Author: Lynsey Waite Staff Writer The summer before my first year in college, I marched through the doorway of Eastern Mountain Sports armed with a Middlebury Outdoor Orientation (MOO) trip checklist and suddenly felt any shred of confidence I had melt away. The store and the people in it were intimidating. ...
Author: Ashley Elpern Editor-in-Chief For Middlebury students trying to make it big in the real world, one essential thing is needed to succeed: etiquette. For the 50 or so students who attended the Career Service Office's Etiquette Dinner last Thursday night, the world of etiquette came alive, courtesy ...
Author: Megan Michelson Features Editor In response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 and the subsequent terrorist related events, the religious organizations at Middlebury College have attempted to counteract feelings of uneasiness among students with assurance that a caring community exists and ...
Author: Megan Michelson Features Editor A friend of mine recently suffered the consequences of a pricey traffic violation in downtown Middlebury. He failed to make a complete stop at the stop sign coming onto College Street from the Johnson parking lot and as result was pulled over by the police and ...
Author: Becky Ruby Staff Writer The large panther statue, a long-time fixture of Proctor Hall that sat on top of the bagel and toaster station in the food service area, was stolen Thursday night. According to Kit Quesnel, assistant manager of dining services, a person or group of people forcefully ...
Author: Julie Samara Staff Writer Inch by inch, row by row, Anne Lionberger '02 has planted the seeds for a growing non-profit organization called Puente a la Salud Comunitaria, or Bridge to Community Health. Building upon extensive experience in the study of public health acquired in both Latin America ...
Author: Tim McCahill Assistant News Editor Members of the Inter-house Council (IHC), the governing body of all the College's social houses, convened on Tuesday, Oct. 30 to draft a proposal responding to the actions of an Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) pledge class member during the Homecoming football game ...
Author: Venessa Wong Staff Writer During the months of September and October, Forest sink-mates Shannon Linn '03.5 and Gillian Finocan '03.5 separated themselves from the utopian atmosphere of the Middlebury campus for two evenings a week to attend training sessions for the Addison County WomenSafe ...
Author: Becca Kaufman Staff Writer Christiane Bird is a freelance writer from New York. She writes about jazz and blues and makes travelogues on New York State. She is tall with a mop of blonde hair and when she came to speak at the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room on Friday, Nov. 2, to discuss ...
Author: Ashley Elpern Editor-in-Chief An employee of The Grille was fined $120 after the Vermont Department of Liquor Control (DLC) Inspector issued a compliance check at The Grille on Sunday, Oct. 28 after the employee served an underage drinker. The Grille will receive a three-day suspension of its ...
Author: Devin Zatorski News Editor After sifting through Winter Term course proposals from outside applicants as well as Middlebury faculty members, the Curriculum Committee settled on the 116 offerings in the 2002 Catalogue, a process which this year involved contracting with an "unusual number of ...
Author: [no author name found] Taking ResponsibilityThe events following Alpha Delta Phi's (ADP) Homecoming football game half time show in which a pledge exposed himself to spectators, including students, faculty, administrators, alumni and citizens of the town of Middlebury, called into question who ...
Author: David Lindholm Assistant News Editor After knocking off Goliath last week in the regular season, Coach Dave Saward's men were unable to come away with another win against Williams, as the Ephs pounded Middlebury 5-1 in the New England Small College Athletic Conference Championship (NESCAC) ...
Author: Yvonne Chen Staff Writer At the moment, visitors at Middlebury's Museum of Art can enter the realm of the treasured traveling Smithsonian exhibit called "Young America." Most recently, in the last of a line of provocative lectures, Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies John ...
Author: Rose Boyer As the stress of midterms is already blowing away with the autumn leaves, and the anticipation of Winter Term growing stronger with the threat of snow, it is impossible to deny that time goes by quickly. For this year's seniors, busy with theses to write and major requirements to ...
Author: Claire Bourne News Editor Since Sept. 11 Middlebury College professors, as well as faculty members from institutions of higher education across the country, have utilized class time to discuss issues related to the terrorist attacks. Some have simply touched upon these topics in class discussion ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Community Friends and the Page One Literacy Project, two of the largest community service programs that Middlebury College students are involved with, are simultaneously dealing with unrelated financial uncertainties. Community Friends' DilemmaCommunity Friends is a program that ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller Staff Writer Four couples stood in the spotlight this weekend in the Hepburn Zoo at the opening of "Getting To Know You," the sixth annual First- Year Production. Through movement, the words of the ensemble, the works of Mary Gallagher, Andy Mitton '01, Harold Pinter and others, ...
Author: Becca Kaufman Staff Writer The second film shown as part of the symposium "A Glimpse Behind the Veil: Contemporary Iranian Cinema" in Dana Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 3, was one that explores the subject of women and the restraints and prejudices that so prominently exist against them in ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts Editor The second keynote address was, "From Kiarostami to Panahi: Master-Disciple in Iranian Cinema," presented by Hamid Dabashi, associate professor of Persian literature and sociology of cultures in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia ...