Author: KATHRYN BROOKS FLAGG College produces four Watson nomineesMiddlebury College boasts four nominees for the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Proposals from Lauren Markham '06, Molly Nora '06, Alison Shapiro '06 and Amber Trotter '06 have been selected by the College to vie for Fellowships ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I was dismayed to come across the review [Mae-Shi concert flops and flails, Nov. 3, 2005] of the Mae-Shi concert in Coltrane Lounge. I found the criticisms to be narrow-minded and unhelpful.It has been my pleasure to attend many diverse cultural events on ...
Author: Joshua Carson The College is teaming up with Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) to explore the possibility of providing free Saturday bus service to and from Burlington. The initiative was conceived this summer when Jim Moulton, executive director of ACTR, invited Student Government Association ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH This past Saturday night, students, faculty and visitors poured into Dana Auditorium and after filling the chairs, they sat on the floor and even stood in the corners to see the remarkable documentary, "Born into Brothels." Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ...
Author: Grace Duggan Chris Lizotte is a junior from Nashua, NH, with a passion for jazz. He has played in numerous bands, including Larson.The Middlebury Campus: When did you start playing saxophone?Chris Lizotte: When I was in fifth grade, and there's no cool story behind it. It was just sort of starting ...
Author: Stephanie Pritchard The weekend before Halloween and the Head of the Fish Regatta mark the end of Middlebury Crew's fall season. The Head of the Fish in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is famous for its laid-back atmosphere, poor weather and the costumes that some crews wear. Fortunately this year ...
Author: Ellen Grafton The pursuit of love and all its complications is a heavy matter indeed, but with this theme, the Hepburn Zoo season came to a light start last Thursday in the 10th annual first-year show, entitled "Slightest Folly." The production was directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of ...
Author: Jack Lysohir The Roosevelt Institution's Middlebury Chapter hosted over 100 students and faculty for its kickoff event last Thursday evening. The event celebrated the official launch of Roosevelt's Middlebury Chapter, which was founded last spring. It was held in the Robert A. Jones '59 House ...
Author: Chris Knapp A committee of Middlebury College faculty members has proposed the creation of a linguistics program at the College, which, if approved, would come into existence beginning with the 2006-2007 academic year.The College currently offers a number of classes in linguistics which enjoy ...
Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt On the afternoon of Oct. 24, approximately 15 members of Hillel and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) joined forces to remove proselytizing flyers aimed at Jews from books in the Main Library and followed it with a discussion over dinner. The flyers were concentrated ...
Author: Gabriel Broughton The Refugee All-Stars, the new documentary by Banker White '95 and Zach Niles '95.5, took Middlebury's audience into the volatile regions of Sierra Leone and the West-African nation of the Republic of Guinea last Saturday evening. Screened in Dana Auditorium, the film explored ...
Author: Penny Chen Walking into Coltrane Lounge on Friday night, one would have been surprised by the people in the half-empty room attempting to dance to the ruckus created by several half-naked bodies on stage. The latter was a band called The Mae Shi.The Los Angeles quintet, although pleasing the ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG French dept. publishes Montreal travel guide Taking a trip across the border? The Middlebury College French Department announced last month that it will again publish "Vous Allez à Montréal," its free travel guide to Montreal. The guide, published in French, is designed to guide ...
Author: Christine Fisher "There's no such thing as a free lunch, let alone free beer."The mention of "free" beer and pizza offered at Middlebury Campus Activity Board (MCAB)-sponsored Pub Nights in a Sept. 29 Middlebury Campus article raised the eyebrows of town officials on the grounds that Vermont ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Pepin gym was filled to capacity with students, parents and teachers that were on hand Saturday night to see The Capitol Steps, the political comedy group lauded by the Washington Post Reader's Choice for best live theater in 2005. Known for their biting political satire, they ...
Author: Polly Johnson Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, spoke to a Mead Chapel audience of students, visiting parents, faculty and staff last Friday, delivering an eloquent, thought-provoking, inspiring and often side-splittingly funny reading of his poems.Reginald L. Cook Professor ...
Author: Justin Golenbock The organizational contrast of ingenuity vs. chaos that is the Patriots vs. the Red Sox took another turn for the dramatic this past Sunday. In one of the most stunning and inspirational sports comebacks of my lifetime, Patriot Defensive Captain Tedy Bruschi returned after ...
Author: Joshua Carson Everyone has been in this situation. You are walking back from the mailroom, along College Street or up the hill from BiHall. Maybe it's during class or late at night so no one is around. And then, on the horizon, you see another student approaching. This starts the mental process: ...
Author: Rachel Durfee, Francesca Filippelli Looking to avoid that awkward morning-after confrontation in the dining hall? Tired of holding your cumbersome tray as you wait for your made-to-order Ross omelet? Turned off by the prospects of yet another cup of acidic "Central Highlands Brew"? Might we ...
Author: Rachel Durfee In the wake of two of the most destructive hurricanes this nation has witnessed, a group of volunteers from the Vergennes Volunteer Rescue and Middlebury Ambulance squads recruited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responded to a nation-wide call for outside support. ...