Author: Charles Goulding In 1998, a startling genetic revelation made its way to the front page of The New York Times: DNA testing all but proved Thomas Jefferson fathered numerous illegitimate children with Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves. The tests breathed new life into an ongoing debate over the ...
Author: Michael Stahler Junior Year Abroad. It is an opportunity for Middlebury students to get away from the College and all its quirks, including some interesting late night McCullough dances, and venture out into the larger world for a peek. As I looked into the opportunity, I did not fully understand ...
Author: Elizabeth Lathey The other day while enjoying a meal in a Middlebury dining hall my friend and I were talking about Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Being a Vermonter, I know a thing or two about Ben & Jerry's, and I guess I had assumed that most other people have the same innate knowledge about ...
Author: Claire Bourne Over the past century, Middlebury College has established itself as "the gold standard" in foreign language education, according to Associate Dean of the Faculty and German Professor Michael Geisler. Though an unlikely reputation for a rural college tucked away in the Green Mountains ...
Author: David Lindholm Bowdoin College proved too strong for the Panthers as the Middlebury women's basketball team fell in the finals of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) tournament. Bowdoin, one of the top teams in the nation, got out to an early lead with exceptional shooting ...
Author: Megan Michelson Winding its way around Middlebury and surrounding towns is a 14-mile footpath called the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) that offers students and members of the local community a source of outdoor recreation and a physical landscape in which to learn about the natural environment. ...
Author: Drew Pugsley I deeply regret to inform the Middlebury College community that my dear friend Estye Ross '04.5 and I will not be writing again this semester because Estye has sold her soul to the Theater Department. However, Thas been gracious enough to keep me on as Olympic figure skating analyst.The ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue As a classically trained ballet dancer, admittedly I've had a longstanding rivalry with the institution of figure skating. While I've never skated myself, I've spent my life defending ballerinas because they are, in my view, as much athletes as figure skaters. Both require stamina, ...
Author: David Lindholm Finally showcasing my skills as a master prognosticator, here are my picks for this weekend's tournaments to be held in Kenyon Arena, as the Panthers try to duplicate Team Canada's dual gold medals in hockey.Women's Semifinal: Colby vs. Bowdoin – Friday, 4 p.m.Despite their ...
Author: Craig Szela At Middlebury College teaching excellence measured through student evaluation is a criterion for promotion and pay raises. It is also a criterion for the Perkins Award. This award, established in 1993 by the Perkins family, recognizes teaching excellence in the natural nciences. ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann With everyone attentive and watching over Winter Carnival weekend, the Middlebury ski team as a whole turned out its best performance of the year, aided significantly by motivated racing from the alpine team. Having finished in third place for the majority of the carnival circuit, ...
Author: Kate Prouty Unable to find a literary quotation more appropriate for the occasion, Dean of the Faculty Robert Schine wittily welcomed those in attendance at the Faculty Authors Reception with Eccliastes's fateful promise: "Of making many books there is no end." Faculty authors who were present ...
Author: Tim McCahill In light of recent efforts to create new language programs in China and Latin America, it appears that Middlebury College expansion is not exclusively limited to the confines of its Vermont campus.The past four years have been somewhat of a watershed era for development of the College's ...
Author: Erich Kahner While the majority of the Middlebury Indoor Track team's season ended a few weeks ago, several panthers are still on the prowl. Last weekend a handful of Middlebury athletes took to the track at Tufts' Gantcher Center to compete in the Open New England Championships. Seven Middlebury ...
Author: Kate DeForest John Scofield has been an innovator throughout his career. As one who has played with some of the best jazz performers of the last century, performers noted for their inventiveness and eclecticism, Scofield has deeply rooted musical references and a densely packed library of song ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann After its best result of the season in the Middlebury Carnival, the nordic ski team will send six of its members to the NCAA National Championships in Anchorage, Alaska. Shams Helminski '02, Colin Rogers '04 and Tim Weston '03, who played an integral role in the weekend's success, ...
Author: Tim McCahill The future course of black studies has come into focus among American academics in the field following a series of comments made by Lawrence Summers, the recently appointed president of Harvard University. Middlebury College professors in the field have heard much of the debate, ...
Author: Yvonne Chen Now on display at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Danny Lyon's photographs document the telling times as well as the human struggle that lie hidden beneath the politics of racial oppression. The exhibition consists of nine images from the photographer's Southern Civil Rights ...
Author: Anne Jennings At an emergency Student Government Association (SGA) meeting scheduled for 4:15 p.m. today, Residential Systems Coordinator Mariah McKechnie '01 will present several scenarios of how block housing may be distributed among the commons. The SGA will pick one of these scenarios to ...
Author: Jen Marlow Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies John Elder's book "The Frog Run: Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods" is a memoir set in a wooded and storied landscape. Specifically, Elder's work is an autobiographical account of learning to sugar with his family in the ...