Author: Charlie Goulding The Student Investment Committee (SIC) is growing almost as fast as its portfolio. Each Thursday, a group of students led by Michael Cooper '06, Pieter Nijnens '05 and John Schirm '05 make presentations to one another and debate the merits of various stock investments. The group ...
Author: Kate Doorley Do you think marijuana should be legal? Recently, Vermont has been asking itself this very question, and members of the Vermont legislature are coming up with an answer - yes. The state government is currently in the process of drafting legislation which would legalize marijuana ...
Author: Daniel Phillips The results are in: reported forcible sex offenses at Middlebury College have risen over the past two years, while crime as a whole - robbery, burglary, arson and liquor law violations - has decreased, according to the Department of Public Safety's annual security report. The ...
Author: Jake Heller This is the year. At the beginning of every baseball season Red Sox fans forget about the disappointment of the season before and reaffirm their steadfast belief that in fact this is the year. This is the year in which the Curse of the Bambino will be lifted and Boston will take ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College women's volleyball team has gone an impressive 4-3 in its last seven outings, played over an exhaustive 10-day stretch. The Panthers began by playing Skidmore at home on Oct. 8. In a tight, four-game series, the Panthers narrowly beat out the Thoroughbreds ...
Author: Sally Hartman Homecoming Weekend will be an event not to be missed given the Middlebury College football team's performance at Bates last Saturday. The Panthers traveled to Lewiston, Maine, to face off with the Bobcats, who shied away from some characteristically fierce and persistent competition ...
Author: Daniel Phillips What's different at Career Services Office (CSO) this fall? Students have turned out in record-setting numbers to the annual Senior Meetings on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18, 167 seniors have already been through the four steps required for participation in recruiting and the August ...
Author: [no author name found] Each week The Middlebury Campus will take one member of the Middlebury College community. to a local thrift store to revolutionize the way they look at life, liberty and personal style. This week, we celebrated the oncoming Halloween holiday by whisking away Campus Arts ...
Author: Carl Larson Middlebury College's installation of the Enhanced Access System (EAS) and the United States' war in Iraq were both justified by circumstances that later proved questionable. The Bush administration, despite objections from citizens and other nations, insisted that Iraq possessed ...
Author: Andrea Gissing "The College fosters connections between students and between students and faculty through a variety of cultural, academic and social events - some of which span from the classroom right into the residence hall," says the Middlebury College 2003-2004 Prospectus. Indeed, with a ...
Author: Peter Yordan The men's and women's rugby teams braved marginal conditions this weekend to play a pair matches of against lightly regarded opponents. While the men pounded on their unfortunate opponents 63-0, the women suffered a frustrating set-back.The men's team, riding a strong victory over ...
Author: Taylor Johnston Members of Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) social house went before the Community Council this Monday to ask the Council to lift its probation, enacted last spring as a result of facilities damage and poor relations with the custodial staff.Several members of ZOO accompanied house President ...
Author: [no author name found] "In the beginning, there was curiosity," stated Brenda Dixon Gottschild in this weekend's performance of "Tongue Smell Color," and she was right - there certainly was an immense feeling of curiosity as audience members filled the Center for the Arts (CFA) Dance Studio ...
Author: Edward Pickering September 11, 2003, marks the day I lost interest in the ongoing war. The previous evening I had stepped aboard a plane bound for Scotland. Somewhere above the Atlantic, in the stuffy confines of an IcelandAir jet, my awareness of world affairs quietly stole away. Before me ...
Author: Tom McCann In every sport, every team chasing a championship will have one week, weekend, or game that could potentially make or break the season. The past week might have been that period for the Middlebury field hockey team. Facing a home game against Keene State, and then a crucial trip to ...
Author: Daniel Phillips and Joshua Carson Following Trot Nixon's walk-off homerun Saturday night, students at University of Massachusetts-Amherst began to riot in the southwest residential area on campus. The riot started shortly after the game ended and was not broken up by the UMass Police Department ...
Author: [no author name found] Students, faculty and members of the eco-business community gathered last Friday in Lawson Lounge to discuss the potential of biodiesel as a solution for the world's rapidly disappearing petroleum reserves. With fervor still lingering after this summer's highly publicized ...
Author: Ryan Reese On the banks of the Merrimac River in Lowell, Mass., on Sunday, spectators bore witness to a promising season opening regatta for the men and women of Middlebury crew. The Head of the Textile was the site of successful pulls for both the men and women, with each squad capturing one ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell We have all had them-those utterly bizarre, other-worldly nighttime musings we call dreams. I bet at one time or another every college student has suffered the humiliation of leaving the house completely naked only to wake up at the peak of embarrassment and breathe a sigh of ...
Author: Greg Duggan Get ready to hold onto your wallets. Shopping in Middlebury and everywhere else in Vermont has just gotten a little more expensive. On Oct. 1, the sales tax in Vermont increased from five percent to six percent and the telecommunications tax escalated to six percent. These raises ...