Author: Peter Viola '06 As renowned television broadcaster and defender of democratic values Bill Moyers has noted, one significant trait of the current political culture is that "the delusional is no longer marginal." Rabid ideology, feeding upon so-called "truthiness" and distortion of the facts, ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Student Government Association (SGA) convened Sunday in the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room to resolve current proposals that have not yet been finalized and to set forth final goals for the remainder of the spring semester. At the top of the list was the E-mail List Control ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITOR Panthers honored by NESCACLast week, the NESCAC named the All-Conference teams for winter sports and, not surprisingly, a number of Panthers were selected for their impressive performances during the season.The Middebury women's hockey team collected the most accolades, ...
Author: Geoffrey B. Shields, President of Vermont Law School Today the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Rumsfeld v. Fair, upholding the right of the U.S. government to cut off funds from educational institutions that require all those who recruit on their campuses to assure equal treatment ...
Author: Katherine N. Doorley In a strong statement issued last week, the President Pro Tempore of the Vermont Senate and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Peter Welch called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Welch's comments were quickly posted all ...
Author: JOYCE MAN "Punch is nothing without lemon." So read the masthead motto for Punch, a British satire magazine famous for its caricatures that gave the word "cartoon" its modern usage. The saying began as a joke on the magazine's first editor, Mark Lemon, but, stretch its meaning out (exaggeration ...
Author: Tom McCann, Sports Editor The Campus: How did you turn things around against Wesleyan last weekend?Jeff Smith: Well, it was a slow first period - we only had four or five shots, and that was like a wake-up call that they were for real and it's the playoffs and we could possibly be done for the ...
Author: Julia Mckinnon Like many students at Middlebury, Sean Breen '06 went abroad during his junior year, made phenomenal friends and gained life experiences and new skills. But instead of becoming fluent in Arabic or Russian, Breen became fluent in another language - the language of wine. Breen has ...
Author: Rachel Durfee The town of Middlebury is poised to hold its annual Town Meeting next Monday and Tuesday. Among the items to be discussed are the town budget and appropriatesion, as well as a proposed bridge to be built across Otter Creek. The Town Meeting is a tradition unique to New England, ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Sophomore Kelly Brush has regained feeling at chest level and above after suffering severe spinal cord injuries during the recent Williams College Carnival. Brush, a member of the women's varsity alpine ski team, is currently listed in stable condition at the Berkshire Medical ...
Author: Mckenzie Hale SEGOVIA, SPAIN - At 7 a.m. my alarm went off - time to head to Salamanca. I generally use my weekends here in Spain for jetting to various locations within this vividly diverse country. My friend and I rushed to the bus station, me nauseously hobbling in his wake as a result of ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Emmie Donadio is the Chief Curator of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Co-Faculty head of Atwater Commons. Donadio has worked in the museum since its inception in 1990, first as assistant director, then as associate director and, since 2004, as chief curator. Her most ...
Author: Emily Feldman It is difficult to believe that two years ago, when Ross Lieb-Lappen '07 decided to bring Relay for Life to Middlebury, he envisioned it growing into the phenomenon it has become. Not surprisingly, Middlebury students embraced the concept of an all night walk for Cancer research ...
Author: Dave Barker I caught up with SGA President Eli Berman '07.5 the other day. With over a semester in the books and a new one ahead, I thought it time to find out what students can look forward to from their representatives in the remaining three months. Judging from completed legislation, students ...
Author: JAKE COHEN AND POLLY JOHNSON Three new senators join SGA ranks after Feb. 28 electionsThree senators were voted into office for the Student Government Association (SGA) on Tuesday, Feb. 28. The elections only lasted 24 hours but an impressive voter turn out and a well-publicized campaign made ...
Author: Justin Goldenbock On Monday, a jury in Canton, Texas found Jeff Doyal Robertson guilty of shooting his son's high school football coach. Gary Joe Kinne, who survived the attack after weeks in critical condition and is now a coach at Baylor University, testified that he found Robertson waiting ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler I attended high school in Canada, where a "university" is a four-year institution and a "college" is a two-year community college. So on the day I graduated from high school, when asked by my friends' parents about my post-secondary plans I told them I'd be attending Middlebury ...
Author: Ellen Grafton Stepping onto McCullough stage last Wednesday, Claudia Stevens let out an eerie, crooning alien noise that reverberated through the audience. So began Stevens' one-woman show, "Dreadful Sorry Guys." "Dreadful Sorry Guys" combined vocals, piano and monologues to explore genocide ...
Author: Austen Levihn-Coon A four-year-old battle over the construction of the United States' first offshore wind project comes to the forefront this week as Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) proposes an amendment that would prohibit the construction of any major offshore wind farms within one and a half nautical ...
Author: Geoff Homer After an extremely difficult week coping with the devastating accident of teammate Kelly Brush '08 in last weekend's carnival at Williams, the alpine ski team had one goal in mind at the beginning of the EISA ski championships at the Snow Bowl: ski their best as a team. As captain ...