Author: David Lindholm With three matches under its belt already this season, the men's tennis team remains perfect. The Panthers posted their third straight 7-0 victory, the most recent coming last Wednesday when the team hosted Northern neighbors, the University of Vermont (UVM). The team has yet ...
Author: Claire Bourne Efforts to provide the Public Safety Office with more space and the Pan-African-Latino-Native-American (PALANA) Center with a more prominent location on campus have spawned plans to significantly remap the locations of a number of Middlebury College offices. A 1998-99 space audit ...
Author: Peter Yordan After a strong 6-2 record last fall the women's tennis team is looking to serve up another successful season this spring. The squad, a potent mix of veteran experience and young talent, breaks out of winter hibernation with a Spring Break trip to Hilton Head Island, S.C., for a ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe As a part of Visibility Week, Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) hosted a lecture entitled "Politicizing the Personal: Reflections on Civil Unions" in Robert A. Jones '59 Seminar Room on Wednesday, March 12. The lecture drew on both the politically charged and deeply personal ...
Author: Christian Holt We have distressing news on the home front this week. The House Administrative Committee, an organization I did not know existed, decided to officially change the name of "French fries" and "French toast" to "Freedom fries" and "Freedom toast." Calm down, readers, and I'll explain ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Understanding that the Hepburn Zoo provides a unique venue for experimental work that otherwise would not be carried by larger, professional theaters, Director Christopher Richards '03 took advantage of this opportunity with "Dyskinesia." Richards' version of Sarah Kane's final ...
Author: Jacob Heller Chemistry: when a team has chemistry, it is an invaluable asset to take onto the field. The 2003 Middlebury baseball team is banking on its new-found team chemistry to help it rebound from last season's 12 - 16 campaign. In his 18th season as Head Coach, Bob Smith is nothing but ...
Author: Matthew Christ First-year J.S. Woodward recently proved that individual students can make a difference. Woodward, a member of the Environmental Council, was concerned about the fish served in Middlebury dining halls. Hailing from Anchorage, Alaska, Woodward is very aware that the oceans are ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann How many professional athletes do you know? Chances are none, given the fact that you shake uncontrollably, sweat profusely and stutter emphatically every time you get within 100 feet of the "Nomar Garciaparra" of your sports dreams. No need to be nervous. Dwelling in the same ...
Author: Edward Pickering Changes to Middlebury College's smoking policy will take effect as soon as President John McCardell formally accepts the recommendation he received from Community Council.The Community Council's recommendation stipulates that, "each residential hallway shall determine, by majority ...
Author: Erika Mercer You might hate the guy who can sing a line as corny as, "I want so badly to believe / That there is truth and love is real," and get away with it. Or the same guy who can put a sweet, soft, Belle & Sebastian-esque voice to a quick, upbeat, 80s electronic dance beat and make ...
Author: David Freedman The Middlebury men's lacrosse team opened its New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) regular season with a solid 9-5 win this weekend over nationally ranked Colby College. The Panthers, however, still had problems finishing off their scoring chances. The team took ...
Author: Andrea Gissing NYU Expels Disabled StudentMike Donnelly, a student at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science's John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought, was expelled after one semester for failing to meet the program's academic requirement. ...
Author: Zach Foster For the women's lacrosse team, winning is not simply an option, rather, for some, it is all they know. Coming into the 2003 season, the team holds the distinction of being not only back-to-back national champions but also being the proud owners of the nation's longest winning streak, ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg The Middlebury women's lacrosse team won its 36th straight game on Saturday, defeating New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foe Colby, 17-7. The team began its run at a third straight NCAA Championship crown with a strong first half that proved why the team was ...
Author: Christopher Lizotte The last several Fridays at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall have featured pianists of international renown who have performed programs drawn from the works of composers as diverse as classicists like Hayden and post-modernists such as Milton Babbitt. On Sunday, the trend ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg Exactly one week later, in a rematch of the NESCAC championship game, the Middlebury women's hockey team again took on Bowdoin. This time, however, the Panthers did not come away victorious as the Polar Bears avenged a 4-0 loss in last week's game with a 3-0 shutout on their home ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Alice M. Rivlin spoke in the Robert A. Jones Conference Room on "Greed, Ethics, and Public Policy" on Monday afternoon. Rivlin is the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, which she headed from 1975 to 1983, and was the director of the White House Office of ...
Author: Michael Hatch This past Thursday was a treat. Ani DiFranco, solo, ripping into President Bush, taking on the war and gender divisions -- and, oh yeah, she smiled at me once, too. I rode down to Concord, N.H., with my sister and her high school buddies, and while I arrived newly educated on ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca "Next time you hit on a guy, don't ask if he has a girlfriend but ask if he's been seeing any guys lately. Make people come out as being straight instead of being gay!" An audience of students and faculty applauded this statement on Thursday night at "Undressing Sexuality: Diverse ...