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In a mere 98 minutes, “Problemista” captured my heart. Comedian Julio Torres wrote, directed and starred in the surrealist comedy film, which follows Alejandro (Torres), an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador. After losing his job, Alejandro is connected to a funky art critic, Elizabeth (Tilda ...

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Arts & Culture

Legally Blonde: Illegally good

By Katie Futterman | April 18, 2024

“Legally Blonde: The Musical” had the whole audience saying, “Omigod, oh my god, you guys.” Most attendees were struck by the high-energy, hilarious show. Others simply could not get that catchy tune out of their heads.

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Opinion

Middlebury needs a Club Alpine Ski Team

By Noah Willson | April 18, 2024

Middlebury is an institution with a vast array of storied DIII athletic teams. Our programs have won multiple national championships, and we have racked up 44 team national titles. Forty-one alumni have gone on to compete at the Olympic games. Our alpine ski team is one of the top DI programs on the ...

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Arts & Culture

The Best of Theatre: The Worst Mother In The World

By Ziying Jian | April 18, 2024

As three women each navigate the burden of motherhood, expectations and women’s health, their lives intertwine in “The Worst Mother in the World,” a play by New York-based playwright Kari Bentley-Quinn. The show opened at the Hepburn Zoo on Thursday, April 11, serving as the senior directing work ...

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Opinion

Sarah Says: Did we kill debate?

By Sarah Miller | April 18, 2024

Instagram announced a big change this February: It would begin to limit political content. I didn’t notice this change until a few weeks ago when many of my Middlebury classmates began to post pleas to circulate a text post instructing us how and why we should self-select back into being shown political ...

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Opinion

The myth of the “Chinese” language

By Aren Lau | April 18, 2024

Middlebury College has allowed a mistake to face the public and its students since 1966. That mistake is the name of the Chinese department’s language courses: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced “Chinese.” Out of the nearly three hundred Chinese languages in existence, only Mandarin — the most ...

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Local

Liv, Love, Local: The Stone Mill

By Olivia Mueller | April 18, 2024

Mary Cullinane and Stacey Rainey opened the Stone Mill in 2019 with the intention of bringing their different experiences together under one roof and providing a unique hub for the community. The Stone Mill is a mixed-use building located on Mill Street, housing The Mad Taco, office spaces available ...

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News

Nine new endowed professorships to several departments

By Jessica Li | April 18, 2024

Over the past year, Middlebury has received more than $11 million to establish endowed professorships, which support a faculty member’s teaching and scholarship within a specific academic department. Since the launch of the “For Every Future” campaign in the summer of 2021, the college has raised ...

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Opinion

The Prism Center needs an assistant director

By Elio Farley | April 18, 2024

A bell hooks quote lives in the kitchen of The Prism Center and serves as an invitation into the center’s beautiful living spaces: “One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”

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SGA reopens 10 o’clock Ross

By Mandy Berghela | April 18, 2024

Last month, the Student Government Association (SGA) reinstated 10 o’clock Ross in the Fireplace Lounge, providing bagels, cereal, fruit and more to students from 10 p.m. to midnight on Monday through Thursday.

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