Author: Peter Baumann Let me start out by saying that I would consider myself a pretty tolerant and open-minded sports fan. I have my teams, for sure, but I usually confine my time spent watching games to rooting for a certain team, rather than rooting against the other. This all changed after I moved ...
Author: Kevin Carpenter The Bowdoin Polar Bears proved more like frightened cubs in their 1-0 loss to the Panthers last Saturday, Oct. 4. The Panthers extended their unbeaten streak - now standing at 5-0-1 overall - and booked another shutout for keeper Brian Bush '09, who now has four on the season. ...
Author: Jahd Khalil and Rodrigo Seira Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader addressed a crowd of about 2,000 people at a campaign stump at the University of Vermont (UVM) Oct. 5, touching on local Vermont politics, the state of American democracy, civic engagement and the current financial ...
Author: Grace Duggan Last Friday, a crowd gathered in the Dance Theatre in the Mahaney Center for the Arts to watch a performance by the women of Compas de Nicaragua (Friends of Nicaragua), a non-profit organization that works to promote cross-cultural exchanges. The quartet of women, down to three ...
Author: Dina Magaril I spent this past weekend surrounded by beautiful, intelligent and driven women - the fact that they happen to be my closest friends is just an added bonus. Yet, on any given night, rather than being whisked away to Black Sheep by one of their many suitors or having their mailboxes ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum and Peter Baumann This past weekend the women's tennis team competed in the second annual Gail Smith Doubles tournament on the Proctor courts. Gail Smith, who is retiring next year, has been a part of the Middlebury community for 29 years, serving as the assistant women's ...
Author: Patrick D'Arcy On Oct. 2, the documentary "18 in '08" offered both a historic and contemporary look at the youth vote in America to a crowd of young voters. The event, sponsored by Middlebury Republicans and Democrats, Brainerd Commons and the Alliance for Civic Engagement, welcomed the film's ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Robert Schlesinger '94, deputy assistant managing editor of opinions at U.S. News & World Report, gave a lecture promoting his book, White House Ghosts: Presidents and their Speechwriters, as part of the Rohatyn Center International Studies Colloquium on Oct. 3. Schlesinger ...
Author: Eric Bartolloti On Friday, Oct. 3, Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely - the author of Predictably Irrational - spoke to students (and some parents) in Dana Auditorium about the "hidden forces that shape our decisions" in the marketplace.Five things struck me about the first 15 minutes of his talk.1. ...
Author: Tim O'Grady The 30th annual presentation of the "Paul Ward '25 Prize In Writing" to the Class of 2011 was held on Oct. 3 in the New Library, honoring 40 members of the Class of 2011. The esteemed competition recognizes current sophomores who have produced outstanding essays during their first ...
Author: Stefan Claypool In the 1980s, a succession of Soviet hardliners demanded concessions from Western powers, but were unwilling to give up anything in return. Top-level talks stalled until Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko were all dead, leaving Soviet power in the hands of Mikhail Gorbachev. ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Last winter, in the middle of the academic school year, a group of students joined together to practice improvisational theater. On Sept. 29, four of these students performed their first official show under the title of "Middlebrow."Neil Baron '10, Adam Kritzer '11, Danny Metzger-Traber ...
Author: Jesse Davidson What do babies and rioters have in common? Yep, they both deserve to get put behind bars when they act up - either in cribs or in jail cells. But more importantly, rioters also find themselves crawling, drooling, and boo-hooing, thanks to the College Chemistry Department. In 1928, ...
Author: Jessie Singleton Sarah Palin did a fine job of memorizing her foreign policy vocabulary words for the VP debate last week; however, I'm not exactly sure what she said, or what she meant to say, or what questions she thought she answered. I get it: Iran hates Israel, Ahmadinejad is a really mean ...
Author: Nick Martell Although opening with a shaky start for the second straight week, the Middlebury football team fought through Saturday's home matchup against Amherst College, beating the Lord Jeffs 31-14 and avenging last week's debilitating loss to Colby.As in the previous two games, the Panthers ...
Author: Mario Ariza Although Student Government Association (SGA) President Bobby Joe Smith has proved to be an efficient executive thus far, this week the SGA hit its first speed bump of the semester. Whereas the previous week's debate was orderly, and that meeting's movement from topic to topic organically ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Nick and Norah's Infinite PlaylistDIRECTOR: Alex HoldridgeSTARRING: Michael Cera and Kat DenningsIn 1989 a film called "The Wizard" was released in theaters. Starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater, the film had the most paper thin of plots in order to cover up the fact ...
Author: Melissa Marshall and Liya Gao Here are five creative young directors who have taken it upon themselves to realize their artistic conceptions in five upcoming all-student productions. The five plays range from the exploration of gender to the problems of philosophy to the palpable political climate, ...
Author: Amanda Green Would you leave your garbage on the floor of the reading room in the Axinn Center? I would venture to say no. Why then do students think it's ok to litter on pathways? Granted, the walk from Bihall to Ross is not complete with dark wood flooring, but Middlebury employees work ...
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 recent culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."The Line of Beauty Alan ...