Author: Joseph Bergan There is a problem with the young people today. Too many students believe college is a time of extraordinary change, a time in which the constructs of normal life are excused and students plunge into an ecstasy of exploration. There are too many diversions and not enough manners. ...
Author: Rich Saunders Once the pre-performance disco ball stopped spinning and the lights dimmed, a meagre audience sat back to relax and enjoy comedian Tim Young's performance in the McCullough Social Space on Saturday night. While occasionally addressing cosmopolitan issues, most of Young's routine ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Democrat Peter Welch and left-leaning Independent Bernie Sanders won Vermont's open House and Senate seats Tuesday night, while Republican Governor Jim Douglas sailed past Democratic challenger Scudder Parker.Though Sanders and Douglas had long been predicted to win their ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt A career in the arts. The phrase is daunting on many levels. It is not often the ideal vision of parents for their child's future. The job market in curation, sculpture, painting, architecture or conservation is anything but concrete. And, finally, there is the issue of the ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate approved a bill that recommended the creation of an "open" room draw system for seniors on Nov. 5. The recommendation comes after an SGA-sponsored survey found widespread student disapproval of the current room draw system.The bill, ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Addressing topics ranging from the controversial Rehnquist professorship to the College's upcoming fundraising campaign, members of the Middlebury College faculty convened Monday for their monthly faculty meeting. In what was the most enlivened debate of the meeting, Professor ...
Author: Taylor Long and Steve Miller [no story text found]
Author: Brian Fung The College has now entered the second stage of its yearly search for a graduation speaker, a member of the committee responsible for the job said this week. Though it refused to disclose the names of potential candidates for privacy reasons, the Committee promised an engaging show ...
Author: Kelsey Smith Christina Galvez '07 is a Theatre Major from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Since her first year at Middlebury, Galvez has used her keen eye for design in many projects spanning many disciplines. From her striking mural in Forest Basement to her eye-catching posters for concerts, ...
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Author: Thomas Phillips College degrees pay, Census Bureau saysA student who has a bachelor's degree is likely to make $23,000 more a year than a student who does not have one, according to a recent report by the Census Bureau. The study compared adults with bachelor's degrees to those who only have ...
Author: James Kerrigan The Middlebury women's soccer team capped a tremendous performance in the NESCAC tournament by beating host Amherst 1-0 in overtime of the finals Sunday. Erin Oliver '07 scored the game-winner seven minutes into overtime off a feed from Norah Tomlinson-Weintraub ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green For the second time in my Middlebury career, I am enrolled in an 8 a.m. class. Having taken a class at a similarly unreasonable hour abroad, where instead of walking for 20 minutes, I rode a bus for an hour to get to class, I assumed 8 a.m. really wouldn't be that early. ...
Author: Allison Ortega For the field hockey team, the NESCAC final against Bowdoin represented an opportunity for redemption. It was a chance to prove that its lone regular season defeat to the Polar Bears was a fluke. Unfortunately for Middlebury, Bowdoin had different plans and dominated play en route ...
Author: Ryan Tauriainen There has been a lot of talk of protests and outrage over the new William H. Rehnquist professorship. I think many opinions are being thrown out there on uneducated foundations. I am against many of Rehnquist's opinions, mostly because I am gay and a democrat. However, I do ...
Author: Michelle Constant Most students at the College believe room draw needs reform, according to a recent campus-wide survey conducted by the Student Government Association (SGA). Senators spoke at length about the survey results during an Oct. 29 meeting, though they could not decide upon a definitive ...
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Author: Ben Salkowe The College's decision to establish a professorship in honor of the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has set students, faculty and administrators in an impossible debate over the merits of honoring an individual with a far-reaching and controversial record of legal opinions. ...
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Author: Maddie Terry Here on Middlebury's campus, the chemistry students in my class felt compelled to remain in our recent midterm examination until 2 and 3 a.m., their heads lowered over worked and re-worked calculations since a 7:30 p.m. start time. In this same environment, students opt to skip ...