Author: Josh Wessler The hit Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" makes a flashy transition onto the silver screen in Bill Condon's adaptation. It tells the tale of the beginnings of Motown Records from gospel funk to its national success with smooth R&B. In this loosely fictionalized account, the singing ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Eight students honored with Fulbright awardsEight members of the Class of 2006 have earned Fulbright United States Student Awards, making the College one of the top 10 receivers of the award among undergraduate schools nationwide. The Fulbright Awards will support to new alumni ...
Author: Andrew Donnantuono After three consecutive wins at the end of 2006, the women's basketball team began 2007 by dropping two of three games and doubling its total losses for the season. The squad returned from the winter break by losing to regional foe Eastern Connecticut at home 62-56, defeating ...
Author: Claire Neilson and Lisie Mehlman Nothing says J-Term quite like seven trailer girls sprawled out on the broken futon of their modular home surrounded by sixteen mouse traps (there was a rather entertaining first encounter with Peary Little, Mouse We Murdered Number One) watching nine straight ...
Author: Astri Von Arbin Ahlander On December 31, 2006 we rang in the New Year. Personally, I choked on my champagne as I stood on the roof of a building in central Stockholm as artillery-like fireworks went off all around me. 2007? This is the number I have written after my name for the past three and ...
Author: [no author name found] 1 Students stunned by loss of Norbert Vaughn '10 (Nov. 30)2 Professors challenge Rehnquist Professorship (Nov. 2)3 Delta Social House evicted from Prescott (June 19)4 College upholds early admissions program (Oct. 12)5 Friends mourn Mark Southern (March 30)6 Popular ...
Author: Jeff Patterson Connecticut College was a cakewalk in Nov. 2005. The Panther hockey team smoked the Camels 7-1 without even scoring in the third period. That same season, Skidmore and Castleton State were second and third helpings of cake, which the Blue Shirts consumed by scores of 8-2 and 6-1.This ...
Author: Sage Bierster I've made a New Year's resolution: Before the end of J-term, I will ask someone on this campus out on a date. It's not exactly a classic resolution, like "stop smoking" or "Go to the gym more often", and you might ask why this would be at the top of my New Year's list. To be honest, ...
Author: Simon Keyes Parents, relatives and friends filled the Natatorium to the brim this weekend to watch both the men's and women's swim teams sweep NESCAC opponents Colby and Bates. Those family members who visited on the swim team's parents' weekend were not disappointed by the contests. The women ...
Author: Livingston Burgess Middlebury's men's and women's track teams opened their seasons Sunday by throwing some of their top competitors into a difficult field at the 38th annual Dartmouth Relays in Hanover, N.H. The Panthers walked away with several strong individual performances, a good sense of ...
Author: Joseph Bergan Today, a new tradition is born. Each week, The Campus will attempt to paint a more intimate picture of our student body by featuring a short interview with a student selected at random. In our inaugural edition, Will Drucker responds.childhood ambition... To visit every square ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner With spectacular views and miles of forest right in their backyard, residents of the quaint Ripton community seem to have little to grumble about. But in their peaceful mountain oasis, the 566 residents struggle to stay connected with the rest of the world. Sure, there are televisions ...
Author: Seth Miran What do Tiger Woods and the women's hockey team have in common? Both have recently taken advantage of the best that Sweden has to offer. For Tiger, that means a smokin' hot wife. For the women's hockey team, that meant taking on three Swedish club teams.Returning home to the U.S. ...
Author: Polly Johnson Visitors to the New Library were met on Monday with a bulletin board providing information on the White Ribbon Campaign (WRC), which seeks to educate men about violence against women. The campaign, which relies on volunteer support and financial contributions from individuals and ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green Senator Robert T. Stafford '35, died in Montpelier on Dec. 23, 2006. The 93-year-old Vermonter was known as a champion for education and the environment during his four-decade-long career in politics, and will be fondly remembered by friends, family and colleagues. Despite ...
Author: Ronald D. Liebowitz The recent "sense of the faculty" resolution, offered in protest over the College's decision to accept an anonymous gift to endow a professorship in honor of William Rehnquist, diminishes, quite ironically, the very thing it seeks - the institution's commitment to "diversity." ...
Author: Rachel Schiffer When I stepped into the refurbished one-room schoolhouse on the corner of Route 7 south and Foote Street, the smell of a hot grill pan housed in a glorified wine cellar didn't seem to match up. However, at the Grapevine Grille, where grilling and wining take center stage, it ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg The Board of Trustees granted three professors tenure in December, approving all candidates up for the promotion last semester. Although this year's tenure pool is uncharacteristically small - only two professors will be up for review this spring - the decisions reaffirm the College's ...
Author: The Campus Editorial Board Three years ago this week, the 2004 staff of The Middlebury Campus launched a new look to the newspaper. Today we do it again. But this time we've gone one step farther.In response to budget pressures and printer difficulties, today The Middlebury Campus officially ...
Author: Sara Jameson At eight o'clock last Friday night, five playwrights, five directors and sixteen actors gathered in the Hepburn Zoo ready to challenge their creative ingenuity and alacrity. Twenty-four hours later, five fresh, creative and engaging plays were performed. The event, created and hosted ...