Author: Kate Prouty When a friend congratulates and compliments you after a performance, it is difficult to tell whether he is truly impressed and being sincere or just being your friend. This is the perpetual downfall of always performing in your own safe academic setting.Middlebury College dancers ...
Author: Kate DeForest Claude Frank is a man who deceives in appearance but exceeds expectations.At a performance last Friday night at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, Frank walked onto the stage, a smallish man in a slightly wrinkled but elegant tuxedo. With neither a prelude nor a personal introduction, ...
Author: Alison Hertel It was an up and down weekend for Middlebury women's squash at the Howe Cup, the national championships held at Yale University. Middlebury came in sixth in the B-Division out of eight schools (behind the University of Pennsylvania, Bates, Amherst, Saint Lawrence and Colby colleges, ...
Author: Meghan Michelson Serving local communities for 60 years, United Way of Chittenden County, Vermont's largest United Way organization, acts in partnership with over 400 agencies and businesses in Vermont in order to make these communities better places to live. The mission statement of the independent ...
Author: Bob Wainwright With the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics drawing to a close this Sunday, there have been many memorable moments that will be etched in our memories. The Opening Ceremonies were unforgetable as the tattered United States flag from ground-zero was cause for a moment of silence ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton I've often wondered what it would be like to be an anthropologist: to ponder the science of man, to examine the psychophysical, the relationship between the human body and the mind, to observe first hand other foreign cultures.Over winter break, my friend and I had the rare opportunity ...
Author: Peter Yordan The Middlebury men's hockey team is enjoying a well earned two week respite after receiving a first round bye in the upcoming New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC)tournament. The team, which closed out its season with a 5-1 victory over St. Michael's on Friday, ...
Author: Raam Wong The 2002 Olympic Games is an awesome showcase of individuals' relentless training and unfaltering pursuit of the gold. All across the country the momentous occasion was marked by hefty Americans turning on the tube, popping their Lay-Z-Boys into the fully reclined position and slipping ...
Author: Charlie Goulding "We are in the process of destroying an entire society," said Denis Halliday, a 34-year veteran of the United Nations. In his lecture on Feb. 15 entitled "Finishing Unfinished Business?: Iraq, a Decade After Desert Storm," Halliday critiqued the way the United States had dealt ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann For those in the class of 2005.5, Duke Nelson Arena has always had a 40-foot high state-of-the-art climbing wall, a natural skylight and blue hanging partitions to separate the newly covered tennis and basketball courts. But for those who are their senior, Nelson's new face ...
Author: [no author name found] Housing Equality in a Time of ExpansionThe Commons Administration Team has proposed a restructured room draw system that aims to streamline the process and ensure greater equality in the distribution of rooms within each commons. If passed by the Community Council, it ...
Author: Emily Berlanstein The excitement of the Middlebury women's basketball team was certainly visible to the Middlebury community this week: rookies sport shirts advertising game times, posters adorning the doors of Proctor Hall and team members focusing, excited, and a little anxious for Tuesday ...
Author: David Lindholm Duke Nelson Arena, the one-time home to the Middlebury Panther hockey teams has undergone a massive transformation both in terms of appearance and function. However, the arena still stands in homage to the achievements and contributions of one great man: Walter J. "Duke" Nelson ...
Author: Daniel Russel The Middlebury College men's basketball team traveled to Williamstown, Mass. on Saturday to play highly-touted Williams College in a do-or-die matchup. Williams boasted the best record in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and the game would either end ...
Author: Tim McCahill Almost a month after being released from a prison hospital in southwestern China, former Fulbright scholar Ngawang Choephel returned to Middlebury College and was celebrated at a reception held in his honor held on the bottom floor of The Grille. Choephel, who is trained as an ethnomusicologist, ...
Author: Crystal Belle A dinner Friday evening in Coltrane Lounge was the first in a series of events planned to commemorate Black History Month, ranging from panel discussions to film screenings to a final prayer breakfast.Looking around at the dinner, one could see a plethora of faces and cultures ...
Author: [no author name found] Class of '01.5 Celebrates Graduation:From Mead Chapel to the Snow Bowl Slopes
Author: Campus Editor in Chief About 250 Middlebury College employees received their co-workers' W-2 forms last week, compromising the confidentiality of this important tax-related information. Treasurer and Vice President of Administration Bob Huth alerted the College community to the processing glitch ...
Author: [no author name found] Making it MeaningfulWith the ascension of the Class of 2005.5 and the graduation of the Class of 2001.5, the Feb program at Middlebury College is as prominent as it has ever been, attracting more students each year who specifically apply to enter in February. Yet despite ...