Author: Amanda Greene Halloween gets college students excited. Really excited. The ability, for a few hours, to dress up as something else, to indulge childhood fantasies and to become an object or a person that is usually off limits is undeniably enticing. Halloween, as a holiday where you are encouraged ...
Author: Mary Lane A Shoreham, Vt. high school student has filed suit with the U.S. District Court in Burlington against Middlebury Union High School (MUHS) for denying student-run Christian fellowship club Youth Alive official club status. MUHS has been served papers, but no official court date has ...
Author: Melissa Marshall As I participated in the debauchery of the annual VACA Halloween party - which ended in an arrest rather than at 11 p.m. last year (you decide your preference) - the immortal words of Tina Fey rang in my ears along with the infectious techno-pop. "Halloween is the one night ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe In the past, the arrival of November meant that the chilly air and biting winds would force students into the comfort of their heated rooms, and the eateries in town would become little more than seemingly mythical, distant dreams of scrumptious sandwiches and ethnic food ...
Author: Brian Fung South Carolina students killed in beach blazeA deadly fire in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., killed seven and injured six, Oct. 28. The origins of the incident are still unclear.According to The University of South Carolina's Daily Gamecock, of those who perished in the fire, six were USC ...
Author: Alex Garlick Every year in May at commencement, graduates' heads fill with enthusiasm, excitement, fear and a vicious hangover as they prepare to enter "the real world." Invariably, a speaker delivers a message to the graduates regarding the possible impact of this generation, and how it can ...
Author: Scott Greene The annual Vitality of the Artistic Community Association (VACA)-sponsored Halloween party required the presence of the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) for the second consecutive year as police arrested two people in connection with an altercation with officers from the College's ...
Author: Livingston Burgess The Middlebury men's and women's cross country teams ran at the NESCAC championship meet on Oct. 27 in Williamstown, Mass., garnering sixth and fourth place finishes respectively. Both squads were paced by veteran harriers who showed they had their sights set on success going ...
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Author: Adam Dede The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate voted nine to three with one abstention to approve a change to the Finance Committee guidelines that will limit student organization travel to a 300-mile radius. AnnMarie Wesolowski '08, Finance Committee chair, presented the proposed ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In response to Alex Garlick's piece criticizing Al Gore's award for the Nobel Peace Prize, I am curious as to why he chose not to criticize the 2004 award to Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan woman who won the award primarily for her environmental activism in Africa, ...
Author: Emma Gardner As most students faced the prospect of a Fall Break weekend with their families or of wild nights with friends from other colleges, the men's and women's crew teams were gearing up for the season's most important race. The annual Head of the Charles regatta in Cambridge, Mass. is ...
Author: Kelly Janis As the dust settles in the wake of the Oct. 22 derailment of a freight train in downtown Middlebury, the numerous local agencies instrumental in the ensuing response and clean-up are taking stock of their performance, and looking toward the future with a newly-honed conception of ...
Author: Benji Thurber On Oct. 27, the Middlebury football team overcame wet and stormy conditions to defeat Trinity for the first time since 2001, 23-14. The win improved Middlebury's record to 5-1 and propelled the Panthers into a first place tie atop the NESCAC with Tufts, who also won on Saturday. ...
Author: Robert McKay This week, the Senate votes on the bill that will determine the course of U.S. agriculture for the next five years. The House has already passed its version of the new farm bill, and it has introduced some promising changes. But these only mitigate the House's overall failure to ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.Those attending last weekend's first-year show, "Severed Headshots: Sinister Scenes and Monologues," were presented with a wry work of well-wrought wisdom. And in that vein, it was an excellent tip-of-the-hat to the weekend's Halloween ...
Author: Max Nardini The administration recently announced that, effective spring semester 2009, Winter Carnival will be shortened to a two-day event. Then, later in the spring, there will be no classes on the day of the Student Research Symposium. This change was made without substantial input from ...
Author: Simon Keyes Coming off the heels of his 10th consecutive undefeated regular season, men's rugby coach Ward Patterson was not finished with his winning ways. Consecutive victories, the first a 9-0 slugfest over the University of Vermont (UVM) on Oct. 27, and the second, a 25-21 thriller over ...
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Author: [no author name found] Open Mic Night at Carol's Hungry MindItching to hear some new music? Something that has not even hit Pitchfork.com or iTunes? Come check out Middlebury's own up-and-comers on the music scene at Carol's Hungry Mind, located at 94 Main St., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 7-9 p.m. ...