Author: Deborah Jones Conversations were strained and tempers flared when approximately 25 summer workers huddled in The Grille August 12 to discuss their increasingly tense relationship with Language School students and faculty with Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad Michael Katz.At the center ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton September 11, 2001 was the second day of Middlebury College's fall semester, with the same glorious Indian summer weather that graced the skies of New York and Washington, D.C. By 9 a.m., music drifted from open bedroom windows, most books still had their bindings unbroken and ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Despite ongoing rain in the hours before Middlebury College Commencement 2002, 556 graduates were awarded diplomas on the lawn behind Forest Hall the morning of May 26. Dava Sobel, former New York Times science reporter and author of best-selling book "Longitude," gave the commencement ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann With the changing of the seasons from summer to fall comes the passion and craze associated with Middlebury intramural (IM) football. Indeed there are few other IM sports that can lure Middlebury graduates like Matt Waxman '01.5 and David Mills '01.5 to become "super-Febs" ...
Author: John Prescott Sure, Neil and Otto's Pizza Styx provides necessary late-night study and party sustenance (it's pretty bad stuff, let's be honest). Sure, Green Peppers, the Grille, Hamlin and Ross can all make a halfway reasonable pie from time to time.The bottom line, nonetheless, remains commonly ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture a dark, smoky ballroom. Picture it in black and white. It's early morning and there are only a few solitary people left sitting around, each shrouded in smoke and floating in whiskey. The floor is dirty and the windows are draped with heavy, velvet curtains, but the room ...
Author: Tim McCahill A portion of land on a leased plot west of Bicentennial Hall has been designated by a group of Middlebury College students as a potential site for an organic garden. The land, which is roughly seven acres in size, lies adjacent to Route 125 and, say the students, represents an ideal ...
Author: Claire Bourne Community Council concluded a lengthy review of Middlebury College's six social houses Monday. After six weeks of closed-door deliberations, the Council voted to continue Omega Alpha (Tavern), The Mill, Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) and Xenia. Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) and Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) ...
Author: [no author name found] Winning Title, Men Silence QuestionersBy Nick FerrerYoungman Field may soon change its name to the Field of Champions. On Sunday, the men's lacrosse team captured its second straight NESCAC championship by defeating conference foe Colby 14-8 in front of a wild and boisterous ...
Author: [no author name found] Gabe Epperson The story of the Israeli state and the Jewish people and their fight for a homeland, the story of Palestinians and their struggle for a homeland, these stories are only two in a larger struggle, part of thousands of years of oppression and violence. They ...
Author: Chesley Thurber Repercussions from last month's Student Government Association (SGA) polling-station controversy continued to rattle the SGA Senate last Sunday as the group addressed three new constitutional amendments designed to prevent similar problems in the future. The first, written by ...
Author: Yvonne Chen "The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted so tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else." So opens "Drown," a collection of short stories by Junot Diaz highlighted at a reading and lecture ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Interior decorating is an art that is practiced in every culture and most every economic stratum. Throughout time, people have taken pride in designing and decorating the place where they live. People overcome limitations such as size, necessary furniture and budget and have ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson The Middlebury College Orchestra (MCO) celebrated popular operas at its last concert of the year. On Friday at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, they played to an appreciative crowd of almost 190 people, competeing heavily with visting big-name band Guster.MCO is to be much ...
Author: David Lindholm The Middlebury baseball team finished their campaign on the road as a 2-2 week closed out the Panthers' season. The final four games were indicative of much of the season for the team, which enjoyed a thrilling victory, received strong pitching from some young guns, but ultimately ...
Author: Meghan Michelson With an already threatened state economy and the most recent announcement to cut additional jobs and shut down manufacturing at two prominent Ethan Allen Interior Inc. furniture plants, the outlook does not look promising for unemployed Vermont residents. Last week, the Danbury, ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Although residence hall doors will remain locked from 1 to 6 a.m. when students return next fall, the Campus Access Committee (CAC) plans to install an automated security system by Winter Term of 2003, according to the chair of CAC, Assistant Treasurer and Director of Business ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief The Spanish Department has announced plans to offer Portuguese language coursework in the coming academic year. This broadening of the language curriculum is in step with the establishment of Portuguese as the Summer Language School's ninth program, slated to begin in ...
Author: ohannes Earnharth ’91 Ben Gore is only half right with the World Bank assessment in his column "Good Intentions, Bad Ideas: The World Bank Story" in the April 24, 2002, issue of The Campus. Mr. Gore's criticism of the World Bank and its many failed policies has merit, but through an additional ...
Author: Matthew Christ The town of Middlebury, because of its size and centrality, is easy to navigate. What would make the town healthier and more accessible would be an increase in biking and walking to businesses and local merchants. The daily congestion would be lessened, parking would not be as ...