Author: Thomas Brant and Joseph Bergan This past week, an impressive number of students attended the information session for the SGA Senate race, spawning off an even more impressive 22 candidates. This week, The Middlebury Campus celebrates the increased participation in student government by sitting ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen, Brian Fung and Anthony Adragna Role reversal: Donors to make campus visitsAs part of its $500 million "Middlebury Initiative," the College plans to invite potential donors to campus more frequently - with an emphasis on offering a slice of life on campus."Visitors may wish ...
Author: Michelle Constant In its first and subsequent meetings this year, the Community Council intends to address the possibility of a College social honor code, as well as reviewing harassment policies and the future role of social and interest houses on campus, according to Student Co-Chair of Community ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Every year, New York City heralds flocks of young thespians to its five boroughs. It goes without saying that the ultimate sign of an established theater actor is success in Manhattan, making NYC a young actor's highest priority. This past summer, the Potomac Theater Project, ...
Author: Alex Garlick The cool crisp weather and changing of the leaves you're feeling this week mean one thing: Soon the airwaves will be filled with ads touting things too good to be true, lavish amounts of money will be spent and, on one cold winter morning, children will wake up early to checkÖ ...
Author: Brian Fung Though some may have difficulty imagining top College administrators to be as plugged-in as the students they are responsible for, the newfound popularity of user-supported sites such as YouTube or Flickr has made it possible for virtually anybody to create a personal presence online. ...
Author: Molly Dwyer The early days of fall bring fresh faces to schools everywhere. While most of those new faces are first-year students, many schools also accept a handful of transfer students each year. Many of us should have noticed new, but perhaps wiser-looking faces in the dining halls during ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Dressed in a cozy terry cloth bathrobe and armed with a cup of tea and his biting wit, Kevin Tierney '08 spent an hour of an overcast Saturday morning divulging his impressive theatre career to The Middlebury Campus. The joint Theatre and Italian major from Southborough, Mass. ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Have you ever dreamed of opening one of the doors on the cooler in the supermarket and reaching in and pulling out a carton of juice, not from the cooler, but straight from the orchard? Though in reality you may never truly live up to the Florida Orange Juice commercial, a visit ...
Author: Scott Greene Yale to return disputed Machu Picchu artifactsYale University has agreed to return a series of artifacts that were excavated at Machu Picchu in 1912, ending a long confrontation with the government of Peru. The government had claimed that the artifacts were simply on loan and long ...
Author: Emily Temple Ah, the return to Middlebury. Some of us have spent the summer living in big cities and are missing the nightlife choices that so recently overwhelmed us. Some of us have been home, or, say, in Boone, N.C., and are hoping to find something going on now that we've relocated. And ...
Author: Joseph Bergan I guess this is what I wanted. This is what I get for traveling to Europe in the fall of 2003 while 600 other Middlebury College students in the class of 2007 started their Middlebury careers. This is why I worked all summer long in the Arabic language school gaining extra credits, ...
Author: Aylie Baker "You can go to sleep in a place with no seasons for twenty years and just lose track of time," says Tom Payne, his voice faint in the receiver, muffled perhaps by the faulty connection, perhaps by the resounding truth in his statement. I sit in awe as he unleashes a colorful tale ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman Few people could sum up their college experience from what they have eaten off the ground. New Cook Commons Dean Matt Carluzzo is an exception. Carluzzo tells the story of walking around Dartmouth College when he noticed thousands of acorns on the ground. After scooping one up, ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Earlier this summer, after picking up my Jeep from the repair shop - ironically - I was sitting at a red light and watched in amazement as a car accident happened right before my eyes. A woman on the other side of the street was attempting to take advantage of the "right on red" ...
Author: Kelly Janis On Saturday morning, on the banks of Lake Champlain, turkeys, deer and even the odd mammoth succumbed to the savvy blows of an ancient hunting weapon. The fact that the critters were painted targets propped up against bales of hay on the course of the 12th Annual Northeastern Open ...
Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen Class starts at 9:30 a.m. Rosh Hashanah Shacharit morning service starts at 9:30 a.m. Basketball scrimmage is at 5:00 p.m. and lab ends at 5:15p.m., but Tashlich service to repent sins starts at 5:00 p.m. Absences are said to be excused. However, Organic Chemistry labs are next ...
Author: James Kerrigan Just as it did last fall, the Middlebury men's soccer team earned a shutout victory over Connecticut College in its season opener, but the similarities end there. Playing on brand new field turf measuring 120 yards long and 80 yards wide, it was the return of two seniors to the ...