Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen Ten years ago, in 1998, the Middlebury College field hockey team found its way to the top and won the national championships. Last year they fell short, losing by one to Bowdoin in the finals. Today, the Panthers are in position to once again become NESCAC champions and possibly ...
Author: Jeff Klein The men's and women's golf teams hope to improve upon solid seasons last year and swing their way to further success. The women's team is marked by youth, but don't mistake such youth for inexperience."Everyone has some great tournament experience under their belts and is ready to ...
Author: [no author name found] Performance by The Grift Friday, Sept. 12, 10 p.m. Two Brothers Tavern in town. Atlatl Competition in Addison Saturday, Sept. 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.What's an atlatl?! Come to Chimney Point State Historic Site to witness and participate ...
Author: Peter Baumann While most incoming first-years spend the last two weeks of summer nervously preparing to leave for college, Taylor Bates had other ideas. The 18-year-old Burlington, Vt. native pined to travel to Denver, Colo. as a member of the Vermont delegation to the Democratic National Convention. ...
Author: Jeff Klein Coming within a goal of the NCAA title in 2007, the Middlebury field hockey team begins this season with extra motivation. Finishing the job in 2008, however, will have to come without the services of Reid Berrien '08 and Lacey Farrell '08, last year's goals and assists leaders, respectively. ...
Author: Emma Gardner The volleyball team will debut a new look this season as the women shift domains and take over the Bubble following a summer of extensive flood damage to Pepin Gymnasium. The players look ahead to a competitive season filled with NESCAC championship dreams and a goal of "staying ...
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Author: Jesse Davidson An article published on July 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) revealed the existence of the only other mammal, besides Weybridge House residents, that subsists entirely on organic microbrew. The pen-tailed treeshrew, an inhabitant of the West Malaysian ...
Author: Jaime Fuller The College community lost one of its most promising young students on August 1, after Pavlo Levkiv '11 drowned while swimming in New Jersey. A memorial service was held in the 19-year-old's honor on Aug. 5 in his hometown of Rockaway Township, N.J., and 250 people gathered to remember ...
Author: Stefan Claypool Why are liberals, previously riding high on Hopenchange, suddenly quivering in fear? Because Sarah Palin is coming to Washington, and Washington is not ready. And if John McCain was rendered incapable of performing his duties, this young "rough n tumble" reformer is ready to ...
Author: James Kerrigan Tragedy struck the College at the end of the spring when the College community learned of the death of Nicholas Garza '11, whose body was recovered from Otter Creek on May 27. President Ronald D. Liebowitz notified the College community in an email sent to all students, faculty ...
Author: Tess Russell Each August, millions of Americans anxiously await the release of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" for a wide variety of reasons. High school students and their parents look to the rankings in hopes of gaining helpful insight into the trying college process, ...
Author: Amanda Greene Going back to school is intoxicating. Moving in involves a rediscovery of the dining hall, highly anticipated living arrangements and new classes. Back-to-school time is as exciting as it was when the best thing about September was a brand new box of markers and shiny notebooks. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Since this past spring, an air of mystery and anticipation has surrounded two buildings that recently became part of the College landscape - 51 Main and Old Stone Mill. This fall, through the combined efforts of the College's administration and its students, the once obscure ...
Author: Grace Close "It was a great community project to save a historic building," Doug Anderson said, beaming as he looked around his office, proud of Middlebury's most recent accomplishment: the ten-year, five-million dollar renovation and recent July reopening of the Middlebury Town Hall Theater. ...
Author: Scott Greene Though the College announced the appointment of Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics Sunder Ramaswamy as the next President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in May, the final countdown for his time at Middlebury officially began on Sept. ...
Author: [no author name found] College mourns losses, looks to new facesThe Mead Chapel bells rang in a new academic year Sunday as Middlebury welcomed 580 first-year faces. Convocation also marked the end of a long summer. The deaths of Nicholas Garza '11, Pavlo Levkiv '11, and Professor David Macey ...
Author: Jason Guitierrez Ben Stiller has always been hit and miss as an actor (hilarious in films like "Dodgeball" but does anyone remember 2003's "Duplex"? I didn't think so) and a director ("Reality Bites?" Not so much). So it is with his latest offering, the ninety-two million dollar war comedy "Tropic ...
Author: Jeff Klein Tennis has always been one of Middlebury's strengths, and this year figures to be no different. The men are poised to make another deep run in the NCAAs after finishing the season with an 18-7 record and a berth in the semifinals.Having compiled an astounding 130-32 record during ...