Author: Isabel Yordan It's very nearly here. My mental countdown has already started and I hope yours has too. All I can think about lately is spring break. Maybe that's because there is a pool in Palm Springs that is calling my name, but more likely it's because I would rather not think about the ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The enhancement of academic excellence has been one of the foremost topics of discussion at Middlebury College since before President Ronald D. Liebowitz took office. A position paper created during the Presidential search cited that one of the goals of the College was to ...
Author: Nick Fager We all know that dating on college campuses is nearly extinct. Think about how many times in the last year you have seen a couple out to dinner or a movie, or even heard of a couple going out to dinner or a movie for that matter? The number is surely incomparable to the staggering ...
Author: Ricky Klein '07 Four years ago, Middlebury College maintained a policy that buildings would be unlocked around the clock - a policy which was the envy of many other schools and a selling point to hundreds of students. One could argue that locking the doors between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 ...
Author: Lauren Smith You took a first-year seminar on the weird connection between physics and art, and then realized you were completely in love with U.S. history. Your choice of a first year seminar landed you in Stewart Hall, square in Brainerd Commons with your friendly physics and art geeks. Now ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher Members of the Middlebury College Civil Liberties Union (MCCLU) gathered more than 200 signatures Tuesday night at Proctor Dining Hall for a petition opposing the Student Government Assocation's (SGA) approval of security camera installation for a four-month trial period in ...
Author: Tom McCann The women's hockey NESCAC Championship trophy is back where it belongs - Middlebury College. The women entered the weekend knowing that in order to claim the championship they would have to first topple Williams College, a team that held Middlebury to a 1-1 tie on January 18, and ...
Author: Ryan Reese This past weekend, select members of the Panther Indoor Track and Field squad made their way south in order to compete in the Open New England Championships. With only the best of the best in attendance, there were sure to be some fireworks throughout the evening's competition. Yale ...
Author: Josh Axelrod There can be no question, this past weekend's staging of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" was an impressive and delightful effort on the part of first-time director Brian Siegele '07 and his young cast.Throughout its three hour running time, the play follows ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Simply stated, the Books sound like nothing that came before or after them. You could certainly classify them in a bland, vague sub-genre if you really had to, but this would do their sheer originality a painful injustice. Describing their music proves to be an admittedly difficult ...
Author: Jason Lockhart Just one month ago, life was looking bleak for the men's hockey team. They had just finished up a pair of weekends that saw them lose to Hamilton, tie Babson and narrowly defeat a couple of lesser conference opponents. That string of games coupled with their three consecutive ...
Author: Ben Salkowe In a few weeks Room Draw 2005 will be at your doorstep. It will start with the arrival of your dear room draw card shortly after Spring Break. Then there will be stress and anxiousness, pouring over fine-print, hard-to-read floor plans and knocking on strangers' doors to see their ...
Author: Kimberly Schrimsher Wired to the Internet in an airport in Bombay, Piya Kashyap '07 was overwhelmed with emotion. After receiving numerous blogs of support from friends, family and even strangers, Kashyap's J-term project, a series of weblogs chronicling her J-term travels in India entitled ...
Author: [no author name found] Over the next few months, Middlebury College's new task force will work to develop a comprehensive strategic plan. Members of the task force will assess and make recommendations on ways to enhance every aspect of life here on campus, from facilities to academics to student ...
Author: Sheila Seles My fellow TV-watchers, ask not what your television can do for you. Ask what you can do for your television. (I can't hear you asking since this is a newspaper column, so I'll just assume you did ask.) I'll tell you what you can do for your television - join the fight to save ...
Author: Mattie Gratch The Middlebury men's rugby team, in an effort to raise funds for post-season play, has accepted positions as dining hall monitors in Proctor, Ross and Atwater Dining Halls. The fundraising effort follows a recent budget cut in the athletic department that eliminated funds for both ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: What kinds of art are you involved in at Midd?Anjelika Paranjpe: Well, I'm co-president of Vitality of the Artistic Community (VACA). I've been doing that since my junior year. And then there's Artemis, which is a women's art mag. That was ...
Author: Polly Johnson The times they are a changing, and that change is beginning right here in Vermont. Last week residents met in town meetings across the state to consider proposals as varied as banning smoking in restaurants and requesting the recall of Vermont's U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. In ...
Author: Katie Flagg Binge drinking rates vary state to state A report released this month by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) contends that the amount students drink may be related to where they go to school. The report analyzed data from two national surveys and found that location by state is ...
Author: Angelica Towne Six months ago, six diverse students came together with some questions - Why is there poverty? What is being done to eliminate poverty? How can one get involved in the fight against poverty? Perplexed, intrigued and enthused by these inquiries, Olivia Kenna '07, Sarah Lauing ...