Author: Kelsey Rinehart Putting away their skis and snow shovels, Vermonters across the state have opted to stay inside and sit by the fire, away from the biting chill of a record-breaking cold snap that has enveloped the region for days on end. The cold prevented hundreds from enjoying the outdoor ...
Author: Emily Berlanstein The women's basketball team recently secured the seventh seed in the NESCAC, earning them a tournament berth. They will travel to Connecticut to play second-seeded Wesleyan in the Quarterfinals, with hopes of revenging a recent 54-50 loss. Early last week, Middlebury trounced ...
Author: Edward Pickering First Lady Laura Bush has indefinitely postponed a poetry symposium originally to be held at the White House Feb. 12 after learning several of the poets invited were planning to speak out against the impending war with Iraq. Middlebury College's D. E. Axinn Professor of Creative ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Ted Perry, Fletcher Professor of the Arts at Middlebury College, served as one of 13 members of the motion pictures jury for the third annual American Film Institute (AFI) awards program. The AFI selects the year's most outstanding achievements in film and television, as well ...
Author: Lucie Greene The production of "L'incoronazione di Poppea" by Claudio Monteverdi, was performed on Wednesday, Jan. 29, and Thursday, Jan. 30, in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, as the final result of both two semesters of opera study, and one intense Winter Term production course. A joint ...
The presidents of the 11 colleges and universities that make up the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) have decided to decline a request made by U.S. News & World Report to release statistical information on their athletic programs. The unanimous decision, made at a Dec. 18 meeting, ...
Author: Daniel Roda On Saturday, Jan. 18, thousands of Vermonters flooded the streets of Burlington and Montpelier to protest the Bush regime's apparently inexorable determination to wage war on Iraq. This, in conjunction with numerous other protests across the nation and the world, indicates an increasingly ...
Author: Matt Ross The Panthers had an up-and-down February break, going 2-3 and 2-2 in New England Small Colleges Athletic Association (NESCAC) play. With two games left before the NESCAC tournament, the team is 13-9 overall and 2-5 in the league. The Panthers started the week hot, burying Colby 86-67. ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes David Gray's performance on Thursday, Jan. 30, at the intimate Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Mass., sustained the mounting hype surrounding his U.S. tour.Soloing on piano, Gray opened with "The Other Side." However, with an unexpected sweep of the red velvet curtain serving as a lush ...
Author: Namik Kirlik Many things changed for international students after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in terms of our status and the process of obtaining valid documents to study in the United States. First, the U.S. Patriot Act, which was implemented as a response to the terrorist attacks in 2001, ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann At essentially the midway point in its season, the Middlebury alpine ski team finds itself in its usual position: looking up at the University of Vermont (UVM) and Dartmouth College and looking down at all its New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) brethren. ...
Author: Nicolas Emery The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) ranked Middlebury College 20th out of the nation's top 24 academically rated liberal arts colleges with regards to its comparative success in integrating African-Americans into its faculty and student body.The JBHE used data compiled ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's like eating a pack of Starburst candies -- the flavor is fruity and sweet, sugary and satisfying. Each one is pleasingly chewy and sticky, leaving you minutes afterwards to unearth tiny strawberry-tasting remains hiding between your teeth's crevices. Even the more bitter flavors ...
Author: Josh Axelrod With temperatures becoming tolerable, and February break beginning on campus, Middlebury's nordic ski team has been busy with weekly carnivals. Action started off last weekend in Stowe, Vt., where the Panthers raced to excellent finishes at the University of Vermont Carnival.The ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart In September 2001, the Hegarty family of Middlebury filed a lawsuit against the Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) when Paka, Suzanne Hegarty's daughter's older horse, was seized by the organization due to the animal's extremely low weight. The horse was taken without prior ...
Author: Alice Munson Last Saturday as I was leaving the Redemption Center one of your fine young students tapped on my window and said I had a flat tire. I got out and these two great guys said they would change it for me. Remember now it was very cold! After they easily changed it (or they made it ...
Author: David Lindholm The last time Trinity faced Middlebury in men's hockey, the Bantams jumped out to a 2-0 lead at Kenyon Arena before Kevin Cooper '04 came up with a hat trick to give the Panthers a dramatic 3-2 win. Anyone remember that game? It was the New England Small College Athletic College ...
Author: [no author name found] A determined Katie Sampson '02.5 skis at her February Graduation Ceremony.
Author: Bryan Goldberg Much of this last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus read like a pat-on-the-back for a couple dozen students protesting the war in Iraq. In the very same issue, the spokesman for this effort, Wellington Lyons '04, submitted a piece which outlined his dissent ("War Objector ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Over Winter Term, 13 students participated in a unique service-learning project in Romania. Biology 270, "Early Experience and Brain Development," was the result of a year of organizational work by Assistant Professor of Biology David Parfitt. According to Parfitt, who is ...