Author: Joyce Man At one point, as a sea of red light filled the background and an excited flurry of wind chimes and Tibetan chants rolled across the stage, Anita Ratnam ignited the stage with her swirling, grooving movements. Her arms, snakelike, slithered through space. In the dimmed atmosphere of ...
Author: JESSICA EARLY '09 At a rapidly increasing number of colleges across the country, students are organizing in a growing movement to question the practices behind the investment of their schools' multi-million-dollar endowments. Guided by social, ethical and environmental concerns, they see to ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz confirmed on Monday that Ann M. Veneman, executive director of UNICEF and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, will address members of the Middlebury College Class of 2006 at their commencement on May 28. The College will also ...
Author: Maia Hollinger One of my favorite methods of procrastination in the new library entails envisioning its creator, the genius who confused the word "library" with the word "party." Now, I love a good party just as much as the next person and I have embraced the social scene that is the library, ...
Author: [no author name found] INDIA, PAKISTAN TALKSPRESIDENT BUSH LEFT THE REGION ON GOOD TERMS AFTER LENGTHY NEGOTIATIONS WITH BOTH PAKISTANI AND INDIAN LEADERS. INDIA EMERGED AS THE BIG WINNER AFTER THE WEEKEND VISIT, GARNERING BOTH A U.S.-LED INITIATIVE FOR CIVILIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND ...
Author: Daniel Roberts '09 I remember back when I was a junior in high school, and I was deciding which schools to visit. I would bust out my good old reliable Princeton Review Guide, and read up on the relentless detritus contained on each school's page. There were overall ratings for a school's academics ...
Author: Josh Carson Vermont liquor Inspector Michael Davidson confirmed this week that an investigation into underage drinking at local establishments has been launched. Because the investigation is ongoing, David son would not comment on specifics regarding both the impetus for and the method of investigation. ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Contemporary art is hot. Think lying on an asphalt high-rise rooftop, mid-day, mid-June; a 1920s forbidden French cabaret; or Sean Connery circa very early James Bond. Hot. Sizzling in fact. Just one step into a top New York, London or Paris gallery causes even the most expert ...
Author: Jake Cohen Last Sunday, Middlebury was home to the third New England climbing competition this year. Climbers from Bates, Colby, Dartmouth, UVM, RPI and Miami of Ohio came to represent their schools and display their talents on the rock wall. In pursuance with climbing competition rules, no ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) recently confirmed that it has booked Los Angeles-based hip-hop group Jurassic 5 as the featured act for this year's spring concert, scheduled for Saturday, April 29 in Kenyon Arena. MCAB is also currently working to a secure ...
Author: Robbie de Picciotto Members of the Middlebury indoor track team traveled to Connecticut last Friday, March 3, for a meet hosted by Trinity that was held on Yale's campus. This was titled the "Last Chance" meet because it was the final opportunity for individual racers to qualify for the NCAA ...
Author: Julia McKinnon Looking for a clean slate? If you were in the Great Hall in John M. McCardell, Jr. Bicentennial Hall this weekend you would have been surprised to find two Tibetan monks clad in orange robes working on the creation of a mandala. A mandala is a meditative exercise in the impermanent ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN The Winter Olympic Games, filled with bright-eyed victories and unexpected defeats, will not come again for another four years. But just in case four years of curling training fails to win you a spot on the U.S. national team, you may wish to consider fulfilling your desires of ...
Author: Zmira Zilkha Alex Hay '05 recently received an exclusive internship opportunity at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Dc. The reputable institution, founded in the early 1970's, produces a variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, multi-media performances ...
Dana Morosini Reeve '84, a Middlebury alum and widow of the late actor Christopher Reeve, passed away on Monday night after a battle with lung cancer, which she announced she had contracted this past August. She was 44 years old and a lifetime nonsmoker. As chairwoman of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, ...
Author: KELLY BLYNN BOLIVIA - I've been in Bolivia for almost a month now, making my way through the challenges and excitements of being in a new culture, relearning and improving my Spanish and meeting new people. My program is based in Cochabamba, a city of 800,000 people or so, nestled in a valley ...
Author: Bille McKibben Many thanks to The Middlebury Campus for publishing Michael Jou's essay last week "Think about it, global warming does not exist, March, 3" asserting that the theory of global warming is a hoax; it's extremely important to air these kind of views because they are fairly widespread ...
Author: James Kerrigan For the second straight season, the Middlebury women's hockey team captured the NESCAC title with a victory over Bowdoin. Where the Panthers emerged from the Championship game with a 5-1 victory last year, they improved on the margin of victory this time around, winning 8-2 last ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Recently, Middlebury first-year and senior students received e-mail invitations to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The NSSE is a questionnaire that is being given to students at hundreds of colleges and universities. Results ...
Author: [no author name found] The behavior of Middlebury students at Mr. Ups this past Wednesday night reflects poorly on the entire student body. Underage students who were at the bar illegally deserve to be reprimanded by local authorities. The arrival of Vermont State Liquor Investigator Michael ...