Author: Scott Greene Select members of the College community received news of another tragedy in the early hours of Oct. 31, when former student Matti Rudolph was found dead after a night in which he was escorted home for violating an on-campus ban. Rudolph, who enrolled at and withdrew from the College ...
Author: Kevin Redmon My day begins at 5:23 in the morning when Adi sends me a series of text messages. He's standing in the pre-dawn dark outside a Virginia polling place, trying to talk his way inside with a camera crew. He sounds a little disappointed that I'm not in the Bureau yet. As I pull on pants, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Keller Quartett (yes, with two t's) takes music seriously. From its Nov. 2 program, one gets an idea of just how furrowed the group's brows are - the first half was a carefully arranged comparative essay on how W.A. Mozart and Gyorgy Kurtag both memorialized their influences. ...
Author: Rodrigo Seira Several Vermont ski resorts including Smugglers' Notch and Sugarbush have banned two new lines of Burton snowboards that feature suggestive images of Playboy models and cartoons depicting self-mutilation. The resorts' official bans come as the latest development in a series of ...
Author: Tess Russell Subject: 2009 Wage Scale IncreaseAs you may have gleaned, there are very few emails that I actually look forward to receiving, though the mass notification of a "Snow Day" (or "Snow Week," while we are dreaming) is certainly a recurring fantasy, particularly during that brief icy ...
Author: Christian Brady Regardless of my personal opinion on the propriety or tastefulness of the political fliers plastered around campus for the last month, I think it's important that we consider what we stand to gain and lose by discouraging these posters, writing them off as "counterproductive" ...
Author: Eric Bartolloti It is important for United States citizens to exercise their citizenship. Paying taxes, jury duty, and the selective service are all great ways to keep this gift strong and supple, but the Bowflex® 9000 of citizenry would have to be voting, a workout so fabulous that it could ...
Author: Isabel McWilliams Halloween weekend never had such a philosophical edge as it did for those who went to see Sara Swartzwelder's '09 production of "On Ego" by Mick Gordon and Paul Broks. This play confronts the complexity and challenges involved in defining the "self," which believe it or not ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Students preparing to take off-campus Winter Term courses were notified of the trips' unexpected cancellation last week. The main impetus for this last-minute decision was the national financial crisis and its effect on the College's shrinking endowment. Last spring, students were ...
Author: Scott Kleiman Dear Dolci, While I'm sure there are legitimate and compelling reasons for the changes to Dolci recently announced, it saddens me that Dolci will no longer be as I experienced it from 2002-06. My four years cooking, managing, and eating as part of Dolci stand out as some of the ...
Author: Amanda Greene In many ways it is incredibly surreal that the election is over. The never-ending presidential race has been on Middlebury students' minds for months. Clinton or Obama shifted to Obama or McCain as November 4th approached and Middlebury students were not shy about expressing their ...
Author: Alex Garlick The election of Barack Obama was an historic day for our country, one that made me proud to be an American. While the United States has been the flagship of liberal democracy for over two centuries, its leader has exclusively been a white male, and to break from that mold alone ...
Author: Sarah Bryan The Panthers traveled to Bates this past weekend to compete in the NESCAC cross country running championships. The women brought home the gold, tying for first with Williams and completing their ninth championship. The men's squad also had a stellar performance, taking sixth. It ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce When banks fail or war breaks out in an isolated region of the world, the public and reporters turn to the experts for answers. As Middlebury is increasingly present on the national stage, faculty and staff are being contacted for comment on topics ranging from sustainable development ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The Department of Public Safety released the Middlebury College Annual Crime Report Statistics for 2007 on Oct. 9. The report includes crimes committed in 2005 and 2006 as well. While most rates of specific crimes did not drastically change between 2005 and 2007, the drop in burglary ...
Author: Alice Bennett Each year on Oct. 31, children dressed as witches and vampires go house-to-house, collecting tricks and treats from porches adorned with paper ghosts and jack-o-lanterns. Such traditions define the distinctly American holiday, yet we often forget about the supernatural legends ...
Author: Amanda Greene I have a feeling that there are going to be a lot of Sarah Palin's running around campus this Halloween. I'm also anticipating a few run-ins with different takes on Joe the Plumber and a couple abstract interpretations of the dismal economic state. I can't wait to see the costumes ...
Author: [no author name found] The long, arduous trail to the White House will reach its conclusion this week, with Election Day serving as the summit that will motivate the American electorate through the final days of the uphill climb that is partisan presidential politics. On this greatest of days ...
Author: Will Bellaimey "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly," Franklin D. Roosevelt told the country in his first inaugural address, "but let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified ...
Author: Daniel Roberts In one of my literature classes last year at Trinity College Dublin, we studied the poem "Easter 1916" by W.B. Yeats. Our professor said the poem is a reminder of how some time periods seem more "historical" than others. In many periods, people can already sense that they are ...