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Twitter takes College, classes by surprise
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Brian Fung UPDATE: FOLLOW THE CAMPUS ON TWITTER: www.twitter.com/middcampus.What do the Pentagon, the White House, Karl Rove and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) have in common with National Public Radio, Shaquille O'Neal, Lance Armstrong, Jimmy Fallon, Coldplay, the United Nations and now, Middlebury ...
Town/gown
May 6, 2009Author: Grady Ross Several years ago, my family decided to take a guided tour at a zoo we were visiting. Everything was going quite well: we rode the little trolley from cage to cage oohing and ahhing at the crocodiles and monkeys and giraffes. Then we got to the panther. "We call these panthers," informed ...
From the Kitchen of Sasha Swerdloff
May 6, 2009Author: [no author name found] The film "Waitress" depicts a young woman with imagination and a gift for making pies. Pies are her therapy. She takes her feelings and transforms them into creative and comical crusts and fillings with even more creative and comical names. She is pregnant with a baby ...
Yogurt mogul delivers send-off to 2009 grads "You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well," Hirshberg says
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Tess Russell On May 24, when President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm Gary Hirshberg announced during his speech at Middlebury's Commencement that he planned to "get the bad part over first," he could just have easily been talking about Sunday morning's weather, which forced the Class of 2009 to ...
Women's tennis bows out to top-seeded Ephs
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Alex Lovett Woodsum The Middlebury women's tennis team earned the third seed for the NESCAC championship this past weekend at Williams College yet ultimately lost to the host team in the semi-finals. Amherst and Williams, the one and two seeds, respectively, each received a first round bye in ...
Old Stone Mill rocks opening night Students share their creative uses of the facility
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Jaime Fuller At the close of Old Stone Mill's first year as a part of Middlebury College, 27 students have taken advantage of the open studio and gallery space to pursue independent artistic endeavors. The College purchased Old Stone Mill in January 2008 for $2.1 million through funds from an ...
Women set themselves apart at Division III New Englands
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Alyssa O'Gallagher This past weekend, the Middlebury track and field team made its second trip to Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts to compete in the Division III New England Championship meet. The Middlebury women finished an impressive third in the team standings out of a total ...
Voters approve new honor code
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Kara Shurmantine On May 1, three proposed Honor Code recommendations passed after finally being approved by a two-thirds majority of the student body.The honor code referendum, however, was at a standstill for over a week. In order to be passed, the code amendment had to be voted on by two-thirds ...
Overseas briefing
May 6, 2009Author: Lizzie Horvitz TANZANIA - I lowered my cupped hands into the cavity of the slaughtered goat, filled them with blood and drank. The night before, I had slept on a cowhide "bed" next to my naked Maasai Mama. I danced in the discos, rode the public transportation and kickboxed at the local gym. ...
College puts pandemic plan on hold
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Though the World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5 - one step short of a global pandemic - the recent outbreak of swine flu (also called the Influenza A[H1N1] virus) across the globe will not prompt Middlebury ...
"Affair" entertains with no strings attached
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Dana Walters Judith Dry '09 built her senior work, "A Black Tie Affair," upon a large foundation of cross-dressing in the arts. Since Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," identity and gender confusion have been a staple of theater and film. Charlie Chaplin, Tony Curtis and Dustin Hoffman all donned ...
Crew team rows in tough, exciting competition
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Jeff Klein This past Saturday the Middlebury men's crew team headed down to Worcester, Mass. to participate in the New England Championship regatta along with a host of rival schools. The men turned in solid performances in what proved to be an overall exhilarating day.The varsity four of Scott ...
Men's lax stunned by Wesleyan
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Jeb Burchenal The men's lacrosse team is still struggling to find their swagger. After a stressful regular season that featured nine games decided by three or less goals and four decided by only one goal, the Panthers dropped their NESCAC semifinal game to Wesleyan 15-14 in overtime.Middlebury ...
Men's tennis triumphs in NESCAC championship
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Martin Breu The Panthers are once again top dog in NESCAC tennis, taking their fifth title in six years this past weekend. Middlebury cruised past last year's champion, Bowdoin College, 5-1 on Saturday. Sunday was a rematch of last weekend's game against always-tough Amherst. While at times ...
Middtunes
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: H. Kay Merriman Former "American Bandstand" host and pop culture icon Dick Clark once remarked that "music is the soundtrack of your life." It's true. Sometimes the best way to define an experience is through song. Certain songs remind us of the good times, and bad times can remind us of a song ...
Sports Briefs
May 6, 2009Author: Dickie Redmond TRACK & FIELD TEAM RACKS UP NESCAC HONORSAfter a successful run at the NESCAC Championships hosted by Connecticut College, the Middlebury track & field team earned over 20 all-NESCAC Honors. First-year Michael Schmidt '12 claimed the Rookie of the Year title with an outstanding ...
The Elephant in the Room Listen
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Stefan Claypool With graduation looming, "The Elephant in the Room," like all good things, must come to an end. Today, in this final column, I have no topical commentary to offer, no pithy comments to make. Instead, I will just say this: there are brilliant minds at this institution who are ...
OP-ED An unconstructive misunderstanding
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Christine Bachman and Chelsea Guster After reading Andrew Throdahl's article two weeks ago ["Constructive and unconstructive methods of change," Opinions section, April 23], we would like to address the same subject that he endeavored to address: constructive and unconstructive methods of change. ...
Lupo Fiasco Women in politics
By Middlebury Campus | May 6, 2009Author: Kate Lupo With the media focused on the whirlwind of domestic and international challenges facing President Obama, a discussion of women's issues seemed unlikely to occur at the president's "100th day in office press conference." And yet, CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry asked specifically ...