Author: [no author name found] President Liebowitz's big newsNews that President Ronald D. Liebowitz is considering launching one of the largest capital campaigns on record for a liberal arts college has us pretty excited. The optimism and sense of possibility projected by such an ambitious goal not ...
Author: Daniel Roberts So election day has come and gone. Debate over "the issues" has subsided. But reflecting on today's political scene, there is no single campaign issue more befuddling to me than the matter of same sex marriage.I realize that at a liberal-minded Northeastern institution, where ...
Author: Joseph Bergan Look around Middlebury's campus on a Friday night, and you will find a graveyard of old party locales. Fletcher House is quiet, only livened up from the little noise that spills over from the Mill. The mansion-like social houses of Ridgeline lie asleep like slumbering giants. Even ...
Author: Dina Magaril If you're one of the hunting enthusiasts itching to get out your rifle and hunt for some big game this season, you might just have your chance. Though the two-and-a-half-month-long black bear hunting season officially ends on Nov. 15, Vermont is entering its annual rifle deer season, ...
Author: Jeff Patterson The women's cross country team finished ahead of 48 teams on Saturday afternoon to win the NCAA New England Regional, hosted by Springfield College. Last week the team was left out of the Power Rankings, but this week they ran with powerful legs."Our team handles high pressure ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed Recommendations calling for the locking of Atwater Dining Hall and the installation of cameras for a test period in Proctor Dining Hall were approved by Community Council on Nov. 13 in an effort to combat theft on campus. The recommendations will now head to Old Chapel for consideration.Under ...
Author: Akshay Khanna The College will offer multiple courses that will venture off-campus during Winter Term beginning in January 2008 after the Standing Parents Committee raised money for class travel, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced at the Nov. 6 faculty meeting. The increase ...
Author: Michelle Constant The Class of 2007 will present the College with an environmental fund for green initiatives on campus as its senior gift, the Senior Committee announced last Friday. Called The Green Fund, the gift will support projects including biomass incentives, carbon neutralization efforts ...
Author: Leigh Arsenault Members of this year's senior class filled the Grille to capacity this past Friday night, their pockets chock full of cash. The 200 Days Party enticed seniors with 200 days until graduation to spend their Friday night enjoying free local beers and a raucous auction. Students ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Finance Committee cut the funding for most of the student organizations on campus this fall in order to fund them all through the Student Activities Fee (SAF). Funding was not cut, however, to one major program that drains money from the fund and is underused by the student body.I'm ...
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Author: Andrew Schlegel Making its first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2000, the men's soccer team faced a perennially strong St. Lawrence side at Lubetkin Field in Newark, N.J. The Panthers were unable to keep up the run of strong play that brought them to the tournament and they fell to ...
Author: Allison Ortega Sometimes the ball just does not bounce your way. This was the case for the Middlebury field hockey team in its NCAA tournament match-up against William Smith on Saturday. The Panthers were the dominant team throughout the game, but when the final horn sounded they were one goal ...
Author: Geoff Homer 11 Panthers receive All-NESCAC honorsA total of eleven Panthers earned All-NESCAC honors this weekend in four different sports. Men's soccer fielded three all-conference players, women's soccer three, volleyball one and field hockey four. In addition, women's soccer coach Peter Kim ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Nearly 30 students and faculty members rallied in front of Old Chapel on Friday to protest the new Rehnquist professorship. The protest came amid news that President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz had agreed to better accommodate student interests in the naming of future ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Last Tuesday, International Paper announced its decision to conclude the highly controversial test burn at its Ticonderoga, N.Y. mill one week earlier than they had originally planned. According to IP's press release, "Preliminary test data indicates that long-term use of tire-derived ...
Author: Jeff Patterson It was late, a little after 1:45 a.m. on Monday, when the women's soccer team arrived back on campus. It was also late, in overtime to be exact, when Nora Tomlinson-Weintraub '10 scored to beat the University of Scranton 4-3 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. And finally ...
Author: Jeff Klein This past Sunday afternoon without a New York Giants football game to watch, I remained mired in my room slaving away over my Economics problem set. It was a dull, dreary day, the kind that reminds you that a brand new week full of work and stress is right around the corner. As I ...
Author: [no author name found] Political correctness is incorrectTo the Editor:I just wanted to congratulate Daniel Roberts on writing his column (In My Humble Opinion, Nov. 9, 2006) on political correctness because it was the first one in a long time that made me slam the breakfast table and pump ...
Author: Kelly Janis Professor of Political Science David Rosenberg is not content living as a passive observer of politics. Even in the small town of Middlebury, Rosenberg has assumed a decidedly active role in the political sphere, serving for over thirty years as one of the town's 15 justices of the ...