Author: SCOTT GREENE '08.5 "I believe diversity is an old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era."- Ron BurgundyCould Ron Burgundy have been a Feb? Most members of the Middlebury College community would completely reject such a proposition. Many would probably fall down laughing. After ...
Author: Jeff Klein During pre-season, men's basketball coach Jeff Brown saw promise in his young team. "The teamwork, cooperation and work ethic are all strong," he said at the time. Six games into the regular season, his words are ringing true - unbelievably true.In front of a boisterous Middlebury ...
Author: Daniel l. j. Phillips Undercover police to patrol at ColbyAccording to the deputy police chief of Waterville, Maine, undercover police officers will be dispatched to patrol the Colby College campus to curb underage drinking after another weekend of heavy drinking. Last weekend, five female Colby ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN AND KRISTIN NIELSON This week's Overseas Briefing is brought to you by veteran Campus columnists Lisie Mehlman and Kristin "Claire" Nielson. Mehlman and Nielson co-authored "Beyond the Bubble" last year, a recurring column that documented their adventures beyond Middlebury College. ...
Author: RYAN W. REESE, SPORTS EDITOR Snow Bowl set to open slopesSince the winter's first true snow fell this past weekend, many Midd kids were finally satisfied to know that the white stuff and winter sports are on their way. Middlebury's own Snow Bowl has announced that its tentative opening day is ...
Author: Michael McCormick The Middlebury women's squash team got its season off to a luke-warm start this past weekend with two wins and two losses at the Wesleyan Round Robin Invitational. On Friday, Dec. 2, the Panthers played their first competition of the season against Bates, the ninth-ranked team ...
Author: James Kerrigan The green grass of Battell Beach was host to the first annual Middlebury Muggle Quidditch World Cup on Sunday, Nov. 20, with the trophy awarded to the formidable Falcons. Battell Beach has been home to countless activities during each season over the past few years. From pigskin ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Social house pledge events ground to a halt last week after College employees found and reported 14 30-rack cases of beer in Alpha Delta Phi (ADP). The cans were used as evidence of an unregistered party at ADP and shed light on a pledge violation. While pledge resumed this Tuesday ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese Many teams struggle with winning a championship and encounter a sluggish start to the following season or get knocked off by teams gunning to defeat the defending title-holders. There is always a danger of slacking off, looking down from the top of the polls or getting blinded ...
Author: Polly Johnson With all our attention focused on our own lives and our own work, sometimes we forget to look around us and notice the interests and pursuits of those close to us. Unbeknownst to many, a number of Middlebury faculty have for a year been involved in the Race and Ethnicity Reading ...
Author: KATIE FLAGG '08 I have to admit that, when it came time to choose a college, Middlebury was impressive. I found myself fond of the picturesque campus. I was won over by the facilities, by the professors in tweedy jackets and by students in performance fleece. I decided that I simply had no ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel A recent survey regarding a decrease in the temperature of campus buildings shows that student opinion is generally in favor of the initiative to lower the temperature of classroom buildings and dormitories by two degrees Fahrenheit.The sponsoring committee, a division of the ...
Author: Caroline Vial GIANT SQUID, GIANT...Scientists once thought that nobody had a more tumultuous sex life than top models and athletes. New research, however, demonstrates that the giant squid wins the prize. Five beached squids on the Spanish Atlantic coast revealed the secrets that were up until ...
Author: Liz Campbell On Nov. 14, the Parton Health Center announced the arrival of the first doses of flu vaccine for Middlebury College students. But of the 500 doses ordered, only 100 were initially received during the second week of November, followed by a mere 50 additional vaccines a week later. ...
Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt Associate Professor of American Literature & Civilization Will Nash plays bass in the Doughboys, Middlebury's all-faculty band which will be rocking the Grille scene tonight from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m.The Middlebury Campus: How did the group start?Will Nash: We started playing ...
Author: MATTHEW HALE '93 Although the merger of the English and American Literature majors was recently changed to include one required course in nineteenth-century American Literature and one required American Literature elective, this last-minute adjustment does not substantively alter the fact that ...
Author: Justin Golenbock "OH, MY GOD, WE'RE HAVING A FIRE…sale…OH, THE BURNING! IT BURNS ME," shouts Florida Marlins General Manager Larry Beinfest into his cell phone."Could you maybe try that…simpler," responds principle Red Sox owner John W. Henry, and just like that an aging, cost-ridden ...
Author: Katie Glass We are meant to remember college as the best years of our lives - a time of self-discovery, newfound independence and the establishment of lifelong friendships. At the same time, however, there is always the underlying stress associated with doing well in school and keeping up with ...
A new report in The Chronicle of Higher Education shows that President Emeritus John M. McCardell, Jr., was one of a handful of presidents paid more than $1 million by their institution in 2003-04. It also revealed that during the rest of his presidency, McCardell was making merely a fraction of that ...
Author: [no author name found] This semester's social house pledge incident - an unregistered party hosted by Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) at which pledges were present that resulted in the house's probation until the end of January - is being portrayed as an isolated case in a generally smooth and successful ...