Author: Kate Nerenberg and David Lindholm The Middlebury women's hockey team's season came to a quiet finish Tuesday night versus Bowdoin, following a disappointing showing in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) tournament last weekend. The Bowdoin Polar Bears beat the Panthers ...
Author: Andrew Zrike When bands lose their chief singer and songwriter, they often break up or disappear into rock 'n' roll obscurity. Strangefolk's performance last Friday night at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, R.I., however, made it evident this is not the case with this Vermont-based band. ...
Author: Richard Lawless Opening with a somewhat rusty and tuneless introduction by the orchestra, the Middlebury College Musical Players' rendition of Frank Loesser's "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" was off to a rough start. Yet the performance was saved by the extraordinary energy ...
Author: Matthew Christ A national championship is a big deal. Whether it's a 10-year-old golfer or a Division I football team, being the best in the country is huge. A national championship not only brings prestige to the players and coaches of the team but all of those involved — including the school ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Perhaps the one truly sad aspect of going abroad to Australia is the fact that once you leave, the country seems to go away as well. The reason for this is that Australia is a very self-contained place. Case in point: it's the only country to ever lose a prime minister. The man ...
Author: Alison Hertel Holly Haertel '05, Sarah Herrup '02 and Casper Reske-Nielsen '02 traveled to Princeton University to face the tough competition of the Individual Squash Nationals, held Friday, March 1 to Sunday, March 3. Trinity College swept the individual squash nationals, with Amina Helal taking ...
Author: Rose Boyer Connie Bisson, the College's sustainable campus coordinator, is one of the newest member of the Middlebury staff, having arrived and begun her work last summer. Her role at the College, however, can hardly be summarized by any title. Bisson works on the College's emissions inventory, ...
Author: Giorgi Areshidze The latest news in the war on terrorism concerns the deployment of United States troops in my home country, the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, to train the Georgian military to fight the terrorist threat in the Pankisi Gorge. Pankisi is located in northern Georgia and hosts ...
Author: [no author name found] Arts:Paintings by Ken Leslie, "Space + Time," Flynn Theater, Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, March 15 - May 4 (Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.) FREEDance:Jane Comfort & Company, Flynn Theater, Fri. March 8 (8 p.m.), $25.50/$20.50 Pre-performance lecture, Amy E. Tarrant Gallery (6:30 ...
Author: Oren Frey I was part of something beautiful this weekend. For a class, we were assigned to construct an interactive symbolic space that addressed an issue we deal with everyday — or forget to deal with. With this charge to guide us, we set about making some minor, yet significant, additions ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Bates Senior Killed in BrawlMorgan W. McDuffee, a senior at Bates College, was stabbed to death in a street brawl in Lewiston, Maine, early Sunday morning. The fight involved almost a dozen Bates students and 10 local youths. Maine State Police arrested Brandon Thongsavanh, 19, ...
Author: Claire Bourne In a walled-in metropolis, where does one find a place to breathe, to live, to fly? Mattheson, the main character in last weekend's theater production "Concentration City," believes the answer lies beyond the city limits, in a space described as the Terminal Beach. Suffocating ...
Author: Claire Bourne The Senior Class Gift Committee, now in its 21st year at Middlebury College, has compiled a list of three potential gifts among which the Class of 2002 will select one in online voting to begin next week. According to Co-Chair Kristie Gonzalez '02, the options include a thesis ...
Author: Paul Barnwell A comprehensive Middlebury College parking plan will be presented on Wednesday night at the Middlebury town planning meeting, enabling citizens to voice concern over or support for the proposal. The report, prepared by Director of Public Safety Lisa Boudah, includes a plan to create ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The Posse Plus Retreat has affected me so much since I have been back. I feel like that single group of 90 students that I bonded with in two days has totally changed my feelings about being here at Middlebury. I feel like the group is basically Middlebury ...
Author: Joshua Howe For those of you wondering what became of Middlebury College's progressive indie-emo band, Hijack the Disco, lead vocalist Mike Mahony '02 has a message for you: "Hijack is back." After a mysterious five-month hiatus, the Middlebury foursome re-emerged last Friday night at Burlington's ...
Author: Ben Wessler Middlebury's annual In a Blender climbing competition was held Saturday at the Nelson Arena Climbing Wall. This competition, part of the Northeast College Climbing Competition Circuit, drew some of the best climbers and pitted them against one of the region's greatest climbing walls. ...
Author: Matt Klein I have seen an entirely unreasonable number of concerts in my time. Somewhere around 80 I stopped counting. In the summer of 1998 I put 10,000 miles on my car in the span of three weeks following Phish, the Vermont touring phenomenon currently on "indefinite hiatus," with my best ...
Author: David Lindholm The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) honored both the men's and women's hockey teams, as four players from each squad were included in the annual All-NESCAC schools. For the men, goaltender Christian Carlsson '02, forward Kevin Cooper '04 and defenseman ...