Me and my game shoes
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: [no author name found] [no story text found]
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Applications reach record level
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Annabelle Fowler The Office of Admissions has received a record 7,680 applications for the Middlebury Class of 2012, a seven-percent jump in the number of applicants compared to last year. Admissions officials expect the pool to grow to roughly 7,800 as they continue to receive applications ...
op-ed Firing Essig was a mistake
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Nick DeSantis I am writing to express my deep concern over a recent recommendation made by the College's faculty reappointments committee. At the end of the fall term, I completed my English senior essay with the help of two academic advisors. One of those advisors is not a member of my department, ...
Shenanigans Special Interests in Washington
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Alex Garlick There's a 16-letter, two-word combo that Democratic candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama say with disgust, as if it were four traditional four-letter curse words crammed into one - special interests. Listening to Edwards and Obama denounce the evil that is special interests ...
J.K. Rolling
January 9, 2008Author: Jeff Klein After listening to Roger Clemens' "60 Minutes" interview on Jan. 6, I think I speak for a vast number of people in asserting that I simply don't know what to believe concerning Clemens and his alleged involvement in the ongoing steroids saga. Listening to Clemens vehemently deny accusations ...
Midd is hopping with islanders
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Peter Baumann Middlebury swimmer Peter Swanson '09 is no stranger to speed. The sprinter routinely covers 100 yards in a little over 50 seconds, and has been known to blow through a 50-yard race in only 23 seconds. However, because Swanson is one of two Middlebury winter athletes to hail from ...
Burgeoning theater tradition returns Students produced six plays in a day for "24 hours Play Festival"
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Justine Katzenbach What happens when you put six playwrights, six directors and 16 actors all into the Hepburn Zoo with one mission at hand - to create, direct and produce six plays all within the constraints of a 24-hour period? Mission impossible, you ask? Not for these Middlebury College ...
Three-goal third period gives Panthers third straight title Men's hockey finishes in classic form at its own Holiday Classic
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: James Kerrigan With 7:46 remaining in the third period, the Middlebury fans broke out - perhaps presumptuously - into song, with the "Tiny Bubbles" cheer. But give the game-goers some credit. Even though the Panthers held only a one-goal advantage, they were playing inspired hockey and firing ...
IHC proposes The Mill eviction
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Brian Fung Members of the Inter-House Council (IHC) issued a recommendation to administration officials on Jan. 8 that, if ratified, would render on-campus social house The Mill a "non-residential organization" for the spring term. The recommendation comes nearly a month after a fire with an ...
Spotlight on Ezra Axelrod and Judith Dry
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Andrew Throdahl The Middlebury Campus spoke with Ezra Axelrod '08 and Judith Dry '09, stars of the up-coming production "Sweeney Todd," which will be performed on Jan. 25 and 26 in the CFA Concert Hall. The Middlebury College production of the Tony Award-winning musical, with music and lyrics ...
op-ed The S (Socialism) CHIP factor
By Middlebury Campus | January 9, 2008Author: Andrew Torre With our economy seemingly headed into rough waters, it might help suffering Americans to better understand some of the things they're up against in seeking relief. Ironically, we are given a partial insight from the Great Obfuscator himself, George Bush.When Congress passed the ...
middbriefs
January 9, 2008Author: H.Kay Merriman Springsteen visits Midd with son on college tourBruce Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa and their 17-year-old son Evan visited Middlebury on Dec. 6, 2007. Evan, the eldest son of the famous musician, interviewed with Assistant Director of Admissions Scott Atherton. Student tour ...
In my humble opinion Slaves to our cells
By Middlebury Campus | December 5, 2007Author: Daniel Roberts In my history discussion yesterday, amidst a riveting talk about the influence of Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the 1500s (like I said, riveting), a tinny, obnoxious electronica beat suddenly pierced the room. It was some girl's cell phone, and it sounded like a Mozart concerto ...
All-star cast gives 'Ashley' a powerful voice
By Middlebury Campus | December 5, 2007Author: Emily Feldman Anyone who has experienced American society during the last 20 years has been affected by and possibly inundated with representations of our cultural obsession with sex, violence and celebrity. var uslide_show_id = "b9eddff6-1fda-4f0d-a9a5-3a6e97fb5cdc";var slideshowwidth = "468";var ...
College propels Cross Street Bridge project
By Middlebury Campus | December 5, 2007Author: Kelly Janis Middlebury is hard at work to continue to bridge the divide between the College and the town - this time, quite literally. In a campus-wide e-mail issued on Nov. 29, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced the College's commitment to donate $18 million to the town ...
The sports backpage
December 5, 2007Author: [no author name found] The weekly editor's picks, by the numbers, Midd scoreboard, and locker room features.
campus character The Campus climbs in with Heather Pynne '11
By Middlebury Campus | December 5, 2007Author: Tess Russell Looking to relieve some of that exam week stress? Heather Pynne '11 has the perfect prescription.Earlier this year, Pynne and her friend Sarah Simonds '11 stumbled upon an "amazing climbing tree" near their rooms in Ross. Before the temperature dropped a few weeks ago, the two ...
The Synesthesiac The Art Agenda Meandering in the Metropolis and at Middlebury
By Middlebury Campus | December 5, 2007Author: Ashley Gamell One afternoon over Thanksgiving break, I was elbowing my way through the MoMa's collection of charcoal drawings by Georges Seurat, the French master of pointillist color and light (open through January 7). A swell of people edged along the gallery perimeter, squinting at the small ...