Author: James Schwerdtman With the indoor track season winding down, some of the best Panthers were in competition at the Division III New Englands this past weekend. The men traveled to MIT for the second weekend in a row - having competed last week in the MIT Invitational - while the women were in ...
Author: Melissa Marshall A German major with an Italian minor, it is no surprise that Adreana Gustafson '09 decided to put on a play about the power of words. The senior from Fargo, N.D. - whose previous credits include Assistant Director for both "Cabaret" and "Baltimore Waltz" - moves into the director's ...
Author: John Patrick Allen The inaugural exhibition in McCullough's Center Gallery is a welcome shock. "Drawing the Line, Then Crossing It," a selection of works by recent Middlebury graduate and former Campus cartoonist Sam Dakota Miller '08.5, electrifies the space, jolting the Center Gallery to ...
Author: Brian Fung Gary Hirshberg, chairman, president and self-described "CEYo" of Stonyfield Farm, will deliver Middlebury's commencement address on May 24 to the graduating class of 2009. At an event expected to draw more than 5,000, Hirshberg and six others will also receive honorary degrees from ...
Author: Kevin Carpenter Jamie McKenna '09 was nominated as a semi-finalist for the ninth Joe Concannon Award on Feb. 18. The award, sponsored by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston, is presented annually to the best American-born D-II/III hockey player. A total of 16 players were nominated as semi-finalists, ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen While the ongoing economic crisis has already cost the College 20 percent of its endowment this fiscal year alone, administrators may take a certain measure of comfort from the fact that Middlebury is weathering the current financial storm comparatively well.That was the message ...
Author: Andrew Deloach The Middlebury women's hockey team secured two more wins last weekend to finish the regular season with a 16-3-4 record. On Friday, Feb. 20, the women defeated Wesleyan (2-21-1) by a score of 7-2. The Panthers kept up their impressive skating as they ousted Hamilton (9-13-2) ...
Author: Jeff Klein Before Middlebury's NESCAC quarterfinal home game, the first 200 fans to show up got free t-shirts reading "bringin' it home to PEPIN." The Panthers made sure that the remainder of the NESCAC tournament will, in fact, be played within the confines of Pepin Gymnasium.With a combination ...
Author: Catherine Ahearn This past weekend marked Middlebury College's 86th annual Winter Carnival, the College's oldest tradition. The three-day event did not disappoint students with its usual salad bar of events aimed at widespread student participation and engagement. In light of the current financial ...
Author: [no author name found] On Feb. 21, as part of the town of Middlebury's first Winter Carnival, 28 vendors served 50 different kinds of chili on Main Street. In the professional competition, American Flatbread racked up several awards, including Best Game Chili, Hottest Chili and Best Overall ...
Author: Livingston Burgess POITIERS - "The chairs will be rearranged once the movement is over." So proclaimed the chalkboard at the front of yet another empty lecture hall, as I sighed and bummed the university wireless network, since my otherwise lovely room outside downtown Poitiers lacks Internet.For ...
Author: Kevin Carpenter The Middlebury men's squash team ends its season as triumphant winners of the C-division at team nationals. The Panthers' finish earned the squad a 17th-place finish at Princeton. In just its second season as a varsity sport at Middlebury, the team has accrued a respectable 15-10 ...
Author: [no author name found] Located on the first floor of the McCullough Student Center, the Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE) is Middlebury's impressively successful facilitator of volunteer opportunities, ranging from social advocacy to environmental protection to education and mentoring. Created ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe "What powers a learning community? Apparently, wood chips," said Bill McKibben, scholar-in-residence in environmental studies, at the official launch of the Biomass Plant at the College on Feb. 19. Trustees, faculty, staff and students toured the new facility as part of the ...
Author: Stefan Claypool You'll never hear me argue that George W. Bush was a great president. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that despite public outcries to the contrary, many of his policies were acceptable responses to bad situations. President Barack Obama seems to recognize that fact, ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:We are writing on behalf of the Middlebury women's squash team. Our team competed in Nationals at Harvard on Feb. 13-15, topping off one of our most successful seasons in over a decade. We were disappointed that the sum of our achievements this year did ...
Author: Jaime Fuller President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced in an e-mail to the College community that the Budget Oversight Committee (BOC) has recommended to continue operations at 51 Main at the Bridge until December 2009. Liebowitz has agreed to the committee's recommendations, but ...
Author: Rachael Jennings It is all over the news: Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims and Jews - people struggling in an archaic conflict that still lives vividly in the memories and minds of the Middle East. Bombings, riots and refugees pervade the media. But there is more to their stories ...
Author: Peter Baumann The Middlebury men's hockey team split its last two regular season games this past weekend, dropping the Friday night game to Amherst 4-3 before bouncing back to defeat Hamilton 5-2 on Saturday. With the win, the Panthers locked up the second seed for the NESCAC tournament and ...
Author: Logan Brown While watching Winter Carnival ski races, it is easy to be awestruck by just how fast athletes in their tight spandex suits fly between those blue and red gates. If you blink, you might just miss the Middlebury ski team's blurry visages in navy blue. Although such speed has made ...