Author: Livingston Burgess The Middlebury women's outdoor track and field team made a strong statement on its home ground Saturday, taking second at the NESCAC championships and fielding five individual event winners. On the men's side, Pat Sedney's '08 and Bobby Marcoux's '07 second place showings ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green A lot has changed in my four years at Middlebury. In four years, I have had two presidents, two admissions directors, the death or suspension of two social houses and, perhaps more important to a college student, are the two disparate liquor inspectors, however, the changes ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl When Associate Professor of Music Greg Vitercik commented on the College orchestra's significant improvement since last year he did not hesitate to gloat. "We can do anything we want to now," said Vitercik. This certainly proved true at Thursday evening's concert in the Center ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen With his first 100 days in office, a traditional Congressional landmark, behind him, freshman Representative Peter Welch (D) of Vermont has moved quickly to follow through on campaign promises by building a legislative record on climate change and the Iraq war. From announcing ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman An online petition protesting recent changes to the College's residential life system has garnered over 300 student signatures, but the misuse of an all-campus e-mail to advertise the petition has led to disciplinary action against the student responsible for its creation. The ...
Author: David Infante Men's lacrosse team advances to the semifinals to play Tufts Middlebury Men's Lacrosse may have gone 1-1 on the road this past weekend, but the Panthers have entered the postseason with gusto. The team dropped a 7-6 overtime thriller to Tufts on Saturday, despite Mike Stone's ...
Author: Jeff Klein Ok everyone, I am a Yankees fan. But this is an objective statement: the New York Yankees are not in trouble.Yes, I understand that as I am typing this the team is sitting on a 9-13 record, good for last place in the American League East. This might be the latest into a season the ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman On Friday afternoon, I returned to my room after class to find the e-mail announcing junior Max Nardini's victory in the uncontested race for Student Government President. Never having met him, I asked my friends what they knew of him."I met him at his birthday party. He actually ...
Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen Howard U. president retires amidst criticismPresident of Howard University H. Patrick Swygert, 64, announced his planned retirement for 2008 on April 29 after more than a decade as the head of the historically black college. Since 1995, Swygert has led Howard University through ...
Author: Chi Zhang The Middlebury Dance Program was recently honored with an invitation to perform at the St. Mark's church in New York, as part of a series called "Academy Dances" sponsored by the Danspace Project. Danspace is one of the prime venues on the downtown dance scene and has been an instrumental ...
Author: Jeff Patterson The women's water polo team can be added to the list - it is yet another Middlebury team that has been overwhelmed by overtime. The Panthers had a 5-4 lead over Dartmouth in the final seconds of regulation in the New England Division Championship game, but in the end, the Big ...
Author: Matty Van Meter In the hateful graffiti that has appeared in our hallways and the heated response to it, there is revealed a deep and unfortunate tendency for pigeonholing on the part of all involved. To those targeted by the graffiti and to those who were not targeted but still felt worried ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes It was Sunday evening, and I was trudging across slush-covered sidewalks from Allen to the CFA to listen to a reading of 10-minute plays that a friend of mine was participating in. I was complaining bitterly to myself with every cold, wet step that drenched my feet in icy water. ...
Author: Brooke Farquhar If you thought you had a busy weekend, talk to a softball player. The women's softball team played five games between Friday and Sunday, but somehow managed never show to signs of exhaustion.After hosting Amherst for two days, the team drove to Clinton, N.Y. to face Hamilton ...
Author: Brian Fung Mary Lane '10 heard the news from her mother shortly after 11 a.m. last Monday morning: a gunman was loose at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. By noon, 33 people had been fatally shot in the deadliest school shooting in American history. As soon as she found out what was happening, ...
Author: Grace Duggan Jay Parini, D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing, did not exaggerate by introducing Pulitzer Price-winning poet Phillip Levine last Thursday evening as a "permanent part of American literature." Levine, who was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, has written more ...
Author: Josh Wessler "Reign over Me" has Adam Sandler looking disheveled, with hair flowing over dark, deep-set eyes. An alcoholic's drawl lurks behind a thick New York accent. He appears like a rebellious adolescent though it's his most mature role to date. The film mixes the sad and funny into a story ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Knef King '08 has been hosting a WRMC hip-hop show, "Color Outside the Lines and Movemental Radio," with Des Jennings and Nora Sutton since he stepped foot on this campus. He has also been the Business Director and Hip-Hop Manager at WRMC since his sophomore year. In all his ...