Author: Jeff Klein You know what seems ridiculous to me? Professional athletes who wear jewelry during games. This is an idea I've held for as long as I've been following professional sports, but it has become increasingly noticeable in recent years as more and more Major League Baseball (MLB) players ...
Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen The candidates for the Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) and Student Government Association (SGA) President were given a chance to publicly voice their opinions in a debate Sunday evening as they addressed issues ranging from campus smoking policy to the Commons ...
Author: Colin Foss You would think eccentricity is a trait that you learn, not inherit, but "Eleemosynary" offers a new take on the odd habits of your relatives. Maybe eccentricity is a choice, a deliberate life decision, made in order to cope better with a family beleaguered by their own intelligence ...
Author: Brooke Farquhar The trip down to Florida over the weekend was a second spring break for some of the members of the men's rugby team. It was also a huge break for the entire team in regard to their success this season.The Middlebury men's rugby team will compete in the Division II Championship ...
Author: Andrew Donnantuono The men's lacrosse team dropped its record to 7-4 when it fell 5-4 in overtime to Wesleyan on Saturday. The highly anticipated game certainly lived up to the hype. Cardinal attack Russ Follansbee, who opened the scoring 4:47 into the contest, needed only 23 seconds in overtime ...
Author: Simon Keyes After stumbling out of the starting gates on April 14 at the Vassar College Invitational, the women's golf team seems to be regaining its Fall season form. The Panthers placed second in the Jack Leaman Women's Championship this past weekend in western Massachusetts.The field was ...
Author: Mary Lane I am a Virginian first and an American second - anyone with even a cursory knowledge of who I am knows that this is true. I have a Virginia flag in my room and Virginia bumper stickers on my binder and coffee mug. My family has been involved with Virginia Tech for decades. We are intense ...
Two weekends ago I made a last minute decision to attend Xanadu, the new on-campus night club. Having heard about its successful opening the previous Friday, I thought that it would most likely be packed full of students looking to have a great time. When I arrived unfashionably early, I was met with ...
Author: Mike Murali "I like myself so much more than I did when I was 21 and I can live in my skin," said Kimberly Richardson of Two Cranes Aikido, who gave a lecture at the College last Thursday as part of a symposium on martial and liberal arts. The series of events, entitled "Pursuing Knowledge Without ...
Author: Jordan Nassar Junior Boys? Are you sure? They look more like senior men. But beyond the fact that these older-than-everyone-thought electro-artists failed to draw much of a crowd, their concert at Higher Ground in Burlington left me disappointed, to say the least. If the venue hadn't had Magic ...
Author: David Infante Women's Lacrosse extends its winning streak to nine gamesThe women's lacrosse team continues to roll here at Middlebury, with the Panthers picking up their ninth consecutive win this past Sunday on the road against Connecticut College. Middlebury tallied 16 goals on 42 shots with ...
Author: Joseph Bergan Almost every student at Middlebury complains about homework. They argue with their friends about who has the most difficult assignment, longest requirement for a paper or the most lab hours. Most students also have limited spending money, using the little cash their parents send ...
Author: Annabelle Fowler Consider, for a moment, farmers in Nigeria who live off the land to support their families. If oil is found underneath their property, they can look forward to nothing but devastation. In no time, a foreign oil company will show up, begin digging holes and start extracting oil ...
Author: Editorial Board Nardini for SGA PresidentEither the job of Student Government Association (SGA) President is terribly undesirable, or lone candidate Max Nardini '08 just breathes fear into the eyes of any prospective competitors. We cannot explain the lack of interest in this year's SGA Presidential ...
Author: Editorial Board The shooting rampage that occurred Monday at Virginia Polytechnic Institute shocked and horrified the nation. As college students, the images of our peers being terrorized, on a sprawling campus not so unlike our own, was both painful to witness and impossible to comprehend. ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: This past September a first-year in Atwater Commons was forced to move from his hall after repeatedly being called "fag," instead of his first name, by his hall-mates. Despite his move, he is periodically harassed because of his orientation by these same ...
Author: Leslie Lim Two days after a town meeting in McCullough Social Space to discuss hate speech on campus, another instance of homophic graffiti was found written in permanent red marker on the white board of a student's door in Starr Hall. The incident underscored recent concerns that an earlier ...
Author: Hannah Rommer The Takacs Quartet delighted the Middlebury community last Friday evening with its 19th campus performance since 1994. Playing the works of Debussy, Shostakovich and Brahms, the award-winning quartet delivered a varied program that displayed the talents of its individual players ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman According to an April 12 Crime Alert that the College's Department of Public Safety released to the student body via e-mail, "On Saturday, April 7, 2007, at approximately 4:30 a.m., an intruder entered the room of a male student in Coffrin Hall. The resident was asleep when he ...
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