Author: Lindsey Whitton Last Wednesday when the campus-wide power failure threatened to last more than a few minutes, I left the newspaper office and trudged back home to wait out the storm. But this year's home, I soon realized, did not facilitate the same peaceful wood fire and wool blanket gatherings ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta Last Saturday, the Middlebury cross country team hosted the annual Panther Invitational and kicked off their season with an impressive debut. Both Amherst and Connecticut College were among the many teams that traveled to compete against the Panthers. And, despite intense training ...
Author: Bob Wainwright For those of you who missed the Otter Nonsense show last Sunday night in McCullough, you missed what is undeniably the most refreshing, and some might say ingenious, student group currently on the Middlebury College campus. At a school where people are notorious for taking themselves ...
Author: Sarah Riddleberger On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Middlebury College campus and its surrounding area lost electric power for close to four hours. All electricity flickered off just before 9 p.m. and did not return until nearly 1 a.m. Middlebury Facilities Management reported that there was a fault ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I recently received a mailing from Middlebury College asking, on its cover, whether I am "e-conscious." This apparent effort at environmental activism on the part of the College pleased me immensely. That is, until I opened the letter. Inside, to my surprise, ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Welcome back everyone! Did you have a good summer? Good. Oh, thanks. Yup, mine was great, too. Well, it was good seeing you. I'm sure I'll see you around. Where are you living again? Oh, cool. Well, I'm living on the other side of campus this year, but I'm planning on being over ...
Author: Jeff Martin The Middlebury Panthers' golf team commenced its fall season this past weekend with a fourth place showing at its very own Duke Nelson Tournament. The team continues its hectic schedule on Wednesday with a round at Skidmore, before heading down to its archenemy's course for the Williams ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Three years ago, the Middlebury men's tennis team finished seventh out of eight teams in the fall season's annual opening tournament, the Middlebury Invitational. Oh, what a difference 1,095 days can make. By entering its entire squad of 16 into the Invitational, Middlebury finished ...
Author: Julie Shumway Vermont Governor Howard Dean has declared that, were he elected president of the United States in 2004, he would recognize same-sex marriages.Dean spoke at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association annual meeting in Philadelphia last Saturday. He said that as president ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg In its season and New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) opener, the Middlebury women's soccer team walked away with a 2-2 tie against Trinity College. Like any other first game, the Panthers used it as an opportunity to work out any kinks and discover strengths ...
Author: Claire Bourne PARIS — When the lead headline of Libération read, "C'est une tragédie!" ("What a tragedy!") on the morning of Sept. 11, I expected the article that followed to have some rapport with the lives lost and affected by the terrorist plot that had unfurled one year earlier. Instead, ...
Author: Jon White Take it easy on the Ben & Jerry's and Cabot Cheese, Vermont. That's the message that state health officials in Montpelier relayed this summer when announcing that obesity in Vermont is at an all-time high.Currently, 18 percent of Vermonters are categorically "obese" — a term ...
Author: [no author name found] What an outstanding weekend. Usually I grocery shop and do laundry, but last weekend I attended Middlebury's Alumni Leadership Conference. The fact is I'm an alumnus from the class of 1999; I'm not sure about leadership, though. Coupling an invitation to Middlebury with ...
Author: Abbie Beane Serving as the perfect venue for experienced performers, artistic hopefuls, unabashed rookies and all those in between, "24 Hours of Art" promises to satisfy anyone with a voracious artistic appetite. Celebrating the Center for the Arts' (CFA) 10th anniversary, "24 Hours of Art" ...
Author: Kate Prouty Middlebury College's annual Clifford Symposium scheduled for next weekend has more to celebrate this year than ever before. Designed to launch the academic year into a turbulence of discussion over the selected subject matter, this year's Symposium also gets to blow out birthday ...
Author: [no author name found] Summer Workers Demand Respect from Language SchoolsVinay Jawahar '03The slogan "No English Spoken Here," the Language Schools' pride and joy and raison d'etre, is a noble and praiseworthy ideal to aspire to. The Language Schools administration must be commended on its ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen What do a Junior National Champion kayaker, a pitcher-magician-pianist-composer, a best selling children's book author and wildlife preservationist from Kenya, a documentary film maker and volunteer at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, India and a Junior Olympic ...
Author: [no author name found] One year after the September attacks, Americans, for the most part, have restored normalcy in their lives. On the one hand, this return to normalcy is comforting: it indicates the resiliency of the American spirit, a spirit that was touted heavily by public figures in ...
Author: Cori Loew In the early morning hours of July 28, a miracle occurred as rescuers pulled the "Quecreek Nine"— coal miners trapped in a flooded shaft 240 feet underground — to safety after their 77-hour ordeal. Addressing the miners, their families and the rescue workers the following week, ...
Author: Kate Prouty Welcome to Middlebury College. Open your door, open your mind, head down the hill and find yourself at the College's own Museum of Art. Tucked in a far corner of the Center for the Arts (CFA), the Museum may be one of the College's most impressive but untapped resources. The Museum ...