Author: [no author name found] Importance of rising grades inflatedInflated grade point averages at Middlebury College warrant investigation, but they should not be a cause for alarm.It must be noted that grades are not the only numbers going up at Middlebury - so are the standardized test scores and ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell "Poets are the most ruined people you'll ever meet," said Greg Delanty in his thick, burly Irish accent. It was Thursday night and I was sitting in on the first of the Ross Commons Poetry Series. The night's featured poet was Greg Delanty, a native of Cork, Ireland, who has ...
Author: Justin Golenbock It's Monday morning, Boston's just won the wild card, and it's all Sox talk, all the time. What are our chances, I ask? What do we need to do to repeat? "Johnny Damon needs to cut his hair," Jackie Laryea, '07, demands while breaking from her essay on Torture: the body in ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury's Student Government Association (SGA) opened voting for Student Senate at noon yesterday after struggling to recruit candidates from the classes of 2006 and 2007. With no competitive junior or senior races, the more crowded field of first-years and sophomores has ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Catwalk or gallery? That's what countless fashion and art critics have been asking themselves with increasing puzzlement over the last few years. Haute couture designers have always shocked with preposterous color, outrageous amounts of tulle and twinkle and, of course, ...
Author: Amanda Goodwin LONDON - I am finally on terra firma in London. This is a comforting statement because my abroad experience had a rather inauspicious start when my flight out of JFK was delayed for three hours due to the original aircraft's being struck by lightning. The arrival at Heathrow was ...
Author: Zmira Zilkha Upon hearing the term "classical music," the Western mind quickly jumps to Bach, Hadyn, Vivaldi and the great European composers of the late 18th century. This association is not the only definition, however, for in the case of Hindustani music, "classical" refers to the raga tradition ...
Author: Ian Thomas Fleishman Jaime Laredo, conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO), presented himself with an unobtrusive simplicity Friday night at the Center for the Arts, with an air that was often in stark contrast with the difficult nature of the repertoire. Not until after intermission ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team played two matches this past week traveling to Division I University of Massachusetts (UMass) and later hosting Tufts at the Proctor courts. The Panthers fell to UMass but were able to continue dominating their NESCAC competition with ...
Author: Tory Watts Thank God for Saturday night, or I would easily be able to cite last Saturday, due to my horrific laundry experience, as one of the worst days I've ever spent at Middlebury. Never again will I participate in the debilitated, corrupt, inadequate system of clothes-washing at this college. ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITOR Aldrich to end 31-year reign Nordic ski team head coach Terry Aldrich has announced that he will step down from the position following the upcoming season after holding the job for 31 years. Aldrich will remain on as head coach of the men's and women's cross-country ...
Author: Steve Beslow Consider the NESCAC officially on notice: Middlebury men's tennis is not going to be any easier to beat this year. After playing up to par with some tough Division I schools in last weekend's Cornell Invitational, the Panthers returned to their own weight class and completely dominated ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Middlebury College cricket club completed their first match of the year last Saturday, traveling to Williams to take on the Ephs in a friendly competition. The team, now in its sixth year of existence, played well but was overwhelmed by a surprisingly strong showing by the Ephs. ...
Author: Alison Lacivita Before "Float On", Modest Mouse was an eerie indie trio from the Pacific Northwest whose depressing, Americana-inspired lyrics helped many an early 90's hipster make late night drives on the interstate. Modest Mouse was formed in Issaquah, Wash.by singer Isaac Brock, bassist ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN The cow barns are much quieter at Paul Seiler's farm these days. The Swiss native started his American dairy-farming career in Woodstock, Vt., before relocating to Addison County. When Paul started up his own farm, he milked conventionally - meaning he ran his 40-50-cow dairy in ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Before I started at Middlebury, I had this ideal picture of college life. I would spend my weekends dressed in a professor-ly cord jacket, sitting on the lawn beside worldly friends, being "chill," discussing politics, drinking coffee, learning, growing, being. I'm a senior now, ...
Author: Jonathan Brand Even before the game started, everything went awry at Alumni Stadium on Saturday. A transformer blew out on campus and the press box lost power, rendering the scoreboard inoperable for the first three quarters. By the time power was regained and the board came on in the fourth ...
Author: May Chan For all enthusiastic theater majors and Shakespeare lovers on campus, London Theater Exchange (LTE) has been providing a cross-cultural experience on the techniques of voice and movement in Shakespearean and Jacobean text through an intensive three-week workshop which began on Sept. ...
Author: Michael Stefanik Autumn is a time for reflection and the appreciation of beauty. At the Middlebury Organic Garden it is also a time of celebration. With the annual Harvest Festival, the community and students come together to look back upon the accomplishments of the past year. Winding and twisting ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I could not agree more with Phil Aroneanu's article [We cannot forget the destruction, Sept. 29, 2005] that voicing opposition to a government you feel is acting wrongly is an act of patriotism. However, I think we all ought to be more careful with the current ...