Author: Amine Bouchentouf It was not very long ago that a senior could graduate from college with four or five offers from companies and employers promising impressive benefits such as profit sharing stock options, paid vacations, free health club memberships and outrageous salaries. According to the ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff Think Head Coach Bob Ritter was happy with the way his team finished the season? "We were clearly the more focused, motivated and determined team as we played our best football game of the season this afternoon,"answered a modest Ritter after the game. The Middlebury Panthers ...
Author: Claire Bourne PARIS – The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, known simply as Paris III, is not an attractive edifice. It is a stark, colorless monstrosity stuck awkwardly in the middle of an older — and prettier — neighborhood. It quite frankly resembles a sanatorium. Inside, graffiti ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Last weekend's Islamic Society Symposium "Shattering the Myth: Islam, the Media and Orientalist Stereotypes in the American Consciousness," thoughtfully addressed the representation of Muslims and negative stereotypes of the Islamic world. The symposium was organized by students ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg The Middlebury women's volleyball team finished its season in dramatic fashion Saturday, upsetting second-seeded Colby before falling to Amherst in the semifinals of the New Engalnd Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) championship tournament. The Panthers, riding a nine-game ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann For Middlebury, two overtime thrilling wins were not in the cards as the Panthers dropped a 2-1 OT decision to Williams in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) semifinals on Saturday. The loss came after a nailbiting overtime win against Bates setting ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Nobody scores more at Middlebury College than seniors Denny Smith, Meg Bonney and Kyle Dezotell. Over the past four years, the three athletes have established themselves in the record books for their respective sports, and there is no telling when their records will ever be so ...
Author: D. Lorenzo Prepas Now I know most people from the East Coast are ecstatic that the baseball season is finished and football is in full swing, but I just had to write something about just how incredible this World Series was. The Angels erased over 40 years of futility and suffering by winning ...
Author: Tim McCahill On Friday, Middlebury's men's squash team found itself walking onto the court against Colgate University only one week after having started practices. The team is in its second year of existence and finds itself with mostly new faces and, fortunately, with brand new wide courts. ...
Author: [no author name found] Allison Barker '04Hometown: Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec and Baltimore, Md.Major: Environmental Studies-Geography major, Spanish minor.Activities: Co-president (with Naomi Andrews '03) of the Middlebury Progressives, and a student recycling center worker.My Beliefs: In ...
Author: Ben Gore "Protest" gets talked about a lot in the Opinions section of this paper. Unlike in normal venues, the issue is often not the issues but the tactic itself. These columns are written by self-satisfied members of the actively apathetic who think they've seen it all before, that activism ...
Author: [no author name found] EditorialLiving Up to Apathetic ExpectationsLast week's mid-term elections marked a historical shift in the balance of power on Capitol Hill, one that many suggest will allow the Bush administration significant leeway in nominating Supreme Court judges, paring down the ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Ball State U. Students Take Shelter as Tornado HitsStudents at Ball State University sought shelter in lower levels of residence halls and departmental buildings Sunday afternoon as violent winds rushed through east-central Indiana. The tornado touched down in Blackford County ...
Author: Josh Axelrod Nothing more could have gone right for the Middlebury men's soccer team last weekend at the New England Small Colleges Athletic Conference (NESCAC) semifinals, except for a win. Facing their dreaded perennial foe the Williams Ephs, Middlebury held a 1-0 edge into the 90th minute ...
Author: Philip Spielberg On Nov. 6, Dr. Laurie Mylroie presented a speech advocating war against Iraq to a crowd of approximately 120 students, professors and townspeople in the Robert A. Jones '59 House. Mylroie, the publisher of Iraq News, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and ...
Author: Richard Lawless The lavish and technically astounding sounds of the Brentano String Quartet filled the Middlebury College Concert Hall Saturday night. The evening's program revolved around a musical piece called a fugue, which is a composition consisting of a theme and subsequent repetitions ...
Author: Abbie Beane It's back, and this time it's here to stay. It's the "Love" addition (a piece of artwork fabricated by another artist meant to be identical and equally authentic as the original), designed by Robert Indiana in 1973. It now rests behind the Center for the Arts (CFA) next to its cohort, ...
Author: [no author name found] As drivers make their way north across the Massachusetts border towards Middlebury by way of I-91, a sign sits cheerfully by the highway. "Welcome to Vermont," it reads. But the area can also be defined by another geographical likeness, one that is not marked by any signs. ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton In the early hours of Wednesday mornings I have come to cherish my short drive home. It is a chance to unwind after hours of frantic work, and it is the first step towards my coveted few hours of sleep. Tuesday nights in the Hepburn basement are spent producing The Campus, and ...
Author: [no author name found] Does Middlebury really want to assess the value of its students to the College community by group and grade point average? The difference between the 3.05 average for athletes and the 3.29 for Middlebury students as a whole (1999) is, after all, only between fine gradations ...