Author: Amanda Greene Everyone is talking about elections. "Obama or Clinton" is a question asked as often as "beef or chicken." People are deciding who they want to vote for, and the American public is finally talking about issues. What about health care? How should we fix public education? How do ...
Author: Kelly Janis Last August, as I was sitting in my hometown Barnes & Noble and fantasizing about my imminent return to Middlebury, I leafed through a sea of Vermont travel guides and compiled a list which, eight months later, reads like a prophetic road map of two semesters' worth of Local ...
Author: Dina Magaril Heat waves. Glistening, tan bodies. Short dresses, clean shaven legs and skin skin skin. We're all thinking about it. Now that spring has officially arrived our options for enjoying sex in new places has increased tenfold. So, with a little help from some outdoor-enthusiast friends, ...
Author: Adam Dede Last week's Student Government Association (SGA) Presidential election has left the question of who will take Max Nardini's '08 place undecided. With the SGA having voted to withhold full election results, the only thing known about last Friday's vote is that Hiba Fakhoury '09 and ...
Author: Tianze Ma With three overpowering wins last week, the Middlebury men's tennis team appears primed for the postseason. The Panthers improved to 14-4 this spring with victories over Skidmore, Amherst and The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Middlebury has dominated opponents all spring and is in ...
Author: Livingston Burgess Entering last weekend's three-game series with NESCAC West Division leader Amherst, the pressure was squarely on the shoulders of the host. Only a sweep could give the Panthers a chance at a spot in the conference tournament. So when Middlebury blew out the Lord Jeffs Friday ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Students jonesing for something sweet and artificial left Kenyon Arena with a bad taste in their mouths on Saturday night. Headliners Cake - best known for their stunningly simple and highly addictive 1996 hit "The Distance" - undeniably proved their prowess as performers. But ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Though most of the events sponsored by PowerShift Vermont occurred on campus earlier in the weekend, the environmental conference culminated events that linked the climate change movement on campus to efforts for change in the greater community of Vermont. On April 20, Vermont ...
Author: Cecilia Goldschmidt, Mary Lane and Derek Schlickeisen The scene was unexpected: after a student informed her of a typo in one of her in-class exam's questions, a Middlebury professor left her office for the exam room with the intention of offering the class a corrected version of the question. ...
Author: Anthony Adragna New aerial photography taken as part of the Nick Garza disappearance investigation revealed an 'object of interest' in Otter Creek, according to officials. The discovery provided investigators with the first new clue in recent memory and prompted a second search of the creek.Members ...
Author: Brian Fung Complaints about the College's annual room draw process have spiked in recent weeks as an unusually high number of rising juniors and seniors failed to secure their preferred housing options for the next academic year. Students and administration officials attributed the housing difficulties ...
Author: Michelle Constant On April 19-21, between 40 and 50 students from the College, local high school students and other community members united on campus for the Power Shift Vermont 2008 conference. On Monday, the group traveled to Montpelier to demand that the Vermont legislature and governor ...
Author: Alex Garlick What would this campaign cycle look like if John Kerry had won the 2004 election? The Democratic nominee lost Ohio by only 100,000 votes, or just about the attendance at an Ohio St. football game. His cumbersome slogan was to make America, "Stronger at home and more respected in ...
Author: Dickie Redmond The Middlebury women's lacrosse team won its sixth consecutive game this Saturday at Kohn Field, beating the Wesleyan Cardinals 19-6. The win earned the Panthers the top seed in the upcoming NESCAC tournament - the eighth straight for the team. Middlebury finishes off its regular ...
Author: Emily Temple Life is unfair. Good things happen to bad people, nice guys never get the girls, Pavement broke up and I am always, always stuck next to the crazy, flailing person at concerts. The MGMT concert at Higher Ground on April 13 was no different. In a sold-out crowd of high-schoolers, ...
Author: Adam Clayton Danica Patrick made sporting history Sunday, April 20 by becoming the first female winner in IndyCar history by winning the Indy Japan 300, and one of the first women to win any sporting event that allows mixed gender competition.As my distant ancestors would undoubtedly have told ...
Author: Thomas Brush The past three Mondays have seen the whir of traffic jams, bicyclists and joggers which mark a typical spring afternoon on Main Street supplemented by a perhaps slightly less congruent sight - Yannig Tanguy leaning against the brick retaining wall in front of Steele's Auto Center, ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Dean of the College Tim Spears discussed the impending opening of 51 Main, the newly renovated space at 51 Main Street that will become a bar and lounge, in a brief meeting on-site on April 22. Plans to turn the space into a chocolate bar have been postponed pending its success ...
Author: Livingston Burgess Before I get too invested here, I just want to let readers know - and remind myself - that I really have no real stake in whether or not the faculty decision to proctor exams sticks. I have never actively cheated in my time here at Middlebury, I would never consider it my ...
Author: John Patrick Allen From the very beginning, "Undercurrents" was unconventional. The stage was dominated by a low circular platform painted with a giant whirlpool of black, blue and gray, recalling a Japanese woodcut. There was no pre-show music - only silence. The play began abruptly with the ...