Author: Amanda Greene I can't remember the last time I paid for music. Or videos. The notion that people go into record stores and exchange cash for albums is foreign to college students. Why would we pay for something that we can get from our friends or neighbors? Yet, all of the music trading that ...
Author: Emma Gardner In a showdown between the nation's top two teams, Plattsburgh - led by junior Danielle Blanchard - upset the top-ranked Panthers on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Stafford Arena in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Blanchard has had a hand in 14 of the Cardinals' 17 goals against Middlebury in the last two ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman Countless columnists of The Campus have lamented Middlebury's lack of a dating scene, and students of all grades and sexual orientations express that the student population is generally uninterested in long-term relationships. During orientation for the class of 2010, a residential ...
Author: Jeff Patterson Rick Cleaver wears number 11. His name contains 11 letters. Now, he has 11 career game-winning goals.Skating down the left wing late in the first period, the Norwich University senior cradled a cross-ice pass from one of his penalty-killing teammates, D.J. Fimiani, and then knocked ...
Author: Adam Clayton In today's globalized world, there is seemingly nothing that can't be done cheaper, quicker or better somewhere else. Profit-maximizing companies scour the world looking for the best places to make and market their products. Apparently, sports teams are no exception. Hidden under ...
Author: Adam Dede Since last month's Inter-House Council (IHC) recommendation to strip The Mill of its residential status for fire safety violations, the members of the social house have been working to overturn the ruling and become more fire safety conscious. Currently, The Mill still holds residential ...
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Author: Brian Fung Gunman kills two at LTC before herselfThree female students at Louisiana Technical College were fatally shot on Feb. 8 when, according to police, one of the three entered a crowded classroom and shot two in their desks before turning the weapon on herself.The victims' identities have ...
Author: Adam Dede Students and faculty packed into a small meeting room in Old Chapel on Jan. 28 to witness as the trepidatious members of Community Council entered and took their seats to hear a proposal to form a Queer Studies academic interest house. The proposal came from the Middlebury Open Queer ...
Author: Alex Garlick Our generation is surging in support of Barack Obama in his bid for the nomination of the Democratic Party. Campaigns are turning towards new methods for mobilizing voters (Facebook, anyone?) that are aimed directly at you - college students. Young voters, which the Baltimore Sun ...
Author: James O'Brien Most people I know at Middlebury are far more intelligent than me. In order to prove their intelligence, many of them listen to songs with lyrics that I can't even begin to comprehend - lyrics like, "Society is a maggot! You are Bob Saget!/Life is ephemeral! You are a chemical!" ...
Author: Grace Duggan One of the highlights of the last weekend of Winter Term was the Music Department's production of "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The stellar ensemble sunk their teeth into Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics and, under the direction of Executive Director of the ...
Author: Andrew Fuller The Middlebury College Bookstore is launching a campaign to lower textbook prices and promote the recycling of textbooks by making used textbooks more widely available. The campaign will begin with the start of the spring semester and will coincide with the bookstore's continued ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal Anna McNally '11 earns Player of the Week honorsAnna McNally, a first-year on the Middlebury College women's hockey team, was named the NESCAC Player of the Week. She scored three goals and added three assists in the Panther's two victories last week. In the first game, she played ...
Author: [no author name found] Students returned to campus Monday to the unsettling news that first-year Nicholas Garza, an Allen resident and member of Atwater Commons, had been missing for close to a week. The news, divulged to the community by e-mail, took on even greater significance as members ...
Author: Kelly Janis Sometime in the not-so-distant future, an orphan in Zambia will don a t-shirt from the 2005 Addison County Fair and Field Days, while another sports the emblem of the Vermont Voltage Soccer Club. The warmth furnished by these relics of central Vermont is attributable to the Mothers ...
Author: Cloe Shasha First-years have been hearing rumors about Winter Term - colloquially referred to as "J-Term" - since they set foot on the Middlebury campus. While many members of the class of 2011 shared similar preconceived notions of what Winter Term would hold, students reported having a range ...
Author: Tristan Axelrod In an anthropology class last semester, final grades were based on four components: a final exam, a midterm exam, response papers, and participation. The three response papers were graded as check, check-minus or no check, and after receiving three of three checks and a 96 on ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen You made the choice when you came to Middlebury."Greek life isn't for me," you thought. "I don't want to go to a big school where the only way to be known is by joining some fraternity full of problem drinkers who will make me do degrading things just to let me hang out with ...