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 ...
Author: KELSEY RINEHART '06 After seeing the front page picture of Midd-kids bobbing about on pool floaties in the Natatorium and watching "Jaws," and after reading the accompaning article [Commons assert campus presence, Nov. 3, 2005] I felt compelled to respond. Those interviewed in the article praised ...
Author: Tom McCann Greece shocked the world when it won the European Championships in 2004, Porto came from nowhere to win the Champions League in the same year and more recently Liverpool did the same. All four African representatives at the World Cup in Germany - Angola, Cote d'Iviore, Ghana and Togo ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN PRAGUE - The advent of the TV-show on DVD has played a large role in shaping my study abroad experience. I have enough sense not to let "24" and "Gilmore Girls" dominate my life whilst in the Czech Republic. And when I say that I don't allow them to dominate my life, I mean that ...
Author: Ellen Grafton "Wabeno," a student show being put up in the Zoo, opens on Nov. 9 and promises to be something very different for the Middlebury theater scene. Produced by senior Jeff King, it seeks to break the rules associated with traditional theater and to create an exciting, new experience ...
Author: Dave Barker The shag carpet room in Starr Library is dying. Wrecking balls come in February to clear space for the new Donald Everett Axinn '51 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library. So on Monday, with College Project Manager Tom McGinn as my guide, I made my way up to the ...
Author: [no author name found] Harassment incidents beg correlative response The Islamic Society's claim that it is the target of harassment on campus must be addressed in a matter that is proportional to the events that spurred the accusations. The deletion of the Society's Web site at the request ...
Author: Joyce Man The Italians should be disturbed. From now until 2025, a giant pink bunny will lie prostrate and rotting from the inside out on the Coletto Fava mountainside with its arms, legs and ears flopping spread-eagled at its side, its entrails curling out and its mouth frozen in a tragic, ...
Author: [no author name found] For most Middkids, last Friday's evening meal was a typically uneventful precursor to the night's festivities. But for the 88 students who gathered at the Proctor Dining Hall entrance at 5:30 p.m., this was certainly not the case. These fortunate individuals were preparing ...
Author: Jonathan Brand After a close loss to the top-ranked team in the NESCAC last week, the Panthers could have lost focus and overlooked Hamilton - arguably one of the worst teams in the league. Fortunately, the team maintained its concentration and continued an impressive second half of the season, ...
Author: James Kerrigan After 29 years at Middlebury College, Russ Reilly is ready for some R & R, but chances are you will still catch him in the bleachers or on the sidelines cheering for his Panthers. Reilly will step down as the College's athletic director, effective June 30, 2006.Eleven years ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Are you that kid? If not, at least you know that kid - one of the incarnate forms of obnoxiousness responsible for souring dining hall experiences, making classes intolerable, killing the joy and generally crippling morale. I thought the College's Admissions Office would have ...
Author: Sara Jameson Powerful, sensual and surging with energy, the performances by Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers reflected the true art of choreography, grace and vigor. The performances of the company's two works, "Rein, Bellow" and "Ripe for Hysteria," ranged from displays of other-worldly ...
Author: Zoey L. Burrows Twenty students and seven professors congregated Tuesday afternoon in the Robert A. Jones '59 house for the second formal African Studies meeting in the past several years. History Professor and African Studies Director Jacob Tropp said the meeting was long overdue in light of ...
Author: Sarah Poling Luehrman The Panthers' hopes for victory in this year's NESCAC tournament were dashed by a determined Trinity squad in a short three games during the quarterfinals last weekend. Middlebury finished the regular season tied for third place in the conference with Amherst, Williams, ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED AND TOM MCCANN, SPORTS EDITORS Giddings named XC All-StarAndrea Giddings '07 was named to the 2005 NESCAC Women's Cross-Country All-Conference Second Team on Nov. 1, after finishing the NESCAC Championship in 12th place. On Oct. 29, Giddings completed the 5k race in 18:29, stopping ...
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 ...