Author: Caitlin Prentice On April 1, college students from across Vermont will converge on the state house lawn in Montpelier to support House Bill 49, a climate change action plan for the state. Here's the catch - in order to show their support for cleaner transportation options, students will ride ...
Author: [no author name found] Tsunami Theme Park Making a tourist attraction out of the Tsunami events - such is Thailand's new governmental project, which entails creating a simulation out of the tremendous breaking wave in Phuket. Their objective is to "educate" the tourists who are visiting the ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman Nikko Arger '07 is somewhat of a legend to gym-goers and it is high time that the rest of the Middlebury community get to know him. Nikko's known for his...umm...energized treadmill running. It is inspirational to see him whipping out intensely crazy dance moves while sprinting ...
Author: Kellan Florio Competing against a field studded with former Olympians, world junior champions and national team members from all over the world, Megan Hughes '08 and John Rusten '05 turned in heroic performances to lead the Middlebury alpine and nordic teams into eighth place overall at the ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How did you become interested in breakdancing?Yuichiro Mitsutomi: I started breakdancing freshman fall after watching Morgan Alexander Jones (aka Mojo, who graduated last year) breakdancing at a party. I didn't have any prior experience with ...
Author: Hans Manzke Wyclef Jean is an almost incomprehensible conglomeration of pop-culture sponge, businessman, superstar producer, actor and faithful representative of his native Haiti. The man owns 48 cars, is worth many millions of dollars and produces tracks for some of hip-hop's biggest stars. ...
Author: Richard Lawless There comes a time in every lo-fi indie rocker's career when they decide it's time to get rid of the tape hiss and actually record an album with normal production standards. Lo-fi originators Pavement gradually cleaned up their sound over the course of their career, eventually ...
Author: Dave Barker MADRID - There exist slices of America here in Madrid. Homesick students can catch an English movie, watch college basketball at an Irish pub or visit Taste of America, where maple syrup and brownie mix fill in the gaps of the simple and meat-filled Spanish diet. I try to avoid these ...
Author: Ben Gore '05 I am continually amazed at what jerks the people who run this school are. If it's not bad enough that they're working to destroy the campus community with an ineffective lockdown and the universally disliked commons system, now they continue their habit of inviting strikingly inappropriate ...
Author: Tom McCann It took 76 minutes of hockey, but the Panthers outlasted Manhattanville College to book their place in the NCAA semifinals this coming weekend. Middlebury earned the right to host the NCAA Quarter Final by thumping Bowdoin College in the NESCAC Championship game last week and as face-off ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:This letter is in response to last week's article, "Midd-kids, you have it sooo good." We all have the right to lobby for those issues we find important - global, national, local or personal. Furthermore, we should be grateful, not critical of those individuals ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team began their season on Saturday in a match against Brandeis. They decidedly defeated the Owls 9-0 giving the Panthers confidence as they prepare for their spring trip to California.The Panthers solidly won all nine matches without dropping ...
Author: Caitlin Taylor Imagine your name is Jorge. You come from the highlands of Guatemala where, although the civil war has ended, violence is still occurring. Your home, along with many others, was burned when the military suspected that there were Communists living in your village. You left for ...
Author: Nick Fager Last Friday, Middlebury's McCullough Student Center hosted three prestigious comedians in a sparsely attended but successful night of laughs. The African American Alliance (AAA) Comedy Jam's three visiting comedians, who go by the names of Spank, Mike Bonner and Shang, touched on ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen Green Don't get me wrong; there are a lot of Febs that I love dearly. However, I think one of the things Middlebury College seriously overlooked when designing the Feb program is their placement in upperclassmen housing. Febs are first-year students, and as first-years, especially ...
Author: Sam Wilson One of the things that really bugs me about the Bush Administration is how often its rhetoric has nothing to do with reality.We heard about Iraqi ties to al- Qaeda, and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, both of which ended up being bogus. Then we heard about a Social Security crisis ...
Author: Erica Goodman As if the midterm overload were not enough - I have yet another test for you. (Have no fear. This score will not affect your GPA.)Question 1: How do you know if you are a true New Englander? Answer: You spend $50 on a motion detector security light for outside your house and ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Imagine you're a 17-year-old girl and you spend your days on a rose plantation dethorning flowers. Imagine this job pays almost nothing, and the conditions are terrible. You are surrounded by harsh chemicals, fed almost nothing and barely allowed to use the bathroom. This is ...
Author: RYAN REESE Panthers grab more accolades As the men's and women's hockey teams stormed through their respective NESCAC tournaments this past weekend, they also managed to pick up quite a few honors and awards. The women's team placed five players on the All-NESCAC First and Second Teams. Senior ...
Author: Ethan Lake The Office of Campus Sustainability has sent campus wide e-mails announcing this spring's environmental competition. The challenge has been issued to Middlebury students - how can they improve campus sustainability using a frugal budget? Before this question is answered (the revealing ...