Editors' Picks

Not a one impressed by film, ‘Nobody’

It often seems that artists’ favorite thing to tell stories about is … artists. The number of narratives centered on creative types is certainly out of proportion with the percent of “artists” in the actual population. But we all must speak, to some degree, from experience, and these stories ...

Middbrief: Public Safety purchases new SUVS

The unmarked SUV students may have noticed Public Safety officers driving around campus in recent weeks is simply the department’s newest addition to its regular fleet of two vehicles. It has not yet been marked to identify it as a Public Safety vehicle because the department is awaiting a price ...

Sports Briefs - 03/11/10

Men’s basketball earns top honors across the board After winning the NESCAC Championship — decisively — over the weekend, the men’s basketball team could only expect to earn top NESCAC honors. Ben Rudin ’09 was named Player of the Year, Tim Edwards ’10 was named Defensive Player of the ...

Cooking (not) by the Book - 03/11/10

I have to hand it to Proctor, they’ve done a pretty great job recently with their stir-fries. I was impressed with chicken and broccoli, and while I’m not a tempeh aficionado, my friends were raving about it at dinner the other night. Furthermore, what’s not to love about days with pretty much ...

Beyond the bubble - 03/11/10

For two decades, chaos has engulfed the nation of Somalia. The United States government has been a key player in the rehabilitation effort in this nation, and recent government policies indicate that this trend will continue. In a New York Times article published on March 5, it was reported that the ...

Spring Sports Preview

BASEBALL After what Coach Bob Smith called a “disappointing” season last year, the Middlebury Panthers baseball team is looking to rebound this season and achieve the same kind of success that brought them their first NESCAC championship in 2006. The Panthers finished 14-16 last year. “Last ...

Language RAs reassigned

The Dean of Students’ office will restructure the distribution of Residential Advisors (RA) for the 2010-11 academic year in order to achieve a more balanced ratio of RAs to the students they oversee. Under the new system, the administration will retain the same number of RA positions. Many of the ...

Flannel Mammal

The other day, as I was eating a heart attack in the Grille, working on a paper, I remembered a gold chain that I used to own. It’s been years since I lost that chain, but it made me think, “When did it stop being cool to wear gold?” As is the case with almost every question I have, I turned to ...

Operatic alum returns to Middlebury

In his first performance at Middlebury since graduation, opera tenor William Burden ’86 will be giving a recital to benefit the Opera Company of Middlebury March 13 at the Town Hall Theater. Emory Fanning, a former music teacher at the College under whom Burden studied, will accompany him. Burden ...

Middlebury Deromaticizes India

India: the land of Bollywood, curry, the Taj Mahal, Kama Sutra, snakes, elephants and pleny of folklore. For most of us halfway across the world, the recent economic boom that has catapulted India to the international stage in recent years seems at odds with our more romantic and exotic perceptions ...

Staff Spotlight: David LaRose

From rural Vermont to the coasts of Vietnam, David LaRose, supervisor of the Mail Center, has never lost his genuine sense of humor. David was born in Bristol, Vt., a town just north of Middlebury, and he attended Bristol High School, graduating in 1968. Eighteen-years-old and just out of high school, ...

The Reel Critic - 03/10/10

Lewis Carroll’s surreal and absurd “Alice in Wonderland” returns to the cinema, helmed this time by the equally surreal and absurd Tim Burton. The alternatively whimsical and creepy charms of the novel and animated Disney film aren’t matched by Burton’s self-referential interpretation of the ...

For the Record - 03/10/10

“Introducing,” the appropriately titled debut album from the San Francisco all-female trio Brilliant Colors, is unmistakably a product of the 21st century. Like so many other recent indie bands, the group borrows heavily from noisy, lo-fi, and instantly hummable underground acts of the ’80s and ...

‘Mister Show’ shows off sketch comedy

Lights out and two screens on either side of the stage flipped on to show Neil (Baron ’10) and Andrew (Powers ’11.5) sitting on couches watching TV, discovering that their show, “Mister Show with Neil and Andrew,” had begun and that the stage was empty. The camera followed them as they rushed ...

Overseas Briefing - 03/11/10

ALEXANDRIA — Prior to traveling to Egypt, I had never been out of the United States (Canada doesn’t count), so I really wasn’t sure what to expect from a land as exotic as the Middle East. When I arrived, culture shock was my first reaction, but, like all who go abroad, I had expected this. What ...

Councils thrive despite low funds

Due to the recent economic crisis and Middlebury’s current financial balance, executives of the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) imposed major budget limitations on commons councils at the beginning of the 2009-10 year. In spite of these loses, as the College enters the midway point of the ...

College shorts - 03/11/10

Lecture example sparks media frenzy on Roberts What started out as a simple law lecture turned into a media frenzy on Thursday at Georgetown University. Professor Peter W. Tague started his criminal law course in the morning by telling students that the Supreme Court’s chief justice, John G. Roberts, ...