Author: Christian Holt During holiday break, my family always gets together to go Christmas tree shopping. There, hark! is a tree that is perfect. Perfectly shaped, beautiful branches, and of course, a good three feet taller than our living room ceiling. What a beautiful spirit of Christmas! Now where's ...
Author: David Freedman Over the past month, the Middlebury men's and women's swimming and diving teams have taken on four opponents, three in the first week of Winter Term. The men rebounded from two losses against perennially strong squads from Dartmouth College and Amherst College to earn two victories ...
Author: Jonathan White A Worthy Cause, Poorly ExecutedOn Thursday, Middlebury College will open its doors to the American Cancer Society for that organization's "National Smoke-Out Day." The event, which is aimed to help cigarette smokers quit smoking, is the latest in a campaign to change the College's ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin Middlebury College welcomes well over two dozen visiting professors in nearly every subject offered this Winter Term. Coming from as far away as Berlin and Moscow to as close as the College's home state of Vermont, these professors bring with them an abundance of outside experience ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart At 10 a.m. on Jan. 8, a crowd gathered in Montpelier to witness the beginning of the next chapter in Vermont's governmental history. On Wednesday, the 2003 legislative session officially began as 180 Vermont lawmakers who will serve for the next two years took the oath of office ...
Author: Edward Pickering The British zoologist Gerald Durrell led an itinerant life studying the fauna of Africa, Australia, South America and elsewhere. He recorded his adventures and expeditions in several wonderful volumes of books that permanently endeared him to the reading public. "My Family and ...
Author: [no author name found] On Friday night, January 10th, Habitat for Humanity hosted a Beans and Rice benefit dinner for the Addison County Habitat for Humanity Chapter. Students who joined us for the dinner swiped their cards at Cook dining hall, donating the difference between an average Middlebury ...
Author: Erika Mercer It is a dark murder mystery on a tropical island. A tale of deceit and remorse, shadows and distorted identities, complete with rushed whispers, furtive glances and disguised appearances. Enemies are passionate lovers and friends are cunning swindlers. Revenge becomes obsession ...
Author: Matt Ross Before winter break the Panthers went on a three game tear, winning their first league game by defeating Hamilton 90-88. Simon Behan '05 led the team in scoring, dropping 22 points, including going 12-13 from the line down the stretch to secure the win. Middlebury capitalized on ...
Author: Andrea La Rocca For the new year of 2003, you resolved to work out more often and lose your beer belly (ah, yes, the freshman fifteen) in time for spring skiing. But since J-term started, you've partied nearly every night and have barely been able to drag yourself to class, let alone to the ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Those of us at Middlebury College who have become accustomed to the high-speed Internet connection we enjoy here may have been disappointed in recent days by a noticeably slower connection speed. This decrease has been caused by an Internet "worm" which struck thousands of computers ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin Dance, cooking and craft classes may still represent the typical Winter Term workshop, but this January, a new, more serious breed of workshop has been introduced. The Middlebury Refugee Camp Simulation workshop seeks to familiarize a group of students with the issues faced by ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton "Short" Man Exposes Himself to CustodianTwo students identified an alleged harasser based on a police sketch on the University of Arkansas campus. The suspect allegedly harassed a university custodian twice, grabbing her, exposing himself and fleeing before she had time to use ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed With former Vice President Al Gore announcing that he will not run for President in 2004, the race for the Democratic nomination seems as wide open as ever. Candidates that have lined up thus far for the party nod, ranges from the far left (Reverend Al Sharpton), to the conservative ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe It is not often that Middlebury College students tune into the Champlain Valley's local radio stations. While over 15 FM radio stations broadcast within the greater Burlington area, few signals audibly reach Middlebury. Additionally, Middlebury College's small size and the even ...
Author: [no author name found] Access Almost Enhancedby Tom DrescherPublic Safety is currently in the final stages of installing a new dorm access system across the Middlebury College campus. According to Assistant Treasurer Tom Corbin, the system installation is about 90 percent complete. Next week, ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes As the quilts of Gee's Bend, Ala., hang in their unnaturally vertical positions on the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art, I am immediately reminded of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use." Walker's short story depicts Dee, a young citified woman, returning home to her unsophisticated ...
Author: Liz Braunstein Mead Chapel had everything but a glowing fireplace. The rows of poinsettias housed on the altar, wreaths hanging from the balconies draped with red ribbon and lit candles placed around the room created a warm atmosphere for Middlebury College's annual Lessons and Carols for Advent ...
Author: Emily Berlanstein Over the past few weeks, the women's basketball team has been hard at work. While their results may not appear to compensate for the numerous games, grueling practices and an early return from the holiday break, Alexis Hollinger '05 commented, "Despite several losses, coach ...
Author: Zachariah Allen And so, we roll along into the conference championships in this confused and twisted NFL season. With the exception of the Titans, who miraculously turned their ramshackled bandwagon around midseason to win 11 out of 12, the results have been entirely predictable. For all the ...