Sword & Plough, the company founded by alumna Emily Núñez ’12, had the kind of launch on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter that most start-ups can only dream of. On its April 15 launch, the company received pledges that surpassed their $20,000 goal in two hours. At the time of print, ...
“I never would have dropped out of college if I had my Posse with me.” This remark is the reason that over 50 students are here at Middlebury College today. It was this statement that inspired the foundation of the posse Scholarship program in 1989, and since then, Posse has sent over 4,800 students ...
Last Wednesday, the College Democrats and College Republicans joined for a debate on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. The event was the second of a series, following a recent debate on gun control. These events are part of a larger push to alter the political discourse on campus. “There ...
If you’ve ever read a Shakespearean comedy, you know that a sure fire way to get the girl is to pretend you’re someone else. In fact, if it’s Shakespeare, you’re probably pretending to be someone else who’s pretending to be someone else, and one of these alter egos is almost certainly a gender ...
If Patrick Devereux ’15 had a soundtrack, it would be comprised of such princes of southern rap as Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, OJ da Juiceman and Lil Wayne. For this particular day in the life, track no. 1 would be “Shawt Bus Shawty,” a Youtube sensation that parodies Devereux’s composers. “I ...
Fourteen miles away from Middlebury in Bristol, Vt., Hillsboro Sugar Works has been operating since 1979 and now produces around 5,000 gallons of maple syrup annually, a large portion of which is consumed by the College. Most of the maple syrup in the United States is produced in Vermont, and comes ...
Though most of us overlook it, the College, one of the wealthiest institutions in the state, is located in one of the poorest counties in Vermont: Addison County. In the three counties surrounding Middlebury, 30,000 people have inadequate access to healthy food and frequently go hungry. A quarter of ...
This past Thursday, the student group Justice for Palestine (JFP) hosted Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University Joseph Massad, who spoke on the contentious subject of Zionism and the Palestinian “right to return.” Although this marked ...
Middlebury offers the chance to play the following nine club sports: cycling, fencing, equestrian, sailing, Quidditch, rugby, figure skating, chess and badminton. Our editors caught up with a few of the participants. For a full view of the design and layout, check out the PDF version here. Recruitment Women’s ...
On April 4, 2013, the Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Assistant Professor of Biology Catherine Combelles in recognition of her exemplary teaching in the classroom and her pioneering work in oocyte development. On a sunny afternoon, students and faculty gathered in a ...
On April 4, aspiring classics majors and other reading aficionados gathered in Axinn Center at Starr to hear from Princeton University’s Andrew Flemming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus, W. Robert Connor. The hour-long lecture and subsequent discussion session surveyed the practice of ...
This week marked the kickoff of Gaypril, a month hosted by Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) that is dedicated to raising LGBTQ awareness and celebrating “queer” life at Middlebury. The inaugural event was a joint Atwater dinner co-hosted by Women of Color (WOC), Feminist Action at ...
The theatre department production this year is called Undressing Cinderella, which will take place in Wright Theater in April. Two weeks ago, the theater department, collaborating with the comparative literature program, presented Cinderella Symposium. At the symposium, Professor of Chinese Carrie Reed ...
Today the world faces a water crisis of unprecedented gravity. According to the U.N., 85 percent of the global population lives on the driest half of the earth and water is estimated to become scarcer with the projected increase in population. Yet as population expansion and development raise ...
Boasting 6,000 square feet of gallery space, the Middlebury College Museum of Art represents an invaluable part of the College’s academic and artistic resources. To maintain this integral part of campus and the greater Middlebury community, the museum employs a diverse array of staff members ...
TEDxMiddlebury 2013, the “independently organized TED event,” took place on Saturday March 9, with students gathered in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall to listen to a diverse group of speakers, including one current Middlebury student. The theme for the event ...
On Saturday, March 9, the 37th anniversary of International Women’s Day, around 50 female students and one male journalist filled the McCullough Social Space for ElectHer, a five-hour political leadership workshop designed to help women get elected into political office. Each student at the event ...
There are endless proverbs about relationships. “Love is blind.” “You never forget your first love.” But what about this one: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”? Is it true? Does being apart make a relationship stronger? Or does distance cause it to slowly deteriorate? A long-distance ...
Cemeteries rarely make the pages of a newspaper. Graveyards tend not to interfere in the affairs of living individuals, confining the dead beneath endless rows of slate tombs, engraved with reticent epitaphs, and haunted by silence. Though people have performed burial rituals since before they were ...
While students have probably seen Colby Horn ’13 wheeling around campus on a unicycle, he is not one to brag about his unique skill. “I’m probably one of the newest additions to the collection of unicyclists,” said Horn. “But I have been learning and using it to drive around campus.” Horn ...