Author: Scott Greene How did I end up in a Chinese Internet cafÈ at 4 a.m. on a Monday night in April?I haven't missed Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season in a long time. For most avid baseball fans, that isn't saying much. They can easily watch the handful of opening day games across the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Frequenters of the Gamut Room have Senior Ian Peach to thank for the recently added artistic ambience to the student-run space. Peach's contributions include under-developed photographs sporting super-imposed typed poetry and an innovative interpretation of the American Flag. ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Cook Commons Dean David Edleson will leave his position in June after eight years at the College. A founding staff member of the decentralized Cook Commons and a popular counselor for students inside and outside his community, Edleson said Monday that it was a growing number of decisions ...
Author: Tom Brant Students will no longer be able to declare triple majors, and will have to follow stricter guidelines when they declare or add new majors or minors, according to a bill passed by the faculty at their monthly meeting on April 10. The new measures will take effect next year. The first ...
Author: Jeff Klein One disappointing basketball tournament has ended and a new one is beginning: the NBA playoffs are almost upon us. This year a bunch of teams have a realistic shot at the title. Here are my predictions for Saturday:EastNo. 1 Pistons vs. No. 8 Magic: Once again, the Pistons are the ...
Author: Claire & Lisie Beyond the Bubbling is no walk in the park - it takes a lot of forethought and creativity, as evidenced by the four years worth of highly innovative outings on which we have reported. Highlights, of course, include our visits to several county and antique stores. But, Claire ...
Author: Colin Foss As three courageous, 19th-century women set off on a safari through "Terra Incognita," the rusty Hepburn Zoo became a lush jungle, an arctic tundra and finally the intersection of time and space. Exploring the romantic dreamworlds with big-eyes and even bigger characters, the pioneering ...
Author: Allison Ortega Ranked second in the most recent national poll, the Middlebury women's lacrosse team showed their offensive firepower early and then held on for victory on Saturday at Kohn Field in a NESCAC matchup against Trinity. Playing in front of a large crowd assembled to celebrate the ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman "This is The Grille. It is a great place to meet with professors over lunch," said student tour guide Angelo Fu '10 to wide-eyed prospective students on a tour last week. Upon matriculating to Middlebury, however, many Middlebury students see the Grille as something else: a drunken ...
Author: Sage Bierster No sex column would be complete without an article on pornography. It is in-your-face sexuality taken to extremes. It has infiltrated every media available, and everywhere it appears it generates controversy. It is a $10 billion industry that is forever caught between our most ...
Author: Andrew Donnantuono For men's lacrosse, 2007 has been a tale of two seasons. Undefeated at home (6-0) and winless on the road (0-3), Middlebury continued that trend last week with an 11-2 trouncing of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at home on April 10 before losing in double-overtime ...
Author: Chelsea Utterback Cox '07 recognized for community service workJessica Cox '07 was awarded this year's Vermont Campus Compact (VCC) TD Banknorth Commitment to Service and Engagement Award on March 29. The award is given for exceptional participation in community service.Cox contributed to the ...
Author: Bridget Cummings Dorman "A girl that talks to animals. A cramped zoo. All the zoo animals going down the Mississippi in a houseboat. Fantastic!" writes local Middlebury resident, Lisel Peters-deCourval. The twelve-year-old critic is describing William B. Catton's new book, "Kathryn and the Runaway ...
Author: H.Kay Merriman Rutgers' profile surges after Imus scandalAfter radio show host Don Imus's reference to the predominantly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos," the team's coach and players have been commended for their cordial response to the insult. As a result, sale of ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I came to this campus, as many of you did, to immerse and engage myself in an intellectual community which is not only diverse and stimulating, but subtle, self-aware and conscientious. In the classroom, and indeed in most situations, I have not been disappointed. When it comes ...
Author: Emily Temple According to the jacket of the album, "The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn is a departure from the obscured blur of stained glass rÍve to a more self-exploitive memoir. Parts are dreamy and parts are savage, but, as with an opera where death represents a secret heaven, ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen The largest global warming demonstration in American history took place on April 14, all thanks to an idea conceived by six recent graduates of the College and Scholar-in-Residence Bill McKibben. Step It Up 2007, a campaign of more than 1,400 coordinated demonstrations in ...
Author: Thomas Newton We grew up with the story of Napster. And most of us at one point used Kazaa. When Kazaa fell several options sprouted up, including Limewire, Soulseek and Bittorrent. This rather long list of software goes to show the popularity of what the music industry hates about technology ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander I was in Sweden over the break, experiencing what we have yet to see at Middlebury: spring. The temperature in Stockholm blew my travel buddy and me away with warm breezes and constant sunshine over the glittering water of what is appropriately called the Venice of the ...
Author: Jeff Patterson Middlebury has seen its share of polo shirts, has recruited die-hard water polo players and has chemistry majors that can speak at length about Polonium, but Federico "Kiko" Velge '10 might be the College's first authentic polo star. A native of Portugal, this serious polo player ...