Author: Andrea Glaessner For the second winter in a row, the Vermont state legislature will be forced to use state funds to provide heating cost assistance for low-income families. American consumers from all income brackets are forking over more money than ever to pay for fuel and - in colder parts ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips During its annual November meeting at the Kirk Alumni Center on Monday, the Faculty Council voted 104-62, with three abstentions, to strike down the Substitute Motion to preserve the American Literature and Civilization Department. The move to cast paper ballots on the ...
Author: Mallika Rao This past Sunday, Mead Chapel became the site of an intimate remembrance ceremony for the many victims of Hurricane Katrina as well as the city of New Orleans itself. The evening kicked off Middlebury's Hurricane Relief Week and was, according to one event organizer, Sarah Applebaum ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese After eight straight wins, the women's field hockey team finally ran into a roadblock. The Panthers were stopped short of a NESCAC title this past weekend after cruising through the second half of the season unbeaten. On Saturday afternoon, Williams moved on to the championship ...
Author: Annie Onishi The winter parking ban that went into effect Nov. 1 has created headaches for residents of Fletcher House, a Cook Commons residence. After a series of noise complaints from neighbors last year, parking in the Fletcher House parking lot was eliminated from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Thursdays, ...
Author: Penny Chen Following the sold-out run of "Falsettos" last year, the Music Department is producing its second musical. This year, they have chosen "Company," a "concept musical," or a musical made up of short vignettes connected by one theme that breaks all the rules of traditional music theater. ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Travel along NY Route 4 on any weekend and you will probably reach your destination a few cents poorer.Just over the Vermont border in upstate New York rests the small town of Whitehall. The hamlet of about 4,000 people asserts its title as the birthplace of the U.S. Navy. The ...
Author: Eri Nosaka "Super-seniors" Jeff King and Colby Hewitt could not have asked for a better farewell to their beloved Middlebury field. After a newly-won New England Championship, the men's team trounced Vassar College by a score of 60-5 in the Quarterfinals of the Northeast Territorial tournament. ...
Author: Tristan Hayes Eight years ago, emerging from a pivotal experience at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, David Weinstock founded The Otter Creek Poets. The group, free and open to all, meets weekly to workshop poems. This past week, I interviewed David on the role of the writing workshop and the ...
Author: Ian Thomas Fleishman The Muir String Quartet's performance on Sunday afternoon met with one of the warmest receptions ever experienced at Middlebury. The constant visual communication between the players was reflected as a unity of sound rarely achieved by even the most skilled and experienced ...
Author: Jason Siegel On Nov. 6, the Middlebury College community lost a member of its family when Lorraine Zak, 51, passed away following a year-long battle with cancer. Throughout her 25-year career at Middlebury, Zak played an important role in student life. After starting her work at the College ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland In June of 1971, a social phenomenon called the "Back-to-the-Land Movement" was beginning to build momentum across the United States. In an effort to escape the rampant consumerism of the 1950s, many people fled the polluted, industrialized cities for rural safe havens to pursue ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen In recent weeks, two separate incidents affecting the student-run Islamic Society's ability to communicate with the Middlebury community have led the club's leadership to suspect harassment. The events sparked a condemnation from President Ronald D. Liebowitz and are now ...
Author: Rachel Durfee There is a newcomer in town whose menu offers a return to the quintessential culinary classic often overshadowed by nouveau gourmet trends. Instead of boasting courses concocted in the now old-news Italian, Asian or Fusion schools, this new restaurant serves dishes derived from ...
Author: Justin Golenbock Don't think I enjoy this. Don't think I wouldn't much rather return to the sand dunes of Qatar camel racing. Or Adirondack Mountain Unicycling tour (UMX). Or even Canadian Underwater Hockey (invented in 1954 by an English scuba instructor…obviously). But it's not like ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel and Ben Salkowe MIT students have 'Sex' on their mindsIn an unusual departure from their highly scientific courses, some 24 lucky MIT students are analyzing a cultural phenomenon equally as complex: "Sex and the City."In an upper-level Women's Studies seminar called "Sex and ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate voted unanimously on Sunday, Oct. 30, to support the Textbook Requisition Forms Legislation, to be enacted immediately. The bill, co-authored by Brainerd Commons Senator and visiting Tulane student Jennifer Bowen, Atwater Commons Senator ...
Author: Katherine N. Doorley "Grandmas for Clean Air" and "Roast Coffee, Not Tires" were two of the many slogans displayed on the signs of protesters who gathered earlier this year to combat an International Paper Company proposal calling for a test-burn of shredded tires at its Ticonderoga plant. Vermont ...
Author: Dan Berkman With the top five runners on both the men and women's cross country team sitting out this race with regional's this upcoming weekend, the JV teams stepped up in their place for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) race. On a sunny and warm November day, the Middlebury runners ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA Perhaps I have just been studying for the GRE Literature for too long, but I could not help equating Homer and Virgil to the artists Pavement and Guided by Voices, and Holopaw to the neo-classicists. When I first began listening to what is now known as "indie rock," it was due ...