Author: JEFF PATTERSON Hail Mary! Doug Flutie will be backing-up Tom Brady this year as the New England Patriots try for their third Super Bowl in four years. Flutie will be looking to add a Big Game ring to his three Canadian Football League Grey Cups. I think that Doug Flutie running a naked bootleg ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Let me be one of the first to say this: Congratulations to the Class of 2005. As you move beyond the Middlebury bubble, I wish you happiness and good fortune. Your four years are surely filled with memories and lessons, both good and bad, which will be with you always. Like those ...
Author: ROSS LIEB-LAPIN ’07, MEG YOUNG ’07 We would simply like to express our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the Middlebury Community for the unsurpassable enthusiasm and support with which you received the American Cancer Society's second annual Relay for Life at Middlebury College. Last Friday, ...
Author: RYAN REESE, SPORTS EDITOR Midd sports to host tourneys There is no need to tally the great levels of success achieved by nearly every Midlebury sports program. Now with most Midd-kids gearing up for finals, many Panther teams are gearing up for postseason tournaments. With Panthers teams being ...
Author: Polly Johnson Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced on April 20 his resignation from the Senate, causing much shock and surprise and sparking a race for his successor. Jeffords, who had been a member of Congress for the last 30 years, cited health issues plaguing both him and his wife, Liz. ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca When Eric Johnson '05 was accepted to Boston University (BU) to play hockey, he jumped at the chance to live his dream of passing the puck for a nationally ranked Division I hockey team. But now, four years later, Johnson, who helped carry the Middlebury men's hockey team to ...
Author: James Edward Kerrigan Middlebury baseball had two opponents at the opposite end of the spectrum. The men took care of business over the struggling St. Michaels squad 21-1 on April 26. On Sunday, Middlebury squared off for a double header against New England's top ranked Trinity club. They lost ...
Author: Joshua Axelrod Continuing the celebration of Hillel's 50th anniversary at Middlebury College, as well the 350th anniversary of American Jewry, this past weekend's production of Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" was a shining blend of true-to-life comedy framed ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN I have come to view the commons system as Middlebury's own Vietnam War. Such an analogy is drawn in order to more aptly assess incomprehensible administrative decisions, and is in no way intended to diminish the gallant efforts of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought for ...
Author: AnnMarie Wesolowski Last Friday, April 29, over 1,200 people participated in Middlebury College's second annual Relay for Life and collectively raised over $175,000 for the American Cancer Society (ACS). The 18-hour walk-a-thon that honors those touched by cancer by raising research funds for ...
Author: Sarah Poling Luehrman With a 2-0 week at the end of an 11 game winning streak, the Panthers officially ended their regular season as the first seed in the upcoming NESCAC championships, to be hosted on Kohn Field on May 7 and 8. This past week's opponents included Williams and Trinity, respectively ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Middlebury men's and women's outdoor track teams each placed third at the NESCAC Championships on Saturday. Both teams finishing behind first place Williams College and second place Tufts University,. When all was said and done, four individual Panthers and one relay team claimed ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus L. Dennis Kozlowski, ex-chief executive of Tyco International and ex-Middlebury College trustee, took the stand last week in his own defense at his retrial in New York State Supreme Court. Named one of BusinessWeek magazine's "Top 25 Managers to Watch" as recently as 2001, Kozlowski ...
Author: CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Monterey decision deadline extended On the evening of Wednesday, April 27, President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced his plan to slightly defer a final decision on the potential acquisition of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in an all-campus e-mail.After ...
Author: Douglas Hale On Monday, April 25, Carr Hall hosted a deliberate dialogue forum addressing several issues concerning sex and sexuality in our society. Entitled "Sex: Making Public Policy for Private Passions," the event was designed to address separatism and contentious issues under the general ...
Author: Addason McCaslin Where is the Bush Administration leading America? How does catastrophe catalyze political change? When must an administration supplant old ideas with modern thought? On Friday, April 22, University of Virginia Professor Jeffrey Legro '82 pondered these questions among others ...
Author: Eri Nosaka After a quick and painless defeat of Skidmore College with a score of 7-0, the Middlebury men's tennis team went on to win their second consecutive NESCAC Men's Tennis Championship Tournament, hosted by Amherst College on April 22-24. With close scores for the second and third places, ...
Author: Dina Magaril On Thursday, April 21 Larry Neal, professor of economics at the University of Illinois and founder of the European Union center in Illinois, spoke to Middlebury College students and faculty about the enlargement of the European Union (EU) in relation to the expansion of the Euro ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER I open a Magic Hat and check the underside of the bottle cap to see if I might chance upon some succinct and inspirational advice. It reads, "Those who Share are Free of Care." I consider this for a second and realize why white people don't make fortune cookies - we would just ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Recently, as Americans have realized the necessity of empowering the American worker and small private businesses, an ever-disapproving attitude towards large corporations has emerged. Here in Middlebury, many have noticed that the influx of corporate America has been intruding ...