Author: Andrew Zimmermann This year, as opposed to years past, the Middlebury softball team is approaching the end of the season in full stride. Having already broken the record for wins in a season, the 2002 Panthers have more than doubled any previous season win total by collecting 11 hard-fought ...
Author: Eliza Hulme Last Saturday students poured into Mead Chapel to hear the Bobolinks, one of Middlebury College's two coed a cappella groups, give their spring concert. The turnout was impressive, and the enthusiasm of the audience was palpable, a sign that a cappella's draw remains strong.Some ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee After an hour and a half of debate Sunday night, the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate failed to pass a proposal for provisional removal of the Speaker of the Senate. The amendment to the SGA Constitution fell two votes short of the required two-thirds majority, ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller Cheers and enthusiastic applause filled Mead Memorial Chapel as the two conductors walked onto the stage where their choirs already stood, ready to open their notebooks and begin the concert.For this performance, the Dartmouth Chamber Singers joined the Middlebury College Chamber ...
Author: Meghan Michelson Picture this — an Hispanic, an African-American, a Caucasian and an Asian person are all sitting together in a room engaging in a conversation. No, this is not the prelude to a joke; it is a realistic situation that occurs daily all over the world. In fact, a setting similar ...
Author: Claire Bourne Anne DeWitt '02 was awarded one of 85 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies to pursue a doctorate in 19th century English literature at Yale University next year. For the second consecutive year, Kaitlin Gregg '03 garnered a Morris K. Udall Scholarship for her commitment ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Over the course of my three years at this school, I've discovered two things: The first is a secret that I can tell absolutely no one — not even you. And the second is that there will always be a time every semester when you have so much work that you have to scale down your ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann Last weekend at the Sectional Finals in Williamstown, Mass., the Middlebury Ultimate Frisbee team played to its potential and cruised to two victories in qualifying for the Regional Finals this weekend. With a full squad for the first time in weeks, the Pranksters "played the ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg With two NESCAC wins last week, the Middlebury women's lacrosse team ended the regular season without a loss. More importantly, though, they secured the top seed for the upcoming NESCAC tournament, to be held at Middlebury due to the team's success. In their last regular season ...
Author: Yvonne Chen "In our youth we all chirp rapturously like sparrows on a dung heap, but when we are forty, we are already old and begin to think about death. Fine heroes we are!" remarked Anton Chekhov in reference to the lack of positive heroes in his writing.Professor of Theater Douglas Sprigg ...
Author: Chesley Thurber Members of the Middlebury College community gathered for a festive luncheon Monday in Bicentennial Hall to celebrate faculty and staff nominated by students for their dedication to campus life. The Faculty Appreciation prize was awarded to Associate Professor of History James ...
Author: Paul Barnwell The International Student Organization (ISO) elected Namik Kirlic '05 to serve as president of the group for the 2002-03 school year. Amine Bouchentouf '03 and Kiddo Kidolezi '04 were chosen as co-vice presidents at the elections, held on April 21.The new administration's goals ...
Author: Abbie Beane From the outset, I wanted to establish only one thing. "So, do you spell theater like a Frenchman?" I asked. He replied in the affirmative, yet followed through with his defense, asserting that 80 percent of theaters now spell "theater," "theatre." "He," is the increasingly famous ...
Author: Alex Meditz As the men's tennis regular season rolls to a conclusion, the Middlebury squad finds itself in an unfamiliar yet well deserved position — ranked among the top four in the region, the top 15 in the country and looking at its first ever berth in the NCAA tournament. This weekend's ...
Author: Nick Ferrer With the NESCAC tournament fast approaching and its number one ranking riding on the line, the men's lacrosse team finished its regular season by posting impressive victories over Williams and Bates. With the wins, Middlebury not only secured the top-seed for this weekend's NESCAC ...
Author: Ami Kilchevsky This campus has been subjected to an onslaught of facile rhetoric which attempts to portray support for Israel (in its continuing struggle with the Palestinians) as "blind," uncritical, entirely one-sided, lacking in compassion and understanding for the plight of the Palestinians, ...
Author: Ken Anderson, Jr. '66 Middlebury College is indeed fortunate to have one of the best 'special collections' in the country: the Abernethy Rare Book Library and the Robert Frost Room.Two of the crown jewels of American literature are among the many literary finds that Abernethy was fortunate enough ...
Author: [no author name found] First Prize: Heat LightningNikki HollandSummer footpushed itself from muddy banks,posed in the bogwater on a rotten piece of styrofoam,and lingered with my dad and me in late June light to fetch fluorescent bobbers from craggy limbs. This was a summer that smelled of sulfur ...
Author: David Lindholm After a split double-header against Castleton College on Saturday, Mother Nature threw a wicked curve ball to the Middlebury baseball team last weekend, as the seniors on the team missed what were to have been their last two home games of the season. Forecasts of rain and snow ...
Author: Emily Thaler Catherine Samson '02.5 was chosen by a panel of students and faculty as the student speaker for this spring's graduation. She was one of several students to compose and deliver a speech before the selection panel. Competition for the role of student speaker was tight. Dean of Student ...