Author: Dean Atyia The Amethyst Initiative's website looks like it should be the back cover advertisement of a pop news magazine. It colorfully displays rotating images of diverse groups of young people toasting glasses of wine or champagne flutes. These people look like they are having the time of ...
Author: Tess Russell Living in the Information Age certainly has its benefits (see handheld GPS), but one of the major drawbacks is the deluge of unnecessary information with which we are constantly inundated. The Middlebury community is no exception - seemingly every College office and student organization ...
Author: Jaime Fuller This summer, Middlebury College continued its rise in commercial prominence and academic prestige with its posting on college rankings lists published by U.S News and World Report Magazine, Princeton Review, Forbes Magazine, and the Sierra Club.Middlebury is no stranger to the rankings, ...
Author: Peter Baumann After winning its first outright NESCAC championship in 2007, the Middlebury football team enters the 2008 season in an unfamiliar position. Its championship status means that, for the first time in recent memory, the team enters the season at the forefront of any discussion of ...
Author: Peter Baumann After finishing with a 9-5-2 record a year ago and ending the season with a disappointing loss in the NESCAC semi-finals, women's soccer enters the year with an experienced and talented roster. Graduation mainly hit the Panthers on the back line, where they lost second-team All-NESCAC ...
Author: Duggan, Grace On July 26th the curtain went down the last time for yet another season of the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP), Middlebury College's collaborative summer theatre program that gives undergraduates an opportunity to work with professional actors. Originally based on Maryland and Washington, ...
Author: James O'Brien In deciding who to vote for in the upcoming election, I try to pay very little attention to what candidates actually say-mainly because it is never even vaguely related to what they do once they get elected. At the same time, I can fill you in on what I have managed to gather from ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Throughout a seemingly endless winter sandwiched by a painfully shorter warmer season, Middlebury students spend hours upon hours working on schoolwork, attending classes and creating some fun in the utopian Vermont mountains. But come May, everyone is off for a trip with the ...
Author: Sarah Bryan Middlebury's cross country team hit the ground running this past weekend in Plattsburg, N.Y. Tri-captains Hallie Fox '09, Alexandra Krieg '09 and Charlotte Bemis '09 led the women's team to a first-place tie with Plattsburg, last year's NCAA national champions, while Rainey Johnson ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Hurricane Gustav ravages LSU campusAlthough Hurricane Gustav passed quickly out of the American mindset in comparison to its predecessor, Hurricane Katrina, it still had the opportunity to cause destruction all across Louisiana, including the State University. "It's the worst storm ...
Author: Brian Fung BEIJING - The stands are finally empty at the National Stadium. The Water Cube keeps pulsing gently at night, for nobody in particular. The athletes have all gone home, the reporters and photographers back to their day jobs covering golf or baseball. Even the Chinese tourists have ...
Author: Evan Daniel After an intensive, quality preseason and with one meet already completed, both the men's and women's cross country teams are well on their way to an exciting season. The teams find strength in "consistent strong training on hilly terrain and dedication to the miles as well as strong ...
Author: Jack Lysohir Professor of History and Russian Studies and longtime director of Middlebury College's program in international studies, David A.J. Macey passed away on Aug. 10. The 30-year veteran of the Middlebury faculty will be remembered for his renowned scholarship, his vision for Middlebury's ...
Author: Dina Magaril Last semester, I started writing The D-Spot because I used to be a sexaholic. I was addicted to sex. I wanted to write about it and read about and watch shows about it. I wanted it in the early morning; I wanted it in the afternoon and right before I went to sleep at night. I wanted ...
Author: Tess Russell Here at Middlebury, there is a discrepancy between the treatment of underage alcohol violations and marijuana use by students of all ages that I find to be somewhat out of touch. My intention here is not to advocate drug legalization, so I'm not going to expound on the reasons why ...
Author: Melissa Marshall A fan from Córdoba, a lamp from Egypt, a wine bottle from France, a scarf from Ecuador, a rug from Sweden - while first-years scramble to assemble rooms as well-rounded as their applications, mine glows as diverse and glossy as a Middlebury pamphlet. Unfortunately, just as ...
Author: Kaity Potak Gray skies and rain showers did not stop Middlebury community members from gathering on the Green to celebrate this fall's Harvest Festival on Sept. 6. Featuring everything from homemade ice cream and a harp player, to a whole host of workshops geared toward educating and encouraging ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Middlebury Campus spoke with Associate Professor of Music Peter Hamlin '73 to learn more about his creative work outside of the classroom. The Middlebury Campus: What have you been working on recently?Peter Hamlin: I just finished a set of three songs for a singer in Minnesota ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Come December, the College will lose two esteemed staff members as they move closer to New York City because of pressing family circumstances. Shirley and Alfredo Ramirez came to Middlebury at the end of 2006 when Shirley was hired following a report from the 2006 Human Relations ...
Author: Leslie Lim A couple of weeks ago, I found myself at Philadelphia International Airport, wandering through its long halls and perusing its shops, attempting to kill time during a five hour layover between my flight from Vermont to Barcelona. Starting from one of the domestic terminals, I leisurely ...