Author: Derek Schlickeisen Humanitarian hero Paul Rusesabagina launched the College's convocation series Saturday night with an address at Mead Chapel on his role in saving more than 1,200 refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The talk, entitled "Hotel Rwanda: A Story Yet To Be Learned," moved ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander This season's "American Idol" is in full swing. The show has gained a whole new level of legitimacy since Jennifer Hudson took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, proving that it can indeed be regarded as a factory for fame. But "American Idol," a remake ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Here's something you probably did not know: The Student Government Association paid me about $30 to manage production of the newspaper you are reading. As part of my $1,200 stipend for the academic year, I consider the paycheck a generous token of appreciation for the time and energy ...
Author: Colin Foss Looking for a place to avoid the crowd during fall finals, I decided to head toward a strange light emanating from the top of the Johnson Memorial Building. I walked through the front doors, past the "1967" engraving, and found myself in a cavernous building with stairwells that ...
Author: Aylie Baker The Civil Rights movement of the 1960's dealt with issues of black and white. If you ask Van Jones, eco-visionary and human rights attorney, today that movement could be fought for green. "We all agree that we don't have any throwaway resources, species, energy sources," said Jones ...
Author: Seth Miran Imagine playing 60 minutes of physically and emotionally draining hockey. After those 60 minutes, imagine doing it all over again. That was more or less what the women's hockey team did on Sunday in the thrilling NESCAC Championship game at Kenyon Arena, when the Panthers fell 2-1 ...
Author: Brooke Farquhar Alpine skier Clayton Reed '08 went to bed at 11 p.m. the Saturday night of Winter Carnival Weekend. He finished seventh in the men's slalom earlier that day, despite being sick, with a time of 1:34.28. Unfortunately, because he felt so under-the-weather, he was unable to stay ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner When Middlebury citizens filed into the local municipal building for their annual town meeting last Monday, there was nothing extraordinary seeming about the forum that was to take place.The townspeople first thanked their snow removal crews for their upstanding work during ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Terry Tempest Williams delivered a lecture in conjunction with the Energy Symposium to a packed Mead Chapel, filled with the usual mix of faculty, students and townspeople. Terry Tempest Williams's personality subscribes to that rugged but maternal personality well known in Vermont. ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I recently returned from the annual conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, which this year was in Denver, Colo. While my reason for attending was strictly professional (I was looking for a job) and I was cooped up in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency, ...
Author: Nathan Zucker If you asked most College students where they could find Henry David Thoreau's personal copy of Walden, most would probably shrug and say they have no idea. A few might guess that it is housed in a famous museum in New York, Boston or some other large American city. In fact, the ...
Author: Sage Biester Last week was my 22nd birthday and my friends, perhaps taking a cue from a previous column about masturbation, chipped in to buy me the gift that keeps on giving - a vibrator. I have never used a vibrator before, and at first I didn't know how to react as I opened the box from Trusted ...
Author: David Infante The 400-member NCAA division that houses the majority of Middlebury's athletic competition is under fire - or so it would seem from recent calls to create a new subdivision, a Division IV, that would separate the very different schools that make up Division III. While most Middlebury ...
Author: Anna Furney Andrew "Billy" Wagner's '09 win in the men's giant slalom and Lindsay Brush's '07 third place finish in the women's giant slalom on Saturday highlighted the Panther alpine ski team's third place finish in the 84th Middlebury Carnival. Over the course of the two-day race series, skiers ...
Author: Dina Magaril Getting robbed at gunpoint is some awful story you hear happen to one in a million people, but unfortunately, I was left to experience this first hand my first Friday night in Buenos Aires. After trying to get over the lack of feminist response in this city - I'm referring to the ...
Author: Alina Levina Shirley Ramirez was recently appointed Middlebury's Dean of Institutional Diversity, a position created at the recommendation of the Human Relations Committee. Ramirez, a Latina clinical psychologist from New York City and former Executive Vice President of The Posse Foundation, ...
Author: Brooke Farquhar Marika Ross '08 is proving that the Great Lakes generate great swimmers. The junior from Shorewood, Wis. has so many honors that they could fill up this feature, if not the entire edition of this newspaper.While her list of accomplishments is not short, Ross's favorite memory ...
Author: Sarah Pickering The Student Government Association (SGA) voted to increase the student activities fee to $360 for 2007-2008, up from $240 this year at its meeting on Sunday. The 50 percent increase was proposed by the SGA Finance Committee to give student organizations more money and ultimately, ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Following an announcement at last week's faculty meeting that the College would provide free trips to campus for highly qualified applicants, the Office of Admission explained how the program would benefit Middlebury, and said that free visits are already offered at a number ...