Against the backdrop of Mexican folk music, Coltrane Lounge bustled last Saturday with the chatter of community members, Middlebury students and faculty as they celebrated Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. Children focused intensely as they decorated traditional sugar skulls with red, blue ...
Fall break at the College falls right in the midst of midterm season. It would be an understatement to say that it is a stressful time for students. While many opt to relax and unwind or spend their days catching up on piles of readings and papers, a group of students opted instead to immerse themselves ...
Visitors to Brainerd Commons might notice the series of owl door signs for all members of Brainerd’s ResLife staff, one of which hangs proudly on the Dean’s office. Over the summer, interior design work has been done to the office and now, visitors are greeted with a fledging owl collection scattered ...
The range and scope of narrative podcasts can make it difficult to go beyond big names like The Moth Radio Hour and Serial. But tonight, Maya Goldberg-Safir ’12 from Third Coast International Audio Festival is bringing the event Podcast Therapy to campus. Goldberg-Safir and producers Alex Kapelman ...
Have you ever wished your clothes could better express the creative and fun person you are? Have you ever looked at your shirt pocket and thought, “What a complete waste of space!” Then look no further than the Flippant t-shirt company, founded in part by Middlebury students seeking to do something ...
Images have largely replaced sound in today’s media. In fact, we are so used to pictures accompanying sound that it’s strange just to listen to a story and to let our imaginations take over in creating mental pictures. It’s even stranger when we consider this within an academic context. Yet, ...
