Author: Crystal Belle When arriving at Middlebury College almost four years ago, the innate beauty of the college campus amazed me. I loved everything from the McCullough spruce tree to the miniature-sized town. However, there was something that was very apparent to me - how vast and spacious the actual ...
Author: Benjamin Morris '03.5 Every autumn U.S. News and World Report releases its "America's Best Colleges" rankings, and Middlebury earned seventh place in this year's "Liberal Arts Colleges-Bachelor's" category. In President McCardell's words, "If such a list is to exist, I'd rather be on it than ...
Author: Tom McCann and Ryan Reese Do you guys remember that one time when Tim talked to those sorority girls from Nebraska, or when he found out that he is a fork, or when he was on that hockey team that one time, or that other time when he really liked his carpet? That was awesome... Tim and his friends ...
Author: Peter Yordan On the cusp of greatness once again, Middlebury's women's cross country dynasty will seek to further burden their overflowing trophy case when the team attempts to garner its third national championship in the last four years this weekend. The team earned its plane tickets to Indiana ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Last Saturday, the African-American Alliance (AAA) presented its annual Night of Black Culture, an event which, as organization President Crystal Belle '04 notes, "was created by the AAA [as] a way to celebrate and promote black culture on campus." This year's show, entitled ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College men's basketball team came off its best season in recent memory last year, going 15-10 and qualifying for the NESCAC tournament, narrowly losing out to Tufts University in the first round. While departed senior Eric Bundonis's leadership, size and scoring will ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones Embroiled somewhere in the vicinity of the recent debate about the worth of Winter Term is a surge of Winter Term course offerings centered on aspects of Middlebury College. These are courses that could never be offered at another college - not because of some unmatchable ...
Author: Hans Manzke For many Middlebury students, the study abroad program presents the opportunity of a lifetime. While immersed in a foreign language or a specific country's culture, there comes, very rarely, the occasion to experience a brief moment in time that one will remember for the rest of ...
Author: Ian Ausprey '04 An April 2002 poll by the League of Conservation Voters found that 47 percent of Americans consider the environment to be a "very important" consideration when at the voting booth.This statistic should excite any American intent on opposing President Bush's controversial environmental ...
When I walked out of Proctor after a satisfying Monday lunch, I immediately regretted eating the chocolate chip cookie I had just finished. In the lobby I was greeted by trays of monstrous, chocolate frosted cookies, which, upon a second glance, were decorated with wheelchairs. Excited by the possibility ...
Author: David Lindholm The Middlebury Indoor Track and Field team is looking forward to another season of Bubble training, road trips, and some standout individual performances. While the athletes have already started training, the team's first competition does not come until January 11, when the team ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury women's field hockey team is going to the Final Four of the National Championships in Pennsylvania next weekend. Montclair, and then even the defending champions, could not slow down the momentum of the Panthers as Montclair fell 3-2 on Friday before Rowan were rolled ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Recently I had the opportunity to travel to Paris with a planeload of Italian tourists. Now I'm sure most of us are familiar with the stereotypical American tourist, and I dare say may have even participated in propagating that notoriously ignorant and obnoxiously loud stereotype ...
Author: Erika Mercer Remember the Everlasting Gobstopper - that multi-colored, totally irresistible candy treat manufactured by the wacky Mr. Wonka? That ideal, never-ending confectionary wonder that was sure to sizzle nasty Slugworth?Well, the Gobstopper has been trumped. Slide down a chute into James ...
Author: David Barker For a few frenzied seconds, we owned Main Street. Then again, if you come barreling down any street in a fire engine, you're used to getting the right of way. Riding with some of Middlebury's finest last week, I gained a new appreciation for the professionals who keep us safe ...
Author: Megan Michelson Helen Thomas was not wearing her signature red dress, which she wore for so many years as the White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, when she spoke at the Sheraton Conference Center in South Burlington last Sunday. Dressed instead in dark blue, Thomas addressed ...
Author: Benjamin Salkowe A committee of students and administrators reviewing the role of orientation trips within the first-year orientation program has opted to postpone their final recommendations for the time being and solicit student opinion via an online survey.Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hanson ...
Author: [no author name found] As discussion on the future of Winter Term continues on campus, speculation mounts as to what calendar could replace the current system. Dean of Faculty, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English Alison Byerly said that the Educational Affairs Committee ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Through discussions, hikes and hands-on activities at the North Branch School in Ripton, Vt., seventh, eighth and ninth graders are blazing new trails. Using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) units to chart the trails and roads and the computer program Geographic Information ...
Author: Sean Breen While winter has yet to make its mark on Middlebury's campus, the alpine ski team's preparation for the 2003-2004 season is well underway. The Middlebury Snow Bowl does not open until Friday, Dec. 5, but Killington Mountain is already open, with hundreds of skiers and boarders packing ...