Author: Dan Russell After an encouraging step forward with a 3-1 victory against Plattsburgh State this past Tuesday, the Middlebury College volleyball team suffered two disappointing losses in the inaugural NESCAC Tournament held at Williams College last weekend. The team faced its first NESCAC competition ...
Author: Chris Grosso The music scene at Middlebury College, by virtue of its small size, is highly visible on campus. The scene becomes even more noticeable when a talented performing artist lives right next door. As a neighbor, one gets to observe the creative process in full swing and have the daily ...
Author: Kate Doorley "Small Government, Low Taxes, More Freedom," proclaims the banner atop the Vermont Libertarian Newsletter. These three concepts represent the crux of the Vermont Libertarian Party's (VTLP) platform, which is currently undergoing its mandatory biannual reorganization. The reorganization ...
Author: May Boeve The Israeli Cabinet's intention to remove Yasser Arafat, announced last Tuesday, is a marked departure from the sort of news we are used to from the Middle Eastern desk. After seemingly endless blurbs about cease-fires and suicide bombings, this new decision begs the question of timing. ...
Author: [no author name found] Wary of Orientation ReformFirst-year orientation evokes memories of hiking, volunteer work and forming friendships that endure far beyond that first week. In fact, many students remain close to a core group of friends they met during their orientation throughout their ...
Author: Daniel Phillips In the bowels of the Carr Hall basement, the workers behind the desk at Campus Security barely noticed as the rain clouds finally cleared on Tuesday afternoon for their office was a flurry of stuffing boxes with files and envelopes bound for their new home in Harnest House, located ...
Author: Ryan Reece The football team ran into a roadblock on Saturday in Middletown, Connecticut. The Wesleyan College Cardinals turned up the intensity during the second half in order to send the Panthers home with a 26-7 loss. Despite holding a narrow lead at the half way mark, the Panthers could ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team has started out the 2003 fall season undefeated, with a win against Skidmore on Sept. 17 and most recently against Union last weekend. The Panthers traveled to Schenectady, N.Y., on Sept. 20 and convincingly defeated Union by a score ...
Author: Sean Breen The Middlebury men's tennis team took to the road last weekend to test its skills against some Division I opponents at the Cornell Fall Invitational. Middlebury was the only DIII school invited to the seven-team tournament that included Cornell, Yale, the University of Connecticut, ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This year's Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium, "What Became of Peter's Dream?" came to a close on Saturday, Sept. 20 with a screening of Aleksandr Sokurov's spectacular film "Russian Ark." Although in her introduction to the afternoon screening, Tatiana Smorodinska, professor ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland It can hardly be argued that photographic exhibits remain one of the most effective mediums of art when it comes to concocting the perfect mix of reality and aestheticism. Conveniently, this form of visual art would also be the perfect combination for a symposium, which aims to ...
Author: Erika Mercer For photo shoots, they like to dress up as pirates. Or, if not pirates, Dickensian gentlefolk.Welcome to the Decemberists.Shake hands, and they'll lead you down a cobblestone path teeming with sooty chimney sweeps, foul-mouthed prostitutes, dirty orphan boys and weatherworn sailors. ...
Author: Michael Crowly The events at last week's World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Canc˙n, Mexico, highlight important issues with respect to the survival of the WTO and the pace of trade liberalization. The WTO provides a concrete framework in which countries can negotiate wide ranging trade ...
Author: Lanford Beard Who was the Father of the "Bling?"No, it was not P. Diddy - not even Run DMC or Fab Five Freddy before them. It was Liberace. There's a new Fab Five in town. They're here, they're queer and they're running the show.Generally I'm not a slave to the corporate hype factory. In fact, ...
Author: Ted Lester Middlebury College excels in so many areas of student life. However, there is one department at Middlebury that is not up to the par of student expectations. At most schools students have a positive attitude towards their security department, but at Middlebury almost every student ...
Author: Greg Duggan Whether or not Vermonters agree or disagree with civil unions on moral grounds, they would have a difficult time disputing the practice on an economic basis. Since Vermont became the first and only state to offer civil unions to same-sex couples, yet another group of visitors has ...
Author: Ian Fleishman The relocation of the Pan-African-Latino-Asian-Native American (PALANA) Center from Fletcher House on South Street to the more central placement in Carr Hall has been met with mixed feelings by students and administrators, who have already begun to live and work in the new location. ...
Author: Dave Freedman The Middlebury College men's soccer team moved to 3-0 this past weekend for the first time since 1999 by routing Castleton State 6-0 and beating Trinity College 3-0. The Panthers have yet to give up a goal in their first three matches, and allowed Castleton only one shot in the ...
Author: J. Donaldson & D. Saper Middlebury's golf team concluded their first trial this season on Sunday with a fifth-place finish in the 20-team Duke Nelson Invitational Tournament, a result that shows considerable promise for this young squad. There were four other NESCAC title contenders in the ...
Author: Michael O'Brien Two of my most beloved English teachers consider "Tender is the Night" to be the greatest American novel ever written, so I was shocked to find Edward Pickering's dismissal of the book as one in which it is "hard to finding any real meaning" ("Literary Picks", Sept. 11, 2003). ...