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editorial
September 18, 2007Author: Editorial Board Shouting match on campus politics blurs the issuesNot two weeks into the new academic term, political "debate" on campus is manifesting itself in an all-too-common flurry of activity in the McCullough Student Center Mail Room. A poster displayed by the College Republicans on ...
The Sports Backpage
September 18, 2007Author: [no author name found] he weekly editor's picks, by the numbers, Midd scoreboard, and locker room features.
Overseas briefing
September 18, 2007Author: Hannah Epelbaum BUENOS AIRES - Last week I stepped in dog poop. Three separate times. I know I shouldn't let it get to me that much - after all, stepping in the stuff for the first (and second and third) time after seven weeks of being here in Buenos Aires is a pretty good record, considering ...
The Synesthesiac Arts and Letters With Ashley Gamell and Maddie Oatman
September 18, 2007Author: Ashley Gamell and Maddie Oatman syn∑es∑the∑sia from the Greek (syn-) union, and (aesthesis) sensation; is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds - and taste tactile sensations.Volume 1: Best of Bread LoafBread Loaf Writers' Conference, ...
Beyond the Platform Your SGA candidates speak out about the future of the SGA Senate
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
Middbriefs
September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
Comm. Council looks to broaden influence
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
Moving on Up Potomac Theatre Project Braves the Big Apple
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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, ...
Shenanigans Scoring the primaries so far
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
Old Chapel enters blogosphere
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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. ...
Transfers make smooth transitions
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
Spotlight on...Kevin Tierney
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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. ...
Orchard offers fruitful diversion
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
College shorts
September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
For the record
September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
notes from the desk Super student?
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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, ...
Time on St. John reaffirms Tom Payne's love for teaching
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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 ...
Brainerd, Cook welcome new Deans
By Middlebury Campus | September 18, 2007Author: 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, ...