Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND LISIE MEHLMAN College hosts multiple environmental speakersAn institution known for its environmentalism, Middlebury College will host two environmentally-minded speakers next week. Essayist and acclaimed environmentalist Scott Russell Sanders will speak in Dana Auditorium ...
Author: STEPHANIE PRITCHARD '06 When I came to Middlebury as a first-year almost four years ago, we didn't have access cards. Residence Halls were only locked between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. and you used your room key to get into the building. We didn't have blue lights or emergency button call boxes and ...
Author: Aylie Baker "Activists by definition have to be optimistic," explained Saad Eddin Ibrahim in a lecture on Thursday, April 20 at the Robert A. Jones '59 House (RAJ). However, Ibrahim's talk , part of the Charles P. Scott Symposium, "Religion, Nation, and State," also conveyed a marked sense of ...
Author: Dave Barker He has been president for almost two years, but do you really know the guy who occupies an office the size of a few Painter singles? Armed with a tape recorder, I entered the unknown confines of Old Chapel, hoping to get some answers. Considering that a Facebook Group called "John ...
Author: CAITLIN CONNOLLY '06 By the time seniors graduate, 40 percent have visited the counseling center. While not all suffer from mental illness, many do. Mental illness touches everyone. It affects one of four people, and one of seven have a severe mental illness. It does not discriminate on the ...
Author: CLAIRE NIELSON AND LISIE MEHLMAN The last time Markandbar came into town, there was a lot of antiquing and a lot of separation anxiety between Claire and Lisie. This time, there was less antiquing and more separation anxiety. When the Mehlman parental unit arrived in town, we jetted off to explore ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED & TOM McCANN, SPORTS EDITORS Women's golf takes home goldAfter recording a seventh-place finish in its first tournament of the spring season, the Middlebury women's golf team fared considerably better in its second tournament. The Panthers returned to Middlebury having captured ...
Author: Justin Golenbock To return to the roots of physical education in western society:In Ancient Sparta, young boys were required to attend six hours of physical training a day until their eighteenth birthday, in mind of the mandatory military service upon reaching that date. In the neighbor city-state ...
Author: Liz Campbell Two Middlebury students were rescued from Lake Champlain after their sailboat capsized last Tuesday evening, April 18. Chris Wearn '08 and Robbie Burton '08 were sailing out of Point Bay Marina in Charlotte, Vt. when a gust of wind capsized the boat, launching them into the frigid ...
Author: Katie Hylas This March, Associate Professor of English Timothy Billings was awarded a $181,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - one of the largest grants ever offered to a Middlebury professor. The grant is intended to foster higher level interdisciplinary competence. Billings will ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Vermont has always seemed a friendly and inviting state. Amiable neighbors smile as you pass on the street, people are constantly holding doors open and drivers halt at every crosswalk to let pedestrians and women with baby carriages safely cross. New York Staters, on the other ...
Author: Amy McCowan Completing its annual review evaluating each house's fulfillment of house missions, the Community Council Subcommittee on Social Houses recommended that all five of Middlebury's social houses continue operation in the 2006-2007 academic year. The Subcommittee, consisting of Chair ...
Author: Angelica Towne Frances Kendall, the facilitator of a March 30 workshop on "White Privilege," opened the event by asking, "Okay, firstly I want everyone tonight to talk from your heart and your gut, not your head. I know academia teaches us to try to sound smart and say what we know we're supposed ...
Author: Caitlyn Olson Fly fishing seems simple enough. Take a stick with some string attached to it and throw the fuzzy doo-dad at the end of the string in the water. Following this line of thinking, though, a person might as well reduce football to a bunch of spandexed men crashing into each other. ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen POLICE SHOOTINGMexican police shot and killed a man mistakenly identified as an illegal migrant worker Monday, infuriating local residents. Town residents rioted after the shooting, destroying two police vehicles and chanting slogans criticizing police for firing on fleeing ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed, Sports Editor Burke currently has a 6-3 record with a 2.20 ERA this season for the Middlebury softball team.The Campus: Why did you start playing softball?Brittany Burke: My sister played it when I was little. And so, I wanted to be like her. And my dad played with her, so I would ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Students may have noticed a slew of events on campus geared toward issues of humanitarian and environmental concern since the month of April began. For those who haven't, the posters, banners, sculptures and flyers represent a coordinated publicity campaign called "30 days of ...
Author: Caitlin Vincek Wandeirng into the Hepburn Zoo last weekend was like entering into a storybook. Once the show started, however, was not "Into the Woods," where it's not all princes and castles. Or it was, but with a twist.Most of the characters - Little Red (of the Riding Hood fame), Jack (who ...
Author: DREW EDELSTEIN '07 The past few weeks of Middlebury Campus articles have both brought to light and criticized the apathy epidemic that has struck Middlebury College. I want to dispel the notion that one can only change the world with a loud voice. The countless number of students working at ...
Author: JESSICA SINGLETON '08.5 and DAVID HOPKINS '06.5 On behalf of the Roosevelt Institution, we would like to congratulate the organizers of Midd8, faculty and staff participants, and those students who have joined our efforts to promote the United Nations Millennium Goals. The UN unveiled the eight ...