Author: Jason F. Siegel Since the beginning of the academic year, fewer and fewer students have set up their voicemail accounts and are increasingly depending on their cellular phones, a trend that is worrying many College departments who depend on voicemail to communicate important messages.According ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The Middlebury Campus' recent color spread highlighting the Middlebury men's hockey team brought to light a disturbing trend that I've noticed over the course of the past two years: the exploits of the men's team are well documented, and the two-time defending ...
Author: Liz Campbell With the release of the Strategic Planning Report on Jan. 4, Middlebury College is entering a significant new phase of development. Over the course of J-Term, the Planning Steering Committee has opened discussion to students, faculty, staff and town members to encourage greater ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Emily Elizabeth, the gender-bending lead singer of Kiss Me Deadly, had the audience chanting "We are all alone" at the end of their show last Friday night. However, no one was alone in the sweltering Coltrane Lounge where music lovers and intoxicated undergraduates, looking ...
Author: Tristan Hayes On Sunday, Jan. 15, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz met with the Student Government Association (SGA) to review with his December meeting with the Board of Trustees, and to answer questions and address concerns members of the SGA presented. At a meeting the following ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca If you want to change Middlebury, now is the time. For the first time in over a decade, every aspect of Middlebury and its future is being rethought and revamped - and we can all have a say in it. The Planning Steering Committee released its report in the beginning of January, ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED AND RYAN REESE, SPORTS EDITORS Gilchrist '08 skates to POTWMiddlebury forward Mickey Gilchrist '08 was named the NESCAC Player of the Week for men's hockey for the week of Jan. 10-16 after tallying six goals and an assist to lead the Panthers to wins in three NESCAC games. Gilchrist's ...
Author: George Mayer The Middlebury men's swimming and diving team has been red hot thus far this J-Term. Over the past three weekends, the Panther squad has posted wins over NESCAC rivals Hamilton, Colby and Bates, as well as Union. While Union proved to be no match for the Panthers this past weekend, ...
Author: Annie Onishi The Middlebury College Honor Code, the document obligating every student to uphold his or her academic integrity, is undergoing its triennial update this year. The Community Council approved the recommendations made by the Honor Code Review Committee (HCRC) at its last meeting, ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher A chain of e-mails begun last week by Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) JS Woodward '06 and sent out to Student Government Association (SGA) members and select College administrators and Campus editors has prompted concerns regarding discord within the SGA's ranks.In ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith Sunday, Jan. 22, was a thrilling night in the world of competitive sports. The Steelers and the Seahawks both won conference championships and a place in Superbowl XL, and offensive juggernaut Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, setting three new NBA records ...
Author: Laura Barrett "If we are a leader in environmental campaigns, this problem best be a local, dirty secret," said Matthew Biette, director of Dining Services, discussing the problem of dishes disappearing from the dining halls. This year he anticipates spending over $40,000 on replacing china. ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer In response to issues raised last spring after a member of the United States Marine Corps was permitted to recruit on campus, the Dean of Student Affairs Office has organized a conference entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Solomon Amendment: Practices and Purposes" ...
Author: Gabe Broughton "Munich" is Steven Spielberg's second film in a year to deal at least obliquely with terrorism. Spielberg and his star, Tom Cruise, were quite vocal about their shared enthusiasm for the applicability of "War of the Worlds" to global terrorism. Of course, "War of the Worlds" concerned ...
Author: Dina Magaril While many in the Middlebury community commemorated Martin Luther King's Birthday by attending the ceremony at Mead Chapel, one group of students decided to take a trip to King's birthplace. Middlebury students, accompanied by Professor of History Jim Ralph '82 and Associate Professor ...
Author: Jamie Henn '07 The history of broomball is not written in books, but on the icy court in front of McCullough each winter. In an age when professional sports are dominated by corruption, steroids and traitors (curse you, Johnny Damon), broomball is a noble reminder of what sports should be all ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips With more spare time on your hands during J-Term, take advantage of your last three-day weekend and book a table at the Café Provence in Brandon. The restaurant offers an exciting change from the monotony of local Middlebury dining-out, but despite the quaint setting, ...
Author: Ryan Reese, Sports Editor The Campus: When did you start playing hockey?Shannon Tarrant: Umm, I started skating when I was three and didn't start organized hockey until I was in third grade. I played with the boys until seventh grade and it was really fun. Then, I played with girls and boys ...
Author: Dave Barker A recent Associated Press headline grabbed my attention at Atwater Dining Hall the other day, "College students lacking skills." I thought I would finally be reading an in-depth analysis of the lame, 2 a.m. pick-up line heard at McCullough on Saturday nights, "Shoot, I forgot my ...
Author: Justin Golenbock First, I wanted to write about the World Baseball Classic and how embarrassing and ridiculous it would be if we scuttled the whole thing by refusing to let Cuba play in the States for whatever economic reasons, but Jim Caple did a much better job of it for espn.com, and then ...