Author: Ward Wolff On a late October afternoon, Becky Dayton, owner of the Vermont Book Shop on Main St., received a phone call regarding mints on display near the register. The enormously popular mints, a product of the ever-clever Unemployed Philosopher's Guild, come in a small tin box of many varieties ...
Author: [no author name found] Wild Apple Tree Release WorkshopRound up your "work gloves, loppers, bow saws and heavy duty snippers." And your heavy duty footwear. Meet in the Murdock Woods at 1 p.m. on Nov. 10. Rain or shine. Don't ask any questions. That's all we can tell you ... just kidding. (We ...
Author: Simon Keyes Last year the National Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) made a recommendation to the NCAA to begin a sportsmanship initiative at the Division III level. The NCAA has asked schools and conferences to endorse and promote good sportsmanship on the fields and in the stands. ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone "Courage begins with one voice." That was the line Jacquie Antonson '10 delivered to open "Manifesto for Another World," a play by Ariel Dorman and directed by Nerina Cocchi '10 that was performed in the Hepburn Zoo last weekend. As part of the fall symposium "Faces Behind ...
Author: Adam Dede Student Government Association (SGA) President Max Nardini '08 and Sophomore Senator Nicolas Sohl '10 are leading a Senate committee to reinstate the tradition of a Friday off from Winter Carnival weekend. Beginning in the 2008-09 school year, Winter Carnival will not include a day ...
Author: Dina Magaril BUENOS AIRES - In the past 24 hours I have been told that I have wonderful breasts by a man with two children, applauded while walking to the supermarket and followed by a car filled with horny drunk men who didn't look a day over 50. Though the applause was uncalled for (my breasts, ...
Author: Simon Keyes Bobby Gosney's '09 intensity could be heard over Vassar's cheering throughout the stunned and silent Middlebury sideline. After an early slip-up led to Vassar scoring the first try of the game, Gosney rallied his teammates and helped lead a charge that brought the Panthers back from ...
Author: Daniel Streitfeld Reading the letters page in the Campus last week, I was slightly bemused to see two consecutive letters by unfamiliar men named Brian Flaherty and Kevin Keane. If you're desperately trying to remember if those are the two stoners from your French Lit class, I assure you they ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Members of both the town and the College communities met at the site of the Town Hall Theater (THT) on Oct. 31, for the groundbreaking of a new wing. This new wing is to be funded by a $1 million agreement made between the College and THT that was announced on Oct. 22. This long-term ...
Author: Kelly Janis For all those looking to merge your sweet tooth with your penchant for frilly papers and rubber stamping, Blanca Jenne has got you covered. In the two months since Jenne busted open the doors of Scrapbook & Rubber Stamp Paradise and Sweet Surprises Down Candy Lane, customers ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe The Emergency Planning Steering Committee sent a student-wide e-mail on Oct. 12 informing that all students must enter personal evacuation plans on BannerWeb prior to registration for spring courses, in an effort by the College to improve its pandemic readiness. The e-mail ...
Author: Colin Foss Audio produced by Radio Arts MiddleburyThis weekend, the Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) will be performing Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" on the McCullough stage. This production marks for the Players an era of new-found enthusiasm for musical theatre on campus. ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Ten years ago, the commons system in its current incarnation was shoved down the student body's throat against its strong opposition. Argument for the current system included the need for a better support structure for students and the idea that Middlebury, ...
Author: Theo May Nearly 80 Middlebury students, of 6,000 in total attendance, travelled to Washington, D.C. last weekend for the Power Shift 2007 conference, marking a significant milestone in the growth of the climate movement. Most of the Middlebury students drove down to Washington in a bio-bus sponsored ...
Author: Kelly Janis On Nov. 3, local residents equipped themselves with hats, gloves, hiking boots, cameras and the odd Robert Frost poem to join forces for the Town of Middlebury's effort as part of Step It Up's National Day of Climate Action.Step It Up is a nationwide campaign spearheaded by Bill ...
Author: James Kerrigan For the final 165 minutes and 56 seconds of the NESCAC tournament, keeper Brian Bush '09 was perfect. After Middlebury surrendered an own goal in the opening minutes of the second half against Williams in the semifinal match, Bush was up to each and every task, totaling eight ...
Author: Benji Thurber The Middlebury football team played host to Hamilton on Saturday, Nov. 3, and earned a decisive victory over the Continentals, 28-0. Coupled with a Tufts loss, the win propelled the 6-1 Panthers into first place in the NESCAC standings and guaranteed Middlebury at least a share ...
Author: [no author name found] The weekly editor's picks, by the numbers, Midd scoreboard, and locker room features.
Author: Dean Atyia Since the 2006 incident in which UCLA police tasered a student in the computer lab for lack of identification and uproarious behavior, more and more students have felt unwarranted electricity shocking their bodies or the sharp pain of pepper spray invading their pores. It's one thing ...