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Midd MD: Nutrition

At Middlebury, students have access to three dining halls with essentially unlimited food. Whether you’re going vegan or paleo, there are food options for you on a daily basis. Indeed, it’s quite easy to choose from a range of choices in order to properly balance your personal nutritional needs. However, ...


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Science Spotlight: Methane Tractor

The garage sits on the edge of the fields to the west of campus along Rte. 125. “Henry” the tractor is parked inside.  The years have only slightly tarnished the fire-truck red paint job on the 1950’s Ford 8N. It was the top selling tractor in North America in its day, the “tractor that replaced ...


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Alpenglow Sets Stage for Concert, New Album

Alpenglow, a five-piece folk band formed in Vermont, will perform in Mead Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19.  The band features students Graeme Daubert ’12.5 and Elori Kramer ’13.5. Peter Coccoma '12, Kenneth Root and Colin Weeks complete the group. This is the band’s second concert ...


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MYethioPIA Explores Themes and Awareness of HIV

On Monday, Jan. 14, a solo performance titled MYethiOPIA ran in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. The performance was written and performed by Burlington-born David Schein. It was based on his experiences forming and directing the Awassa AIDS Education Circus (now called One Love HIV/AIDS ...


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Reel Critic: Holiday Movie Wrap-up

Quentin Tarantino has proven to be one of the more divisive directors in Hollywood. Three of his films have received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture, one of his films, Pulp Fiction, won him both the Palm D’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Original ...


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Midd M.D: Stress

It seems as though stress is par for the course in college. All of us are loaded up with exams and essays galore, along with expectations of success. However, the semi-permanent sense of dread and anxiety that most students experience should not be a routine feeling. Stress is a function governed by ...


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The Method Gun Explores Risky Technique

Imagine an acting technique so extreme that it took all those who used it to an entirely new level, a technique designed to inject even the smallest role with a dose of sex, violence and death. Such a technique exists, and is known as “The Approach.” It was created by acting instructor Stella Burden, ...


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Booking It: The Imperfectionists

The Imperfectionists, the bold debut novel from Tom Rachman, appears to be a story about a failing English language newspaper in Rome, destined to fade away like so many other print publications in the 21st century. At second glance, it becomes apparent that the work is really about people, and as ...


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Vanek Trilogy Asks Powerful Questions

From Nov. 29 through Dec. 1, The Vanek Trilogy, a collection of three, interconnected one-act plays, ran in the Hepburn Zoo. The performance was directed by Paula Bogutyn ’13.5, whose direction counted towards 700-level senior work. The play was written by Vaclav Havel, an influential playwright ...


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Fall Dance Performance Stuns Audience

Spectators were treated to an entertaining blend of diversity, innovation, and beauty on the opening night of this year’s Fall Dance Concert, “Mosaics from the Underground.” Directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Catherine Cabeen, the performance presented the collaborative choreography ...


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Science Spotlight: Byers' Nanowires

Scale is one of the miracles of modern technology. The earliest computers took up entire rooms and had less computing power than the smart phones we now carry around in our pockets. But is this as good as we can get? There are those who say no, it’s not. We can go smaller, faster, and more efficient.What ...


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One Life Left: Top 5 Games of 2012

5) Gravity Rush The Playstation Vita (PSV) is Sony’s newest handheld and the successor to the Playstation Portable. It is an incredibly powerful piece of hardware that gives a very close simulation to home console-quality games on the go. However, the PSV has started out somewhat weak due to an expensive ...


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Midd MD: Stress

It seems as though stress is par for the course during finals week. All of us are loaded up with exams and essays galore, along with expectations of success. However, the semi-permanent sense of dread and anxiety that most students will experience during the next week or two should not be a routine ...


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Science Spotlight: Costanza-Robinson Lab

Environmental chemistry is broad field that spans the study of chemical processes in the atmosphere, earth, water and biological world. Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Studies Molly Costanza-Robinson has found her niche in the study of contaminant fate and transport. A ...


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Upcoming Play Evokes a Life Devoid of Freedom

Beginning today, the evocative Vanek Trilogy will run in the Hepburn Zoo Nov. 29 to Dec. 1. The show is the senior thesis production of Noah Berman ’13 and Izzy Shill ’12.5, who act in the show alongside Adam Milano ’15. Paula Bogutyn ’13.5 is directing the show for an independent project. The ...


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Fall Dance Concert Highlights Diversity

The Fall Dance Concert, “Mosaics from the Underground,” will open tomorrow night in the Dance Theater. The concert is a promising creation that aims to spark conversations about one of the College’s most emphasized values: diversity. A collaboration involving 10 students and two professors, the ...


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Booking It: Both Flesh and Not

Both Flesh and Not collects 15 of David Foster Wallace’s multiform nonfiction pieces, including essays and book reviews published between 1988 and 2007. Although most of these essays do not demand to be read in the same way that essays in Wallace’s earlier collections do — this reader recalls ...


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The Reel Critic: Skyfall

After 50 years, he’s still got it. Skyfall is the latest in the James Bond series, and it does not disappoint. Released on the series’ 50th anniversary, the movie follows a rather dramatic premise: after an operation involving Bond and sidekick Eve goes south, M finds herself fending off a forced ...


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All the World's a Stage: As You Like It

Two major problems of rhetoric occur when a contemporary director chooses to put on a Shakespeare play. One problem concerns the comedy itself; what an audience found funny 400 years ago may fall flat today. But, surprisingly, this particular issue rarely plagues Professor of Theater and Women’s Gender ...


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Student-Made Film "Do As I Say" Entered in Festival

Five Middlebury students recently entered a short film, Do As I Say, to the 2012 Vermont International Film Festival "Sleepless in Burlington" 24-Hour Film Competition. The film was produced by David Seamans ’13, Hunter Nolan ’13, Zachary Doleac ’12.5, Matthew Lennon ’13 and Michael Gadomski ...




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