Author: Annie Onishi The Career Services Office (CSO) revamped its office, its Web site and several recruitment programs this year with the goal of making its employment offerings more accessible to students. Though hampered by technological glitches during senior resume submissions, the office believes ...
Author: Seth Miran The women's volleyball team entered Sunday's match against the Tufts Jumbos with the overall series between the two schools tied at six wins apiece. Unfortunately, the Jumbos left with that seventh win and a one game advantage in the series. The Panthers battled hard but ended up ...
Author: Katie Hylas Anonymity is absent from our college campus. With 2,400 students, it's almost impossible to go a day without seeing an abundance of familiar faces. This usually positive feature, however, often proves to be logistically and emotionally awkward for all of us. We all pass scores of ...
Author: [no author name found] This past Friday, Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence Dr. Francois S. Clemmons and Director of Choral Music Jeff Rehbach led a choir of community singers, students, faculty and staff in "A Celebration of American Song." The concert kicked off Fall Family Weekend, overflowing ...
Author: Leslie Lim IBM opens contest for software designIBM Corporation is challenging college students to create computer programs that will be easy for those with physical disabilities to use. The company launched a competition this week that encourages competitors to design word processing and spreadsheet ...
Author: Mike Murali Last Saturday, The Capitol Steps performed at the Pepin Gymnasium to a packed audience of students, visiting parents, faculty and community members. This crew of musical jokesters made light of politics, poking fun at famous political figures such as John Kerry, Al Gore, President ...
Author: Leigh Arsenault Nine-year-olds growing up in low-income communities are already three grade levels behind their peers in high-income communities. Half of them will not graduate from high school. They are seven times less likely to graduate from college. These are the facts Teach For America ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Democratic House candidate Peter Welch headlined a climate change rally at the College last Friday, taking the opportunity to tie his opponent to Republican inaction on the issue.With the race still close just over four weeks before Election Day, Welch argued that Martha Rainville's ...
Author: Tom Brant On Tuesday morning, several students wearing bright yellow jumpsuits invaded Stewart Hall. Carrying boxes of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), they knocked on the doors of startled Stew residents, encouraging them to reduce their dorm room energy use by replacing their old light ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Middlebury College community members gathered in Dana Auditorium on Sunday, Oct. 1 as Dan Smarg '05.5 debuted his feature length film, "Endzone." The completion of the film was a significant accomplishment for both Smarg and Middlebury actors Daniel Di Tomasso '06, Macleod ...
Author: Himali Singh Soin Himali Singh Soin '08 travelled this past summer to the Bhutan region. This travelogue is the final installment in a series of unique summer stories by students.Nestled between the mountains of Tibet and India is Bhutan, a tiny, Buddhist kingdom where spiritual happiness is ...
Author: David Lee "Succisa Virescit" is the shared motto of the Benedictine church and, apparently, the women's soccer team. Roughly translated from Latin, the phrase means, "when cut down, we grow back stronger." After losing one of their captains and other key players to injury this season, the Panthers ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Do you remember this past summer when Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving? According to the arrest report, he told the officer, "I'm not going to get in your car. I own Malibu." In addition, after seeing that Deputy James Mee looked Jewish, he told him, "F*****g Jews. The ...
Author: Melissa Marshall There is something horribly poetic about the autumn months. Maybe it's the clear October nights. Or perchance it's the crisp breeze, the "wind scurrying scarlet dry leaves like they were dust." But most likely (spoken like a true emo-child), autumn attributes its elegiac nature ...
Author: Scott Greene Middlebury will not follow the likes of Harvard University and Princeton University in discontinuing its early admission program. Instead the College reformed the admissions process over the past year through the introduction of an academic rating system for all applicants. The ...
Author: Polly Johnson Last Friday, Oct. 6, Middlebury played host to 1990 Nobel Prize recipient William F. Sharpe, who delivered the Carpenter and Alan R. Holmes Lecture entitled, "Financing Retirement: Saving, Investing, Spending and Insuring."Sharpe, a professor emeritus of finance at the Stanford ...
Author: Kelly Janis Nestled snugly inside a church cellar at 52 Merchants' Row lies the pizza styx world headquarters Neil & Otto's pizza parlor. A brisk autumn afternoon saw the eclectic joint abuzz with customers both young and old, enjoying their generous helpings of pizza, calzones, pasta, wraps, ...
Author: Joe Bergan Oh Fall Break! Oh glimmer of hope in that long expanse from Move-in-Day to Thanksgiving. Oh sweet two days! How you fill us with such foolish pride, how you decieve us to believe that it is actually a full break! Oh, how we cherish you! How soon you are upon us! Yes, Fall Break is ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE
Author: George Mayer "Cheer boys cheer, 'cause Middlebury's here. Fight boys, fight, fight with all your might."The football team is starting to play like we've known the hockey teams to - now they are even starting to sing like them. After disposing of Amherst on Saturday, the entire Panther team ...