Author: Mike Waters Much has been made of Middlebury's "work hard, play hard" ethic. Constantly decried by its critics as the root of all that ails this institution - its high-stress academic environment and its destructive and embarrassing drinking culture - and yet defended by its proponents as part ...
Author: Dillon Hupp Middlebury baseball was back in action this past weekend, playing a four-game series with Tufts. The Tufts series followed a 14-5 victory over Plymouth State and a split series versus division rival Wesleyan two weekends ago, but the Panthers could only garner a single win out of ...
Author: Amanda Cormier The battle between the smell of heavy-duty citrus degreasing solution and the smell of grease itself was a losing one.On April 11, about 12 students from the College took copper scrubbers to the walls and appliances of what was formerly occupied by Top Spice Asian Cuisine. Just ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy Since 1985, The Darwin Awards have been conferred on "people who ensure the long-term survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." In 1998, a German zookeeper named Friedrich Riesfeldt was honored for suffocating under nearly ...
Author: Liam Gluck The Marquis Theatre, Main Street's small-town movie theater with the unmistakable faded awning, is in the midst of considerable renovations, the biggest of which is the addition of a third movie screen in the upstairs balcony. The rest of the changes culminate into what theater owner ...
Author: Tom Brant Opening your wallet when someone asks you for money to eradicate cancer may seem like a no-brainer, even if you end up giving only a few dollars. But donor participation in Relay for Life, a fast-growing Middlebury tradition that benefits the American Cancer Society, is markedly down ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe As the College's endowment continues to drop in the economic downturn, the Middlebury Initiative's goal of raising $500 million in the next five years may be unfeasible. However, Vice President for College Advancement Mike Schoenfeld said the state of the endowment will not ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Next year, Weybridge House - the academic interest residence in environmental studies - plans to take its environmentally conscious cuisine to the next level by only purchasing local food with their budget, curtailed at approximately $16,000 ($8,000 less than their proposed budget ...
Author: Ted Silberman On April 26, soccer lovers will join together to give AIDS the boot, courtesy of the Middlebury College community. The College's first "Lose the Shoes" 3 vs. 3 soccer tournament benefits Grassroot Soccer, a nonprofit organization that uses the cross-cultural appeal of soccer to ...
Author: Ben Benson The weather is starting to warm up and, at least based on the last few days, it appears as though spring has finally reached the edge of the Arctic Circle (a.k.a. Middlebury, Vt.). Again we can think of those outdoor activities (hiking, biking, golfing, etc.) that attracted many of ...
Author: Alex Blair Power pop is not dead. That most infectious sound with its crunchy guitars, crisp vocal harmonies and catchy melodies is still hanging around. Even though Weezer, one of the genre's most successful and long lasting acts, is running out of steam both creatively and commercially, in ...
Author: Mario Ariza Portrait photography is not just simple point and click. Its art goes beyond the framing of the photo, and the good portrait photographer has to be as psychologically cunning as he or she is bold. Angela Evancie's '09 black-and-white film portraits of members of the Middlebury College ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal The Panthers continued to impress their fans this past Saturday as they paid the Bowdoin Polar Bears a visit in Maine and came away with a thrilling 14-13 victory. Seventh-ranked Middlebury entered the game on a five game winning streak after losing its second game to Wesleyan, ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum The Middlebury women's tennis team bounced back from a tough series of matches on its spring break trip, winning at home in two league matches this past weekend against Wesleyan and Trinity. During the spring trip, Middlebury faced five teams ranked in the top 10 nationally. ...
Author: Alyssa O'Gallagher While the rest of campus was either curled up in their beds watching a movie or throwing on their Hunter rain boots and Patagonia rain coats to make the trek to the dining hall, the men's and women's track and field teams spent their rainy Saturday afternoon in Springfield, ...
Author: Hilary Hall The Community Council met on Mar. 30 to review the Queer Studies House, a new Honor Code protocol and the campus social houses. After unanimously passing the last meeting's minutes, the Council listened to an update from the Queer Studies House, which is in its first year as an academic ...
Author: [no author name found] Friday's third annual celebration of Liebowitz Day was met with considerable enthusiasm among the student body. Sporting Liebowitz-bust t-shirts and dressing in attire reminiscent of the College's president, students certanly managed to deify the local "hero." As its founders ...
Author: Aseem Mulji In a meeting on March 19, the Student Government Association (SGA) and Faculty Council hammered out a compromise on the contentious Honor Code amendment on faculty proctoring, which SGA Chief of Staff Katie Hylas '09 called "the biggest thing the SGA has accomplished since I've been ...
Author: [no author name found] RESPONSESHaving several smaller acts doesn't generate the same campus-wide excitement that one big concert does. Lesser known artists tend to fly under the radar. I know some people who had no idea that Santigold or RJD2 played a show at Middlebury. Big name artists energize ...