Author: Gracielia Moreno As a Middlebury parent and a long-time resident of New York City, I was distressed by the lead story in the March 10 issue of The Middlebury Campus - first by the news that Rudolph Giuliani was chosen to speak at Middlebury's commencement ceremony this May, then by The Campus's ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Behold the power of mud.I wonder if the football team would consider running a few spring practices at my house. Instead of hitting the weight room in the off-season, the Panther football squad should hire out their brawn to help those less fortunate who are...stuck in the mud. ...
Author: Jason Siegl I see him every day, all over town. He has followed me from Santiago. Despite that, I tend to forget he's even there. But he never forgets me. I am the only one who can help him.I pass him on my way to the Metro. He sits on the stairs, ragged, cold, lonely. I wonder how long it must ...
Author: Andrea Gissing To the Editor:This letter is in regards to President Leibowitz's all-campus e-mail "To the Campus Community" which was a short e-mail heavily criticizing The Middlebury Campus' use of a doctored photograph in which Rudolph Giuliani is made to resemble Adolf Hitler.I am writing ...
Author: Tom McCann The scene was set for an Elmira fairytale when the players took to the ice for the final period of the NCAA Championship Game. Leading 2-1, on their home ice, in front of their own fans, an unprecedented 13 seniors were 20 minutes of hockey away from ending their college careers as ...
Author: Dina Magaril The "New Faces" book, Middlebury's visual catalogue of incoming students, will feature approximately 30 fewer faces next year. According to Director of Admissions John Hanson, there will be a slightly smaller freshman class next fall. Next year's incoming class, he said, will only ...
Author: Katie Flagg As Middlebury College's May 22 Commencement draws ever closer, most graduating seniors turn their eyes beyond the College campus as they prepare to enter the workforce or graduate studies. But two Middlebury students, having snagged coveted one-year grants for a year of independent ...
Author: Jodie Zhang and Lauren Smith The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been playing violin?Megan Guiliano: About 17 years. I started playing violin when I was three through the Suzuki program organized in my hometown.The Campus: Tell us about your participation in the orchestra. How many hours ...
Author: Jason Lockhart What happens when you mix a bit of mid-season struggles with the best coaching in the country and great team leadership? The seventh National Championship in eleven years. The men's hockey team successfully defended their national title at home, steamrolling past unlikely finalist ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca On Monday afternoon, Robert D. Putnam, author of the renowned book "Bowling Alone" and the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, addressed an overflowing crowd in Dana Auditorium with his talk "Community Engagement in a Changing America." So ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER (Quick disclaimer: the following column is intended for the enjoyment of the 80 or so Middlebury College students who don't sing in an a cappella group. I feel obligated to say this because a cappella is a dangerously popular extracurricular activity and the following could turn ...
Author: James Edward Kerrigan Ten games against five different colleges in eight days tested the depth of Panther Baseball. They split all three of their two-game series with Gettysburg, Macalaster and Albright; beat Babson College and took two of three from NESCAC rival Williams. Six wins and four ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson Don't miss next week's reading by Jay Parini, D.E. Axonn professor of English and Creative Writing and renowned author, because it just may be your only chance during your time here at Middlebury. Parini, who will read on April 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the basement of the new library, ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury men's lacrosse team knows that if they are to make a run at the National Championship again this year, they will need to once again turn Kohn Field into a fortress. Beating the Panthers at home has never been easy, and on current form nothing appears to have changed. ...
Author: Andrew Carnabuci '06 I am greatly alarmed by the general mood of seething indignation around campus regarding the announcement that Rudy Giuliani will be coming to speak for graduation, as demonstrated by an article in last week's campus and talk of an "alternate" graduation speaker, and would ...
Author: Lauren Smith The Center for the Arts (CFA) concert hall was filled on Thursday, March 17, with the sounds of the Middlebury College Orchestra under conductor Troy Peters. The performance was entitled a "Student Showcase" and featured the world premiere of compositions by Andrew Lindblad '05, ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg ’05 Thus far this year, America has witnessed two massively controversial incidences in which academic leaders uttered shocking and controversial remarks. The first scandal concerns Harvard University president Larry Summers - unarguably one of the world's greatest economic ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Like any music nerd, I love record shopping in New York. What I don't like are annoying trendy poseur music store clerks in Brooklyn who don't know anything about music. Recently I found myself in a fashionable Brooklyn corner record store, akin to Burlington's Pure Pop Records ...
Author: David Murphy Haglund '06 Today I visited the new Atwater dormitories for the first time. These buildings were just being wrapped up when I left to study abroad last spring, and the hype surrounding them was at its height. Many of my classmates were scrambling to get into Atwater Commons - some ...
Author: Ben Gore '05 I would like clarify a few things about my submission in the last issue of The Middlebury Campus:[1] Neither the title nor the photo of Hitler were my idea. Even the snarky Wall Street Journal blog, OpinionJournal.com, noted: "Accompanying the article is a thumbnail photo of Hitler, ...