Author: Leah Koenig Opening 24 Hours For Peace, Otter Nonsense's performance last Friday night also began what would prove a long night for the group, which was scheduled to make numerous cameo appearances throughout the festivities. The Otter's packed, and often rowdy audience, crammed Pearsons ...
Author: [no author name found] Sunday Sept. 292:30 a.m: The new Ross Dining Hall gets trashed. 6 a.m: The Ross dining crew arrives at work to find frozen yogurt and sticky soda dripping down the machines and all over the floor, cereal littering the floors, a smashed card swiper and broken cabinet ...
Author: Nicole Maddox The Middlebury College Board of Trustees will gather this weekend for the first time in the 2002-2003 academic year. Beginning on Friday, the trustees will disperse into six to eight committees for extensive meetings with representatives from various groups on campus. For instance, ...
Author: Kathleen Fleury Burlington's Circumferential Highway, originally conceived over 30 years ago, has generated much controversy in Chittenden County and around the state. The "Circ," as it is called, will span 16 miles when completed and will link Interstate 89 in Williston to Interstate 89 in ...
Author: [no author name found] Alvarez HonoredAt a Sept. 20 celebration held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Hispanic Heritage Awards Foundation (HHAF) honored five prominent Latin-Americans, one of whom was Middlebury College Writer-in-Residence Julia ...
Author: Chase Kvasnak "It's the war, not us, that's moving like shade on a balcony" remarked poet Adrienne Rich at her Oct. 4 poetry reading which attracted some 300 students, faculty and community members to Dana Auditorium. Rich was introduced by Roman Graf, associate provost for institutional diversity, ...
Author: Tim McCahill On Wednesday, Oct. 2, President McCardell spoke at the first of three College-wide town meetings. Two subsequent meetings are scheduled for Winter Term and the middle of the spring semester 2003.The almost two-hour meeting began with College administrators and students in roughly ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart On Wednesday, Vermont health officials began looking into the death of a Windham County woman who may have had the second Vermont case of West Nile virus in humans. The case was reported to health officials at the end of September, and the cause of her death is as yet undetermined.The ...
Author: Jon White "There is no ideal solution, just the right direction" concluded the "Guiding Principles" adopted in May 1999 by the Project Review Committee. The Committee, with special guidance from Nan Jenks-Jay, director of environmetal affairs, and Dave Ginevan, executive vice president of facilities, ...
Author: Liz Lathey Something happened last Thursday night at the Higher Ground in Winooski, Vt. Something happened between Robert and Marcus Randolph, Danyel Morgan and John Ginty. The musical chemistry between these four musicians, who together make up the Family Band, was undeniable as they played ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Following championship performances in the season's first two tournaments, the Middlebury men's tennis team sent its top five players to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last weekend to compete in the Omni Hotels Championship, where they faced the stiffest competition ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Students who enjoy the convenience of smoking in their own rooms or near the entrances of on- campus buildings may soon have to change their ways. Though few people know about it, Middlebury has recently introduced an initiative that seeks to ban tobacco use in residence halls ...
Author: Josh Axelrod Middlebury men's soccer had an up and down week finishing with a tie against Colby-Sawyer, a win against Colby and a loss to Bowdoin, who has now claimed the number one spot in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) rankings. Middlebury now sits in fourth place, ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart In a tight race for lieutenant governor, Progressive candidate Anthony Pollina of Middlesex County is a top contender looking to oust Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin. Pollina, a policymaker who has dealt with issues in Vermont for 20 years, ran the first-ever ...
Author: Liz Lathey As November approaches, Vermonters are starting to wonder about the names on front yard political signs. Among the names is Jim Douglas, the Republican candidate for governor. Douglas has had an extensive political career as a member of the state Legislature, executive assistant to ...
Author: [no author name found] Well, let me first take this moment to thank everyone who read my article about Middining, and those of you who became so belabored with its flagrant injustice that you wrote in to The Campus. I would like to respond to each of the articles personally, but let's clarify ...
Author: Erika Mercer While Spoon has been busy stripping down to a sound that is spotlessly clean and decidedly minimalist, their music has been growing and advancing exponentially with the release of each album. They have reached an all-time high with their most recent release, "Kill the Moonlight," ...
Author: Chase Kvasnak Dimiter Daphinoff's speech on Monday, titled "Shakespeare in the 21st Century," focused on the not-always-recognizable contemporary relevance of Shakespeare's almost five centuries-old works. Daphinoff said that "Hamlet's wonderful reflection on the waste of human life, compared ...
Author: Nick Ferrer and Kate Nerenberg RugbyBoth the men's and women's rugby teams walked away victorious from their respective games this past weekend. The men demolished Keene State 60-8 while the women snuck past Green Mountain College in the second half, 32-24. Caleb Consenstein '06, who scored ...
Author: Khairani Barokka Side by side on Sept. 29, two distinguished poets, one a Palestinian, the other an Israeli, brought the emotions and vivid imagery of war in the Middle East to a sizeable audience in the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room. Taha Muhammad Ali and Aharon Shabtai each read from ...