Author: Raam Wong Dava Sobel, the award-winning writer and former New York Times science reporter, has been chosen by the Honorary Degree Selection Committee as the graduation speaker for the Middlebury College Class of 2002. Sobel's two most prominent pieces of work are her books "Longitude" and "Galileo's ...
Author: Compiled by Lindsey WhittonFeatures EditorStaff Writer The following are brief descriptions of the five ski mountains closest to Middlebury College and most popular with Middlebury students. The information was gathered from two websites, www.skivermont.com and www.vermontskiresorts.com. Mad ...
Author: Padma GovandinStaff Writer Adapting a novel as dense and complex as J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" for film would be as great an undertaking as Frodo Baggins' quest to destroy the evil ring of Mordor. To this end, director Peter Jackson has done an admirable ...
Author: Yvonne ChenStaff Writer In our society men and women are continually talking about a so-called war of the sexes. Television shows such as "Men are From Mars/Women are from Venus" infiltrate their audiences with daily meditations of the gender differences that seem to divide us all into disparate ...
Author: Peter YordanStaff Writer The Middlebury men's hockey team opened their winter season with verve and alacrity, rolling off four convincing wins before drawing with Bowdoin on Saturday. The team, which finished off the fall portion of their season with an important 3-2 victory over Plattsburg ...
Author: Devin ZarkowskyStaff Writer Listening to our southern New England neighbors plan ski trips to Vermont usually involves words like "Okemo," "Killington," "Stratton" and sometimes "Mad River Glen." Infrequently, if ever, does such a list include the Middlebury Snow Bowl."We're a feeder area, not ...
Author: Matthew ChristStaff Writer Skiing: Skiing developed over 4000 years ago in Scandnavia for military transportation purposes. The rise of skiing in the United States is mostly attributed to the Winter Olympics of 1932, which were held in Lake Placid, NY. Technology has greatly aided the modern ...
Author: Nicha RakpanichmaneeFeatures Editor "In 50 years, we will not be remembered for the resources we developed. We will be thanked for those we maintain and restore for future generations," said Christopher Wood, environmental studies visiting scholar, quoting a 1998 letter from Michael Dombeck ...
Author: Karen Acheson Staff Writer Three in every 10 Americans will be involved in an alcohol related driving accident at some point during their lives. In the state of Vermont, 38.9 percent of traffic deaths are a result of alcohol consumption. Fortunately, an organization called Mothers Against Drunk ...
Author: Michael O'BrienStaff Writer Some one-wit pedagogue in the 1960s said something to the effect of "I once said that J.R.R. Tolkien would be the most influential writer of the 20th century. Now I am afraid that I was right." I refuse to give her name, partially so that she does not gain the fame ...
Author: Anne DeWitt Local News Editor The year 2001 has been one of the driest in Vermont's history, and the lack of water is causing problems for farmers and homeowners. The last drought began during the fall of 1998 and continued into the summer of 1999. The current drought started in the spring ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Managing Editor The robbery investigation of two separate houses in the town of Middlebury culminated in two arrests. Brayton Gillett, 20, and Justin Gillet, 17, both of Middlebury, were charged with possession of stolen property after the Middlebury Police Department obtained ...
Author: Venessa Wong Biology majors Carmody McCalley '03 and Kyle Whittinghill '03 spent their fall semester with 11 other students from outside Middlebury College in the renowned Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Mass. as part of the Semester in Environmental Science (SES) program. ...
Author: Peter Simon The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate passed a three-part bill on Sunday, Dec. 2 that declared its opposition to the limiting of student choices by the further implementation of the commons system. The bill, which was written by Junior Senator Matthew Kiefer, refers ...
Author: Wasim Rahman '02 In the Nov. 14 Middlebury Campus, two students, Amichai Kilchevski and David Schwartz, deliberately misrepresented and sensationalized efforts by their fellow Middlebury students to increase campus awareness of the Arab-Israeli conflict. As a leader in Palestine-awareness activism, ...
Author: Raam Wong Opinions Editor Despite the efforts of the advertising industry to get us into the holiday shopping spirit as early as last June, I, like most Americans, have yet to get into the Christmas spirit. I am not suggesting that every family needs to have a "Very Brady Christmas," but I ...
Author: Claire Bourne News EDitor Both students and administrators were considering the question of safety on the Middlebury College campus long before Executive Council arrived at the decision to lock all dormitory entrance doors following the robbery and assault of a Hadley resident on Friday morning. ...
Author: Peter Yordan With an important match-up against Plattsburgh State looming on the horizon, the Middlebury men's hockey team coolly dispatched two overmatched foes this past weekend. Facing off against Southern Maine and Salem State (Ma.), the Panthers earned the expected two victories with relative ...
Author: Anne DeWitt Local News Editor Representative Tom McGrath Resigns Representative Tom McGrath, (R-Ferrisburg) is resigning from his Addison-1 House seat to assume the position of Grand Worthy Trustee in the International Order of Eagles and has decided that he cannot perform both duties adequately. ...
Author: Tim McCahill Assistant News Editor With less than two weeks left of the Muslim holiday Ramadan, members of the College's Islamic Society have taken a step back to re-examine a year that has been a trying one for practitioners of the faith.The holiday, a period for reflection and meditation, ...