Author: Anthony Adragna Music producer and mash up DJ Girl Talk will headline the Winter Term concert on Jan. 18 in the McCullough Social Space. Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg Gillis, has released three albums on the Illegal Art label. He began his career while at Case Western Reserve University, ...
Author: Matt Ferrer The men's and women's squash teams took to the courts on Friday Nov. 30 for their first weekend of competition. Both teams opened against Northeastern and played Tufts on Saturday, and both returned home looking optimistically to the future. For the men, Friday marked the first ...
Author: Adam Dede On Dec. 3, the newly formed Student Government Association (SGA) subcommittee to revitalize the Winter Carnival met to discuss reclaiming the day off from classes on the Friday prior to Winter Carnival that was moved in the 2008-2009 academic year to accommodate a Spring Student Research ...
Author: Kelsey Nelson PARIS - A few weeks ago, while I was traveling through Spain during my November vacation, my purse was stolen in Madrid. I was by myself in a cafÈ when it happened, and the feeling of complete and utter helplesness that washed over me directly afterwards was compounded by the ...
Author: Michelle Constant Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette announced on Dec. 3 that the annual exam-period tradition of Midnight Breakfast would continue after delivering an ultimatum to students the previous week to return missing dishes. The decision came after a forum led by Biette on Nov. ...
Author: [no author name found] Saturday, Dec. 1, ballet-trained dance major Martha Ann Underhill '07.5 presented her extensive senior work, which included a contemporary group piece, inspired by her Southern heritage, and a solo with incorporated multimedia reflecting her dance experience. The fall ...
Author: Andrew Schlegel On Saturday, Dec. 1, the men's basketball team took care of business in Pepin Gymnasium, soundly beating Union 92-65. The victory brought the Panther's record to 5-1 on the season - with the five wins coming by an impressive average of 23.5 points.The performance against Union ...
Author: Students of HARC 0228 The exhibition "Resonance from the Past: African Art from the New Orleans Museum of Art" at the Middlebury Museum of Art set the framework for a course this semester that included students from diverse academic backgrounds ranging from art history to physics. Since the ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz earned $477,764 for the fiscal year ending in June, 2006, making him the highest paid president of a Vermont institution of higher learning and the third highest compensated NESCAC president. The figures - published in the Nov. 16 edition of The Chronicle ...
Author: Amanda Greene Last Saturday night I realized that very little of what I was wearing was actually my own clothing. I was wearing borrowed earrings and shoes, and a jacket that I had picked up along the way after I decided that my (seemingly) warm-enough sweater was not going to cut it. I glanced ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.After graduating from Middlebury College in 2004, Anais Mitchell embarked on a succesful musical career, gaining critical accalim for Hymns for the Exiled and The Brightness (2007). She has transformed her confessional alternative folk ...
Author: [no author name found] Snow is on the ground, twinkles of light already adorn the College holiday tree on McCullough Lawn, and finals are just around the corner. Yes, the holiday season is here, and that means the end of 2007 is upon us. For Middlebury, the Year of the Boar included both valleys ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes For many, putting up the Christmas tree means digging the dusty box out of the attic, separating what seems like an endless amount of artificial evergreen boughs and placing them in color-coded slots embedded in a pole camouflaged with more fake greenery. While artificial Christmas ...
Author: Hannah Wilson As students from the College were migrating to Proctor for their routine Sunday morning waffle bar on the bright, sunny and cold Nov. 18, members of the broader Middlebury community were stretching and warming up in preparation for the 26th annual Middlebury Turkey Trot. Both ...
Author: Dan Stevens In a slew of games surrounding the Thanksgiving recess, the women's hockey team returned in dominating form with a stunning core of new players as the 2007-2008 season got underway. With scores of 9-0 over Hamilton, 4-0 over Wesleyan and 3-1 over Elmira, the Panthers drew on their ...
Author: [no author name found] Acting major? Art History major? Music major? What are you going to do with that? Every year the question is posed with a perplexed brow to thousands of students majoring in the arts. It is widely known that careers in the arts are notoriously difficult to break into and ...
Author: Douglas Sisson I'm in Chicago, away from Middlebury and spending Thanksgiving Break with my family. Just this week, my skepticism has dulled, my heart has been rejuvenated and consequently my column has been altered. Final exams and papers are on the horizon, and, while there is so much about ...
Author: Tyler Lohman BERLIN - Living in East Berlin, my travel to school in the mornings is rather long and full of trains, buses and the transferring between the two≠ - about an hour combined. This ride occasionally becomes quite monotonous as I listen to my iPod, read or simply wait. However, on ...