Author: By Thomas C. Drescher Event organizers and participants at Middlebury's third annual Relay for Life last weekend helped raise almost $200,000 to support the fight against cancer. The all-night event - celebrated as a success for the third straight year - is part of a nationwide fundraising campaign ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Daniel Houghton '06 is a studio art major from Brunswick, Maine. At Middlebury, Houghton is the first studio art major to use video art as his senior project. Entitled "Everything Glowed" (look out for the beautiful, enigmatic ads that are speckling campus), Houghton's video ...
Author: Jake Cohen As the 2006 spring season comes to a close, the men's and women's golf teams have once again found success. Two weekends ago, the men's squad ran into trouble at Skidmore, only to rebound at Williams the following week. The ladies continued their remarkable season, winning both of ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel and James Dolan In 2003, Addison County, home to one of the richest liberal arts institutions in the nation, was also home to nearly 3200 poor people. Despite this great inequity, the College has taken steps to alleviate the problem.Living below the poverty line means that one ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Nepal democracyThousands of citizens rallied in Nepal's capitol to celebrate a Monday announcement by King Gyanendra that he will reinstate parliament. Gyanendra, under pressure to restore democracy after days of riots across the country, conceded in a televised address that ...
Author: ARIELLE WEISMAN MADRID, Spain - Still preoccupied with 1985? Two-toned mullets, fuzzy woolen legwarmers, low-cut shirts that show off the shoulders and bra straps. What do all of these things have in common? Well I'll tell you. They are essentials of every Spaniard's wardrobe. In fact, some ...
Author: Rachel Durfee In a surprising success story, the Middlebury College United Way Campaign Committee raised $117,240 this year for the United Way of Addison County's annual campaign, exceeding its fundraising expectations. The heads of the College team - Programmer Analyst Liane Barrera, Dean of ...
Author: Steve Beslow After a meteoric rise to the top of the NESCAC standings, including a four game sweep of Tufts (ranked seventh in the national poll), the Middlebury baseball team saw its school-record 10-game winning streak brought to an end at the hands of Amherst last weekend. In their first ...
Author: Annie Onishi The Student Government Association (SGA) held its weekly meeting on Sunday in the Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room. It was the first meeting after the highly charged SGA and Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) elections of last week. Despite this, news of the ...
Author: Jack Lysohir Travel north to Bristol, Vt. to enjoy a scenic, gracious setting as well as a decent meal at Mary's Restaurant at The Inn at Baldwin Creek. Mary's Restaurant is a perennial favorite of Middlebury parents looking to take their kids somewhere a bit more formal than the usual Middlebury ...
Author: Michael McCormick After winning three of its last four matches, the Middlebury women's tennis team is in good position going into the NESCAC and NCAA championships. The Panthers have had four matches in April, prevailing in three of these and falling only to Amherst, 6-3. The team narrowly pulled ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:This Saturday, April 29, is the Neighbor to Neighbor Nationwide Democratic Organizing Canvass. The Middlebury College Democrats will be working with the Addison County Democrats on a Literature Drop around campus and in the Town of Middlebury. We would like ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Ryan Abernathey '04 (drums/guitar) Andrew Bishop '05.5 (vocals/guitar), Matt Longo '04 (keyboards/glockenspiel), Andy Lynch '03 (bass) and Allen Wilcox '05 (guitar/vocals) make up Penelope, the melodious, ever-rocking five-piece born on Middlebury's campus. Now relocated to ...
Author: [no author name found] This past Thursday, students flipped through their weekly editions of The Campus to find a single-sheet, illegally-inserted letter that displayed a shocking, though probably not uncommon, ignorance of society's most famous bastion of free speech: the newspaper.The unauthorized ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer and Thomas C. Drescher Patrol Officer Vegar Boe said that drugs and alcohol likely played a role in the two alleged sexual assaults that reportedly took place on the evening of Friday, March 31 in Prescott House as the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) proceeds with its ...
Author: Caitlyn Olson Forget AP classes. Each semester, a number of seniors from local high schools have the opportunity to take actual college courses here at Middlebury. The Dean of Student Affairs Office is in charge of this program, which offers 30 "slots" every term to students from Middlebury ...
Author: James Kerrigan Middlebury played host to the 2006 Women's Water Polo New England Division Championship this past weekend in the Natatorium. Six teams from five schools crammed in a total of 11 games over a 30-hour stretch, culminating in a thrilling championship game that saw the Yale squad ...
Author: Melissa Marshall It is a common occurrence for Middlebury students as well as faculty to read a poem or listen to a piece of music once a day, if not more. Sometimes one even gets adventurous and combines the two - just check out the numerous students in the library balancing a heavy volume ...
Author: Mike Murali On Tuesday, April 25, Elena Kennedy '06 traveled to D.C. to present the preliminary results of a study entitled "The Electronic Tether." Her work examines the continued influence that parents have on their children through frequent cellular phone contact.Kennedy, a psychology major, ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Beware of ... salamanders crossing?The colorful amphibians seem quite odd specimens to watch out for. They do not hold for individuals the equal fear as running into a bear on your travels nor the same awe of seeing a moose cross your path. But within the Otter Creek Preserve, ...