Author: Erin McCormick In an effort to reopen Proctor Dining Hall for weekend service, the Student Government Association (SGA) narrowly passed a bill Sunday night to revive Proctor on weekends and question the place of Middlebury Commons Dining at large."The passing of this bill is a victory for all ...
Author: Kiernan McAlpine Pursuant to the majority of this school's faculty's agreement that Congress' "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" legislation should entail that military recruiters not be allowed on campus, and Harvard's President's postulation that, scientifically speaking, it is within the realm of possibility ...
Author: Hans Manzke I really like underground hip-hop. Let it be known far and wide. This is due largely to one of the top three underground labels - Definitive Jux. This indie label provides a constantly growing and evolving forum for a staggeringly wide array of hip-hop, from Cannibal Ox's real-world ...
Author: Kellan Florio Feasting on adrenaline and fervent fan support, the Middlebury ski teams posted some of their best results of the season and carved out another third place finish at their home carnival and Eastern Championship last weekend. The alpine squad paced the Panthers with their first ...
Author: Caroline Vial After the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to France in February, which was followed by President George W. Bush's self-described working dinner with French President Jacques Chirac on Feb. 21 and the liberation of the last French prisoners detained in Guantanamo ...
Author: [no author name found] Of course, there are so many different people and organizations at this College that are deserving of an award, for the work they do and for the contributions they make to the College community. However, as it is the season for giving special mention for particular deeds ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Military officials confirmed on Monday that a unit of 200 Vermont Army National Guards, who were deployed to Iraq on Jan. 24, 2004, will be returning to the United States Thursday, March 3. This group of returning guardsmen, the first to be deployed to Iraq from Vermont, is a section ...
Author: Ryan Reese, Sports Edtors Beaney named Sports Fellow Bill Beaney, the head coach of men's hockey team as well as men's and women's golf teams, has added another outstanding award to his already extensive resume. The Institute for International Sport has recognized Beaney as a 2005 Sports Ethics ...
Author: CLAIRE NIELSON AND LISIE MEHLMAN Our friend Nura is like a demigod to us. She can do backbends with the best of them. (Claire wanted to write that Nura could turn straw into gold. Lisie does not understand how she is friends with Claire. Then she is reminded of -- actually, she just doesn't ...
Author: Lauren Budzyna By the end of last year, Conor Sheldon '06 and his band Larson had toured all over New England and played 17 shows, but they had practically ruined his friend's car by lugging heavy equipment all across the Northeast. By the same time last year, Sheldon had come across scores ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Paris, 1960s. A black woman wearing a blond wig and a green dress with white polka-dots stands seductively on a street corner. A Jewish boy in his mid-teens watches her from a window above, practicing his lines, "Hello. It's a hot one. How much?" He finally gets up the nerve ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer Both event organizers and the Department of Public Safety have proclaimed Winter Carnival 2005 a resounding success. Winter Carnival Head Susan Harnett '05 and Amber Rydberg '06, assistant head, confessed to feeling slightly apprehensive going into the weekend, as they had ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How did you get your start in acting?Lauren Kiel: I started to dance when I was two, and was such a big ham in dance classes because I was always trying to take over the classes, so my mom saw the actress in me. So she signed me up for a summer ...
Author: Mike Olinick Middlebury's current recruiting protocol is inconsistent with our nondiscrimination policy. Our recruiting protocol aids and abets discrimination against our students. It must be changed.We attempt to implement this policy in all aspects of campus life. We don't permit student ...
Author: Megan O’Keefe, Managing Editor I did something really dumb this weekend. I'll spare you all of the details, but at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday morning I found myself in McCullough glancing back and forth between a neon-green package slip and the closed mailroom window. Somewhere inside that dark ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Living in the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia - a snap-together wonderland designed for the explicit purpose of making American tourists spend their newly acquired, multi-colored, wildlife-adorned Canadian currency - one's morals can get a little mangled and bizarre ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Bright Eyes, a.k.a. Conor Oberst, is in the middle of a media hurricane as I write this. After a three-year hiatus, he released two albums this January - at the height of the slow album season - and newspapers everywhere are singing his praises, with rumblings of, at long last, ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler The '80s cover band Orange Crush took to the stage of the McCullough Social Space last Thursday night, inviting hordes of retro-clad students to crowd onto the humid, confused and notorious dance floor. The scene was a claustrophobic's nightmare but the ideal situation for anyone ...
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 ...