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 ...
Author: RYAN REESE, SPORTS EDITOR SPORTSBRIEFS Mandigo earns national honor The awards and honors for Bill Mandigo just keep coming. The Head Coach of the Middlebury women's hockey team was named the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) national coach of the year. The award comes after Mandigo ...
Author: KATIE FLAGG AND THOMAS C. DRESCHER John Elder receives prestigious Guggenheim for sabbatical work John Elder, Stewart professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, has been selected for the Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious award given to only 186 scholars in the country. ...
Author: Alex Garlick The objective was clear - find out exactly what the admissions department is telling prospective students and their families on the campus tours that weave through campus several times daily. The mission was tricky, but straightforward - disguise a current Middlebury student as ...
Author: JEFF PATTERSON The anxiety for Chris DiMarco and Tiger Woods on their final holes at Augusta National was nothing compared to that shared by golf fans on campus this Sunday. When we turned to CBS' 50th Anniversary coverage of golf's first major, we saw a fuzzy picture, not the tournament that ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team, currently number seven in the nation, faced a tough Amherst team, ranked number two in the nation, in their first match since their return from California. The Panthers suffered a disappointing loss on Sunday by a score of 7-2. Amherst ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) kicked off its campaign to lower the drinking age from 21- to 18-years-old in Vermont with a press conference on March 29. This event commenced the group's two-week public education campaign in which the NYRA will visit every college ...
Author: Lauren Smith The Middlebury College Performing Arts Series presented the internationally renowned Takacs Quartet Friday night at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall. The string quartet performed a selection of Beethoven compositions to the crowded concert hall in a performance that came alive ...
Author: Jessica Jorge Were you stressed with exams and papers last week? Did you have to read an entire novel in one night? Or, did you miss New York City and the Bronx? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions then you should have been at the "Boogie Rican Boulevard" one-woman performance by ...
Author: Kellan Florio Tangling for the first time since last year's NESCAC title game, the Panthers and Ephs would need extra innings to settle both legs of their doubleheader at Middlebury on Saturday with each team coming away with a win. The Middlebury women rallied in the bottom of the ninth for ...
Author: Erica Goodman Times Square can be a bit overwhelming for first time visitors. It's called the "Crossroads of the World," and considering the variety of eccentric people who pass through, it is unclear what world that is. On my first trip to New York City, I had the pleasure of meeting one of ...
Author: [no author name found] In the DarkAs a part of its annual review process, Community Council spent its last two sessions discussing the future of Middlebury College's social houses and academic interest houses for the upcoming academic year. Meanwhile, the broader college community learned little ...
Author: Josh Axelrod This weekend's production of Eve Ensler's '75 play "Necessary Targets" begins with two women meeting for the first time in a posh psychiatrist's office. J.S. (Lauren Turner Kiel '07) and Melissa (Laura Harris '07) immediately rub each other the wrong way since J.S. is a naive upper-class ...
Author: Tom McCann Middlebury College has a few policies that baffle me, such as the one that admits students in February, undeniably halfway through the year, then prohibits them from putting the '.5' on anything official. However, the policy that really gets me is one that was brought to my attention ...
Author: Eri Nosaka This past week the men's tennis team again proved that they deserve to be ranked number one in Division III tennis. On April 6th Middlebury faced Williams College, a team that the Panthers last met on the courts for a shot at the NESCAC Championsihp last year. On that occassion the ...