Author: Edward Pickering In search of overlooked but deserving books, I have sometimes read the early or lesser-known works of famous authors. Robert Penn Warren's debut novel "Night Rider" was a recent treat. George Orwell's early novel, "Burmese Days," on the other hand, proved a great disappointment. ...
Author: Jack Donaldson The Panther rugby team is one of the most accomplished, powerful team that the school fields, as reflected by its excellent results. And they do it all without hundreds of fans from town or the glitz and glamor that accompanies some of the other sports teams here at Middlebury. ...
Author: Meghan Keenan This Saturday will mark the second annual Careers in the Common Good Symposium hosted by the Career Services Office (CSO). The event, which will feature a number of panels covering the various sectors of careers involved in promoting social responsibility, will take place from ...
Author: Tom McCann and Ryan Reese I don't think you ready for this jelly. I don't think you ready for this jelly. I don't think you ready for this. Cause my body's too bootylicious for ya babe. That's a song by Destiny's Child. Beyonce Knowles was in that group. We should write a column about her. But ...
Author: Andrea Gissing, Joshua Carson, Myra Palmero Twelve students were inducted into Middlebury College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Saturday, Nov. 1, at a ceremony held in the Redfield Proctor Room. Professor of History and President of the Middlebury Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Don Wyatt gave the welcoming ...
Author: Tom McCann Perfect. No word can better describe the regular season from the Middlebury women's field hockey team. At the start of the season, the Panthers wanted to take it each game at a time and try to improve on the away form that hindered them last year. Well, 14 regular season games later, ...
Author: Andrea Gissing, Joshua Carson, Myra Palmero In late November, ESPN Sports Center will showcase "Pick Up Butch," a 42-year-old tradition of the Middlebury College football and basketball teams. For the last four decades, two first-years on the football and basketball teams have been picking up ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer "Among 27 identical-looking coins, one is counterfeit weighing slightly less than the others. Using a double pan balance, identify the counterfeit coin in as few weighings as possible." This was one of six problems tackled by students from Middlebury and Williams Colleges ...
Author: Daniel Phillips Statistics can be misleading. Such is the case with recent sex offense statistics released by the Middlebury College Department of Public Safety on Oct. 20. Crime as a whole - robbery, burglary, aggravated assault and arson - has gone down on campus, but before the College breathes ...
Author: Karrina Arrue Last Thursday, Bicentennial Hall Room 220 was filled to capacity as the audience anxiously waited to hear, "The Origins of Significance of 'Ready for Revolution': the Autobiography of Stokely Carmichael," a lecture by Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, a longtime friend of the revolutionary ...
Author: Erika Mercer When I say this album puts you to sleep, I mean it in the best sense possible. On my first listen, I wasn't even able to make it beyond the third song before my eyes started closing, but ever since that moment, I haven't wanted to listen to anything else - or do anything else, ...
Author: Grace Kronenburg When, in March of last year, restaurants on Capitol Hill and around the nation renamed French Fries and French Toast "Freedom Fries" and "Freedom Toast," it was clear that French bashing had reached a new level in America. While little blatant anti-American sentiment existed ...
Author: Greg Duggan One of Vermont's most controversial laws may finally change both for the better and for the worse. Vermont's Land Use and Development Law, known as Act 250, stipulates that developers must follow certain rules when they wish to build new sites in Vermont, from subdivisions to roads ...
Author: Megan Michelson "Going back to Somalia would be to plunge back into the flames. Going to America is a dream. It is the choice between the fire and paradise," says Abdullahi Ali Ahmed in the magazine Refugees, published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Ahmed is one of 12,000 ...
Author: Matthew Clark The three girls are beautiful - the courageous, defiant, yet innocent beauty of youth. The Australian landscape is blistering yet sustaining. Hot, powdery dust coats faces and the camera lens. I should have loved it, this story of triumph and tragedy, but "Rabbit Proof Fence" was ...
Author: Lanford Beard What do you get when you mix a former NFL cheerleader, Kathy Griffin and 15 walking advertisements for beer goggles?Hint: It's a reality show, and the title "Mr. Personality" was already taken.That's right, folks, Monday night marked new highs in dating game lows with "Average ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Just as its name implies, the Bobcat CafÈ is a restaurant that marries Vermont's rustic personality with its refined palate. It boasts a casual atmosphere, from the storefront entrance to the wood-backed booths and long family-style tables, but there are hints of sophistication ...
Author: Joshua Carson Prospective BU President Steps Down with $1.8 MillionOne day before he was scheduled to assume the job of president of Boston University, Daniel S. Goldin, the former NASA administrator walked away from the commitment with $1.8 million. Goldin had been heard on campus threatening ...
Author: Peter Yordan In a stirring show of force and perseverance the Middlebury women's rugby team overcame injury, stormy weather, determined opponents and the burden of an up-and-down regular season to win their first ever New England Championship at MIT this weekend. After a convincing 10-0 win ...
Author: Benjamin Salkowe Addressing families at the second Fall Family Weekend, President John McCardell noted that Middlebury College shares a special relationship with the local community, having been "founded by and named after the town." The following day, he made actions of his words when he presented ...