Author: Andrew Gustafson Perhaps in our small corner of Vermont we can garner some important lessons from the events of the past few weeks in California. Raging incompetence. Severe apathy. Disregard for constituents. These were charges that Republicans like Tom McClinkock and Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
Author: Gab Fonseca and Jena Siegel In the Oct. 9 issue of The Middlebury Campus, an anonymous student stated: "I totally support gay rights, but I feel as though most of the events are more focused on the 'in-group' of MOQA members, rather than building bridges with the rest of the school" ("MOQA Colors ...
Author: Daniel Phillips Last winter during the Atwater dining hall construction excavation, the icy runoff from the site froze into a 15-foot cascading ice flow that lured an extreme group of on-campus climbers for several ascents in the middle of the night. However, their undercover escapades are on ...
Author: Chris Grosso Americans love to expose the shortcomings of the U.S. political system, and they definitely enjoy a good, hearty laugh once in a while. What happens when one creatively combines the two? You get a political parody. That's the case only if the jokes are funny, though. Middlebury ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This past weekend's "4play," a pleasing collage piece about relationships that Hepburn Zoo audiences have come to expect from the annual First-Year Show, had a refreshing twist this year - the whimsical short play "The Ugly Duckling" by A.A. Milne (of "Winnie the Pooh" fame).The ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In a discussion on the merits of Winter Term held during an open meeting of the faculty on Oct. 13, a majority of the faculty present criticized Middlebury College's 4-1-4 calendar and encouraged the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) to eliminate Winter Term. Approximately 65 ...
Author: [no author name found] No Panther team this fall has even been able to approach the level of dominance displayed by the men's rugby team. The squad, which has established itself as a national power over the past several seasons, asserted its dominion over the state of Vermont with an overwhelming ...
Author: Megan Michelson When Dean Ouellette was 20 years old, he decided that he wanted to hike all 272 miles of the Long Trail, which winds along the Green Mountains through the entire length of Vermont. He set out by himself, with a backpack filled with a sleeping bag, tent, unreliable cooking stove ...
Author: Lanford Beard Isn't it anti-climactic, I mean isn't it just a little?The curses stood the test of time, and now the World Series has two teams with mascots that I as a Southerner am taught to hate, hunt or both.Former penchant for Big League Chew aside, anyone who knows me knows that I detest ...
Author: Crystal Belle Once again the word minority has been juxtaposed with the word "unqualified" on the Middlebury campus. As a senior here and most importantly, as a black woman, I sometimes wonder how my fellow academic peers perceive me, or every other minority for that matter. Why are we such ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston The times, they are a-changin' - and so are the leaves in Vermont. That's right, folks, autumn is here, and with it, the landmark foliage that causes the mountainsides of Vermont to burst into a myriad of colors.The changing fall colors that cover the rural Vermont landscape ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell The majority of students at Middlebury College, and on campuses throughout the United States, have a limited understanding of the relative diversity of educational experiences throughout the world. Most American students, starting from the age of four or five, have spent all ...
Author: Joshua Carson The lounges were packed, dialogue between the opposing fans hostile and the outcome - sadly predictable. The palpable dynamic on campus during the American League Championship Series (ALCS) between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees was intense. Debate that started in ...
Author: Erika Mercer Please, just indulge me for a moment while I stick my tongue out at all those critics who've dared claim that Belle & Sebastian has sold out with their newest album, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress." Sorry to say, you've missed the point.When the band's first album, "Tigermilk," ...
Author: Meghan Keenan Junior Megan Hutchin recently reached the first milestone of a writer's career - publication. After initial rejection by several magazines, three promotions and a crashed computer, Hutchin accomplished her goal by co-authoring the college guidebook "Choose the Right College and ...
Author: Matthew Clark In his directorial debut, George Clooney has brought a lonely, lost man's fragmented world seamlessly together in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Despite the chaos that is Chuck Barris's (Sam Rockwell) life as a TV producer and CIA hitman, the movie flows with the same smoothness ...
Author: Tom McCann Sports can be crazy. Sometimes, no matter what happens during a match between two teams, the final score just doesn't reflect the flow of the game. When the Middlebury women's field hockey team traveled to Bates on Oct. 18 attempting to take its season record to 11-0, it produced ...
Author: Emily Thaler Keith Williams, a first-year from Manchester, N.H., will be representing Middlebury College in this year's "Jeopardy" College Week series, which airs beginning Nov. 10. Williams has been an avid "Jeopardy" fan for years and claims to have first watched the show when he was three ...
Author: Andrea Gissing and Joshua Cannon NYU Mourns Second Student SuicideThe New York University community is struggling to accept and understand why two undergraduate students committed suicide from the top stories of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library within one month of each other. The most recent death ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones The constituents of the handbook-designated "Appointed Standing Committees" help govern facets of Middlebury College life ranging from athletics to study abroad. Many of these committees have space reserved for appointed student members. Today, four days after fall break, ...