Author: ERICA GOODMAN Once there was a giving tree ~ Shel SilversteinWhile off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz, Dorthoy and company are grabbed by irritable trees as the girl from Kansas attempts to take apples from their branches. Indian mythology describes the Tree of the Sun and the ...
Author: Dave Barker I sent my acceptance card to Middlebury over four years ago with the foolish notion that I would be attending an outdoors resort. After the rigor of getting into a select liberal arts school, I figured that it would be all play and no work for four years in pastoral Vermont. The ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Owen Gutfreund, a Barnard professor and author of "20th Century Sprawl," delivered a lecture last Thursday entitled "Bridges and Bypasses: A historical perspective on a century of traffic and town planning in Middlebury." During the talk, Gutfreund used the history of automotive ...
Author: Rachel Durfee The setting is perfect: a quaint village in rural New England, where cows outnumber people and citizens smile and wave as they pass each other on Main Street. Idyllic in every way, time seems not to have interrupted life in this small town, where the dirty, exhaust-choked smells ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER It's the end of the spring semester and things are getting weird.For the past two years my column has been devoted to exposing the absurdities in campus life, but recently it feels as though the absurdities are no longer attempting to conceal themselves and are starting to run ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The Champlain Channel Five Reporter Ben Stein was on campus Friday asking students questions about the ongoing investigation into two alleged sexual assaults that reportedly took place in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 1. "Students in the area of Ridgeline Parking ...
Author: Christine Fisher Blogs, short for weblogs, constitute a new phenomenon that has experienced rapid growth in the past decade as more and more people become computer literate and gain access to the Internet. Once strictly relegated to the geek population, blogs are slowly but surely making their ...
Author: DANIEL HUTNER '06 The atrocities of the Darfur region in the Sudan are indeed troubling, and only compounded by the frustration of inaction. The international community's hesitation has led advocacy groups to look to alternative methods to produce change, promoting the divestment, or selling, ...
Author: COLE DOVEY '06 There must be a more serious consideration of the illegal insert into The Middlebury Campus (4/20/06) that defended junior Alex Stanton's campaign platform and criticized first-year Alina Levina's while personally attacking opinions author Viraj Assar '07. Modifying The Campus ...
Author: Erin Lackey On May 4, at 4:30 PM, Andrew Revkin will present a lecture on media coverage of climate change in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. This discussion, entitled "The Daily Planet: Why the Media Stumble When Covering Climate Change and Other 21st century Environmental Issues," is part of ...
Author: Joseph Bergan Community Council began the month of May with a decisive meeting dedicated to resolving the issue of the smoking ban on campus. After a short executive session in the beginning of the meeting to discuss Judicial Board nominations, the Council reconvened to discuss the smoking issue ...
Author: Tory Hayes On Sunday, April 30, the Middlebury men's tennis team seized its third consecutive NESCAC championship, with the tournament culminating in a showdown that should be remembered for quite a while.After squeaking by Amherst 4-3 on Saturday, the team was ready to face host school Williams ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:With the average price of a gallon of gas in the United States at $2.91, the fourth highest ever, and growing public unrest regarding the rising gas prices and the war in Iraq, there has never been a better time to refocus America's energy strategy on alternative ...
Author: MICHAEL R. GLIDDEN For almost 20 years, our household electric bill arrived addressed to "The Poor Farm," Middlebury, Vt., even though our family was not impoverished. Both my parents worked diligently to provide a home with food on the table. Yet in the 1970s during the OPEC oil embargo, my ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG SGA releases vote count for recent SGA electionIn an e-mail to the student body on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) announced the long-awaited results of the 2006 SGA Presidential and Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) elections. The e-mail explained ...
Author: Sara Jameson Whirling into the surrealist world of dreams and memory, Middlebury's production of Nelson Rodrigues's "The Wedding Dress" or"Vestido de Noiva", which opens today and runs through Saturday, strives to create a theatrical journey that will take the audience on a suspenseful ride ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Leave it to a Chinese person to do it: artistic outsourcing. This is exactly what one Shanghai artist, Zhou Tiehai is going for. The concept is simple: Zhou thinks up the ideas, then his minions, who are expensive and well-trained artists in their own right, carry out his every whim. ...
Author: Ellen Grafton In a Zoo season already brimming with sinister shows, "One Flea Spare" brought its own particular brand of dark drama to the Hepburn Zoo May 27-29. Written by Naomi Wallace and directed by Evan Dumouchel '06.5, it tells the story of four people trapped in a house during the 1665 ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed, sports editor Creed finished third in the hammer throw at last weekend's NESCAC Championship.The Campus: When did you start doing track and field?Whitney Creed: In sixth grade, in middle school.TC: Why did you start?WC: Because my gym teacher thought that I looked strong and I could ...
Author: Caitlyn Olson Many Americans would still be in the dark about the Rwandan genocide had Hollywood failed to step in with the production of "Hotel Rwanda." It is a sad truth that many atrocious events in the world must be popularized before they become a household name. But having a million dollar ...