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Panther Scoreboard - 3/18/10

Men's tennis dominates its opponents in home opener

Missing St. Patrick’s Day festivities in their own front yard? Disappointing. Going 26-1 in overall match play to open the spring season? A decent consolation prize. The Middlebury men’s tennis team swept the visiting competition this past Saturday, dominating New York University 9-0, Oneonta 9-0 ...

College Shorts - 03/18/10

Hamilton adopts need-blind admissions While tough economic conditions have caused many colleges to favor applicants who do not require financial aid, Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., has decided to swim against the current by adopting a need-blind admissions policy. Admitting those students who ...

Housing debacle sparks student anger

The College is exploring options for expanding the number of student rooms on campus in the wake of this year’s contentious super block process. No final decisions have been made about where these new housing options would be, but the outcome may change where the 2010-2011 super blocks will be housed ...

Beyond the Bubble - 03/18/10

On March 13, a suicide attack in Pakistan killed 13 people and injured dozens. A spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed that his organization was responsible for the attack. In his statement, the spokesman condemned the Pakistani government for becoming “a colony of Blackwater,” referring ...

By the Numbers - 3/18/10

Center of the Circle

Whenever I become disenchanted with my Middlebury lifestyle, I watch an episode of ABC Family’s “Greek” and slip into my alternate life in which I stayed in Ohio, attended the fictitious Cyprus-Rhodes University, pledged a sorority and dated the president of the fraternity most known for its parties. ...

Editor's Picks - 3/18/10

Pulitzer poet graces Axinn’s Abernethy Room

“One never feels like a famous poet,” said C.K. Williams, a reflexive chuckle quickly falling from his lips. His audience laughs; but while Williams may not feel like a famous poet, his impressive host of accolades tells another story. Having authored nearly 20 books of poetry and received the ...

Winners and Losers - 3/18/10

Spring Growing Trends

The sun is shining, the ground is thawing and Addison County farmers are revving up for a new growing season. What’s going on this spring in the local agricultural community? More than you might imagine. The Middlebury Campus investigates three of the hottest trends in farming this spring. CSAs ...

Op-Ed: To the Israeli Government

Dearest and Most Esteemed Government of Israel, I just wanted to write and let you know that I think you guys are doing a great job. No, really, I think that the decisions you’ve made lately have been fantastic. Starting with that Hamas leader’s assassination in Dubai — like, cool! Totally James ...

Performer heats up Cafecito Hour

We live in a strange democracy. We live in a democracy where we have no voice, where we have no say, where we only feel safe because our country saves us from the very risk from which it puts us. But, for two hours last Thursday evening, performing artist and MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña ...

Editorial: Housing Changes

The recent controversy over the reorganization of super block housing this semester has left many students upset, confused and scrambling to find new plans for the upcoming year. Despite the series of e-mails sent out and the information meetings held in an attempt to help upperclassmen through the ...

One in 8,700 - Where the personalities of Middlebury proper are celebrated

Bob Buckeye has the memory one would expect of a trivia buff. “Jimi Hendrix was the answer,” said Buckeye, remembering a correct response from a past trivia challenge. The former College archivist, who moved to Middlebury in 1971, moonlighted as an avid member on his bar trivia team, “The End ...

Orchestra gives full-length spring concert

The Middlebury College Orchestra gave its first full concert under the conductor Andrew Massey on Thursday, March 11. This year was a transitional period for the orchestra, as Troy Peters, who had conducted the College orchestra since 2005, left Middlebury last year to be the music director for the ...

For the Record - 03/18/10

Titus Andronicus’ second LP, “The Monitor,” was released on the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the legendary Civil War naval battle between ironclad warships. But why derive the album’s name from this battle, release the album on its anniversary and name the epic, 14-minute ...

Red, Right and Blue - Bi-partisan, Hi-partisan

In the last few years, “bi-partisanship,” “compromise” and “working across the political aisle” have become phrases endowed with special power. This is reasonable in an era when the American political climate seems defined by intense political controversy and antagonism. Yet, they are ...

Campus Clones

Curating the Classics: Students revive the Greece vs. Rome debate

Currently on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art is a new kind of exhibition, curated by Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Associate Curator of Ancient Art Pieter Broucke and his first-year seminar class, Greece vs Rome: The Eighteenth Century Quest for the Sources of Western ...