Author: Emily Temple It's the end of the year, and you know what that means. Well, among other things, it means that everybody you know is scrambling for all they're worth to finish the projects they've been working on all semester, all year, or - gulp - all of college. The number of plays, art shows, ...
Author: Jake Cohen The Middlebury crew team traveled to Worcester, Mass. this past weekend to participate in the New England Fours Rowing Championships on May 3-4. The novice men had an impressive weekend as the first team finished fourth overall and the second team finished in second. Led by senior ...
Author: [no author name found] Women's golf team earns second-straight NCAA bid While some students are taking their Intermediate Arabic II exam and others are contemplating Microbial Pathogenesis final, on Tuesday, May 13, the Middlebury women's golf team will be in Waverly, Iowa competing in the ...
Author: Tom Brant Sunder Ramaswamy, dean for Faculty Development and Research, was appointed President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) by the College's Board of Trustees at their annual meeting on Saturday. The trustees also approved the scheduled renovations of the McCullough ...
Author: Dina Magaril "Here's the deal. I'm looking for some help. You'll need to be up at five in the morning and working till six o'clock at night and it's going to be dirty, dusty, smelly dangerous work for about 10 dollars an hour. So how many of you want to do this. Just raise your hands please."Sheryl ...
Author: Jeff Patterson In Nelson Recreation Center this past weekend, the Middlebury men's tennis team fought with the determination of Nelson Mandela and the fearlessness of Admiral Horatio Nelson and in so doing won back-to-back tournament matches like the golfer Byron Nelson. As a result, the Panthers ...
Author: H.Kay Merriman "Lani Guinier is an idea-woman who does not shrink from controversy," said President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz in introducing this year's John Hamilton Fulton Lecturer. Guinier, a lawyer, author, scholar and activist, spoke to members of the College and community last ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Pianist Paul Lewis graced Middlebury with a complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas throughout the 2005 and 2006 seasons, but the completion of the cycle certainly has not deterred Lewis from returning to Middlebury with different composers in his fingers. His performance ...
Even though ESPN personality Mel Kiper Jr. did not comment on Steve Hauschka's '07 "explosiveness" or "pop" during the two-day media extravaganza of the NFL Draft, just hours after its completion the Middlebury alum signed a free-agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings. Although his name was not at ...
Author: Adam Clayton Middlebury has always prided itself on being somewhat different. Our international emphasis, environmental awareness and unique locale are pushed by the administration as reasons to come to Middlebury instead of the many other equivalent schools. Personally it was the Feb program, ...
Author: Daniel Streitfeld In the interest of truth and accuracy, in the space provided to me here I would like to address a number of startling fallacies found in Mr. Alex Garlick's latest opinion piece ("An Offsetting Notion," May 1).The esteemed Mr. Garlick derides the validity of the now-popular ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The College's Office of Admissions announced that, as of May 6, it had received 564 deposits for September and 92 for February enrollment. The numbers ensured that it would fill its target enrollment size of 570 for September and 90 students for February, after only 18.5 percent ...
Author: Livingston Burgess The final weekend of Middlebury's baseball season proceeded much the same as its other weeks. High-scoring games, more losses than wins - many of them heartbreakers - but nonetheless plenty of bright points, including a well-played win against a NESCAC opponent to conclude ...
Author: Alex Garlick Carbon offsets are not the answer to our planet's environmental crisis - in fact, they are economically problematic and morally suspect. The College feels differently. The Snow Bowl recently spent $7,138 on carbon offsets, the study abroad office is encouraging its students to spend ...
Author: James O'Brien I've decided to begin this week with two moralizing haikus.Some animals watch The other animals fall,Happy it's not them.The frog eats the fly.The frog is suddenly scared-Prays for its frog soul.These haikus, besides being quaint and amusing, are meant to illustrate a ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Robert Levine '08 and Katy Smith Abbott, associate dean of the College and visiting assistant professor of Art History, won the run-off elections to determine this year's Senior Awards ceremony speakers who will address the Class of 2008 on May 24 during Commencement Week. The student ...
Author: [no author name found] The weekly editor's picks, by the numbers, Midd scoreboard, and locker room features.
Author: Peter Baumann Despite the Middlebury softball team's consistently high level of competition this season, it was fitting that Senior Day, the last collegiate performance for Middlebury seniors Katelyn Cannella '08, Brittany Burke '08 and Allison Bard '08, included plenty of drama, moments of ...