Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt This summer the Bread Loaf School of English will open a fifth campus in North Carolina, President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced last Wednesday. The campus will be located at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) and will be the sixth to open since Bread Loaf's ...
Author: Annie Onishi With the Planning Committee for Middlebury's Future nearing the final quarter of its yearlong strategic planning process, Dean of Planning and Secretary of the College John Emerson said early this week that parts of the strategic plan may be released as soon as next month.While ...
Author: [no author name found] Tim Leavitt is a senior film major from Amherst, N.H. with a passion for production. To view video clips of Leavitt's past projects visit www.drippleproductions.com. The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been interested in film?Timothy Leavitt: I've been interested ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green, focus editor Despite having a reputation as being a predominately Caucasian campus, the Middlebury College Admissions Office remains committed to recruiting students of color. "We remain as committed as ever to making our student body as much of a microcosm of the greater ...
Author: Joyce Man "Brattleboro is a unique destination with its share of Who's Who," said Allyson Villars, one of seven organizers of the upcoming Festival 05301. Apparently, with a five-week-long schedule of events, this small Vermont location is also trying to expand its share of What's What.Proclaimed ...
Author: Jonathan Brand On a promisingly clear fall afternoon in Maine last weekend, the Panthers seemed to have the game won late in the fourth quarter. Their second win in as many years over Bowdoin was almost final. The headline was all but written: Unproven running back leads team to victory to open ...
Author: Peter Mueller On Sept. 27, Eastview at Middlebury, a new non-profit organization that facilitates retirement community living, began giving tours of its future site. As of now, there is little to see other than farmland, but the view is bound to change since the area is set to offer 101 new ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED, TOM McCANN & RYAN REESE Cronin earns NCAA award Recent Middlebury graduate Brittany Cronin '05 was named the Vermont State NCAA Woman of the Year after four years of sensational service to the Middlebury women's soccer team. The standout had a particularly impressive final season ...
Author: Brett Cluff When Professor of Biology Sallie Sheldon came to Vermont nearly 20 years ago, she faced a serious problem. Intent on studying relationships between fish and certain aquatic plants, she was frustrated to find that a single plant species had come to dominate many bodies of water here ...
Author: James Kerrigan The women's soccer team saw eight goals and two shutouts this past week. Unfortunately, they can only call one shutout and five goals their own. A 3-0 loss to Tufts on Saturday offset the 5-0 win over Norwich on Wednesday afternoon.Middlebury traveled to Norwich on Wednesday to ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA (Smog), formerly known as Smog, is the name adopted by singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, a pioneer of the lo-fi revolution. He debuted in 1988 with a cassette-only released entitled "Macrame Gunplay" and signed with Chicago-based label Drag City in 1991 after the release of the ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Whether you were sipping your piña colada in Cancún reliving spring break, in New York City on your way to your hedge fund internship or sitting in a dorm room talking to yourself in Chinese last July, you can bet someone here in Middlebury had you on their mind. That is because ...
Author: [no author name found] A joint challenge issued to students, administrationOn a sunny afternoon during finals week last May, Middlebury College students crowded into McCullough Social Space to hear College President Ronald D. Liebowitz address the mounting unrest on campus in response to the ...
Author: May Chan This Friday and Saturday, the Middlebury Dance program will bring a treat to kick off your weekend. "The Birdhouse Project", a performance directed by Andrea Olsen, Middlebury College professor of Dance, celebrates the 40th anniversary of Middlebury College's Environmental Studies Program ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Peter Plagens - painter, educator and novelist - is a visting professor of Contemporary Art and Criticism for the semester and was a Newsweek senior writer for fine arts for over 15 years. The Middlebury Campus: You have your hand in many aspects of the art world. What do you ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese The women's field hockey team took its show on the road this past weekend and wound up playing a matinee in Boston to a less-than-welcoming crowd. Their counterparts from Tufts were stiff and unprepared for the hardcore and unyielding style the Panthers typically bring. Being ...
Author: Sarah Luehrman After a successful and eventful NESCAC volleyball weekend hosted in the Pepin Gymnasium here at Middlebury, the Panthers hold a record of 4-3 overall and 2-1 within NESCAC thus far. "We got a good look at our competition this weekend," commented captain Lacee Patterson '07, "and ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH Imagine waking up one morning to find your current lover's bags packed and ready for departure, while simultaneously opening a mysterious letter enclosed in a pink envelope revealing not only that 19 years earlier you and an anonymous woman had a son, but also that this young ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I second Jake Kuipers' opinion printed in last week's paper [Notes from the Desk, Sept. 15, 2005].It is absurd that students living outside the New England area are provided with absolutely no support from Middlebury at the beginning and end of each semester. ...
Author: MIKE IVES 06.5' Please allow me a brief, but far from immaterial, history lesson: In 1883, workers at the Vermont Copper Mining Company in Rutland took up arms demanding payment of wages owed them by their employer. In response, then-governor Barstow called on the local regiment of the Vermont ...