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 ...
Author: Peter Baumann When you have not lost a regular season game in ten years, like the Middlebury men's rugby team, you know you are going to get every opponent's best shot. When the opponent is the rival school 40 miles to your North, you are going to get even more. Under that backdrop, the squad ...
Author: Will Bellaimey Let me first say that this country's treatment of debates as some sort of scorable contest is ludicrous. There are no rules, no scoreboards, and no objective ways to determine who won. I suppose the same argument goes for figure skating. But even if John McCain had executed an ...
Author: Eric Bartolloti Swords are cool. Everyone knows this, but the only group that knows just why is the Middlebury Fencing Club. Stuck for a time in the pupa (or "cocoon") phase of student club metamorphosis, the group took flight just this past spring, and club captain Spencer Church '10 assures ...
Author: Tess Russell Subject: All Student Email Procedures - Cutting the CrapLooks like the guys in charge want to put us out of a job. As part of President Bobby Joe Smith's promise to streamline communications at the College, the SGA recently admonished student organizations to "respectfully cut down ...
Author: Murray Dry, Professor of Political Science "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, orold. And that's the criteria by which I'm going ...
Author: Rachael Jennings In the midst of election hype and political debates and forums, the memory of Middlebury's past elections may seem distant. But the College has known its share of heated decisions and close calls in its own personal way.Last April, Bobby Joe Smith III '09 emerged as the new ...
Author: Nicolas Martell In just the second game of the season, the Panthers' endeavor into Colby College's Alfond Stadium ended in a stunning 24-19 defeat for the previously 1-0 Middlebury program. The entire football organization returned to campus late Saturday night, distressed by the challenge ...
Author: James O'Brien Situation A: There are forty people - a sizable amount of kids - in a basement of one of the Ridgeline houses. Public Safety makes five appearances in a matter of four hours, hands out five citations, but allows the party to continue. Sure, five citations is a pain in the ass, ...
Author: Scott Greene It's Rosh Hashanah, the head of the Jewish New Year, and lately I feel like my "Jew horns" have been sticking out a bit. I just returned from a wedding in which the groom had to undergo counseling sessions to accept a half-Jewish Maid of Honor in his fiancé's bridal party. Ironically, ...
Author: Nicole Lam This past weekend the volleyball team took part in the Amherst Classic, earning a Friday night 3-0 win against Westfield State before losing a 3-1 against the host school on Saturday and coming back for a 3-1 win against Brandeis to top it all off. In this particular tournament, control ...
Author: Flint Reilly I am writing to express my sincere thoughts about an unavoidable topic for our community. Underage drinking is absolutely against the law. Our community is lucky to have fine establishments like Two Brother's Tavern, Mister Ups, Doria's and Fire & Ice. The owners and employees ...
Author: Jaime Fuller, Stephanie Joyce DEMS MOBILIZE TO AID WITH VOTER REGISTRATIONWith only 48 days until November 4th, College Democrats kicked off the campaign for presidential nominee Barack Obama on campus at a well-attended event in Dana Auditorium Sept. 17. Co-presidents Will Bellaimey '10.5 ...
Author: Roz Vara The Vermont Folklife Center was filled to capacity Friday night as it welcomed the opening of its newest exhibit, "The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers." Through a combination of photographs and interviews, the multimedia exhibit offers a glimpse into the ...
Author: Tim O'Grady The College faculty has begun implementation of a new rule mandating that all students complete senior work as a requirement for graduation, a rule that will take effect for the class of 2013. Senior work is defined as a culminating thesis, creative project or special seminar paper ...
Author: Livingston Burgess In general, I hate whining. I will stand firmly behind the disenfranchised, disempowered and otherwise dissed, but when fringe and marginal voices demand disproportionate representation, I usually draw the line. I hate conspiracy theories, diatribes that blame "the man" and ...