Author: David Lindholm For a small section of the American population, anticipation is running especially high right now. Bruce Arena, on Monday night, announced his 23-man squad for this year's Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, which will start on May 31 in Korea ...
Author: Abbie Beane It was a time to draw out the crimson emotions within the soul, and commit the mind to what the heart has been committed to from its incipience. April 17 opened these gates when a festival of the stimulus of life, unabashed love, emotion and pronounced sexual passion commenced. Enshrouding ...
Author: Dan Russel The Middlebury College Rugby Club returned to the campus thoroughly exhausted and with a profound sense of victory and accomplishment after traveling down to Jonesville, Ark. to play Stanford in the National Championship quarterfinals on Saturday. Under the most unforgiving conditions ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton We live in a culture obsessed with the question "What If?" What if you had chosen a different college or girlfriend? What if he had not gone to work on Sept. 11? What if we won the lottery tomorrow? What if we could change the past, or anticipate the future? We torture ourselves ...
Author: Ben Gore Last year some intrepid activists hung a 10-story banner off of the front of the World Bank building on H Street in Washington, D.C. It denounced Bank funding of the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline, a project undertaken in two of the most corrupt countries in the world, which called for oil ...
Author: Luke Farrel On Friday evening, a diverse group of students, faculty and community members gathered in Johnson Memorial Building to celebrate the artwork of Middlebury College seniors Tim Sinnott and Mike Moran. The artists' semester-long projects stemmed from their interest and involvement in ...
Author: Ashley Elpern It was a winning weekend for the Middlebury crew team at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., with four first places between the women's teams and both men's teams turning in solid performances, just one week before the New England Four's Championship.The varsity women showed ...
Author: [no author name found] Beyond the Parking Impasse"Think blue, act green." This modified version of a popular environmental adage, coined by the College's Sustainable Campus Coordinator Connie Bisson and Pam Fogg of College Advancement, is doubly significant this year. First, Sunday marked Earth ...
Author: Meghan Michelson On April 26, 2000, Vermont legislators and Governor Howard Dean passed a law permitting eligible gay and lesbian couples to join in civil union, thus giving them similar rights, responsibilities and protections to those that heterosexuals couples gain through marriage. The controversy ...
Author: [no author name found] On the town green Sunday, Chris Howell '04.5 and Char Carlson '05 examined the globe conceived of by the Middlebury Initiative for Sustainable Development (MISD) from recycled and found materials. The Earth Day Town Fair featured many local environmental efforts. The College ...
Author: Wasim Rahman For a little over a week now, I have been active with a group of students on campus who have been collecting signatures for petitions demanding a re-evaluation of United States policy towards Israel. I believe that the events of the past month in the West Bank demonstrate to us, ...
Author: Sarah McCabe "Welcome to Middlebury," the tour guides say — and how welcoming it is. Green grass abundant, the sun shining, the temperature hovering around 85 degrees with a slight breeze. "Yes, Middlebury!" the prospectives are thinking. "This is where I want to go."Wait a minute, back up. ...
Author: Ellen Smith We fall out the door and down the two crumbling concrete steps that float rootless in the dusty soil. We shuffle along the shifting path in an eyes-closed rabbit dance. We run past an overgrown, rusted-out playground, past rows of government-issue housing in sickly pastels and ...
Author: Raam Wong Protesting Israeli action in the West Bank, two van-loads of Middlebury students and a handful of local activists joined 75 to 100 thousand others in a protest in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
Author: Peter Simon Middlebury residents were woken early Saturday morning by an earthquake centered about 15 miles southwest of Plattsburgh, N.Y. The earthquake sent tremors throughout the East Coast but did not cause any significant damage to the Middlebury College campus. According to the National ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Beginning with the Class of 2002, Middlebury College seniors will be given the option to sign the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility. The pledge reads: "I, [name], pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences ...
Author: Craigin Brown Every culture has its own unique urban legends. Some that have transcended American culture include the deadly pop rocks and soda mix or the story of the lone female passenger who harbored a killer in her backseat without her knowledge. Last week many people of different ages revisited ...
Author: Els Van Woert It was an exhibition of some the best women collegiate players in the nation this weekend as Middlebury hosted the 11-team NESCAC tennis playoffs. Once again, Williams proved its dominance with a sweep of the three singles and three doubles brackets (earning 35 points) of the tourney, ...
Author: Erich Kahner Throughout the long track season, which has stretched as far as November for some people, resilience has been the key for the Panther tracksters. The team has had to deal with many injuries, including an inimical epidemic of IT band inflammations. From Friday to Monday, nature ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson At almost any time in the day, students can be seen hanging out at the Wonnacott Commons office on the first floor of Battell South. Why?"Basically, to see Lorraine," says Nicole Grohoski '05. When Lorraine goes home early, Dean of Wonnacott Commons Matt Longman noted that it ...