Author: Emily Temple Stars is yet another of Pitchfork's Canadian darlings, but don't let that turn you off. Like their friends and collaborators Broken Social Scene and Metric, these guys are actually good. I know Pitchfork slams Ben Folds. I know. They're crazy. I know. But sometimes they get it right."Set ...
Author: Mallory Falk On the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 10, Middlebury College faculty members met at Kirk Alumni Conference Center for the first of three open meetings scheduled this month to discuss the future of the American Literature and Civilization Department, which may merge with the English Department ...
Author: Jeanine Buzali On Oct. 8, Kathy Skubikowski and a team of other professors received a cluster grant from the Mellon Foundation to start a project for faculty on social justice education, which is to be held simultaneously on the Denison, Furman, Middlebury, Scripps and Vassar campuses. The project ...
Author: Rural Banter Car making a funny sound? Should your mechanic not find the problem, perhaps you had best call animal control. Last week, my mother's sedan had a lonely stay in the garage without anyone taking it for a spin. Mom Goodman pulled out of the driveway for her Friday afternoon grocery ...
Author: Sarah Luehrman A good team knows how to take it all in stride, as the Panthers demonstrated after their loss to Skidmore last Wednesday, Oct. 5. They put their heads down, practiced a little harder and went 2-0 last weekend against two league rivals, Amherst and Hamilton. After a busy week followed ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The cost of a Middlebury education is rising. Beyond even the exorbitant escalation of tuition costs, your paper noted the outrageous rise in costs for class textbooks. Yet, the school has done little to curtail this expense for students.There can, however, ...
Author: SHEILA BAMBFORD PULVER 74' As a graduate of Middlebury College with a major in American Literature, I have written three letters to President Liebowitz and the alumni magazine in protest of the proposed changes to Middlebury College's unique American Literature department which would, in essence, ...
Author: Sarah Brand The performance of this year's Middlebury football squad could be summed up by Yogi Berra in his famous quote, "It's like déjà vu all over again." Berra was referring to watching Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hitting home runs, but he could have been having a premonition about ...
Author: Jason Siegel As a worker in the mailroom, I get to see the campus activity boards on a regular basis. The Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) board is unique among all of the boards not because of its content, but because it is the only one that has been visibly defaced. Some random passerby ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher The College recently announced that it has finalized the sale of a 30-acre lot on Route 7 to Vermont-based development firm Middlebury South Village (MSV), LLC, which plans to begin work on a comprehensive residential community of the same name early next year. The development ...
Author: Annie Onishi The Middlebury College Community Council met Tuesday to discuss policies regarding senior move-out after Commencement and to receive an update on the implementation of a quota system for the amount of paper allocated to students, faculty and staff in public College computer labs.The ...
Author: Mallika Rao This past Friday's lecture, "Art and Politics under the Habsburgs 1450 to 1650," was not only well-attended and well-received, but conducted by a man well-suited for the task. Archduke Géza von Habsburg, grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and great-great grandson ...
Author: Tom McCann While many sporting events fell foul of the weather this past weekend, members of the Middlebury equestrian team just donned their jackets, settled in their stirrups and grabbed the reigns of whichever steed they were assigned to mount - it was showtime.Every year Middlebury hosts ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Did the Facebook.com redefine the word "friend" while no one was paying attention? Because from the looks of it, I don't have many. I signed onto my account today for the first time in a while, and it looks like the Facebook has deemed me unpopular. This is my fourth year at ...
Author: TOM McCANN AND ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITORS Bane '08 wins Rookie of the Year Sophomore Harrison Bane, one of Middlebury's finest golfers, has been recognized for his phenomenal performances for the men's golf team by being named the NESCAC Rookie of the Year. He has been in fine form for the ...
Author: Christopher Hassig Vermont is once again in the middle of a national political debate, but this time the subject is campaign finance reform. The Supreme Court has selected a case for consideration in the judicial term that challenges a strict Vermont campaign finance statute. The Vermont case ...
Author: Eri Nosaka On Sunday afternoon, the men's rugby team played against the only other undefeated team within the conference and, even with terrible weather conditions, managed to come out on top with a score of 12-0 against St. Mike's. The Panthers had a rocky start and were unable to successfully ...
Author: Dave Barker I was seasoning my panini the other day at Proctor when a man in a suit approached to add some spice to his lunch-time meal. Since suits are about as rare as lacrosse players at Proctor, I asked the man, who turned out to be President Liebowitz, what brought him away from catered ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner and Jessica Clayton Frolicking in the vast expanse of green pasture, Charles Dickens and Robert Frost chase after Mercury and Aurora Borealis. Names which normally arise when discussing literature and stargazing are now used to refer to four of the fluffy young alpacas of Moonlit ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach "I'd like to begin with poems that relate to Middlebury and the seasons," poet Larry Raab said as listeners gather in the Ross Fireplace Lounge while he read a poem entitled, "Happiness." It is hard not to identify with the poetry of Larry Raab, not only because he so often ...