Author: Caroline S. Stauffer Although it remains focused on the expansion and development of the commons system, Middlebury College continues to support Academic Interest Houses. Students have recently submitted proposals requesting the additions of Portuguese and Arabic Language Houses and after moving ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT, MATTIE GRATCH and CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Physics department under external review This past Wednesday marked the end of the second of three external academic department review committee visits for the 2004-2005 school year. The evaluation team, comprised of three faculty members ...
Author: Ben S. Salkowe Community Council heard arguments on the College's nondiscrimination policy and recruitment procedure Monday from a large group of students, faculty and staff at a panel discussion held in Dana auditorium. Having heard from the community, the Council will begin deliberation next ...
Author: Tom McCann Following 7-1 and 8-1 victories against Trinity earlier in the season, one might have been forgiven for thinking that the Middlebury women's hockey team would just have to show up to claim a place in the NESCAC semifinals next weekend. As it were, the women took to the ice in their ...
Author: SHEILA SELES The Oscars were pretty boring this year. They were pretty boring on all fronts. There were no real upsets in the awards. No one was dressed really terribly. Even Joan Rivers seemed on her best, albeit senile, behavior. Or maybe my Oscar malaise stems from the fact that I seem to ...
Author: RYAN REESE, SPORTS EDITOR Skiers to host home CarnivalAs we all know, this upcoming weekend is the 82nd annual Middlebury Winter Carnival. While most of the campus will be "Keepin' it Live in '05," the Middlebury men's and women's ski teams will be competing for the EISA Skiing Championships. ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca The well-attended 100 Days Party at the Grille and dance in McCullough Social Space was brought to a sudden close on Saturday night, Feb. 19, when an audio speaker fire forced party-goers to evacuate the building at 1:30 a.m. early Sunday morning. Both Middlebury College Public ...
Author: Ben Salkowe A committee of students from the Student Government Association (SGA) and Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) has decided to extend the College's agreement with Napster, the streaming music service for students being funded through the student activities fee (SAF). "Based ...
Author: Sarah Polling-Leuhrman The Middlebury women's swimming and diving team ended their season with a remarkable performance this past weekend at the first NESCAC Championship swim meet ever to be held in the Middlebury Natatorium. Though they placed third with 1,337 points behind Williams, NESCAC ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been singing? Jason Grout: I've been singing since I was really little - throughout childhood and high school. I took voice lessons in high school. Joel Wolfram: I never really sang formally until senior year of high school ...
Author: Katie Flag Environmental Council sponsors "mini grants" The Environmental Council recently issued a new challenge to Middlebury College faculty and students, daring members of the College community to design creative ways to advance campus sustainability - with $100 in hand. The challenge is ...
Author: Taylor Johnston President Ronald D. Liebowitz has launched an investigation into the feasibility of a Feb graduation after announcing his interest in turning the Feb celebration into a graduation at the last Board of Trustees meeting. Heading the investigation process, Secretary of the College ...
Author: Virginia Lawton Harper "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."It is with these confusingly contradictory words that Jeffrey Eugenides ...
Author: JEFF PATTERSON Although the 54th NBA All-Star game was played in Denver's Pepsi Center, the Slam Dunk contest, arguably one of the most exciting events during the Weekend, was sponsored by Sprite, a division of Coca-Cola. During every commercial break the same ad would run, where Thirst, a cartoon ...
Author: Ana Christina Furney As the spring months approach, some sports teams on campus enter the final stages their season, while others are just beginning. For Middlebury's track team, the indoor season is coming to a climax. Competition began in early January for the runners, after competing in the ...
Author: Addason McCaslin The month of February is perhaps the coldest time of the year, but it is warmed by a celebration of acceptance and equality. February has historically been a month of great advancements in the Civil Rights movements. The 15th amendment of the U. S. Constitution was passed on ...
Author: Angela Towne Without effort and planning, Black History Month may be nothing more than plain-old February with a couple of Martin Luther King Jr. pictures. The month may come only with faint whispers of popular names like Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson. This year, however, in an effort ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell On Saturday, Feb. 19, violinist Gerald Elias performed along with pianist and Assistant in Music Cynthia Huard, in a program entitled "Music of the 21st Century" for a small crowd in the Center for the Arts (CFA). Throughout the night, the musicians performed works by Elias, ...
Author: Tom McCann After a tough loss to Bowdoin two weeks ago, it was important for the women's hockey team to bounce back with a two-game road trip to Williams. The women were not there to face the Ephs but instead took the ice against Utica College on February 19th, before a showdown against Elmira ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER We all know that countless students show up to college ready to reinvent themselves. Whether or not this is done consciously, these aspiring socialites all attempt to manufacture a vaguely similar persona for themselves. They want to be "chill."In college, there is no greater ...