Author: Tess Russell To generations of kids reared on classic comedies like "Animal House," "Revenge of the Nerds" and, more recently, "Old School" and "Van Wilder," leaving the nest holds admittedly false promises of decadence. Indeed, the cultural mainstream seems to portray the university years, ...
Author: Will Bellaimey After the slow-motion self destruction of our last two presidential campaigns it's a funny feeling for us Democrats to look back and say "you know what, we did that just about right." Of course, it isn't over yet. But whatever happens, the 23 year-old geniuses behind Obama campaign ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce When Donald Axinn '51 looked out the south-facing window of his First-year dorm room in Starr Hall fifty years ago, he never imagined that one day the building he was looking at, Starr Library, would bear his name. Thirteen years of planning culminated in the dedication of the ...
Author: Nicole Lam CHAPEL UNVARNISHED DESPITE RENOVATIONSA recent $33 million renovation project at Trinity College in Connecticut modernized some of the oldest classrooms, dormitories and seminar offices in the country. When inspections showed that the roof and dormer of three building complexes were ...
Author: Emily Nunez A new student initiative to decrease student indifference about dining hall dishes spearheaded by Molley Kaiyoorawongs '09 began publicizing its agenda on campus last week. Kaiyoorawongs hopes that by informing the student body about the negative impact that failing to return dining ...
Author: [no author name found] 2008 Election Talk Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.Middlebury College professor emeritus Eric Davis will present "The 2008 Presidential election in Historical Perspective: Comparisons with 1932, 1960 and 1980" at the Middlebury Inn. Sheldon Museum members $18; non-members $20. Reservations ...
Author: Grace Close The heroic deeds of Polish Catholic social worker Irena Sendler are now cemented in history. During the Holocaust, Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto and relocated them to non-Jewish family households to protect their safety. Once safe in the homes of their ...
Author: [no author name found] The last decade has been a honeymoon period of expansion for Middlebury College. The College added summer and international programs, acquired an institute for international study, grew the student population, and adorned the campus with huge, shiny, top-notch buildings. ...
Author: Jeff Klein It is hard to express in writing what went down this past weekend when the Middlebury women's rugby team took on Keene State. Maybe it is best to keep it simple: 109-0. Middlebury. According to captain Rachel Korschun '09, Avery Rain '11 and Kristina Brown '10 were the top scorers, ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum The Middlebury women's tennis team finished up its fall season at Amherst College this weekend, playing in the newly formatted New England Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament (NEWITT). For the first year, the tournament was played in the exciting "Fed Cup" style, with ...
Author: Rodrigo Seira Ethan B. Linck, an explorer, ornithologist, and high school senior, spoke last Thursday in Bristol about his latest exploration trip. In a presentation entitled "Dispatch for the Last Unknown: Ecology, Culture and Exploration in Papua New Guinea," Linck discussed his experiences ...
Author: Tim Miles Another step has been made in Dr. Anders Holm's quest to bring green energy to the town of Middlebury. Holm, an otolaryngologist in Middlebury, has been designing a hydropower project in Otter Creek for the past few years. Finally, Holm has sent in a preliminary application in to ...
Author: Nicolas Martell After another volatile two weeks of winning and losing that saw the team fall to Williams before beating Bates, the Panthers seemed more focused than ever at Sunday's Oct. 19 practice, charging through all the conditioning and staccato whistle chirping that head coach Bob Ritter ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In reference to Dina Magaril's column ("The D-Spot", Oct. 9), there are some things I would like to hear her address in her next column. Mind games are something us men always attribute to women; I had not heard it the other way around. As for the seemingly ...
Author: Josh Wessler Movie: AppaloosaDirector: Ed HarrisStarring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy IronsTown marshall Virgil Cole has trouble with words. Guns he can handle - he enters a fight with his jaw set and his chest pushed forward. Yet he relies on his deputy, Everett Hitch, for his ability ...
Author: Sarah Bryan The Middlebury cross country teams traveled to Castleton this past weekend to compete in their fourth race of the season. Both Panther teams came home with second-place team finishes in the State Meet, trailing closely behind the University of Vermont. "Despite being the 'Vermont ...
Author: Melissa Marshall When reaching for a paper topic at the eleventh hour or as bravado of intellectual sensitivity, women - despite post-lapsarian ideology - are saving graces. Guaranteed to lend a level of provocation without waging a revolution, the subject of gender theory not only drenches ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Amidst the release of national polls predicting significant Republican losses in this November's elections, Vermont Governor Jim Douglas '73 (R) looks well-positioned in his re-election race against challenger Gaye Symington (D), speaker of the democratically-controlled State ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy One night, when I was three years old, my mother told me to pack my things and get ready to leave. I grabbed a stuffed animal along with a bag of pretzels, and climbed into the cab with my sister. Four hours later we were in Paris. We stayed in a dingy hotel, the first one we ...
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 ...