Author: Raam Wong I have often heard it said that "no one dates at Middlebury." Actually, I normally only hear this from women who are telling me why we can't go out to dinner. Still, with the warmer weather, students are now on the prowl for either a long-term relationship or at least someone to share ...
Author: Charles Goulding You won't find Ron Schildge '03 at the local Exxon station. That's because Schildge has been working to develop an alternative fuel called bio-diesel, which he hopes will be used as an environmentally safe alternative to conventional gasoline.The fuel, made from Proctor's very ...
Author: Khairani Barokka Fletcher Field House will be closed on Monday, April 22, when renovation will begin on its walls, roof and squash courts, according to final schedules of the Office of Facilities Planning. Fletcher's walls and roof will be removed in the subsequent two weeks, after which the ...
Author: Chesley Thurber Onsdorff Campaign Highlights Need for Fresh Face and IdeasWith elections for Student Government Association (SGA) president beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Neil Onsdorff '03 is making his final efforts to market himself as the candidate of change.Onsdorff has built his campaign ...
Author: John McKInley Foster Hetherington '95, a resident of Brandon, Vt., lost his brother, Peter Morgan Goodrich, on Sept. 11. He was a passenger on United Airlines flight 175, the second airplane to crash into the World Trade Center. Hetherington was unable to make financial contributions, but he ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann Middlebury baseball had to combat April showers as the team went 1-2 this week, with one game being postponed due to rain on Saturday. The Panthers sit third in the NESCAC West division and must work hard in the coming weeks to make up the two and a half games that stand between ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson As three generations of women told their stories to each other, one could hear a mélange of nostalgia and aspiration in their conversations. About 30 women gathered at the Chellis House last Wednesday evening over pizza, brownies and soda to simply chat and talk about life and ...
Author: Ashley Elpern This Saturday, the Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO), Alpha Delta Phi (ADP), Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) and Omega Alpha (Tavern) social houses will be joining forces in the fight against multiple sclerosis (MS). Representatives from each house will participate in the annual MS Walk, a six-mile walk ...
Author: Lanford Beard Just 15 minutes away from Middlebury, a community unto itself sits in Ripton, Vt. This community is Bread Loaf, a thriving environment where writers each summer learn from mutual exchange of ideas and experiences.Set in the Green Mountain National Forest, the most exciting feature ...
Author: Deborah Jones When the C.V. Starr Middlebury School in Spain celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this weekend, it will be honoring not only a half-century of excellence in language and cultural studies, but also of progress and growth in both its own program and its host country.Middlebury's ...
Author: [no author name found] Wished She'd Been ThereTo The Editor:The article "Soup and Art" about Sara Garland's one-woman show suggests that Ms. Garland wrote the play she performed. From the description, the play is clearly either part or all of "The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe," ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann Busy would best describe the Middlebury softball team which, making up for a late start to the season, played six games over the past week, winning one and losing five. The most recent of the double-header match-ups involved the Panthers taking one from St. Lawrence in a tight, ...
Author: Meghan Michelson "Did you know that the average Vermont driver puts 7.5 tons of greenhouse gas emissions in the air each year?" read an alarming sign posted prominently at a booth at the Alliance for Climate Action's 10% Challenge in Burlington on Monday. The event was a public announcement ...
Author: David Lindholm It's an exciting time of the year for sports. We're well into spring at this point (Tuesday's weather even showed us a glimpse of summer), and everyone is outside. A walk across Battell Beach now means dodging Frisbees and golf balls, soccer balls, footballs and people littered ...
Author: Adam King Could you ever imagine Abercrombie selling a shirt depicting racial stereotypes with a caricature of a Jewish person complete with an enlarged and crooked nose and bloody hands, under the heading of "Jewish Banking?" Or one depicting a caricature of an African-American complete with ...
Author: Paul Barnwell Plans to implement a permanent residential "access" system, discussion surrounding an African-American Studies major and Honor Code revisions are three policy issues that have dominated Community Council and Student Government Association (SGA) discourse this year and will continue ...
Author: Yvonne Chen "'What does it feel like when you're dancing?' Once I get going, I forget everything. I sort of disappear. I feel a change in my whole body, like this fire in my body. I'm just there, flying like a bird, like electricity. Yeah, like electricity."This quote from the recent film "Billy ...
Author: Amy Brais Scott Barnicle is the dean of Atwater Commons. He lives in Middlebury, Vt., with his wife, one-and-a-half-year old daughter and four-year-old son, all of whom keep him "very, very busy, but are always a source of a lot of fun," he conceded. When he's not working, Barnicle enjoys any ...
Author: Erich Kahner As the dreary winter months came to an end this weekend, the clouds parted allowing sun to shine down on Middlebury and spring to finally commence. Along with the trees and flowers, the Middlebury track team began to blossom last Saturday at the Williams Relays with many breakout ...
Author: [no author name found] This year's candidates for Student Government Association (SGA) president and student co-chair of community council (SC-COCC) are all highly motivated and have broad visions for the future of Middlebury College. They have both demonstrated their desire to lead the student ...