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. ...
Author: Mallory Falk Visiting Professor Will Stevens' J-Term class is anything but conventional. In "Eating Locally, Thinking Globally," students analyze their personal food histories and prepare dishes from scratch. They frequent local farms, visit an orchard or two and speak with beekeepers and berry ...
Author: Derek C. Schlickeisen It's no secret that there is a lot of drinking at Middlebury: every Monday morning, Busch Light cans litter the sidewalks and fill trash bags that pile up outside the supposedly dry first-year residence halls. But is drinking really becoming more prevalent? From 1972 until ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Ever since Al Gore invented the Internet, physical interactions have been replaced by electronic transactions. Now college students can even meet and greet friends on the Web thanks to Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg's online social networking solution Facebook.com. On Facebook, ...
Author: Annie Onishi Middlebury College Writer- In-Residence Julia Alvarez gave a lecture entitled "Chasing the Butterflies" last Thursday to kick off the College's observance of the "16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence" campaign. The '16 Days' Campaign is an internationally organized effort ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Board of Trustees will convene in New York City for its annual December meeting this Thursday. The main topic of discussion will be the Strategic Planning Process for Middlebury's future, while other items on the agenda include a discussion of the comprehensive fee and financial ...
Author: Tom McCann, Sports Editor The Campus: Where did you grow up?Erica Goodman '06: I grew up in Fort Anne, N.Y., which is about an hour away from MiddleburyCampus: Have you always played basketball? EG: Yeah, I've played basketball for about as long as I can remember, but I also played ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel Following months of negotiations, members of the Boards of Trustees of Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) met in Monterey, Calif., on Dec. 2 to sign an agreement to make MIIS an affiliate of Middlebury. The agreement also coincides with ...
Author: GEOFFREY B. SHIELDS A year ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided that the federal government could not penalize colleges and graduate schools for insisting that all on-campus recruiters, including the military, not discriminate based on sexual orientation. On ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL The word "Wright" can be substituted for both its other spellings, "write" and "right." It is for this reason that, given her occupation, Nancy Means Wright's name is a fitting, double-barrel pun.Wright is author of 11 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, five of which are ...
Author: [no author name found] Though Saturday evening's accident and its repercussions are still being processed, the incident should serve as a wake-up call to the College community - it is extremely fortunate that only minor injuries were sustained. Several points should be considered in relation ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland Need a ride? A white and yellow Addison County Transit Resource (ACTR) bus, the county's public transportation service, can take you there free of charge - both for you and soon for the environment.Waiting at any of the on-campus stops at Adirondack Circle, Old Chapel, McCullough ...
Author: ELI BERMAN '07.5 & FRANCIE KAMMERAAD '08.5 Earlier this month, the SGA and Student Educational Affairs Committee (SEAC) administered a 15-question survey to the student body to ascertain students' perceptions of grading trends and policies at Middlebury. There was no lack of interest: over ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Approximately 120 Middlebury students spent much of last weekend making their voices heard at the United Nations conference on global warming in Montreal, Canada. The trip's sponsor, the campus climate-change organization Sunday Night Group (SNG), hoped to increase awareness ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Take a look at one of the brightly-colored pamphlets decorating the tabletops of the dining halls on Monday mornings and anyone can see that the music scene at Middlebury is flourishing. From the increasingly popular Thursday night Pub Nights at The Grille, which host student-assembled ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt On Thursday, for the second weekend in a row, Hepburn Zoo opens its doors to reveal an entirely student directed and acted theatrical production. This week, "The Dining Room," a collaborative directorial endeavor of Myra Palmero '07, Ben Salkowe '07 and Lisa Zaval '07, takes ...