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 ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I was left aghast last week by the shamelessness of Livingston Burgess's Notes from the Desk ("I did not plagiarize these notes," April 24). Advocating that a rigorous and challenging academic environment dissuades cheating is counter-intuitive and highly ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone On May 1, 2 and 3 Wright Theater will host a production of one of the most complex and challenging plays to grace any British or American stage. As the culminating theatrical experience in a three-year interdisciplinary grand symposium entitled "The Pathway to Religion in the ...
Author: Amanda Greene Middlebury students have a tendency to overload their schedules. Our date books double as color-schemed art projects and by Sunday evening our dorms look as if they've been swept by a hurricane. In a climate where kids are penciling in phone calls home and time to sleep, it's inevitable ...
Author: [no author name found] The report of the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury College, released to the College community by e-mail earlier this week, is surprisingly, refreshingly frank - and yet the contents of the report, which detail a student social life permeated by a dangerous ...
Author: Rachael Jennings With flashing lights, trendy clothes and contagious music revved by DJ Thompson Davis '08, McCullough Social Space definitely got a taste of the glamorous life on April 26. That night, under pulsing spotlights and encouraged with warm applause, Middlebury's African American ...
Author: Peter Baumann Coming into the NESCAC championships last weekend, the men's tennis team liked where they stood. The hosts entered the weekend undefeated on the Proctor courts for the year, and they were searching for their fifth-straight NESCAC title. Two matches and one heartbreaking defeat ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Students were not speaking up in class on April 25th, but it was not because they had forgone the night's reading. Instead, participants of the National Day of Silence were making a statement that spoke louder than words.The day is a national event, honored by over 6,500 high schools ...
Author: Anna Furney The Green Mountains of Vermont served as a pastoral background for the 2008 NESCAC Women's tennis championships this past weekend.The first serves of the weekend, coming at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, flew off the rackets of none other than the Middlebury Panthers, who were seeded fourth ...
Author: Anthony Adragna California students unite to oppose ArnoldOver 2,000 students and staff from 30 California colleges and universities united to protest the proposed one billion dollars in cuts to higher education by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, on April 28.Various members of the state government ...
Author: Samantha Michaels Bobby Joe Smith III '09 secured the Student Government Association (SGA) presidency on April 25 after last week's run-off election against Hiba Fakhoury '09. His victory marked the culmination of a particularly exciting race, with elections splitting into two rounds in light ...
Author: Nicole Lam Historically, many of us would associate religious art with the Middle Ages and the Age of Enlightenment. Recently, however, a new style of religious art is becoming more popular in our 21st century culture. In the Sixth Annual Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts on Saturday, ...
Author: [no author name found] Water polo heads west for first-ever national tourneyThe Middlebury women's water polo team will travel to Oregon this weekend to compete in the National Collegiate Club Championships at Mt. Hood Community College. At the championships, Middlebury will compete with schools ...
Author: Tom Brant A betting man might wager that a discussion between a drag queen and a U.S. Congressman moderated by a college president has never or would never take place. However, the betting man would have lost on April 29, when a drag queen, a college president and a Congressman did in fact convene ...
Author: Thompson Davis You can keep your friends, your pint glass and your cane - all I want out of Middlebury is my diploma. And I want it now. I want it before the higher ups realize that I'm a credit shy and a few payments behind. I want it so I can show it to my mom and make her cry tears of joy. ...
Author: Adam Clayton Throughout the course of human history, politicians and philosophers have often defined social and political interaction in terms of struggle.For sports, the value of struggle in the appeal and importance of a game cannot be underestimated. Particularly in the modern era, the promotion ...