Author: James Schwerdtman A week of hard work can really show when it comes to competition. Nowhere was this more apparent than this past weekend in Middletown, Conn., where Wesleyan College hosted the Wesleyan Track and Field Invitational. Coming off of their season opener at Dartmouth the weekend ...
Author: [no author name found] This past week has been an exciting one for Middlebury students. Our bucolic Vermont campus has been galvanized anew by the zeitgeist surrounding the inauguration of the nation's next president.Whomever we supported in last fall's election, we followed Tuesday's events, ...
Author: Jeff Klein The women's basketball team lost a pair of road games this weekend, falling to Bates 80-67 and to Tufts 60-41. The two defeats drop Middlebury's record to 6-8, a disappointing setback for a team that, before the weekend, had reached the .500 mark and was looking to begin NESCAC play ...
Author: Elizabeth Bates Three inches of snow and the world came to an end. At least, that's how the inhabitants of Poitiers, France seemed to feel about a week ago when they witnessed the worst winter weather anyone can remember. It started off as a mild dusting overnight that left the bare trees sparkling ...
Author: [no author name found] Feeling a lack of love at Middlebury?Already compiling your Senior Crush List?Can't find your "Proctor crush" in F.I.C.?Here's your opportunity to take a chance and potentially make that love connection. Submit your "I Spy" in 50 words or fewer to Midd.I.Spy@gmail.com.You ...
Author: Hilary Hall On Jan. 13, Dean of Wonnacott Commons Matt Longman and Director of Health and Wellness Education Jyoti Daniere presented new ideas and initiatives about the College's alcohol policy to the Community Council. Longman and Daniere are both members of the Alcohol Policy Review Committee, ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum The Middlebury women's hockey team rallied after a 2-2 tie against the Trinity Bantams Friday night, Jan. 16, to soundly defeat them in the rematch on Saturday, 6-1. The first game marked the second straight 2-2 tie between the two teams, who last met one year prior to Friday's ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE: MilkDIRECTOR: Gus Van SantSTARRING: Sean PennThe blend of archival news footage with a grainy filter leaves the impression that the essence of Harvey Milk's campaign is still immensely relevant. The effort in 1978 to defeat a California ballot initiative allowing employment ...
Author: Jeff Klein Make it double digits now for the Panthers.With several alumni on hand and the Pepin Palace rocking, the Middlebury men's basketball team edged Bates in overtime 73-65 and then blew out Tufts 104-68 to extend its winning streak to 10, and more importantly, begin NESCAC competition ...
Author: Jaime Wheeler I am surrounded by family and friends in the finance world and, somehow, painful discussions concerning the economy as a result. But their proximity only heightens my sense of ignorance. Shall I use my English major to solve the nation's economic problems? Shall I offer my analysis ...
Author: Forrest Orme As the passionate discussions over tax policy and immigration began to simmer, Professor Francisco Del Canto sarcastically joked, "Come on, this is not Latin America, no fighting or hitting." The class "International Migrations" is taught all in Spanish and this Thursday morning ...
Author: Tim O'Grady At the Jan. 18 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, officers updated the committee and discussed their plans for the coming year.Senator Roger Perrault '09 discussed the need to create a centralized resource for incoming first-years to pose their questions to current students. ...
Author: Alex Garlick The image of Barack Obama taking the presidential oath in front of millions of onlookers Tuesday overwhelmed me. Just five years ago, I had never heard his name. In 2004, at John Kerry's nominating convention in my hometown, he burst onto the national scene; now, four years later, ...
Author: [no author name found] On Saturday, January 17, the Inter-House Council transformed the CFA into a lavish soiree for their Masquerade Ball, for which they had been preparing since the beginning of fall semester. In an effort to bring back a tradition and produce a joint-effort event, the Social ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe What the world needs now is love - cookie love.At least that is what Suzanna Miller and Paul Seyler, husband-and-wife owners of Vermont Cookie Love, have to say. They have been spreading their brand of cookie love since June 2007 when they started a small stand at the Shelburne ...
Author: Amanda Cormier It has been more than a month since 64-year-old Lorraine Clark of Bristol survived her car's plunge into the New Haven River, but there remain three moments that she does not understand.She doesn't understand how the green car that straddled the lane line on River Road did not ...
Author: Matt Joseph On Nov. 4, 2008, many of us watched Barack Obama deliver a powerful speech in Chicago's Grant Park after becoming the President-elect of the United States. Amidst all the emotions from Democrats and Republicans alike, Obama spoke to the crowd with a voice to the future. He declared, ...