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COLLEGE SHORTS Bowdoin student suffers attack

Author: Jason F. Siegel More than one month after fending off a knifepoint attacker by hitting him across the face with a bottle of Tide, Bowdoin sophomore Joshua Cippel was attacked once again early last month in the same location.Cippel went to open the door in the stairwell leading from the laundry ...


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Women's hoops stays hot over Winter Break

Author: Sarah Luehrman As January begins, the 10-2 Middlebury women's basketball team charges ahead on its best start in four years. "We have great senior leadership and a lot of depth," comments head coach Noreen Pecsok on the team's midseason status. "And that should serve us well going into league ...


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Town hall tackles alcohol issue

Author: Jason F. Siegel In a sparsely attended meeting in John McCardell Jr. Bicentennial Hall, President of Middlebury College Ronald D. Liebowitz hosted a town hall meeting to discuss alcohol and social life on and off campus and its relation to federal laws, the first of two scheduled for J-Term.The ...


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The Reel Critic Brokeback Mountain

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 ...


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WRMC 91.1 FM On Rotation

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 ...


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Editorial

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 ...


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NSEP opens doors to different worlds

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 ...


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World Briefs

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 ...


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SGA crafts local transit plans

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 ...


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OVERSEAS BRIEFING

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, ...


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Ball 5

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 ...


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SPORTS BRIEFS

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 ...


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Planning committee issues draft

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 ...


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MIDDBRIEFS Trustees grant tenure to four professors

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 ...


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Liebowitz Attends D.C. Summit

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 ...


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J-Term à la carte students pick their specials

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 ...


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Men's squash still searching for varsity status Middlebury's squash club may not be an official varsity sport, but it certainly does not lack talent and ability.

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 ...