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As the first-year general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Koby Altman ’04 is thriving in one of the NBA’s most high-profile jobs.

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True Detectives

On California’s magnificent Central Coast, a group of North Korea experts track Pyongyang’s every nuclear move. But—if we’re listening—the story they’re telling us is also about ourselves.

By Zach Dorfman
Photographs by Elëna ZhukovaMay 3, 2018

Koby Altman’s Home Court

As the first-year general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Koby Altman ’04 is thriving in one of the NBA’s most high-profile jobs.

By Ryan Jones
Photographs by Luke CoppingMay 3, 2018

Out of Darkness, Light

A young alumna confronts the demons that have plagued her for much of her life—and blazes a path for others who may be suffering in similar ways.

By Lindsay Wheeler ‘14
Illustration by Sandra DionisiMay 3, 2018

“What Did I Just See?”

A schoolhouse fire in Cleveland shocked the nation in 1908 and then was largely forgotten—until now. A cohort of Middlebury scholars and students shines a new light on an American tragedy.

By Matt Jennings
Illustrations by Middlebury Animation StudioJanuary 31, 2018

Pursuits

The Mapmaker

As a cartographer working for the conservation nonprofit Wilderness Society, one’s work may mean the difference between saving the country’s natural treasures—or potentially losing them forever.

By Jessica Voelker ’00
Photographs by John VallsMay 2, 2018

Q&A

On Stage

Associate theatre professor Alex Draper '88 talks about life on stage, in front of the camera, and in the classroom.

By Matt Jennings
Photograph by Paul DahmMay 2, 2018

Editor’s Note

Gone to the Dogs

A revised pet policy at Middlebury brings a bit of canine character to campus.

By Matt Jennings
Illustration by Jessie HartlandMay 3, 2018

Old Chapel

Our Moral Directive

A Middlebury education should be accessible to all, regardless of financial means.

By Laurie L. Patton
Illustrations by Montse BernalMay 4, 2018

Road Taken

Swamp Things

Why do swamps always get such a bad rap? A writer urges a corrective point of view.

By Kathleen Doyle
Illustration by Gina + MattMay 2, 2018

Quotation

I have no stories of fancy places, no idea that’s going to cure anything, no history of hard times that is going to make anybody cry. What I do have is myself, and that is enough.”

—Nia Robinson ’19, delivering the talk “We Are Not As Lost As We Think We Are” at TEDxMiddlebury 2017. (She was wrong. There were tears.)

How Did You Get Here?

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By Will DiGravio
July 31, 2017

Nia Robinson

By Matthew Blake
July 31, 2017

Tim Hansen

By Izzy Fleming
July 31, 2017

What We’re Talking About

Katz Translates Dostoevsky, Simmons Rocks TED Radio Hour, and More

Recapping the news, notes, stories, and interesting tidbits that have grabbed our attention this week.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
Illustration by Loris LoraMarch 21, 2018

Fall Splendor on Campus, Strategic Plan Ratified, and More

Recapping the news, notes, stories, and interesting tidbits that have grabbed our attention this week.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
November 2, 2017

New Students Arrive, President Patton on DACA, and More

Recapping the news, notes, stories, and interesting tidbits that have grabbed our attention this week.

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
September 7, 2017

Review

Southern Exposure

Two young women do what they must to survive in 1930s Georgia.

By Sara Thurber Marshall
May 3, 2018

Trust What Is Hidden

Through poems both mysterious yet accessible, Lawrence Raab ’68 hints at a hidden life alongside this one.

By John Plant ’67
May 2, 2018

Editors’ Picks for March and April

By Middlebury Magazine Staff
April 15, 2018

Videos

When in the Baltics

Students in the Middlebury College choir are traveling to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the spring of 2018 to perform songs native to the three countries along with music from North American composers.

By Chris Spencer and Stephen Diehl
April 6, 2018

Poetry in Motion

How Cameron McKinney ’14 found his unique voice in modern dance.

By Chris Spencer and Demetrius Borge ’16
February 22, 2018

Dance Hall Days

Our J-Term Scenes film crew pays a visit to a dance workshop.

By Demetrius Borge ’16
January 18, 2018

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