Author: SHEILA SELES Last Sunday night homosexuality held the spotlight on television. Apparently, sex does sell, and same-sex sex sells even better. The most hyped coming out occurred on the smartest show on television -"The Simpsons." The episode unfolds in typical "Simpsons" fashion. The writers ...
Author: Megan Price Think Twice!I am writing to urge Town Meeting Day voters statewide to think twice before raising their property taxes to support the VNA/home health agency ballots statewide. There are 12 of these non-competing, not-for-profit multimillion dollar businesses in our state. All are ...
Author: Sam Wilson Do you remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth? They were the anti-Kerry group during the campaign that had utterly nothing to do with truth, but everything to do with rather slanderous attempts to discredit a decorated war veteran.Well, they are back - not the Vets themselves, ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Some towns pass along gossip. Others send the good old flu circulating. Middlebury has its own ideas of what to spread through a community. A petition to limit retail expansion with nearly 1,000 signatures from Addison County residents was brought to the meeting of the Select Board ...
Author: Kimberly Schrimsher When Middlebury College students consider the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, they are not likely thinking about the vastly different effects the disaster had on men and women in the region. Yet that is precisely what the College's new chair of Women's and Gender Studies ...
Author: Ben Gore '05 I am outraged by what's going on at Harvard and on the Op-Ed pages of the major national newspapers right now. The president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, meant to suggest a seemingly benign idea last month - maybe men and women's brains are different. He bumbled it and ended up ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Organized coyote hunts are cropping up all over Addison County with cash incentives for hauling in the "villainous predators." There have been three hunts scheduled in the past two months with over 600 enthusiastic gamesmen. But not everyone is strapping on their boots and cleaning ...
Author: Sage Bierster 07' I write in response to the decision to close Proctor on weekends. As a concerned student and frequent diner at Proctor, I feel I must explain why I and so many others are dismayed by the College's decision. Many people comment on the differences in atmosphere, people, etc. ...
Author: Kellan Florio The Middlebury ski teams held off a strong showing by Williams at the Ephs' home carnival to notch their fifth consecutive third place this season. For the second week in a row, the University of Vermont (UVM) edged out Dartmouth for the victory with 686.5 points, besting the Big ...
Author: Lauren Armstrong Last Friday's Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) -sponsored "Comedy Night" featured the talents of stand-up comedians Christian Finnegan and Greg Giraldo - both rising stars on the national comedy scene. A native of Boston, Finnegan is best known for his television role ...
Author: Andrea Glaesner In New England, daffodils are the first flowers to bloom when the snow melts, the ground thaws and spring arrives. But even before spring's official arrival on March 21, Middlebury College will see an abundance of daffodils. For some, these flowers will merely bring a nice touch ...
Author: Elizabeth Siegel Mixed emotions resulted from last week's arrest and arraignment of James Husk, a 63-year-old Addison County native who now faces trial for arson. The Vergennes resident was taken into custody at the Middlebury barracks on Thursday, Feb. 17 for the recent string of fires, three ...
Author: Jason Lockhart The rivalry between the Norwich and Middlebury men's ice hockey teams is historic, and is arguably one of the biggest in all of Division III hockey. Its significance is not bound by one factor alone. Sure they both play in Vermont and have both won multiple National Championships ...
Author: Tom McCann, Sports Editor It's not that bad. In fact, it's better than that, it's really quite good, and I'm sick and tired of hearing people complain about it. The Atwater dining hall has finally opened, and while I'm apparently in a severe minority, I'm extremely happy about it.Is it perfect? ...
Author: Lauren Smith Middlebury College's South Asia Club (SAC) filled the McCullough Social Space with the lively sounds of Bhangra Friday night as a dance and music troupe from Tufts University, performed to an animated audience. The performance, co-sponsored by SAC, the Office of Institutional Diversity ...
Author: Kevin Moss, Professor of Russian When the faculty discussed barring the military from recruiting on campus, some of my colleagues suggested that it would increase diversity in the military if they could recruit Middlebury students. On the one hand, I find it curious to use a "more diversity" ...
Author: [no author name found] Nowadays the NYC dance-punk scene is everywhere. The movement's central figure, James Murphy, released his group LCD Soundsystem's eponymous debut album this January. He now can comfortably charge $6,000 a show and be a rock star. But how did Murphy get to be king of hipper-than-thou ...
Author: Erin McCormick With the seemingly constant winter precipitation since the beginning of second semester coupled with the blizzard on Feb. 17, the Facilities Maintenance Department (FMD) has been faced with the task of snow removal and the de-icing of campus.Although this winter has been fairly ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher and Caroline S. Stauffer Colby dining offers alcohol to of age studentsColby College is pursuing a new approach to confront the problem of alcohol abuse on college campuses. It will, in fact, serve beer and wine in its dining halls to students of legal drinking age on select ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Middlebury women's squash team capped off a successful season last weekend by capturing the Walker Cup at Princeton University for the second straight year. The Walker Cup goes to the winner of the 'C' division of the Howe Cup, the most prestigious title in women's collegiate ...