Author: Mallika Rao This past Monday night, an audience at the Robert A. Jones '59 house was treated to the eloquent words of Betty Mould-Iddrisu, chief state attorney of Ghana. The event was conceptualized by Kathryn Boateng '05 and sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Religion ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston President John McCardell approved the Community Council's recommendation to continue all academic interest houses without stipulations.The academic and social houses at Middlebury College undergo an annual review by a six-member subcommittee of Community Council, officially ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Suddenly it hit me. Pretty soon, I'm going to need a job. No more free ice cream at lunch. In fact, no more free lunch. Soon, a lot of things are going to be no more. Why didn't somebody tell me this was all going to end?Unfortunately, it was an epiphany that led to another realization: ...
Author: Claire Bourne Wilco frontman and alt-country idol Jeff Tweedy apologized mid-set for not being able to hit the high notes and prefaced the group's second encore at the Flynn Theater Friday night by joking that he and his band mates had just decided to "quit music."If a chock-a-block early-summer ...
Author: Tom Drescher Housing is always a major concern for the student body this time of year, with room draw and Student Government Association (SGA) elections both falling in April. More than 100 rising sophomores failed to draw rooms earlier this month, and to further exacerbate the situation, it ...
Author: Alex Rossmiller In his April 16 article, "Dines' Message Alienates Rather Than Convinces Audience," Bryan Goldberg '05 demonstrated what is either total ignorance of the point of Gail Dines' lecture, or worse, purposeful distortion of the facts and its message. The contrast between the informed ...
Author: Edward Pickering John le CarrÈ cuts a patrician figure in the world of spy writing. He has been in the game for a long time - since 1974, in fact, when "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" topped bestseller charts across the globe. The novel, the first in a trilogy, is simply sensational. Le CarrÈ, ...
Author: Claire Bourne Last August, I fell in love.This wasn't a passing crush. No, this was the real thing. It all began one Sunday morning, a few days before I was due to depart for my long-anticipated semester in Paris. I was scouring the Short Hills Mall for some last-minute items, my head aching ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed "We come to liberate Baghdad, not to occupy it." - Lt. Gen. Sir Stanley Maude on March 19, 1917.The date attributed to the above quote may take many readers by surprise. Others may appreciate the sense of irony, for history has that uncanny ability of repeating itself. The last time ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Saturday afternoon I wandered happily into the Hepburn Zoo Theater and was surprised and delighted to find coffee and a delectable assortment of cookies laid out on a table next to the entrance. I poured myself a much-needed cup of java with plenty of sugar and quickly claimed ...
Author: Alison Damick On Monday, Dana Auditorium was abuzz as students filed in, laughing and shaking the spring rainfall out of their hair and off of their jackets. The screening scheduled that night was, "Five Short Films on Women and Prison," with an introduction before and discussion after by producer ...
Author: Andreo Niccolo Zimmermann Jody Kramer '03 will be one of only four starters on the rugby team to graduate this May. That means one of Middlebury's most successful intercollegiate athletic teams will continue its dominance yet it also means it will be losing a leader and one of its smartest and ...
Author: Lanford Beard At this particular moment in pop history, we seem to have transcended pre-fabrication. One too-soon-to-tell, pre-pre-fab success story is Kelly Clarkson, who earned her fame courtesy of a nationally televised talent contest in which she formed a musical persona before releasing ...
Author: Claire Bourne Leah Koenig '04 transferred to Middlebury College from the University of Oregon last fall in large part due to the College's Environmental Studies (ES) program. Since then, she has wasted no time in making a name for herself on campus and in the surrounding community. Most notably, ...
Author: David Freedman The Middlebury men's lacrosse team earned its sixth straight win on Saturday with an 18-7 rout of Trinity College at Robin L. Sheppard Field. Coming off a week with stiff competition, Middlebury had previously relied on the offensive starters for point production. The Bantams, ...
Author: Zach Foster Chalk up two more convincing victories for the Middlebury women's lacrosse as they continue to make opponents look silly in the wake of their superiority. The two most recent thumpings, which pushed the Panther winning streak to a remarkable 44 games, came against in-state nemesis, ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart In recent years, Act 250, Vermont's 30-year-old land use development law, has been the subject of intense debate and ceaseless media coverage. In his 2002 gubernatorial campaign, now-Governor James Douglas '72 ran on a platform that included restructuring Act 250. Douglas, who ...
Author: Dan Phillips Sullivan Seeks Stand-Out CampaignErin Sullivan '04.5, candidate for student co-chair of the Community Council and speaker for the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate, finished plastering campus buildings and dormitories with a rainbow of flyers last Saturday. She directed ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Casting the Ballot for Change: SGA Presidential EndorsementBrace yourself. We're about to break with tradition.For years The Middlebury Campus has thrown its support behind the shoe-in candidate for student body president. The resume that brims with experience. The one ...
Author: Erich Kahner The Middlebury track and field teams ended the pre-championship season with two home meets last week at Dragone Field. The meets, one on Tuesday and the other on Saturday, brought light competition from surrounding colleges, leaving Middlebury athletes to compete mostly against ...