One month has now passed since the United States and its European allies commenced a bombing campaign in Libya, designed to repel the forces of Colonel Gaddafi. Since the beginning of the intervention, the Allied nations have attempted to provide air and naval support to the rebel forces fighting against ...
UC Schools admit more out-of-state residents Admissions statistics from The University of California (UC) schools reported the highest ever acceptance rate of non-California residents for next year’s freshmen class. UC Berkeley accepted the highest percentage of out-of-state students at 31.2 percent, ...
Voting for the Student Government Association (SGA) elections will run from April 210 at noon until April 22 at noon at go/sgavote. Results of the election will be released at the earliest via an all-campus email April 24. Before the end of the academic year, the SGA will continue work on two major ...
The amuse-bouche: a mini nibble of delectable quality, intended to stimulate the appetite and alert the stomach to the approaching meal. Literally meaning “mouth amuser” in French, the high-quality appetizer is a single bite often served at gourmet restaurants to complement the upcoming feast and ...
So, I don’t really know the journalistic ethics behind using the publication that you work for as a platform for self-promotion, and even though ignorance is not a defense that will hold up in court, I’m going to do it anyway. Guys, there’s this really cool thing happening on Friday nights. It’s ...
This past weekend, the Panthers traveled to Clinton, New York to take on the Hamilton Continentals. Going into the match, they had lost only one of their six games thus far this season, dropping a match 6-3 to Emory on the first stop of their Spring Break tour. Facing only their second NESCAC opponent ...
While the NFL mires in the early stages of a lockout, the NBA and MLB are also in the last years of their collective bargaining agreements. Each league will need to come to a new agreement at the conclusion of its respective season or we could be headed for sports apocalypse. Could you imagine the 2011-2012 ...
Both the women and men’s golf teams kicked off their spring season this past weekend traveling to Vassar and Manhattanville Colleges respectively. For the women, this tournament marked the first of three weekend long tournaments which will determine NCAA qualifications for the golfers. The men traveled ...
The Panther women dominated Williams last weekend winning both games in a double header, and a game against the Ephs on Friday. They defeated the Ephs 5-0, then 13-2 and 5-1 respectively, bringing their overall record to 12-4 and their NESCAC record to 5-1. Middlebury scored in every inning of their ...
Following their annual spring training trip to San Diego, the Middlebury track and field team returned to East Coast competition this weekend in the Springfield Invitational. The team came in second overall at the meet, in which Bowdoin also competed. The team scored important wins in several races, ...
The Middlebury Panthers defeated Bowdoin Polar Bears this past Saturday at Kohn Field in a definitive 16-12 final. The ninth ranked Panthers (7-2, 4-1) had nine different scorers, leading by as many as 10 in the second half before the Polar Bears (8-2, 4-2) scored seven of their final eight goals during ...
The top-ranked men’s tennis team improved to 12-1 for the season Saturday after defeating number 13 Trinity 7-2. Senior captain and 10th-ranked singles player Andy Peters ’11 led the Panthers with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Anson McCook of Trinity in the number one singles match. With the win, Peters improved ...
This past week was a week of firsts for the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team, not all of them positive. Last Wednesday saw the seventh-ranked Panthers, 6-2, 4-2 in NESCAC, break a 22 game winning streak against 12th-ranked Amherst College, 8-1, 4-1 in NESCAC, that dated back to 1989. Following the disappointing ...
Despite dropping two of three games to Amherst last weekend, the Middlebury baseball team is still off to their best NESCAC start in years thanks to a three-game sweep of bitter rival Williams during the team’s annual spring break trip to Chandler, Arizona. Through their first 13 games, the Panthers ...
Najla Said presented “Palestine,” her one-woman show, to an intimate audience April 11 at the Chateau Theater. The performance was the first in a series of guest-lectures that comprise the Women’s and Gender Studies Program’s focus on Palestine, with additional support from the Arabic department, ...
Almost as soon as we arrive at Middlebury, we learn to be thankful that we report to Public Safety, not the police. We know punishments are different, but why, and how? The Campus talks to members of the Middlebury Police Department and the College’s Public Safety force to hash out the differences ...
For Assistant Professor of Political Science Nadia Horning, life has been anything but predictable. Horning hails from Madagascar, but she spent her early life traveling between Africa and France since her father was Madagascar’s military attaché to the embassy in France. Although she spent much ...
For Olivia French ’14, environmental conservation has been a lifelong passion. This interest began when an enthusiastic science teacher introduced the topic of greenhouse gases to her middle-school class. Once educated about the importance of conservation, it stuck with her. In her second year of ...
While Middlebury puts a lot of time and energy into expanding cultural diversity at the College, members of the Institutional Diversity Committee (IDC) saw socioeconomic diversity on campus as a topic that often goes un-discussed or overlooked. As a result, last Wednesday afternoon, April 6, students ...
Just moments after sitting down for an interview, it was immediately clear: the story of how Jeff and Diane Munroe first met would be a good one. Exchanging a glance and a good-natured chuckle, Diane, Middlebury’s coordinator for community-based environmental studies, and Jeff, associate professor ...