Author: Jodie Zhang and Lauren Smith The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been creating art?Jackie Laryea: I've been drawing since I was seven, so it's been more than half of my life. My sister Alice was always drawing and doing art and because I wanted to be around her, I started to draw too. Then, ...
Author: Sarah Poling Leuhrman Last Saturday, April 9, the Panthers carved yet another notch in the Division III Women's Lacrosse totem with a 16-11 victory over Wesleyan, who gave them a tougher game than last year. The Cardinals walked onto the field 6-2 for the season but 0-3 against the Panthers ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Fin is a dwarf. No, not the Snow White kind with six buddies and a beautiful princess to hang out with. In fact, Fin has only one friend, and when he dies at the beginning of "The Station Agent," leaving his companion an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey, Fin (Peter ...
Author: Eric Fraser '05 James Howard Kunstler was a punk and should not have been invited to Middlebury College. He gave a lecture entitled "The Suburban Way of Life is Killing our Country" last Wednesday, April 6. The best part of the whole night was the introduction, after which point the talk spiraled ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Middlebury outdoor track and field team got a chance to showcase their talents in front of their friends and family last week as the team played host to Plattsburgh, Colby-Sawyer and University of Vermont (UVM) at Dragone Field. The Panthers put up a strong performance at their ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Middlebury women's water polo team played host to the New England Division Championship at the Natatorium this weekend. The team fell one place short of a trip to the National Collegiate Club Championship held in Texas, finishing third out of the six teams participating.The Panthers ...
Author: Brett Cluff Religious Life Awareness Week, a 10-day celebration of the richness and diversity of the College's religious groups, came to an end Sunday. Over the course of the week, an impressive array of speakers, services and events attested to the vibrancy of religious communities on campus.The ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Looking for the liquor store? Middlebury's sole Vermont State Liquor store, which was previously owned and operated by Andrew McCabe '83 at 198 Court Street, reopened for business inside of Hannaford Superstore late last month. The grocery chain acquired McCabe's business and rights ...
Author: James Edward Kerrigan Panther's baseball looked strong in its home opener Wednesday, April 6, pounding St. Michaels 15-4. But over the weekend, the men lost all three divisional games to Amherst College.Wednesday afternoon provided bright sunshine and sharp baseball. The grass was brown and ...
Author: Sarah Poling Leuhrman Last weekend, the Middlebury sailing team coasted down to Amherst for the first regatta of the year, Western Series 1, against Amherst, University of Vermont (UVM), Williams and Worcester Polytchnic Institure (WPI). Four Middlebury sailors, Meaghan McGrath '08, Dean Atyia ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I find it ironic that in Bryan Goldberg's opinions piece in the March 31 issue of The Middlebury Campus, praising Larry Summers for his scientific pursuit of the truth, Goldberg appears to lack a firm grasp of an important scientific distinction - the difference ...
Author: Margaret Ray On Sunday evening, an audience of students, faculty and families was treated to the vocal and guitar talents of Bill Simms Jr. as he teamed up with Vermonter Mark LaVoie on harmonica for "An Evening of Blues" in the Center for the Arts. The Blues is an old and extremely influential ...
Author: Rachel Greenhouse The candidates for Student Government Association (SGA) President and Student Co-Chair of the Community Council (SCOCC) were formally announced this past Sunday at the weekly SGA meeting. The three candidates looking for the chance to take over senior Andrew Jacobi's job as ...
Author: Sam Wilson There is something kind of screwy going on in the national political scene right now. The GOP just a few months ago kept the White House and increased its majority in both houses of Congress, but an Associated Press poll last week found the president's approval rating stood at just ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher Community Council went into executive session Monday to discuss its annual social and academic interest house recommendations for a second straight week. Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) occupancy issues for the upcoming fall semester occasioned a delay in the process - but a strong ...
Author: Tom McCann A routine a capella practice was rudely interrupted when a flaming ping-pong ball was thrown to the ground in a blind panic. Rolling across the carpet, it set fire to a nearby couch, and once the blaze had been extinguished, the Mamajamas had found the name of their latest CD - Burning ...
Author: Tom McCann Finally, the Middlebury comedy scene has a new kid on the block. Two and a half years after the idea was born, juniors Ellen Wohlberg and Charlie Tomm have made good on their promise and delivered The Middlebury Brothel to the fun-loving students of Middlebury College. According to ...
Author: Richard Lawless Posthumous albums are always a touchy subject. This is especially true when considering the posthumous release of a rock icon like Joe Strummer. Should the album be handled with kid gloves because of its sentimental value? Surely no rock critic would feel uninhibitedly comfortable ...
Author: [no author name found] Bush - a Chimp? Photos comparing the facial expressions of President Bush with those of a chimpanzee have appeared in a manual for the formation of Belgian police officers, but were to be removed by the Belgian home office in March. The photos, which have long been circulating ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman Friday at noon, a hungry group of students and faculty filed into Robert A. Jones '59 House to hear the Consulate General of Israel to New England Hillel Newman speak about post-Cold War relations between the United States and Israel. The lecture, co-sponsored by Hillel and the ...