Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

This is a required information session led by Associate Dean of Students Doug Adams for all students approved to live off campus during the Fall Term. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University, is a leading American historian. She is the author of The Bonds of Womanhood, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, and Public Vows, a history of marriage as an institution in the United States. She is the president-elect of the Organization of American Historians. Professor Cott was the lead author in drafting the historians’ amicus brief on the history of marriage in the recent landmark Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, Obergefell v. Hodges, submitted by the American Historical Association.

Johanna Mirenda is the Technical Director at the Organic Materials Review Institute and formerly worked as Policy Director for an organic certifying agent. Based on her experience within the organic industry and her deep understanding of organic policy, Mirenda will speak on some misconceptions surrounding the definition of organic, and then focus on controversial issues within the industry, regarding organic policy and its interpretations and implementation.

Each spring the Mountainfilm festival takes place in Telluride, CO, packed with all kinds of wacky, beautiful, and jaw-dropping outdoorsy films — and we at Midd are lucky enough to host its touring version right here on our own campus. Make sure not to miss this epic evening full of climbing, BASE jumping, kayaking, fat tire biking, and more!

Each spring the Mountainfilm festival takes place in Telluride, CO, packed with all kinds of wacky, beautiful, and jaw-dropping outdoorsy films — and we at Midd are lucky enough to host its touring version right here on our own campus. Make sure not to miss this epic evening full of climbing, BASE jumping, kayaking, fat tire biking, and more!

Instead of sitting alone daydreaming of snow and waiting for paradise to get here…come watch TGR’s dope new ski film Paradise Waits this Friday at 8pm in Dana Auditorium! Tickets $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Raffle tickets $3 for 1 and $10 for 5. It’s time to get stoked for the season on some wicked skiing and riding (can anyone say Angel Collinson?)

A new theme park is built on the original site of Jurassic Park. Everything is going well until the park’s newest attraction—a genetically modified giant stealth killing machine—escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters.

Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s head by her rascal of a dad that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo - enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment - but in actuality, she’s kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners, Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be on to something.

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.