Author: Brian Swenson The women's rugby team's season came to a close this past Saturday with a loss to a strong Bryant University team in the New England Championship game. The Panthers lost 24-0 to the Bulldogs, who scored four tries and two conversions. Bryant scored three of its tries in the first ...
Author: Tim O'Grady On Nov. 7, The Rohatyn Center for International Affairs hosted "Projects for Peace Presentations" at the Robert A. Jones '59 House. This International Studies colloquium featured six Middlebury students, who discussed various humanitarian projects they participated in this past summer.Nine ...
Author: Mike Waters Hello! Or, as they say in Denmark, "Hola." They do not actually say this in Denmark, but they might as well as far as I'm concerned, because due to the complete inadequacy of my Danish classes and the fact that Danish is an impossible-to-pronounce devil language, I haven't learned ...
Author: Grace Duggan Election Day 2008 proved to be a good day for arts-friendly Democratic candidate Peter Welch. With 81.4 percent of the vote, Welch easily won a second term as Vermont's lone Congressman in the House of Representatives.Welch has a strong history of supporting the arts; he received ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Feeling timid? Try a dose of dog milk. Hormones making you feel out of synch? A drop of cuttlefish ink will do the trick. Wondering what to get your aunt for Hanukah? Snake venom - the ultimate cure for varicose veins. Homeopathic medicine, one of the many modes of alternative ...
Author: Nick Martell The Middlebury football team that had fallen to Trinity College just two weeks ago surged with vengeance in Clinton, N.Y. on Nov. 1, clawing its way to a 31-28 victory against the Continentals. Building off this momentum in the final game of the season, the Panthers came away with ...
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Author: Cloe Shasha The Old Stone Mill is not a means to an end, according to its users. Instead, the space allows ideas to start off campus, outside of the context of students' everyday routines. "This space is appealing for students who want to do things - things not only for college credit," said ...
Author: Mario Ariza With the aim of increased on-campus transparency, the College's top administrators showcased to the student body an abridged version of the in-depth presentation on the College's financial position Nov. 11 in the Grille. President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz and Chief Financial ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Taking the necessary precautions, any field scholar could have experienced Freud's theory of regression in action this past Halloween weekend on campuses across the country - and I'm sure some girl in Ohio is typing away on her MacBook as you read this, crafting a thesis around ...
Author: Mario Ariza The Crest Room was witness to a strange sight on Oct. 28. The school's top brass, including President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Patrick Norton and Acting Provost Tim Spears presented a joint session of the Student Government Association (SGA) ...
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Author: Adam Clayton Last week, someone wrote a Letter to the Editor about my last column. I neglect to mention his name only because it was unpronounceable, abnormally long and would have taken too much space in the intro. He argued that I ought to have endorsed Socialist Party USA's candidate for ...
Author: [no author name found] SKIINGWinter is rapidly approaching, and Middlebury's ski teams are fired up for the coming season. Headed by coach Andrew Gardner, the nordic team is looking to improve on the impressive results of last year. The team, said Gardner, "[wants to] continue the momentum we ...
Author: Bobby-Joe Smith and Rebecca Harper This year, the Community Council will decide whether or not to implement a "Statement of Community Principles" to be upheld by all members of the Middlebury College community. The statement, which has been in the works since September of 2007, has been created ...
Author: Eleanor Horowitz On Oct. 29, a group of over 50 students gathered to watch Al Gore's live webcast for Power Vote. The Sunday Night Group (SNG) and the College's chapter of Power Vote sponsored the event held in the Orchard in the Hillcrest Environmental Center on Wednesday night while American ...
Author: Nicole Lam In a week that served as a microcosm for its season as a whole, the Middlebury volleyball team played four close matches, dropping its last home match of the season to Williams 3-1 on Oct. 29 before bouncing back to go 3-0 over the weekend during the NESCAC quad at Colby.Against Williams, ...
Author: Kate Lupo While many people moan at the sight of them, it is always such a pleasure for me to see tour groups on campus. I always make an effort (much to the embarrassment of my friends walking with me) to give the parents and high school students in these groups a robust "WELCOME TO MIDDLEBURY!" ...
Author: Kaity Potak "Buy Local" is a familiar mantra to most Vermonters these days. From bumper stickers to facts posted on farmers' market bulletin boards, the movement implores consumers to support their communities and promote environmental conservation by purchasing food locally as often as possible. ...
Author: Scott Greene Students evacuated McCardell Bicentennial Hall just before 5 p.m. on Nov. 2 when "copious" amounts of smoke in a fourth floor lab set off the smoke alarms and prompted the response of numerous Middlebury and neighboring town law enforcement authorities.In what the College's Department ...