Middlebrow Performs at Chateau
February 20, 2013
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It was a straight hour of laughter. Middlebury's improv group, Middlebrow, performed in the Chateau on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Inspired by a "Harlem Shake" theme, the eight-member group (3 girls, 5 boys) were chuckling to themselves by the final scene. The group is holding auditions next week. All are encou...
Student Crafts Meditative Video
February 19, 2013
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Annie Wymard '15, a student in Peter Lourie's Adventure Writing & Digital Storytelling Winter Term course, shares her final video. During the month, Wymard worked with yoga instructor Prem Prekash. Together, they studied both walking and sitting meditation. Her first experience with walking meditation left Wymard lost, wandering thro...
Middlebury Does The Harlem Shake!
By Emily Singer
February 18, 2013
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxTH8-SfABc?rel=0&w=640&h=360] It was only a matter of time before Middlebury hopped on the Harlem Shake train. Filmed on Sunday afternoon in the Great Hall of BiHall, MiddKids from all walks of campus donned neon, spandex, costumes and the lik...
The Campus Voice: IHH
February 17, 2013
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For the second installment of The Campus Voice, News Editor Bronwyn Oatley '13 discusses the topic of sexual assault on campus with It Happens Here (IHH) Co-Founder Luke Carroll Brown ’14, and Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) President Mark Isbell ’14. The conversation was prompted by IHH’s recent Map Proje...
Middlebury Skiing Places Third
February 17, 2013
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Middlebury's 90th Winter Carnival, the oldest in the nation, brought many to the Rikert Nordic Center and the College's Snow Bowl for ski racing festivities. Overall, the team placed third behind UVM and Dartmouth, and the Men's GS finished second, the best team result of the weekend. Thr...
MMC’s “Northern Lights” Competition
February 16, 2013
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On Friday, Feb. 15 the Middlebury Mountain Club hosted its event "Northern Lights" on McCullough Lawn where pre-registered teams competed for a $100 gift certificate to Flatbread. Events included the tug-of-war, relay races, a caber toss, and a dance competition judged and commentated by members of Middlebro...
Students “Wake Up” Board of Trustees
February 16, 2013
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At 8 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16 approximately 50 students gathered outside of Old Chapel, welcoming members of the Board of Trustees to their morning meetings. Several members of the Board spoke with students and accepted orange squares, the "new color" of the divestment movement, according to stude...
One Billion Rising
February 14, 2013
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On Wednesday, Feb. 13 the Crossroads Café buzzed with activity. Students and faculty gathered in support of Eve Ensler's One Billion Rising Campaign, seeking to end violence against women. Ensler advocates for communities to join in "solidarity, joy, rage, recklessness, and happiness" to fight the ala...
Soccer’s New Player
By Owen Teach
February 11, 2013
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On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Middlebury men's soccer team "drafted" Dmitri Duval, a local 6 year-old from Crown Point, N.Y. suffering from juvenile dermatomyositis. After being diagnosed in August 2009, Dmitri took high doses of IV steroids, oral steroids and methotrexate (chemo medication), was discharged, and fo...
Blizzard Hits Campus
February 8, 2013
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The College cancelled all athletic events and closed the Parton Center for Health and Wellness on Friday, Feb. 8 due to a winter storm that is expected to blanket the Northeast region in one to three feet of snow. Many students will face harsh weather conditions while traveling back to campus this weekend during th...
Congratulations 2012.5!
February 2, 2013
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The class of 2012.5 celebrated the end of their time at Middlebury on Saturday, Feb. 2. After a morning service at Mead Memorial Chapel, students traveled to the Middlebury College Snow Bowl to ski down the mountain in their caps and gowns. Hanna Howell '12.5 filmed the ski-down for Middlebury Magazin...
The Campus Voice: McKibben
January 28, 2013
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On Saturday, Jan. 26 Schumann Distinguished Scholar and co-founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben sat down in the WRMC studio with News Editor Bronwyn Oatley to discuss divestment, the media, the relationship between money and happiness and using his own body as a tool for social experiments. This inter...
