Author: Abbie Beane We've all seen it: Students winding through campus with large, foreign objects, composed of anything from three wire hangers strung with plastic bowls and an eyeless teddy bear, to a cardboard box decorated with bay leaves and a telephone hanging upside down inside. It's the work ...
Marriage ... marriage?!? We're only in college and are therefore still exempt from thinking about such commitment, right? Wrong. There is always an exception to the rule, and yes, we go to school at that exception. Love is always in the air at Middlebury: Statistically, about 60 percent of Middlebury ...
Author: Nick Ferrer In 1972 President Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments into law. As part of a series of laws aimed at extending civil rights, the legislation prohibited individuals from being subject to discrimination on the basis of sex under any educational program receiving federal ...
Author: Christian Holt Finally, it's the time of the year when the leaves are turning. The landscape is a cornucopia of bright yellows, reds and oranges. It's magnificent, and something rather new to me. Like I've said before, I'm from New Jersey. We have fall for about two weeks. We cram in Thanksgiving ...
Author: Bob Wainright I had never been to a big-time college football game before, so when I visited Michigan this past weekend and attended the Michigan-Penn State game, I was thoroughly unprepared for the experience. Simply put, it was unbelievable. First off, more than 111,000 people were at the ...
Author: Josh Axelrod The Middlebury men's soccer team had hoped for a better result this weekend when it faced the Williams Ephs in a showdown of New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foes. But the day was not Middlebury's to win as it fell 3-0 to the always-competitive Ephs. Nonetheless, ...
Author: [no author name found] Smoking Ban?by Andrea GissingStudents for a Smoke-Free Middlebury (SFASFM) held its first open discussion forum Monday night in the lounge in Pearsons Hall. The new organization, which was formed on Sept. 26, is working with Mariah McKechnie, residential systems coordinator, ...
Author: Bob Wainwright After two straight weekends of extremely competitive match play, the Middlebury men's tennis team traveled north this past Friday for the Bates Invitational, while leaving its top five singles players behind for a well-deserved weekend off. Despite lacking their top players, the ...
Author: Erika Mercer "It's really liberating for me to cock my hip to one side and sneer sometimes." Uninhibited, notoriously hot-blooded and irresistibly charismatic, Ryan Adams has, in a span of two years, hypnotized the music world with his sound and persona. He's the eighth grade bully who picks ...
Author: [no author name found] We, as members of the Middlebury College community, and as proponents of peace and diplomacy in the world, respectfully urge the College to reconsider its commitment to present White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer '82 with a Distinguished Alumni Award. While we recognize ...
Author: Charles Goulding Since 1994, the Committee for Arts in Public Places (CAPP) has had a significant influence on the artistic and aesthetic appeal of the Middlebury campus. The committee, composed of trustees, administrators, faculty, students and members of the community, has acquired numerous ...
Author: [no author name found] Good morning, alarm clock. It's not time to wake up. No no, it's time to die. Sorry readers, I'm a bit on edge. My alarm clock and I are having a difficult time in our relationship. See, I want to end our relationship, and it wants to continue to wake me up with a rhythmic ...
Author: [no author name found] Transition and change are difficult. Construction is loud and the lines at Ross are long, challenging us to see how this is creating a better community. This makes it essential that students ask critical questions as to what is happening and why. The commons system is ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann In what amounted to a 1-1 week, the Middlebury field hockey team lost in heartbreaking fashion to Keene State in New Hampshire but kept pace with Williams and Bowdoin atop the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with an impressive 3-0 win over Amherst. With ...
Author: Andrea La Rocca Girlfriend. Boyfriend. Girl friend. Boy friend. These words win for the most heartbreaking homonym in the English language; they sound the same. But oh, if you ever mistake them to be the same (and we all have), then you quickly learn their differences with that dreaded line, ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff Middlebury has a very good football team — but Middlebury does not have a football team with a very good record. This weekend, in front of a packed Alumni Stadium full of rowdy fans and parents, the Panthers suffered their second heartbreaking loss of the season, this time to ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta On an ominous Friday afternoon, the Middlebury cross country team traveled to the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds to put on an exposition of its own. The women repeated as perennial state champions, while the men reclaimed the title after lending it to Lyndon State for safekeeping ...
Author: Julie Shumway Speculation Surrounds Second Circuit Court DecisionThe Associated Press reported that the same Second Circuit Court which reversed U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions' ruling on Vermont's campaign finance reform law has now put a hold on its decision, with the intent to ...
Author: [no author name found] I am writing in response to the article written by Kelsey Rinehart regarding child care in the Sept. 25 issue of The Campus. The article raises some important concerns about childcare in general, but I am concerned that the headline of the article, ''Quality Child Care ...
Author: Khairani Barokka On the evening of Oct. 7, Ben Scotch, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, gave a passionate lecture entitled "Liberty vs. Security? Progress Report on the USA. Patriot Act in the Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room. Scotch is part of a ...