Drolet ’12 earns NESCAC player of the week honors Following an impressive showing against some of the best teams in the nation at the PrimeLink Great Northern Shootout at Norwich, men’s hockey forward Martin Drolet ’12 was named NESCAC player of the week on Monday. The sophomore, who started ...
Approximately 15 teammates embarked on a 12-hour drive from Middlebury to Cleveland, Ohio two weeks ago to cheer on the women’s cross country team and Michael Schmidt ’12 as they competed at NCAA Nationals. The women ended up finishing in fourth place overall, trailing behind Wisconsin Eau-Claire, ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team started the season with strong performances at Tufts and Connecticut College on November 21st and 22nd. The Tufts game ended in a 3-3 tie. The next day, Middlebury topped Connecticut College 5-3. After the first weekend of matches, the team was optimistic about the ...
Despite a 1-3 start to the season, the Middlebury women’s basketball team should not be written off. “Our record thus far does not reflect the team’s potential by any means,” said captain Kaitlyn Fallon ’10. The team turned in strong performances at the Swarthmore tournament in which they ...
The impressive 2009 season came to a close for the Middlebury women’s soccer squad as they fell to Johns Hopkins in a heartbreaking, one-goal game. Nevertheless, the team has much to be proud of in this season and much to look forward to in the seasons to come. Coming off of two exciting NCAA playoff ...
From Nov. 19 through Nov. 21, “Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief” played five shows at the Hepburn Zoo. The script, written 30 years ago by Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is inspired by Shakespeare’s “Othello.” But, as the title alludes, Vogel’s work shifts away from the tragic ...
It is the purpose of this column, and a responsibility I take very seriously, to represent the conservative voice on campus (a voice which is sometimes sadly lacking from much of the discourse represented on this campus). However, this week I am going to stray slightly from my usual topics in order ...
“The importance of the Senior Committee is that it serves as a forum for seniors to decide on the senior class gift and plan events for the senior class,” said Senior Committee co-chair Julisa Salas ’10. The committee kicked off its programming with the seniors-only 200 days party in McCullough ...
The lights were dimmed excepting a blue-filtered trickle that danced off the curved white wall of the Wright Theatre stage and the round “windows” that hung like the eye-like portals of a ship. They curved into a half moon outline that enclosed a stage empty but for the series of white columns stood ...
Animal Collective has had quite a year. Way back in January the Brooklyn/Baltimore-based group released the monumental “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” an album that set the critical world ablaze (many critics wasted no time in deeming it the album of the year) and kicked off the electro-pop trend ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn will deliver a joint commencement address to the Class of 2010 on May 23. At an event with an expected audience of 5,000, the couple will receive honorary degrees from the College. Throughout their 25-year careers, which have spanned ...
Though a few scattered application materials continue to trickle in since the Nov. 15 deadline, this year’s pool of Early Decision I (ED I) applications has largely arrived. The Office of Admissions has already evaluated many of the applications, and will announce their decisions electronically on ...
ALEXANDRIA — We, the students of the Alexandria study abroad program, are welcomed in Egypt every day. That doesn’t mean that the Egyptians welcome us to Egypt. Rather, they prefer to welcome us in Egypt. What’s the difference, beyond a preposition? In Arabic, the English phrase “Welcome to ...
Continuing in the trend of budget cuts that have dominated Campus headlines for over a year now, the introduction of new printing quotas — announced this week — is likely to elicit a variety of responses from the student body, including eye-rolling cynicism, apathetic indifference and indignant ...
This fall, students find themselves in the midst of a compressed final exam period. This semester’s scheduled exams run from Dec. 8 to Dec. 12, and students will have Monday through Saturday to complete self-scheduled tests. In previous years, finals period has stretched across nine days, including ...
The Class of 2010 has voted to establish the “Class of 2010 Scholarship” as its senior class gift. This scholarship is an endowed fund designed to provide financial aid to incoming students. It is designed with a preference for international students, who often need large amounts of financial aid. The ...