Author: Ben Salkowe Former President Bill Clinton will deliver Middlebury's 2007 commencement address on May 27, marking the first address by a modern president to the College. The 42nd President of the United States will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the commencement and address ...
Author: Matty Van Meter To some it would be a truism to say that action (and activism) is small and day-to-day. It seems to me that the truth of the truism is too often overlooked. Activism has become synonymous with banner waving, slogan chanting and signature collecting. I do not wish to seem a ...
Author: Tom Newton You're in the Grille, it is 1 a.m. and your stomach is begging you to eat. The cashier impatiently and not so subtly taps her pencil. All the while you ponder: chips or fries with the Love Me Tender Wrap? Oh the pressure. Spend the extra 75 cents on fries or settle for the chips?Dealing ...
Author: Emily Temple A new year has arrived and along with the confetti, champagne and plastic noisemakers inevitably must come the "best of" list of every self-proclaimed music connoisseur, online news source and music magazine. It's tiring, I know. But get prepared for yet another, because what would ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed I really enjoyed my parents' questions to me over Winter Break. What do you eat for lunch? Burgers and fries at Proctor on Friday. How often do you go to the gym? Not often enough. What were your grades for the fall semester? [Long pause] Good?After enduring long hours of studying, ...
Author: James Kerrigan Senior Co-Captain Hannah Baker, of the women's squash team, has an individual record of 4-1 on the season, but more important to the squash star is the team's record of 2-3. According to her housemate Leigh Polfer '07, she has "a deep affinity for bonding" and has always put the ...
Author: Sara Jameson Andrew Throdahl '09 is an accomplished pianist who recently performed three pieces in a concert at the end of semester. Throdahl has been playing the piano for almost twelve years and won the 2006 Concerto Competition. He is happy to be attending Middlebury College, where he studies ...
Author: Jeff Klein Explosive offense. Stifling defense. The Middlebury men's basketball team showed a bit of each in three straight wins in 2007 over the University of New England (UNE), Skidmore and Colby-Sawyer, boosting the team's record to an impressive 8-3. Against UNE on Jan. 3, the Panthers relied ...
Author: Tom Brant Protest urges Columbia to discipline studentsSupporters of immigration control protested Thursday at Columbia University in an effort to get the school to sanction students who interrupted an October speech by Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project. ...
Author: Aylie Baker Crocuses are blooming in New Jersey. People are waterskiing in Minnesota. This past Saturday, students were wearing shorts here in Vermont. It's still only the beginning of winter, but things are certainly heating up.This winter across the country, people are shedding coats and mittens ...
Author: James Kerrigan Within hours of checking their luggage and going through customs after a red-eye flight across the Atlantic, members of the women's hockey team were lacing it up with a Swedish squad. Six time zones, 15 degrees of longitude and one long plane ride separated the two teams, but ...
Author: Tom Brant The Student Government Association (SGA) housing bill passed in early November has been met with a variety of opinions by Commons staff and students across campus. Some feel that the bill would disrupt the community created by the Commons and take away the advantage in room draw for ...
Author: Kelsey Smith Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz," the senior work of Caitlin Dennis '06.5 and Julia Proctor '06.5, opened Thursday evening at the Hepburn Zoo. Director Dennis continued the Zoo's long-standing tradition of presenting challenging student-designed and produced work with a powerful ...
Author: Scott Greene A&M students post slavery video onlineThree white students from Texas A&M University in College Station recently posted a homemade video on YouTube depicting a master and slave scene in which a man in blackface is beaten for not following orders.The video, titled "The Adventures ...
Author: [no author name found] Each week we supply a photo in need of a witty, original and creative caption.We're asking you, our loyal features readers, to e-mail your entries to campus@middlebury.edu each sunday evening by 5 p.m.The following week we will print the old photo and the top entry.We ...
Author: Dina Magaril In the spirit of holiday giving, the Mary Johnson Center held a silent wreath auction at Middlebury's Center for the Arts. Addison County community members and local establishments were asked to decorate wreaths using merchandise from their stores so that the wreaths could be auctioned ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge '03, Regional Field Coordinator, Democracy Matters Institute The election is over and the American people have spoken, resulting in one of the biggest shifts in political power in recent history. Voters went to the polls motivated by many issues, the biggest of which was not ...
Author: Allison Ortega Former collegiate swimmer President Ronald D. Liebowitz and his family were among the many members of the college community who showed up at the Natatorium on Saturday for the men's and women's swimming and diving teams' first dual meet of the season against Amherst. They did ...
Author: James Kerrigan With three NESCAC and NCAA championships already under her belt, Shannon Sylvester '07 along with her women's hockey team have a strong desire to continue these two streaks. After an opening night loss to Plattsburgh, the Panthers have gotten back to their winning ways and look ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Exams are rapidly approaching, meaning so are all-nighters at the library and, invariably, unflattering sweatsuits. Is it too much to ask to stay hot during the peak of stress? I think not. But just like you can't expect to take two-hour lunch breaks come mid-December, ...