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, ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed, Sports Editor Palmisano currently has a .581 save percentage and a 7.03 goals-against-average for the men's lacrosse team.The Campus: When did you first start lacrosse?Alex Palmisano: Uh, I started out in fifth grade, town team, just kinda playing with my brother. My older brother ...
Author: Joyce Man Beginning from the first week of January this year, Vermont has turned into what has been called the largest exhibition space ever, with a total 7,000 maple wooden palettes and an additional 30,000 paper palettes being manipulated in all kinds of artistic ways and displayed. Through ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith Well, in less than three weeks it will be the end of the semester, and the end of my first year here at Middlebury. What will I have to show for it? To be honest, I don't really remember it, and I was sober the entire time. Just yesterday, on my daily walk to the library, I stumbled ...
Author: Polly Johnson On Saturday, April 22, Clara Yu became the 12th president of the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS), an affiliate of Middlebury College since Dec. 22, 2005. Yu was formerly a faculty member, vice president for foreign languages and director of the Center for Educational ...
Author: [no author name found] Author, Harvard student accused of plagiarismOn Wednesday, April 24, Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan responded to accusations that she had plagiarized selections of her newly released book, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life," by acknowledging that ...
Author: JOYCE MAN There are traditionally two faces of the United Nations: gut-wrenching failure that exposes mankind's inability to collaborate, and lofty goals of unified action. To the first we attach the Rwandan genocide, the Oil-For-Food scandal and Darfur refugee camps. To the latter, we attribute ...
Author: Shannon Gymrek Over-achieving is something Middlebury Students know a lot about. Even taking that into mind, however, Kevin Vélez '06 has got to impress. Velez's senior 700 work, a new original musical entitled "The Legend of Cofresí," debuted on the McCullough stage last Friday. Velez not ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Professor of Computer Science Matthew Dickerson's publisher released commercially last week his new book entitled "From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy." Co-authored with Augustana College Professor and Middlebury alumnus David O'Hara '91, the work investigates ...
Author: [no author name found] "The Arctic Monkeys are burning up the charts" or "There's nothing chilly in fans' responses to the hottest new band out of the UK." Those are just a few very unfortunate taglines that manifested themselves in my head as I listened to The Arctic Monkeys' February release, ...
Author: EMILY THOMPSON "Lucky Number Slevin" wishes it were as good, or as lucky, as Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." Directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Jason Smilovic, "Lucky Number Slevin" illustrates a caricature of the elite crime world, found in many of Tarantino's films. The characters, ...
Author: Dan Stevens Following a hotly debated election last week, College administrators announced Friday that Alex Stanton and Annie Williams, both '07, will become Middlebury's next generation of top student leaders. Stanton and Williams, the new SGA President and Student Co-Chair of Community Council ...
Author: Joshua Carson This week, The Campus spoke with the Democratic candidate for Vermont's lone House seat, Peter Welch. Welch is currently the president pro tempore of the Vermont state Senate and is gearing up for the November election, one of the few competitive House races in the country. Both ...
Author: Dave Lee Three weeks ago, the Middlebury softball team appeared destined to make its unprecedented fourth consecutive NESCAC tournament appearance. After racking up an astounding 25 runs in the doubleheader against an error-plagued Castleton squad, the women were ready to resume their NESCAC ...
Author: Zoey Burrows When it comes to free entertainment, Middkids are pampered with astounding resources. FreshTracks Music (FTM), a brand-new music subscription service, is just one more resource that will be offered to students by the end of the year. Director of the Center for Campus Activities ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH The Internet is fast becoming as important of a tool to artists as a paintbrush. Undeniably, it is changing the way artists do business. Dealing with this side of things, though most right-brained visual artists despise the task, is absolutely necessary if one wants to get ahead ...