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Spilling the Aqua ViTea: Where Middlebury gets its kombucha fix

By Mandy Berghela | November 14, 2024

For years, Aqua ViTea Kombucha has been a beloved, refreshing drink for Middlebury students. Recognizable by its vibrant, colorful packaging, it is a familiar sight at local businesses around town, as well as on campus at spots like Midd Xpress and Crossroads Cafe. 

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Arts & Culture

20 Years of “From a Basement on the Hill”

By Oscar De Swaan Arons | November 14, 2024

In some ways, it’s hard not to treat “From a Basement on the Hill” as Elliott Smith’s suicide note. When Smith stabbed himself in the heart in his Los Angeles apartment on Oct. 21, 2003, his sixth studio album was largely completed, save some mixing and tracklist decisions. Smith’s death, ...

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Opinion

Vote yes in the Honor Code Referendum this month

By The Editorial Board | November 14, 2024

Last month, the Honor Code Review Committee (HCRC) sent out an email alerting students of proposed changes to the Honor Code. These proposals are the culmination of three semesters of meetings, surveys, and feedback from students, faculty and administrators. Based on the findings of their report from ...

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Arts & Culture

Horror and Humor in Harmony: Middlebury College Musical Theatre’s “Little Shop of Horrors”

By Wendy Wang | November 14, 2024

A perfectly spooky end to the Halloween season, Middlebury College Musical Theatre’s fall production of “Little Shop of Horrors” ran at the Town Hall Theater (THT) for three consecutive nights, thrilling audiences with its blend of humor, emotion and terror.

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Local

Addison County elects Steven Heffernan to State Senate, ousting five-term incumbent

By Macy Daggitt | November 14, 2024

In an unexpected twist in the race for the Vermont State Senate, Republican challenger Steve Heffernan defeated democratic incumbent Christopher Bray for one of Addison County’s two senate seats. Heffernan’s election was part of a larger victory for Republicans in the state legislature, picking ...

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Opinion

SPECS Panther Column — Looking at American sexual health disparities through a racial lens

By Charlotte Cebula | November 14, 2024

In 2017, American tennis star Serena Williams experienced life-threatening complications from childbirth. Her cover story profile for Vogue discussed her experience of having to convince medical professionals of the severity of her complications — what she described as undoubtedly a pulmonary embolism ...

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Arts & Culture

Reel Critic: “Emilia Pérez”

By Gavin Richards | November 14, 2024

What strikes one most upon viewing “Emilia Pérez”, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last May, is its resistance to description. The film, starring Karla Sofía Gascón in the titular role as a transgender woman looking to leave her life as a notorious cartel boss, uses conventions ...

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Multimedia

Photo of the Week 11/14/2024

November 14, 2024

The Middlebury International Programs hosted the Study Away Photo Contest in the Davis Family Library Atrium last week, inviting students to vote on their favorite submission. The three winners were Saki Tsubouchi ’25, Lucas Nerbonne ’25.5 and Max Zeltsar ’24.5; their photos will be displayed ...

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Opinion

Let social houses be social

By Marco Volpitta | November 14, 2024

I joined Omega Alpha — more commonly known as Tav — three years ago. Last year I became the president. I’ve watched as increasing regulation has prevented social houses from creating community spaces and recruiting new members.While a return to the system of fraternities is neither being discussed ...

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Sports

Middlebury sports take three tough losses over weekend

By Jack Mcguire | November 14, 2024

Middlebury athletics had an unfortunate weekend as a trio of teams all took losses in crucial end of season matchups. The football team (6–3) lost to Tufts 17–7, the field hockey team (15–2) lost in the NESCAC semifinals to Bates 2–1 and the men’s soccer team (14–1–3) suffered their first ...

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Opinion

Take a page: Why I journal

By Madeleine Kaptein | November 14, 2024

As the days shorten and I start to feel I’m losing myself a little bit, I’ve taken some time to read old entries from the journals I’ve kept since I was 13 years old. I can hardly remember a time when I wasn’t inclined to open a notebook, write the date at the top and describe the happenings ...

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Sports

Seven Questions with Tiger Xie ’26.5, men’s soccer

By Ting Cui | November 14, 2024

Tiger Xie ’26.5 is making his mark in his first season as goalkeeper on the men's soccer team. Having grown up between Shanghai and Toronto, Xie took an unconventional path to Middlebury athletics,  joining as a walk-on after playing for the club soccer team. In this edition of Seven Questions, ...

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Local

Great Art Wednesday returns to Town Hall Theater

By Lily Jensen | November 14, 2024

Great Art Wednesday, the Town Hall Theater’s (THT) monthly film series on art and architecture, has returned for the November–May season.

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Arts & Culture

Crossword 11/14/2004: Solution

By Winter Heaton | November 14, 2024

Crossword 11/14/2004: Solution!

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Arts & Culture

Crossword 11/14/2004

By Winter Heaton | November 14, 2024

Crossword 11/14/2004!

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News

New solar panel array to provide 40% of college’s electricity

By Evan Weiss | November 7, 2024

Middlebury College President Laurie Patton cut the ribbon to officially open the South Street Extension solar array on Thursday, Oct. 24, unveiling a project that will now provide 40% of the college’s total electricity. The college hosted the event along with the developer, Encore Renewable Energy, ...

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Arts & Culture

“Far Out” empowers student landscape of visual art

By Anthony Cinquina | November 7, 2024

Mark McGoey ’26.5’s visual art exhibit “Far Out” opened on the evening of Oct. 25 to a warm crowd of friends and faculty. The collection is modest, and each individual work is made all the more memorable for it. 

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Arts & Culture

Jerusalem Quartet returns to campus with rousing program

By Yuhan Zhang | November 7, 2024

On Nov. 2, the Jerusalem Quartet flooded the Mahaney Arts Center with passionate string music ranging from classical to modern. Celebrating their 30th season, Jerusalem Quartet returned to Middlebury with a program of Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorák. 

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Opinion

A message to faculty voting in tomorrow’s credit reduction motion

By The Editorial Board | November 7, 2024

 Tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 8, faculty members will vote on whether to decrease the credit requirement needed to graduate from 36 credits to 34 credits. Additional changes would allow students to declare their majors later in their Middlebury careers and prevent future classes of students from using ...

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Arts & Culture

The double dream of American Football

By Cole Chaudhari | November 7, 2024

Two Saturdays ago, I traveled to Brooklyn to see the band American Football on their tour commemorating the 25th anniversary of their first album’s release. “American Football” — sometimes nicknamed LP1 — was released on Sept. 14, 1999, and changed emo music forever. Though there have been ...