Author: ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITOR On Saturday, Dec. 3, the International Students Organization (ISO) held the first session of its inaugural Middlebury World Cup of Soccer in The Bubble of the Peterson Family Athletics Complex, bringing together students from across the world for some friendly competition. ...
Author: Justin Golenbock The handling of the controversy surrounding the New Orleans Saints' uncertain future seems poised to define the righteous reign of Paul Tagliabue, the current NFL commissioner who announced on Monday that the 2005 LSU/San Antonio Saints would return to the Louisiana Superdome ...
Author: [no author name found] 1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral 2. Iron & Wine - Woman King E.P. 3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 5. Beck - Guero 6. Interpol - Antics 7. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike 8. The Books - Lost and Safe 9. Low - The Great Destroyer 10. ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN As the Christmas story tells us, the three magi followed a "yonder star" over two millennia ago. They brought offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh, but the gift they sought lay beneath the Star of Bethlehem, guiding them "across a midnight clear." Unquestionably, the celestial ...
Author: Caroline Vial Rice and CIA prisonsTwo secret prisons operated by the CIA in Poland and Romania were closed to get all suspects off European soil before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe. Rice admitted shortly before her departure on Monday that the United States had ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In what was heralded as significant legislation from the Student Government Association, the SGA voted unanimously earlier this year to encourage professors to submit textbook requests to the College Store in a timely manner - the main thrust in an attempt to lower the rising cost ...
Author: Rachel Durfee College administrators and town officials met on Nov. 22 to gauge whether the College's promotion of on campus events minimizes the opportunities for students and parents to visit the downtown area. President Ronald D. Liebowitz and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Robert ...
Author: Joshua Carson As it turns out, wine and cheese isn't just a party theme. Also, Carlo Rossi and American cheese are not the only two options when planning one. A recent trip to Burlington's Smokejacks Restaurant on the corner of Church and Main Streets on the Church Street Marketplace corroborated ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Middlebury College's dancers are not professionals, but they do take their dance seriously. And so, it seems, does the audience. Last Friday's sold out performance, one of two showings of a dance course's culminating Fall Dance Concert, showed what its advertisements promised-"energy, ...
Author: Ben Salkowe "They should really spruce this place up," a friend recently noted when I showed them our Campus office. "You work in here?" another had asked earlier. And then there is the general look of disappointment when our first-year writers visit and are asked to sit on the stained dorm ...
Author: JOYCE MAN At about the time when the first snow came and the proposal to lower campus building temperatures by two degrees arrived in our e-mail inboxes, I realized that my heater was broken. Luckily, also at the same time, Wallpaper Magazine published a small yet lightening blurb about Luigi ...
Author: ALEX DEMAS '06 Over the past year and a half at Middlebury I have seen a dramatic change in the social life here on campus. My freshman year I went to one off-campus party while social house parties were the prevailing social scene. The current trend on campus, however, is that on-campus parties ...
Author: [no author name found] So I submitted my first job - sorry, career - application on Friday. In the cover letter I used the words "skills," "knowledge," "generosity," "achieved," "communication," "teamwork" and "experience" so many times that my self-description sounds even more unforgivably ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG, CAROLINE S. STAUFFER & JASON F. SIEGEL Student vehicle crashes after off-campus partyShortly after 3 a.m. early Sunday morning, Dec. 4, a vehicle carrying several Middlebury students drove off a dirt road after leaving an off-campus party. The tires lost traction on the gravel ...
Author: BRI CAVALLARO Bruce Davis is an Architectural Light Design major from Norwich, Vt. with a passion for spinning. The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been DJing for WRMC?Bruce Davis: I started halfway through my first term.The Campus: And what kind of thing do you play on your show?BD: It's ...
Author: Dave Barker There are many jobs at Middlebury that I would love to land. Titles like "Snow Bowl Manager" and "Chocolate Fountain Engineer" come to mind. Heck, I would double major in Chinese and Biochemistry for the chance to take the zamboni for a spin at halftime. You would have a tougher ...
Author: George Mayer The Middlebury men's swimming and diving team got back in the water on Saturday to take on the Lord Jeffs of Amherst in Amherst, Mass. Although the squad had several weeks to prepare since its recent competitions against Connecticut College and Tufts on Nov. 19, the Panthers fell ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The bulk of coverage given to Alpha Delta Phi's violation in the Dec. 1 edition of The Middlebury Campus gave an accurate description of what happened. Nonetheless, classifying the event as a large party is incorrect. Fourteen cases of beer for a team with ...
Author: ANDREW CARNABUCI '06 I am writing to express a position that I believe has been tragically underrepresented in the recent public conversation about the social houses and the pledge process. I am not myself a member of a social house, but I still believe that I am echoing the opinions of the ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer - Editor in Chief 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 ...