Author: Mike Mazzotta and Mike Kirkland On Saturday, the cross country teams traveled to Williams College to compete in the Purple Valley Classic. Despite intense training since returning to campus and hot temperatures, the Panthers made their coaches quite proud. Both teams, and particularly the ...
Author: Julie Shumway As the world's leaders contemplate environmental issues in the wake of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, Vermont's state government is taking an additional step forward. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has been working ...
Author: Charles Goulding This year Middlebury College is looking to better illuminate the path for students interested in careers in nonprofit social work. The Career Services Office (CSO), in conjunction with Service Learning, Community Service and the Student Employment Office, have collaborated to ...
Author: Abbie Beane The old farm of Conrad Ormsby remains an imposingly handsome panorama, just as it looked 60 years ago in the photographs taken by Fritz Henley. Henley was one of the nine photographers sent on assignment by the U.S. government to capture proof of a 1930s and '40s Vermont in need ...
Author: Bob Wainwright When I awoke this afternoon I looked down at my floor and I realized fairly quickly that I was not yet prepared for the perils associated with leaving my bed. So, not wanting to subject myself to any undue stress, I instead turned my attention to the table next to my bed in search ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart It is sometimes difficult for students, bent on juggling a life of academics and socializing, to sympathize with the plight of the working parent. Yet for some faculty and staff, contemplating such a life is not so hard — especially for those with families. Life as a working ...
Author: Andrea Gissing MIT Shares Art With StudentsThrough a unique student loan program started up in the 1960s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) brings a wider appreciation of art throughout campus and into student dorms. Instead of locking up valuable works of art, MIT allows students ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann In a successful weekend for Middlebury sports teams, the field hockey squad went 2-0 with tight, hard-fought wins against Springfield College and Wesleyan. With the results, Middlebury is tied atop the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) standings at 2-0. ...
Author: Jasmine Johnson Over the summer, I spent some of my Wednesday afternoons helping out at a little store on a little side street in downtown Middlebury. The physical smallness and obscurity of the place is deceptive of the great impact its had on Addison county. Neat Repeats is a consignment store ...
Author: Katy Saunders This past weekend representatives from 28 colleges and universities gathered together with environmental leaders and advocacy groups from around the northeast at Skidmore College for the first conference of the Northeast Campuses for Climate Action.The conference, which was patterned ...
Author: Sarah McCabe "Should the Dean of Student Affairs come to believe that the activities of a [social] house are a detriment to the life of the larger College community, he or she may recommend to the president that the house be terminated at Middlebury College … In the case of a violation of ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Following a dominating performance at the Middlebury Invitational, the Middlebury men's tennis team continued its fine play at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) North Championship this past weekend, placing first among 12 teams. The Panthers swept through the competition, ...
Author: Liz Lathey As September slips by, we all enjoy the last of the warm weather before it gets cold again. For most students here, the weather now is the nicest it gets before we have to bundle up for the below-zero wind chills of the winter that we all know and love. However, Vermont actually got ...
Author: Kathleen Fleury This November, Vermonters will head to the polls to cast their vote for a new governor, replacing Democrat Howard Dean, who has held the position since 1991. Douglas Racine, the Democratic candidate, brings to his campaign a great deal of experience in state politics, as well ...
Author: Caitlin Prentice Around campus in the past week, I have heard and read, in the last issue of The Campus, a lot of whining about the state of Dining Services. Students are upset that menus and hours have changed, that lines are too long, that plates and silverware are running out, essentially ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones Dennis Kozlowski resigned from Middlebury College's Board of Trustees last Friday, just two days before his involvement with the school was highlighted in the business section of The New York Times. These events arrive amidst a wave of scandalous publicity, which has grown ...
Author: Jeff Martin The Middlebury Panthers golf team continues to lower its team score with every tournament. Its hectic fall schedule last week included an impressive victory over the field at the Skidmore Fall Classic, before enduring a rain shortened Williams Invitational over the weekend.The low-pressure ...
Author: Bob Wainwright It appears as though the Middlebury student body has gone wireless. In the first few weeks of the new school year, one of the noticeable changes around campus has been the increase in number of Middlebury students talking on cell phones during the class day. And what had previously ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann Middlebury field hockey entered its home New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) opener Saturday at 0-1 after a 4-1 loss to Skidmore College. By late that afternoon the Panthers had sent a message to the rest of its NESCAC rivals that this year they mean business. ...
Author: [no author name found] There are numerous rites associated with the beginning of each fall semester. Leaves turn and fall to the ground; campus libraries buzz anew with the sounds of tapping keys and the shuffle of books against study carrels; and students wait in long lines at the College's ...