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 ...
Author: KATIE FLAGG AND CAROLINE S. STAUFFER SGA proposes universal wireless Internet access The Student Government Association (SGA) voted 13-0-1 Sunday to support the "Remaining Technologically Competitive" bill that was introduced this week into the Senate. The bill, authored by Feb Senator Dean ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN I have always had a fascination with maps. The land we call our Earth has been reproduced infinite times in bold colors and hundreds of languages. Maps can tell us anything from the distance from Detroit to Memphis, to the principal commodity of Kazakhstan. Sometimes they lead ...
Author: [no author name found] Momentum is such a precious commodity at all levels of sporting competition. It has the power to carry a team like the Red Sox from 0-3 against the Yankees to a sweep of the Cardinals little more than a week later. Yet it remains desperately hard to attain, even harder ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH If you want a go to the movies but can't decide what mood you're in, "Kung Fu Hustle" might be for you. Combining live-action and computer-generated martial arts, slapstick comedy, Tarantino-style blood and guts, a dash of cartoonishness and a little Buddhist mysticism, Stephen ...
Author: RYAN REESE, SPORTS EDITOR Winstead '06 leads lax attack There is no doubt that the Middlebury women's lacrosse team is finding its stride and hitting it hard down the home stretch of the spring campaign. Undoubtedly, there have been many key contributors. This week, Schuyler Winstead '06 led ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I found the choice of slogan used to advertise Wednesday's Feminists for Life of America lecture "Reclaiming Feminism" - sponsored by "Middlebury Students for Life" - very interesting. Intentionally or not, the slogan "Refuse to choose" underscores how important ...
Author: JEFF PATTERSON In beer terms, a draught is pronounced draft, but in 49er terms, a draft is supposed to end a drought. Saturday, all 32 teams were on the clock, just like the Rolex trademark is. With the first pick in each of the first seven rounds, the 1849ers were trying to strike gold. Most ...
Author: Jason Lockhart The men's golf team had an extended golf weekend at Williams' Taconic Golf Course. They first played in a tune-up on Friday, making up for the previous weekend's postponed tournament. There they placed eigth out of 15 teams. On Saturday and Sunday the team competed at the Northeast ...
Author: Peter Mueller Last Wednesday, April 20, 2005, Middlebury College hosted the Professor D.K. Smith Visiting Economic Lecture Series in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. This year's event, entitled "Vermont's Business Landscape: Entrepreneurs Tell their Tales," showcased accomplishments of Vermont entrepreneurs ...
Author: Katie Flagg Eli Berman '07.5 secured the Student Government Association (SGA) presidency Tuesday, besting candidates Dan Saper '06 and Elizabeth Schaumberg '06 to secure the SGA's top spot and the distinction of being one of the youngest SGA presidents in recent history. Also on Tuesday, JS ...
Author: LAURA BARRETT ’06 I have paid my dues to the housing deities.I lived in a Battell double my freshman year. On top of that, I asked to be placed in sub-free housing, and I ended up on a half sub-free hall. A half sub-free hall, I can say from experience, does not work. I ended up with vomit ...
Author: Sarah Poling Luehrman Last week was one of blinding success for the Middlebury women's lacrosse team as they collected two more decisive wins against Skidmore and then third ranked NESCAC rival Amherst, bringing their record to 10-1 for the season. With one regular season game left, the Panthers ...
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