day Crossword Solutions!
By Josh Harkins | February 24, 2023Here are the crossword solutions for this week! How'd you do?
PFL Weekly S.3 Ep.1: Alexa Mustafaj ’25, Maya Bardorf ’24, winter sports postseason recap
By Blaise Siefer, Captain Rudolph, Marco Fengler and Eli Dibari | February 23, 2023The first episode of our third season was published on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Valentine's Day Crossword!
By Josh Harkins | February 23, 2023Try out this week's special Valentine's Day themed crossword puzzle! Solutions will be posted on Friday, Feb. 24 at noon! Good luck!
From the Archives: In defense of Valentine’s Day
By Eliza King Freedman | February 23, 2023In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the Special Collections team offered a collection of old Valentine’s Day cards that have been acquired throughout history for this week’s “From the Archives.” These cards not only showcase the evolution of Valentine’s Day as a holiday, but also the evolution ...
Halftime Show Review: Reduce, reuse, recycle, Rihanna?
By Eric Burchill | February 23, 2023The Super Bowl Halftime Show is the zeitgeist of our time — the last true spectacle that can provide years of conversation fodder for people with even the tiniest pop culture inclinations. In September of last year, when Rihanna, one of the biggest artists of all time, was announced as the Halftime ...
Reel Critic: “The Pale Blue Eye”
By Jack Torpey | February 23, 2023When “The Pale Blue Eye” was first announced in early 2021, the film’s most immediate appeal was its fusion of subject matter and setting. Cooper intended to bring Gothic atmospherics to bear on a 19th-century military school in the remote Hudson Highlands, an eerie pairing that would evoke Poe’s ...
The most important things we learned over J-Term
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri | February 23, 2023By the end of the fall semester, winter break is much needed. However, the rest we enjoy over those three weeks can easily turn into boredom. A restlessness to get back to campus sets in even though students might not be quite ready to manage the stress of a full-blown semester.
“The MAC is now the CFA”: Students revive resistance to arts center name change
By Rachel Lu | February 23, 2023For 27 years, The Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) was the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts, which the college community abbreviated to “the CFA.” In 2019, the college decided to change the name to its current title, the Mahaney Arts Center, and encouraged an accompanying change to the building’s ...
The “real world” is not prepared for us
By Nimaya Lemal | February 23, 2023But as a young person, I have a more pressing question: Is the real world prepared to work with us and the realities we learned about in school?
Valentine’s Day Arts Roundup
By Edyth Moldow | February 23, 2023In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I bring to you the artistic representation of love in all its forms — platonic, romantic and self-love — through music and film. Whether or not you had a Valentine, it’s not too late to appreciate love’s omnipresence in our lives here on campus.
Faculty panel addresses earthquakes in Turkey in Syria
By Cole Chaudhari | February 23, 2023Faculty addressed the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria in a panel discussion on Feb. 14. Approximately 70 students attended, alongside a handful of other faculty and community members.
The Stone Mill’s Lost Monarch closes permanently
By Maggie Reynolds | February 23, 2023The Lost Monarch Coffee Bar, located in the Stone Mill in downtown Middlebury, announced on Instagram in late January that it is closing permanently. Co-owners Matt and Alessandra Delia-Lôbo will continue to operate their other coffee shop, Royal Oak, located at 30 Seymour Street, with expanded hours. ...
Over-enrollment is still affecting our learning experience
By Editorial Board | February 23, 2023Over the past few years, Middlebury community members have become accustomed to the impacts of having a larger-than-typical number of students enrolled at the college — a housing crunch, packed classes and stressful course registration processes. Historically, around 2,500 students have called Middlebury ...
Spectators Guide: NESCAC Championship O’Clock
By Jack Mcguire and Owen Park | February 23, 2023Rounding out the regular season with winning records in and out of conference, Women’s Ice Hockey (4th seed) sets their sights on the NESCAC Championships as they host Connecticut College (5th seed) this weekend.
Why we say "CFA"
By Asa Skinder, Phoebe Brown, Rose Robinson and Birch Banks | February 23, 2023In 2007, the CFA was dubbed the "Kevin P. Mahaney Center for the Arts" and was known as the CFA (Center for the Arts) for 12 years thereafter. In spring 2019, the administration put up posters, made stickers and asked faculty to enforce a name change from CFA to MAC (Mahaney Arts Center).
Slipin Sips: introduction to natural wine
By Sam Lipin | February 23, 2023Yes, I may have discussed beer and mead in the first edition of “Sip on this” — and I will continue to in the future — but I don’t want to stray too far from what I want this column to be about: wine. The world of wine is vast and confusing, and the goal of this column is to connect budding ...
Middlebury & the independent artist: An examination
By Gavin Richards | February 23, 2023Despite all its setbacks during the pandemic, Middlebury currently enjoys a lively and expansive artistic landscape, especially as it relates to the performing and visual arts — in part due to the diligence of its faculty, but more importantly, because of the student body’s perseverance and sustained ...
51 Main, Crooked Ladle Catering set to open downtown in March
By Sam Lipin | February 23, 2023The empty space at 51 Main Street will be empty no longer. Crooked Ladle Catering in conjunction with Everything Nice — the funding source for the Giving Fridge — has purchased the 4,300 sq. ft. space on a two-year lease and will be officially open for business on Wednesday, March 29.