Author: DANIEL L. J. PHILLIPS Confession board stirs up WesleyanFollowing the trend set at Oberlin College, Wesleyan University launched and recently ended its Anonymous Confession Board - an online message board that provided space that invited students to post their opinions or concerns. The Confession ...
Author: BEN SALKOWE, KATHRYN FLAGG AND JASON F. SIEGEL Senior honored with Marshall ScholarshipIn a press release issued Monday, Nov. 28, the Office of the British Consulate-General announced that 43 young Americans had been selected for the prestigious British Marshall Scholarship next year, including ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL Some of you might know Gary Margolis as the director of counseling over in Centeno House. Others of you might know Margolis as the part-time Associate Professor of English. Still others of you might know him as the published poet. A jack of many trades, Gary Margolis simultaneously ...
Author: ANNABELLE CAZES PARIS - Upon waking up late one morning, I realized that all I had left to replenish my energy was some instant coffee, a few heart-shaped sugar cubes and a package of slimy lamb's lettuce. So I forced myself out the door and headed down to the corner grocery store, a modest ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen The College's Student Government Association (SGA) tackled issues surrounding off-campus transportation in a meeting on Sunday, Nov. 20. In the discussion, senators voiced their support for expanding busing options to outlying cities and providing students with safe rides ...
Author: Sarah Poling Luehrman Two tournaments in, it's safe to say that things are looking very good for the Middlebury women's basketball team this year. The Panthers currently boast a 4-1 record when they trailed 1-3 this time last year, and they are looking at another home game this weekend against ...
Author: Tom McCann, Sports Editor The Campus: Where did you go to school?Jimmy Butcher: I'm from Long Island - went to Garden City High School - public high school. Campus: Did you run there?JB: I did, I ran four years of track and four years of cross country. I was captain of my team my junior and ...
Author: Steve Beslow After opening the season with decisive wins at Tufts and Connecticut College, Middlebury's men's hockey team maintained its untarnished record at this weekend's PrimeLink Great Northern Shootout at SUNY Potsdam. Generally considered Division III's most competitive in-season tournament, ...
Author: Joyce Man Given that the International Students Organization Cultural Show is performed every November, making it an extravaganza for everyone who is not a first-year student is a tall order indeed. Yes, the diverse hodgepodge of cultures represented at Middlebury College ensures a certain number ...
Author: Joshua Carson Big game hunting is more than just a sport in Vermont - "It runs thick in the blood," said Stephen Waller, gunsmith at Pidgeon's Gun Shop. But the declining numbers of white-tailed deer, Vermont's most popular game, are threatening an industry which has deep cultural and financial ...
Author: Julia McKinnon "Confucius says that the greatest happiness is your students knowing more than you do," quoted Professor Sunhee Choi. This is a saying that inspires the academic life of Vermont Professor of the year Choi, department chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The Carnegie Foundation ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Since freshman year, one of my favorite weekly activities has been reading the Public Safety Log in The Campus. This short summary of petty crime illustrates that Midd-kids are creative, even in the thick of drunken debauchery - vandalized ceilings in public ...
Author: JORDAN NASSAR I like Scandinavia. I like kings. I like convenience. I feel like most people do. I also like remixes by many-a-favorite band of mine. And I especially like when it's all on one CD. What's this, you say? A CD exists that mixes the sound of the wind from the top of Sandviksfjellet, ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Great art, funk, more art, interpretative dance, some breakdancing, more funk and even more great art. So flowed the opening of the annual student art show, organized and curated by VACA (Vitality of the Artistic Community Association), in Lower Forest on Nov. 19. It was the ...
Author: Dave Barker On Thanksgiving, I gave thanks to Career Services. No, the folks at Adirondack House didn't hand me a free "Community Chest" card with the promise: "Get out of Parents basement for life." Instead, they brought etiquette consultant Jodi Smith to campus a couple weeks ago. What I learned ...
Author: Joseph Bergan The sun had long set last Sunday, Nov. 20, but the temperature grudgingly stayed warm around Mead Chapel, which at 7:30 was full with both students wandering in from Proctor Dining Hall and community members of all ages and varieties. All were gathered to usher in the holidays ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Ever wondered what a "kitchen tunk" is? Archivists and folklorists at the Vermont Folklife Center (VFC) have the answer for just about every random question regarding Vermont culture and history. The VFC is a haven for historians, teachers and regular folks with an insatiable ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Thanksgiving has to be the most depressing of the American holidays - and not just because of the awkward dinner conversations and general gluttony. I can't ignore the central irony surrounding the holiday: the Native Americans went out of their way to feed uptight, outcast whitey ...
Author: Ben Salkowe In a ruling from the Addison County Superior Court issued Tuesday, Nov. 8, the request of former Middlebury senior O'Neil Walker for a final injunction in the College's decision to suspend him last spring was denied. "Walker has not established a clear right to such extraordinary ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner and Josh Carson There are many things that Middlebury has just one of: one post office, one movie theater and one liquor store. And until recently, the town had only one Chinese restaurant, but with the arrival of China House, there is now a second. Located in the lot adjacent ...