Author: Adam Clayton "Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean." If this sounds familiar, it's because you probably read or heard it as a child in the ...
Author: Amanda Greene Parents' Weekend is just around the corner. The real world is coming to Middlebury! Students will (most likely) be unnerved by the juxtaposition of their two worlds coming together and images of parents sitting on twin extra long beds will arouse smiles and anxiety. The introduction ...
Author: Jaime Fuller The Parton Health Center has been busy informing students who could have potentially been exposed to mumps since the discovery of the viral illness on Sept. 17. No new cases have been confirmed on campus, but the staff at the Health Center intends to be on alert until Oct. 4. Parton ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum The Middlebury women's tennis team competed in the ITA New England Region Championships this weekend at MIT, battling injuries, illness and rainy weather. The tournament is an individual, single-elimination style tournament (with a backdraw) in which 64 singles players and ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The strings of the Vermony Symphony Orchestra, under veteran conductor/violinist Jaime Laredo, stopped at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Sept. 18 for their Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour. As far as how Vermont was made apparent during the concert, a white love seat cluttered ...
Author: Ken Lazo BLACK SHEEP BISTROBlack Sheep lures its visitors with its distinct small town grace and phenomenal ambiance that allows for a convivial and intimate experience. The precursor to arrival is a 20-minute journey north from Middlebury on Rte. 7, which serves to set the mood with evening ...
Author: Sarah Bryan "Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared." Second baseman and manager Sparky Anderson spoke these words while completing a career defined by winning the World Series three times and becoming fifth on the all-time ...
Author: Emma Gardner and Jeff Klein JENNY GALGANO '10 SCORES FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAMEJenny Galgano '10, a junior midfielder on the women's soccer team experienced fifteen minutes in the spotlight this weekend after being nominated for WPTZ's Play of the Week. Galgano's goal on Wesleyan keeper Gavi Elkind ...
Author: Tess Russell "Why would anyone want to write - or read - a book without people in it?" joked environmental journalist Alan Weisman, addressing an engaged crowd of students, faculty and community members in The Orchard of the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest on Sept. 24. The widespread ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce and Emily McDonald If you have not had a chance to explore the Middlebury area recently, Fall Family Weekend is the perfect time to start. Your parents are bringing their car (which means that you do not have to pay for gas), the temperature is ideal for hiking and the local ...
Author: Rodrigo Seira It was a sunny Vermont weekend when I decided to take a walk into town - camera in hand - to snap a few pictures of Middlebury before the snow flies. As I walked past Leatherworks, the unique store of a professional leather craftsman, the methodically arranged window display ...
Author: Catherine McCarthy "What am I supposed to do with this trash bag full of cabbage?" asked Weybridge House R.A. Leah Bevis '09 aloud, as she and her other fifteen housemates scurried to put finishing touches on their annual Weybridge Fall Feast this past Friday, Sept. 26. Around her, the house ...
Author: Scott Greene Several students living in the Mods met with College residential administrators, including new Senior Residence Director Lee Zerrila, on Sept. 25 to discuss issues related to social activity in the area through the first few weeks of the fall term. Since Sept. 8, 39 of the 77 alcohol ...
Author: Jeff Klein "We're eager to show we can go low as a team."Those were the words spoken by Michael McCormick '09 after the Middlebury men's golf team hosted the Duke Nelson Invitational two weekends ago. The Panthers' fifth place finish in the tournament was solid, but perhaps not quite up to the ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The Old Stone Mill Board approved six student artistic proposals for this semester Sept. 29. These first student groups will inaugurate the building for its new purpose: a space to foster creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. The students' proposed projects range from cooking ...
Author: Miles Abadilla Going to college in rural Vermont, Middlebury students are rarely exposed to the same extremes of poverty and homelessness as their counterparts on urban campuses. Friends of John Graham Shelter, a Volunteer Services Organization which gained official club status last year, is ...
Author: Livingston Burgess The agenda for Middlebury's Community Council's autumn was set Sept. 29 in the body's first meeting of the year. New members were brought up to speed and the council fielded proposals for upcoming topics of discussion, as well as reviving issues tabled from the spring. Talking ...
Author: [no author name found] Stargazing on campus! Oct. 3, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.The college observatory in McCardell Bicentennial Hall is having an open house on the rooftop observatory this Friday.(Free, weather permitting.)Robert Frost Mountain HikeOct. 4. 10 a.m.The Green Mountain Club is organizing ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Takacs (pronounced Tah-kash) String Quartet, composed of four personalities and their corresponding hairstyles, sounds more unified than ever. In 2005 Geraldine Walther (who sports a Carol Brady hairdo) replaced Roger Tapping as violist and now seems to have definitively ...
Author: Heather Pangle and Rachel Pagano There are many ways of winning a debate. John McCain came out stronger on the whole by stymieing Obama in a series of encounters on foreign policy. He argued persuasively on reining in terrorism in Afghanistan, working effectively with Pakistan, avoiding a nuclear ...