Author: Lise Rosenberger The Middlebury women's soccer team moved ahead with an overall record of 6-4-2 after shutting out Bates 2-0 this past Saturday on the Panthers' home turf. The game remained scoreless until thirteen minutes from the end, as neither team could pull ahead to mark the scoreboard. ...
Author: [no author name found] MEN'S GOLF TIES FOR 14TH AT NEIGA CHAMPIONSHIPMen's golf wrapped up its season this Monday and Tuesday by finishing in a 14th-place tie in the NEIGA Championship at the Captains Golf Club. The field included teams from Division I, II and III.Captain Harry Bane '08.5, the ...
Author: Sarah Bryan The past two weeks have been a rollercoaster of a ride for the Middlebury field hockey team as it fights for the top spot nationally and within NESCAC. Two weekends ago the team fell to Tufts in overtime. Hungry for victory, the Panthers responded this week with shutout wins over ...
Author: Kelly Janis Last week, the non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. in 2007 to foster dialogue about underage drinking relocated from the cramped Middlebury store front in which it was born to a new office in southeast Washington, D.C., just blocks from the ...
Author: Patrick D'Arcy Middlebury students gathered at nightfall in Mead Chapel on October 17th for a reading from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell as part of the College's Annual Clifford Symposium. In keeping with this year's theme of memory and place, Kinnell gave a reading of some of his ...
Author: Dina Magaril Most Middlebury students are aptly versed in the art of b.s.ing. At $49,000 a year, we should at least be able to pretend we know what we're talking about. It's a talent we acquire during our four years here for survival purposes, like forgetting to do the assigned reading and having ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger This past weekend, sixteen actors rallied together for a highly energetic and physically charged show full of kissing, dancing, chanting, yelling, wheezing, straddling teddy bears and even insect mating. It was all part of "Discover: Scenes of Unearthing," the 13th Annual First-Year ...
Author: [no author name found] WORLD ART WITH A SIDE OF LOCAL FLAVORAs the College campus fashioned itself like a Van Gogh masterpiece in full autumn glory, The Middlebury College Musuem of Art also opened its doors for patrons to enjoy art of a more permanent kind. This Homecoming weekend, Middlebury ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Can opera function surrounded by popcorn, Pepsi and jeans? The Metropolitan Opera, managed by the entrepreneurial Peter Gelb, has no reservations about transmitting its productions to a few select multiplex movie theaters across the country, trimming the operatic experience of ...
Author: Peter Baumann Following their gut-wrenching 3-1 loss at the hands of Tufts on Oct. 12, members of the Middlebury volleyball team scattered in different directions. Some sought solace with the friends and family who had come to cheer them on, while others began tearing down the equipment in their ...
Author: Emily Temple If you didn't know any better, you'd probably think that an EP entitled Satanic Messiah would be by some scary hardcore band or Marilyn Manson. But no, it was released by a band called the Mountain Goats. Do you know them? Notorious for stripped-down, tense storytelling by brilliant ...
Author: Rachael Jennings When Teach for America (TFA) College Recruitment Director Delano Brissett was a senior at Dartmouth College, TFA seemed like just another organization invading his life with colorful fliers and pesky emails. Despite his lack of enthusiasm, Brissett did decide to attend an informational ...
Author: Kate Lupo This Fall Break I went on tour with my a capella group, the wonderful and "steezy" Middlebury Mamajamas. We traveled to University of Vermont to sing with the Top Cats, Union College to sing with the Dutch Pipers and lastly we traveled to Williams to sing with the Springstreeters. ...
Author: Sarah Bryan This fall, hard work, dedication and sincere love of ponies are paying off as the Middlebury equestrian team travels around the east coast, saddles up and brings home the ribbons. While the women do spend a lot of time on the road, on Oct. 11, over 100 students and 22 horses met ...
Author: Amanda Cormier Four months after surviving the 40-foot fall that endangered his limbs and life, Robert Demic of Bristol is one step closer to reaching the goal he set in June - to tap dance by July of 2009.Last Friday, Demic, who the Addison County Independent called, "The Miracle Man," did ...
Author: Amanda Cormier President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz issued a campus-wide memo Oct. 8 outlining how the College will ensure its financial health during the global economic downturn through an immediate hiring freeze and a careful reduction in spending.The memo served as a follow-up to ...
Author: James Schwerdtman Homecoming weekend has come and gone, and with it so too has the water polo tournament, in which Middlebury hosted teams from Montreal and another from Greenwich, Conn. The tournament gave the Panthers the opportunity to face some competition unseen in their conference. Some ...
Author: Jeff Klein On the evening of Oct. 14, Conrad Olson '09 arrived in Mobile, Ala. to take part in the Division-III men's tennis national tournament. Determined to get the maximum preparation before his matches, he immediately hit the courts of the tournament site that night to practice, and continued ...
Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of current culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."By BrakhageStan Brakhage ...