Author: Kathryn Flagg The Middlebury College Activity Board's (MCAB) annual spring concert will present a record three bands this year as hip hop giants Naughty by Nature and vocal percussionist Razhel join Jurassic 5 as supporting acts in the upcoming April show. The show, according to MCAB President ...
Author: Kelsey Smith PARIS - The French are revolutionary. Their model of democracy did not come about little by little, as was the case for their non-continental neighbors to the north, but in one fell swoop. In one fell swoop, mind you, that was the result of a serious, violent struggle. And as I ...
Author: Mike Murali On Thursday, March 9, two teams battled for the right to be the official Middlebury Iron Chefs in Ross Commons Dining Hall. Cook Commons' team, led by Jay Yonamine '07 with assistants Andrew Bermudez '07 and Charles Cavness '09, defeated the Wonacott Commons team, led by Maggie Higgins ...
Author: Julia McKinnon When climatologist Michael Mann appeared at Middlebury to give this year's Margolin Environmental Affairs lecture, Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics Richard Wolfson mysteriously presented him with a Middlebury College hockey stick.Why? Because Mann is nationally renowned ...
Author: [no author name found] The Campus certainly does not endorse cigarettes, but the issue that emerges from the recent debates following Community Council's proposal to ban smoking at the entryways to campus buildings is not a matter of health, but one of championing personal accountability over ...
Author: SALIM SAGLAM POITIERS, FRANCE - Concerned with their post-university career, the French students are on strike against Contrat Première Embauche (CPE), the new employment law proposed by the French PM Dominique de Villepin. This law enables the employers to fire newly hired employees between ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel and James Dolan Food occupies a special place in the lives of Middlebury students. Many plan their day according to when, where and what they are going to eat. As in other areas of life, students turn a critical eye to their food, questioning its quality, its source, its variety. ...
Author: Bri Cavallaro Visiting Professor of English Michael Collier is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (BLWC), teaches English at the University of Maryland, College Park and was named the Poet Laureate of Maryland in 2001. His books of poetry include The Ledge (2000), The Neighbor ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITOR Women's water polo goes 3-1The Middlebury women's water polo team put up a strong showing two weekends ago at the season-opening tournament at Williams College. The team won three of its four games against regional rivals at the competition to earn a tie atop the division ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Three months after Middlebury's faculty voted to merge the major programs in American Literature and English, opinions remain mixed as to whether the move was a good one. Proponents say the new Department of English and American Literatures reinvigorates an awkwardly organized ...
Author: Liz Campbell In response to increased campus-wide concern about social life at Middlebury College, Ann Hanson, dean of Student Affairs, and Tim Spears, dean of the College, have invited students to participate in a task force on student social life. The Committee will convene throughout the ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN In small towns where the village center usually consists of a main road and two, maybe three more densely populated avenues, parents generally do not warn their children to stay "off da street." Instead of the sight of drug hustlin', the streets in rural villages are simply what ...
Author: Scott Greene The Middlebury College faculty met on Monday, March 13 in John M. McCardell, Jr., Bicentennial Hall to discuss a proposal regarding changes in tenure and reappointment appeals procedures, a new faculty-inclusive admissions strategy and current elections for the Educational Affairs ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER I wake up dizzy in my single apartment. I live above a hair salon in town, and some mornings, when business downstairs is good, I can smell nothing but the toxic perm fumes rising from the floor beneath. Those old-school heated perm helmets that curiously resemble electric chair ...
Author: Katie Hylas Sunday March 12, the Student Government Association (SGA) met in the Robert A. Jones House to discuss a potential revision to the current smoking policy at Middlebury College. The Community Council's proposed revisions aroused emotion in both smokers and nonsmokers. In response ...
Author: Ellen Grafton The Hepburn Zoo hosted a new sort of production last weekend. On March 10 and 11, audiences filled the house for "The Petting Zoo: A Workshop," which featured six new plays written by Middlebury students. Each play lasted about 10 minutes and had its own cast and director. Similar ...
Author: Dave Barker Middlebury voters overwhelmingly supported the Cross Street Bridge location last week at the annual town meeting. I hope the $75,000 appropriated for the preliminary planning and engineering of the span that will cut across Otter Creek next to Mr. Up's leads to the construction of ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus Students, faculty and townspeople gathered in Dana Auditorium this past Thursday to view a program devoted to exploring and celebrating the work of Larry Kramer. Kramer, a renowned gay rights and AIDS activist as well as a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and non-fiction writer, ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND LISIE MEHLMAN College admissions consider SAT errorsEarly last week, the College Board disclosed that moisture damage on answer sheets had led to the incorrect scoring of 4,000 SAT tests of students throughout the Northeast. The admissions offices of Vermont's University of ...
Author: Polly Johnson UPenn students caught in fireSix University of Pennsylvania students and one Bryn Mawr student were sent to the hospital on March 3 after a raging fire erupted at about 3:30 a.m. in a three-story student rowhouse at 4042 Sansom St., a Penn residence. While five of the seven students ...