Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH "Brokeback Mountain" tells the tragic story of two cowboys who meet and fall in love while ranching sheep in the mountains of Wyoming during the summer of 1963. Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), an introverted and simple man, makes every effort to keep to himself. Jack Twist (Jake ...
Author: Benjamin Golze The beginning of the year is the time when lazy music writers across the country take the easy way out for one more week by looking back at the year gone by, and then making wild, unsubstantiated claims about the next year's trends. So, without further ado, I present the all-inclusive ...
Author: [no author name found] The Planning Steering Committee's recently released comprehensive report demonstrates an admirable commitment by the distinct constituencies within the Middlebury College community to make the College a better place. The challenge of compiling the first such report ...
Author: Adam Swick '06 The experience of studying in another country is for most students a time of intense personal growth in addition to the academic benefits, and fortunately the majority of Midd-kids do study abroad. However, when planning to study overseas many students ask two questions, how will ...
Author: Caroline Vial Peace my friend, Adopt a Carrot...Is your darling a vegetarian? Make him/her happy: adopt a vegetable. As most people know, we cannot begin counting the varieties that are slowly extinguishing. Save these endangered species by placing them in a safe haven, a grain conservation ...
Author: Kris Knapp and Jason F. Siegel The Student Government Association (SGA) held its first meeting of 2006 on Sunday night in the Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room to go over its accomplishments from the fall and to set its agenda for the winter and spring terms. SGA President Eli Berman ...
Author: BERNARDO PURON BUENOS AIRES - On Nov. 2, 2005, the U.S.-based group Youths Against War and Racism called for a nationwide student walkout in opposition to the war in Iraq. Most high schools required students to have their parents sign permission slips in order to "walk out."Following the protest, ...
Author: Justin Golenbock The most phenomenal trend in the NFL this season has been the increasing emergence of Clinton Portis as my favorite human being. While re-watching the tape of his newest pre-game alter ego, "Coach Janky-Spanky," I realized that there was something startingly familiar with the ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed Raeder earns POTW honorsThe Middlebury men's hockey team's first-year goaltender Doug Raeder was named NESCAC Player of the Week for men's hockey for his work during the week of Dec. 26 to Jan. 2. Raeder guided the Panthers to two wins in the Middlebury College Holiday Classic as ...
Author: Ryan Reese The Campus: How long have you been skiing?Anna Furney: I've been skiing since I was two and I grew up skiing at cochran ski area in vermont. I started racing when I was 6 and then I moved over and competed on the club team at Stowe. I went to the Winter Academy in Vermont for high ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Planning Steering Committee convened during the holidays to make final revisions to the planning process report, officially releasing its Strategic Plan Draft on Jan. 4. Relying on reports and recommendations from 15 task forces and committees, surveys of several groups in the ...
Author: ANNIE ONISHI At its Dec. 15 meeting the Board of Trustees granted tenure to four faculty members, promoting them to the rank of associate professor. Professor of Political Science Erik Bleich, Professor of Economics Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Professor of Economics Jonathan T. Isham Jr. and Professor ...
Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz joined over 100 other college presidents last week in Washington, D.C., for the Defense Department's Summit on International Education. During the two-day summit, President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to strengthen the foreign language skills of American ...
Author: Mallika Rao and Rachel Durfee J-Term proposes that filling a Midd-kid's day with a less traditional curriculum will inspire him or her to seek out interesting ways of filling it. The best way to see this theory in action is through the unique J-Term classes and workshops - a combination of ...
Author: James Kerrigan Middlebury's squash club may not be an official varsity sport, but it certainly does not lack talent and ability. Squash club members practice and play in five courts inside the Bubble, the sort of ugly duckling of the renovated athletic facilities. They have no jerseys or Web ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed While most Middlebury students were enjoying a relaxing Winter Break at home, the women's swimming and diving team was training hard in Florida to stay in shape for the season. After returning to campus, the Panthers showed how much their hard work paid off, continuing their strong ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The Middlebury College Faculty voted for the creation of a new department and major in English and American Literatures and a new program in American Studies during its December meeting on the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 12. The final count in paper ballots for the proposal ...
Author: Sean P. Breen The Black Sheep Bistro is certainly the most "European" of restaurants easily available to Middlebury students. As the former chef of the famed Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh, Michel Mahe opened Black Sheep Bistro in 2002 with the vision of a simple French bistro and an uncomplicated ...
Author: Bri Cavallaro Geof Prysirr is a professional acting coach, actor and writer from Los Angeles, Calf. This January, he joins the Middlebury community to teach the class "Acting for Film and Television."The Middlebury Campus: What brings you to snowy Vermont?Geof Prysirr: I became familiar with ...
Author: LAUREN SMITH As an American studying in London for several months last year, I was exposed to harassment from my flatmates on everything from Bush's questionable relationship with Tony Blair to the way that American institutions like McDonalds and Burger King have made their way across the ocean. ...