Author: Megan Michelson "Just as the sunrise struck the soaring peaks of the Green Mountains, turning them as pink as one of my mother's sugar-glazed apples, I boarded the southbound mail." So begins the adventure of Ticonderoga and his race to the Pacific Ocean against renowned explorers Lewis and ...
Author: Sean Breen Troubled by his aching arm, Mike DiRaimondo '05 has hung in the shadows of the men's tennis team's young stars this year. Nevertheless, this past weekend, in what might have been his last foray with competitive collegiate tennis, DiRaimondo managed to conquer the odds and rose to ...
Author: Dave Freedman Middlebury's men's soccer team came out of Amherst this past Saturday with its second consecutive tie, a 0-0 draw that put the team to 6-0-2 for the year, and at 12th in the nation in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll. "I thought it was a very well played ...
Author: David Coriell No one would dispute the claim that diversity at Middlebury enhances our educational experience. It's easy to believe we are sheltered up here in the mountains, but the diverse make-up of our student body helps us to open our eyes to a larger world of differing customs, traditions ...
Author: David Lindholm As I sat before the big screen in The Grille on Monday night, surrounded by about 50 Red Sox fans and a lone Athletics devotee, my mind wandered. First to five days earlier, when Byung-Hyun Kim put two on in the ninth, and Alan Embree allowed the hit to tie the game, setting ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston It's easy to take Vermont's scenic beauty for granted, and it's just as easy to overlook the increasing impact of organization and development on the state's traditional landscape. With this in mind, students, faculty and community members gathered in the Robert A. Jones '59 ...
Author: Charlie Goulding A new Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) raised a new closet last Sunday in hopes that the second annual event will continue to spread awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) issues on campus. The closet launched and will ultimately conclude Coming ...
Author: Jack Donaldson After last week's heartbreaking home loss to Colby, which put the Middlebury season into an early hole at 0-2, the Panthers rebounded strongly this weekend, traveling to Amherst and pulling out a 17-14 victory against the Lord Jeffs. Amherst, who was undefeated going into Saturday's ...
Author: Kate Doorley "Our polluted waters can't wait any longer for effective clean up plans to go forward." So cries the Web site for the Vermont Natural Resources Council, a group dedicated to promoting awareness of Vermont's environmental issues and actions citizens can take to protect and preserve ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin Middlebury College enjoyed a long-awaited term of positive returns on its endowment this year.In November 2002, President John McCardell addressed the decline of the endowment due to a recession in the economy. "For the next two years, we will be less able to rely on our endowment ...
Author: Tom McCann The recent evidence for the coming of the Apocalypse is becoming increasingly compelling as time continues. The Chicago Cubs have advanced to the National League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox have done the same in the American League and the Middlebury women's tennis team ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Freshly graduated from Harvard University, Andrew Heyward landed in a "macho, barebones newsroom" in New York City where the news director "got a kick out of hiring an elite liberal arts graduate to run up the stairs to get film from the lab." From such humble beginnings ...
Author: Ian Fleishman The Middlebury College Board of Trustees convened this weekend and attended a fall retreat at Bread Loaf campus to orient the newer trustees - explaining their function and position in the College - and to educate them about the role of the Board. According to Director of Public ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College volleyball team began an exhausting five-match stint this past Thursday, which started in against Union College. The much-improved Panthers had a very strong outing, as they swept the Dutchwomen in three straight games by 30-20, 30-27, 30-19 to win the match ...
Author: Venessa Wong On Friday, Sept. 26, the African American Alliance (AAA) welcomed the new school year with a screening of "Barbershop" (2002), a comedy directed by Tim Story about a whimsical day in an old-fashioned Chicago barbershop. The event, which took place in Bicentennial Hall Room 220, ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury women's soccer team pushed its record to 5-1 after three impressive wins last week. The Panthers have now won five straight games, and rank third in New England and 20th nationally heading into this week's action. They are tied atop the NESCAC standings with Bates.The ...
Author: Lanford Beard Justin may have walked away with a few Moonmen that night, but the minute Britney snatched a kiss from the infamous Boy Toy-cum-Caballah Mama at MTV's 10th anniversary Video Music Awards, we knew that this pre-Madonna was no longer "Like a Virgin."More than ever she was and is ...
Author: Peter Yordan None but the most dilatory of students can still remain who remembers the exquisite torture of a Red Sox postseason on Middlebury's campus. Thanks to baseball's best lineup and an embarrassing (if not improbable) meltdown by the Mariners, all of us will get a chance to see the ...
Author: Sally Hartman "There's no place like home, there's no place like home..." The unexpected wisdom of The Wizard of Oz's protagonist Dorothy proved to be true this weekend in Cumberland, Maine as the men and women's cross country teams faced off with conference and non-conference teams alike. ...
Author: Peter Yordan In the wake of another controversial book chronicling the discrepancies between student-athletes and non-athletes in elite liberal arts institutions, attention is once again being focused on Middlebury's admissions policies."Reclaiming the Game", the follow-up to the ground-breaking ...