Author: Stephanie Pritchard Lake Dunmore, the on-water training site for the Middlebury Crew team, still is covered in a foot of ice. It wasn't until the rains of last Tuesday melted the ice on Great Herring Pond in Plymouth, Mass.that the team was assured of a racing site. Massachusetts Maritime ...
Author: Polly Johnson Remember the good old days in Starr Library when the deafening sound of unzipping your jacket caused death stares from the intensely studious people sitting all around you? Well, you can't even hear that zipper over to the chatty cell phone conversation heard from across the stacks ...
Author: Nicholas Fager Last Saturday students crammed into McCullough Social Space to see a comedian that has been compared to Chris Rock, George Carlin and Dane Cook. These students were witness to the comical genius of Eliot Chang. Chang is from New York City and prides himself on a "no holds barred" ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:As a Middlebury parent, a working journalist, and a one-time editor of The Cornell Daily Sun, I was dismayed by Andrea Gissing's resignation as Editor-in-Chief of The Middlebury Campus. In my view, the debate over Rudolph Giuliani represents Ms. Gissing's ...
Author: RYAN REESE Phinney '05 is All-American He's done it again. The awards keep coming in for the Panther senior. Phinney led his squad through the NESCAC and NCAA playoffs and ultimately ended up hoisting a National Championship trophy high over his head for the second time in as many years. The ...
Author: RICHARD It's fun to hold personal vendettas against artists. In late 2003, when I interviewed the Rapture, and was treated like an inconsequential idiot, I made sure to routinely bash their much-acclaimed album "Echoes" in whatever writing outlet I had access to. But before you throw the red ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury men's lacrosse team took to the road this past weekend, attempting to get its first road win of the season, before hosting Wesleyan later in the week. On Saturday the Panthers headed south to face Wesleyan College, familiar foes for the Middlebury men. The two teams ...
Author: DAN POLIFKA ’06 I have a problem. I am alarmed at the lack of actual intelligent discussion on real topics at Middlebury College. When my father asked me over break what the hot issues were with the students on the campus, I was regretfully forced to respond that students were miffed, or in ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer Cheryl Harrington, servery supervisor at Proctor dining hall, died suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday evening in her home in East Middlebury. Harrington was watching television with her husband at the time of her death.Harrington, who was 45, is survived by husband Chuck ...
Author: Eri Nosaka With an impressive week in California it was to be expected that sooner or later the men's tennis team would hit a few bumps along the road. On March 31 the men's tennis team encountered their first loss against Division I Dartmouth College. The team lost with a score of 5-2, with ...
Author: James Edward Kerrigan Harrison Bane '08.5 is 18-years-old and you will never guess what he has endured to make it this far. Doctors discovered adamantinoma, a cancer eating away at the tibia of his right leg, when Harrison was 4-years-old. It took a visit to the doctor following a playground ...
Author: Polly Johnson In the aftermath of the Terri Schiavo case, the controversial issues surrounding physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have entered into the forefront of political and social debates. For clarification, euthanasia refers to the act of either lethal injection or the suspension ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH I know what you're thinking. "Oh great, not another stupid Jane Austen remake." Or perhaps "I hate Jane Austen." Or maybe you're of the "I love Jane Austen!" school of thought. Any way you look at it, there is a little something for everyone in Gurinder Chadha's latest movie, ...
Author: [no author name found] Student Victory?Proctor is open on the weekend again. In fact, the compromise reached by Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette, President Ronald D. Liebowitz and students who advocated that Proctor remain open seven days a week adds only Sunday brunch to the dining ...
Author: AnnMarie Frances Wesolowski The Dialogues for Peace series of events focusing on the Russian-Chechen conflict began this past Friday, April 1 with a presentation by Ilya Ponomarev on "The War in Chechnya in the eyes of Russians." On Saturday, Ilyas Akhmadov presented "The Russian-Chechen Tragedy: ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette announced in a campus-wide e-mail last Thursday that Proctor Dining Hall will once again offer Sunday brunch. The surprise schedule expansion, ultimately approved by President Ronald D. Liebowitz, comes in the wake of a surge of student ...
Author: JEFF PATTERSON Two hundred-fifty pound David Wells took the mound and maybe some off of it in the time it took for him to throw his 80 pitches, when he opposed the Yankees' 6-10 Randy Johnson. It is arguable that Johnson looked better with a mullet.Both of these over-40 lefties have anything ...
Author: Margaret Ray Finally, something else to look at besides all that blank space. Fine, maybe that hasn't been the most pressing issue on everyone's mind recently with the spring workload piling on, but rejoice! We're getting a mural in the new library. The mural, to be called "L'Art d'Ecrire" ("The ...
Author: David Edelson I am baffled and concerned that the reaction to the cartoon of Giuliani as Hitler has seemingly obfuscated the much more important issue of whether Giuliani is an appropriate person to speak at graduation in the first place. As a Jew and former rabbi, I agree the cartoon was not ...
Author: Kimberly Schrimsher Middlebury students and faculty discussed the College's "work hard, play hard" reputation during the Planning and Steering Committee's second open forum on March 30. While the Middlebury community fosters intellectual discourse in and out of the classroom, there is new concern ...