Author: Colin Foss If you happened to be in downtown Manhattan recently, you might have noticed some chatter about a new filmmaker and his work currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Among four other finalists in MTV's "Best Filmmaker on Campus" competition, Alexander Poe '03 had the pleasure ...
Author: Tom Brant The Student Social Life Task Force recommended several improvements to the current available on-campus social life options in a presentation to the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees on Friday. Its most significant proposal calls for the replacement of McCullough Student ...
Author: Jeff Klein There was confetti streaming from the rafters. There were hugs and high fives amongst players. A crowd clad in yellow "We believe" shirts was screaming its lungs out. A fan held a poster declaring a simple and direct message: "WE'RE GONNA SHOCK THE WORLD!"Seems like an upset to me. ...
Author: [no author name found] SGA votes to block release of election resultsThe Student Government Association (SGA) voted Sunday to withhold the results of the April 27 SGA Presidential and Student Co-Chair of Community Council elections. The decision came after students reported having been able ...
Author: Andrew Donnantuono On Sunday, for the seventh consecutive season, the men's lacrosse team won the NESCAC championship. For a team which has had its share of critics throughout this year's campaign, Middlebury seemed to have little trouble finding that extra gear when NESCACs rolled around. On ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The men's and women's crew teams traveled to Worcester, Mass. on May 5 to take part in the New England Fours Championship, with the women finishing strong in both their races to return home with a first- and third-place finish against competition from throughout the region."New England ...
Author: Leslie Lim The rough final Admissions numbers for the for the College's class of 2011 are in, and the most evident trend is the continued surge of applicants to Middlebury with a record high admissions yield of 47 percent. This year's yield was greater than expected, and the Office of Admissions ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Last week was May-day, marking the official leap into the warmer season. But May-day in Sweden, called Valborg, is celebrated on the last day of April. In a land where the sun never rises in the winter and never sets in the summer, the coming of spring is a well-needed ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:At the Ross meeting about homophobic graffiti one student suggested The Campus should have regular coverage of LGBT issues. Last week's issue had three pieces, but not of gay-positive coverage. Why is it so easy to be distracted by a silly argument about ...
Author: Grace Duggan The senior work of Sally Swallow '07 and Bill Army '07 finally brings a full-scale musical to Middlebury. With a production too irreverant and too interactive for Wright Theater, the cast and crew decided the only option was to literally turn CFA's Seeler Theater into the seedy ...
Author: Thomas Newton In a recent column of mine, I discussed the issues with Digital Rights Management, the government's feeble attempt at curbing digital media piracy. Feeble not only because it is an attempt to control copyrights in a market with no physical constraints, but also because it is woefully ...
Author: Nikko Arger Last Friday at Dolci, one of my friends called me and asked me, as a gay man, what I thought of the display in the library concerning homophobia in athletics. Seeing that I live in BiHall, I was naturally confused by his question because it seemed so ridiculous to me - why are athletics ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Former President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton addressed a record turnout crowd at the Middlebury College Commencement on May 27, reminding the Class of 2007 of the importance of community. Blue ponchos filled the lawn between the McCullough Student Center and ...
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Author: H. Kay Merriman It's lunchtime at Proctor. A Panini Master has taken to monopolizing the Panini machine and you are not feeling particularly inspired. Your sandwich muse has not yet struck, but you are hungry and do not have time to wait for a creation idea to come to you. What do you do? Reach ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed & Mia Lieb-Lappen Duke students expelled in cheating scandalThirty-four students at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business face disciplinary action for allegedly collaborating on a take-home test in a required first-year course, a violation of the school's honor code.In the ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I would like to first of all acknowledge the factual error that so many were quick to rightly point out in last week's column: the homophobia display in the library was in fact erected by the Office of Institutional Diversity. The mistake came from a number of assumptions I made, ...
Author: Editorial Board To the Reader:"What in the world is happening to Middlebury?" wrote a parent responding to a recent Campus news article online. "Why would anyone reading this year's Campus publications want to send a son or daughter to Middlebury College today?"As the editors and writers who ...
Author: Nick DeSantis A few weeks ago, after the incidents of homophobic graffiti sprang up around the campus, I felt a tangible amount of positive energy stemming from the community's response to hate speech. However, I'm a little nervous about the devolvement of the discussion into value judgments ...