Author: Sara Black Associate Professor of English Kathleen Skubikowski's voice called out from the podium, climbing through the clouds of hope and anticipation that filled the air above the anxious crowd, "Every year faculty watch for outstanding writing by first-year students in every course they teach..." ...
Author: Will Mallett Should you have been so lucky as to find parking around the United Methodist Church on Sunday night, you would have found seating in that building scarce. Jazz and blues enthusiasts from the extremities of the region were gathered for the commencement of this year's After Dark Music ...
Author: Benji Thurber The visiting Williams Ephs overcame a onepoint halftime deficit to hand the Middlebury Panthers their first loss of the season, 30-22, on Saturday, Oct. 13. The Ephs, who improved to 2-2 on the season, relied on a relentless running game to take control of the second half. The ...
Author: Scott Greene The 2007-2008 academic year will see more than 350 Middlebury students study abroad in more than 40 countries at more than 90 different programs and universities, including 30 current locations for the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad, which have been in operation for over a ...
Author: Colin Foss A weekly audio news digest of leading stories. Produced by Radio Arts Middlebury in partnership with the Middlebury Campus.
Author: Tess Russell Next time you are standing in line at the mailroom, desperately waiting for that contraband electric blanket from Mommy Dearest, take a random sample of the people around. You will likely find representatives from different nations, races and socioeconomic backgrounds. And yet, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Page-turning can be a stressful activity, especially when the page-turner is thrust on stage, score in hand, with an alien ensemble, expected to follow along despite being unfamiliar with the music. If the ensemble is good, all the worse for the page-turner, who must keep him ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Members of the Community Council convened on Oct. 15 to review the College's sexual harassment policy, which, according to Council officials, will be updated to help protect the privacy of individuals filing a harassment complaint. Gus Jordan, associate dean of the College, led the ...
Author: Andrew Schlegel After dropping its first game of the season to Amherst 3-1 last weekend, the men's soccer team refused to be handed another loss. The Panthers barged into the week with lots of tenacity and ferocity, resulting in a 2-0 win over Bowdoin on Oct. 9, a 1-0 win over Williams on Oct. ...
Author: Aviva Shen The identity of the social space formerly belonging to Eat Good Food (EGF) is starting to gather definition as planning continues into the fall semester. This past summer, Dean of the College Tim Spears and a committee of students who were on campus at the time began brainstorming ...
Author: Kelly Janis Simmering apple slices embedded in a flaky crust were the order of the day at the Cabot Apple Pie Festival, held last weekend at the Cabot School in Cabot, Vt. "It's about pie, lots of apple pie," said volunteer Carla Payne. "All homemade."The annual event - one of the crowning markers ...
Author: Douglas Sisson Middlebury College is headed in an unfortunate direction. President Liebowitz has shifted Middlebury's priorities in the form of a unique administrative diet still in the process of being entirely digested. This shift in our College's administrative food pyramid has included the ...
Author: [no author name found] The weekly editor's picks, by the numbers, Midd scoreboard, and locker room features.
Author: Ashley Gamell and Maddie Oatman "English literature lives on translation, it is fed by translations, every new exuberance, every new heave is stimulated by translations"- Ezra PoundArt is a powerful universal language, especially when it evokes emotion that can be recognized by those in all ...
Author: [no author name found] On Monday Oct. 15, Bill Littlefield, the host of National Public Radio's "Only a Game" came to Middlebury as part of the College's "Meet the Press" series. He read excerpts from his most recent book Only a Game, answered questions on Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez ...
Author: Matt Doyle HANGZHOU, P.R.C - In Leonardo DiCaprio's latest movie, "Blood Diamond," Leo's character, Danny Archer, explains the insanity that is the African diamond trade by simply stating, "T.I.A. This is Africa." Here in Hangzhou, China, a few of my classmates have adopted this saying and applied ...
Author: Simon Keyes There is little in the world these days that everyone can agree upon. However, one thing that comes to mind is losing. No one likes the feeling of losing.Luckily, though, for men's rugby coach Ward Patterson, losing is not a feeling he has experienced very often in his last 10 years ...
Author: Joseph Bergan and Thomas Brant College is one of those "big moments" in a person's life where everything seems to change. We ditch backpacks for messenger bags, swap a cozy room just outside of Boston for a cramped cinder block barrack and leave our parents for a stranger who may turn out to ...
Author: [no author name found] For students trickling in from urban and suburban corners of the world alike, the town of Middlebury is a wonderful - and too often ignored - resource and retreat during our time at the College. And for the many faculty and staff who work on campus, the town is often at ...