Author: Rachael Jennings Think back to your first few weeks at Middlebury, when you were struggling to remember roughly 2,000 new names, find your way around campus, balance four new classes and learn to live with a stranger. Add to that the pressure of jumping into the College's social scene halfway ...
Author: Michelle Constant Middlebury is not among a list of 15 high-profile colleges and universities being investigated by the New York Attorney General's Office for their study abroad programs. According to The New York Times, schools including Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Fordham, Manhattanville, American ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt In the advent of photography, the United States was continuing to explore the west. A collection of extraordinary photographs, the subject of the spring semester's exhibition in the Museum of Art, is a testament to that age of artistic and geographic discovery.There was a time ...
Author: Peter Baumann With the NESCAC championship right around the corner, the women's basketball team split a crucial two-game homestand on Feb. 11 and 12. The Panthers fell to Tufts, before rallying late to earn a much-needed victory over Bates the following day. The women entered the weekend tied ...
Author: Samantha Michaels In an effort to expand the College's environmental initiatives, students met with a Vermont State Climate Panel on Jan. 21 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall to discuss new policies and opportunities for activism. The dialogue was part of Focus the Nation, a teach-in movement across ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes It is Valentine's Day and couples all over the world are looking for ways to express their love for one another. Some choose flowers, others candy, but some opt for matching tattoos. "Bald Bill" Henshaw, the owner of Yankee Tattoo at 198 Pearl Street in Burlington, says people ...
Author: Michael Suen From Jan. 22 to 24, the Connect·Ed Conference on Global Education was held in Monterey, California. Co-hosted by Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), the conference saw more than 400 leaders - representing universities, governments, corporations, ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The Department of Public Safety notified the College community about harassing phone calls to students on campus on Jan. 19, in an e-mail was sent out asking for victims to report detailed information about the received calls. The caller's voice was identified as male.Since Jan. ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:On behalf of our family and employees here at Two Brothers Tavern, I would like to address an article written by H.Kay Merriman in the Jan. 10 edition of The Middlebury Campus. The article, entitled "Risky Business … Is it Worth It? Students using fake ...
Author: Anna Furney While the rest of Middlebury's student body was off tanning on beaches and by coastlines for the duration of Feb. Break, the Middlebury ski team stayed along the Eastern seaboard. Its two weekend trips to Stowe and to Dartmouth for the University of Vermont (UVM) and Dartmouth College ...
Author: Kelly Janis When Liz Cronin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, her teammates on the Middlebury Otters were not content to relegate the matter to the figurative sidelines. Members of the women's community hockey team decided to transfer their energy from the puck to a cause which now affected ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Today is the 14th of February - a marked day designed to make the middle of the month as whimsical and just about as uplifting as dirty snow - those charming enough to corner the elusive on-campus relationship will bring dates to the retirement-inspired ambience of Proctor, ...
Author: Grace Duggan This Winter Term, Visiting Professor of Theatre Alex Draper '88 took a page from his own acting past - he chose to direct "St. Crispin's Day," a sharp and bitingly witty antiwar comedy in which he played Henry almost five years ago. On its most basic level, playwright Matt Pepper's ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Middlebury residents craving Grande Mocha Frappacinos and gingerbread lattes will have to continue to make the trek to Burlington to get their fix. At the end of January, the Starbucks corporation announced that it would not, in fact, be placing one of its franchises in Middlebury. ...
Author: Tess Russell For the past two years, incoming Middlebury first-years have received - among a myriad of other orientation materials - an offer from the College's Office of Environmental Affairs to purchase an "offset" for their individual carbon emissions. This year, 156 students participated ...
Author: Jeff Patterson 2007 was an odd year. Back-to-back losses to Colby and Bowdoin kept the Middlebury men's hockey team from keeping the NESCAC tournament site at home, where it had been six of the past seven years. In that year's regular season, the Panthers had been giving up too many odd-man ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe In celebration of National Get Organized Month, the Ilsley Library played host to Porter Knight '89, a professional organizer and Middlebury alum, and her troupe of multi-talented performers for the town of Middlebury's first ever Organizing Variety Show. Armed with plate-spinners, ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes John Melanson, owner of Carol's Hungry Mind Café, thought his days spent running a coffee shop were numbered. He began to tell his friends and patrons that Carol's would soon be closing its doors unless he managed to find an extra $70,000 a year. It seemed that only a miracle ...