Author: Caitlin Vaughn and Emily Lord We honestly can't remember the last time we felt completely alert, functional and eager to attend morning, afternoon or even evening class, and we're sure we're not in the minority. Many students have tried combating morning sleepiness with a big old mug of dining ...
Author: Meghan Keenan Last week's Drunk Driving Awareness Week marked the first endeavor to devote an entire week's worth of activities to raising awareness about the dangerous, yet frequently practiced, act of drunken driving. Organized by Cook Commons Residential Assistant Sean Hoskins, the idea for ...
Author: Mallika Rao As some Middlebury students desperately hunt the job market and contemplate a coffee- or copy-making summer, 26 winners of the Ron H. Brown '62 and Felton Family Internship Grants are left to enjoy the prospect of a productive and partially or completely funded three months. These ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Harvard Professor to Lead First War Crimes TribunalVisiting Professor at Harvard Law School Luis Moreno Ocampo was unanimously chosen to be the chief prosecutor of the newly established International Criminal Court (ICC), the first permanent international war crimes tribunal.The ...
Author: Tom Drescher In light of the financial belt-tightening that Middlebury has been forced to undergo, the College has decided to discontinue the position of student center manager in the Center for Campus Activities and Leadership (CCAL). Doug Adams, director of CCAL, explained the College's decision ...
Author: Charlie Goulding On Friday, April 25, all 4,294 Middlebury students cast their ballots for next year's Student Government Association (SGA) president. Students were offered the choice between Sam Rodriguez '04, Megan McElroy '04 and Andrew Feinberg '04. Mike Lin received nil votes. Lin spelt ...
Author: Jacob Heller After reeling off six consecutive victories, the Middlebury baseball team dropped three straight last weekend. These losses leave its record at 11-7-1 with two weeks remaining in the season. The first loss came against a Skidmore team that Middlebury should have defeated. Skidmore ...
Author: [no author name found] As winter melts into spring, bright sunny days carve turns at the Snow Bowl and midnight snowshoe romps on the cross country trail fade behind Middlebury residents. When buds blossom, the Green Mountain Club (GMC) of Waterbury urges people all over Vermont to get outside. ...
Author: Simon Isaacs The Middlebury College Handbook states that graduates are expected to be "thoughtful, ethical leaders able to meet the challenges of informed citizenship." It is certainly in pursuit of this goal that curricula and syllabi are planned and taught. I am writing on behalf of the Middlebury ...
Author: Claire Bourne Dining Services welcomed back over 800 plastic tumblers with open arms on Earth Day (April 22) thanks to an initiative spearheaded by Carl Larson '03, Caitlin Prentice '05 and Charles Mahal '03. The three students enlisted the help of "a couple dozen" environmentally conscious ...
Author: Alison Damick Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26 marked the second ever French Colloquium at Middlebury College. From 4:30 p.m. Friday, when the colloquium's principal convener, Professor of French Edward Knox, introduced the opening address of Jeremy Shapiro, associate director for the ...
Author: Lindsay Whitton Representatives of Middlebury College accepted an Environmental Merit Award on behalf of the College during an Earth Day celebration held in Boston on April 22. Recipients of the annual award are selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The New England ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin The Student Government Association (SGA) designated this week as Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week. Although last year this event consisted of only a luncheon, it has been extended this year to a full week of activities that encompass many student organizations.Nominated faculty ...
Author: Zach Foster This past Wednesday, the Middlebury women's lacrosse team displayed both the grace and efficiency that is necessary in the art of proper "cow-tipping." In a match-up of the two remaining undefeated NESCAC teams, the top ranked Panthers traveled to Williamstown to face the sixth-ranked ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller The production of "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" that went up in Hepburn Zoo Theater last weekend was dominated by the incredibly intense and compelling performance of Damian L. Washington '03. He was on stage from the very second that the audience entered the theater, but he ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein On Tuesday, April 22, Gov. Jim Douglas '72 of Vermont and Gov. George Pataki of New York signed a joint agreement updating a protection plan for Lake Champlain, the sixth largest lake in the United States. The agreement, entitled "The Lake Champlain Management Plan, Opportunities ...
Author: Michael Hatch Studio art majors Dave Sharp '03 and Gigi Gatewood '03 opened an exhibition of their independent work titled "Again, For the First Time," last Friday in the Johnson Gallery. On display until Wed., April 30, the exhibit showcases Sharpe's paintings and site-specific sculptures and ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge Even though Saddam Hussein may be considered an "evil" dictator, that does not mean that, by waging war against his regime and working to dispose him of power, it makes George W. Bush a "good" leader, a liberator, or, in any way, justified in his actions. As much as Bush would ...
Author: Thomas McCann For college students across the nation, downloading music and videos is an everyday occurrence. Now, however, the music industry is fighting back and the ripples of that reaction have reached Middlebury College. Downloading media through programs like Imesh, Kazaa and Morpheus ...
Author: Andreo Niccoleo Zimmermann Runner Nicole Wilkerson's Achilles heel is her achilles heel. Quite literally that is about the only thing that could slow Middlebury's assistant cross-country and track coach down. Following a strong college career at Rice University in Texas and after flirting with ...