Author: Laura Rockefeller Staff Writer This weekend several associates of the Middlebury College community will take on new roles as they join other members of the Middlebury Community Players to present Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The School for Scandal." The Community Players are looking forward ...
Author: Kate DeForest Arts Editor I have found it to be extremely helpful, in going to a production of any one of Shakespeare's plays, to read the text beforehand; it's not that the plays themselves are terribly confusing, but what people do to the them often is. However, judging by quite a few of ...
Author: Becky Ruby Staff Writer Students may have noticed that the stacks of plastic cup racks in Proctor Dining Hall has seemed shorter lately. In fact, during the busy lunch and dinner rushes, the lack of reusable cups has forced Dining Services to provide paper cups for student use.Already this ...
Author: Padma Govidan Staff Writer "Monsters Inc.," a film from Pixar, is a candy-colored, fast-paced and inventive homage to lost days when children were easily scared—and thus, truly innocent (at least according to the film industry). Although it doesn't quite have the heart of "Toy Story" or "Toy ...
Author: Andrew Brooks Staff Writer On Sunday night, Tim Miller's spectacular performance piece "Glory Box" was unleashed upon audiences in the McCullough social space. Movement and narrative became intertwined to form Miller's experience as a homosexual man in the United States and his fight for equal ...
Author: Yvonne Chen Staff Writer "I don't mean to spill my poison more than I ever have!" howls Roberta. She is one of the two lost and wretched lovers in the most recent production staged in the Zoo: John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea." Contrary to its the cutesy title, "Danny" is ...
Author: Michael Greene Throughout my four years at Middlebury, I have firmly maintained my conviction that no one cares what I (or you, or anyone else) thinks and therefore refrained from offering my opinions to the campus community in this newspaper. I have stood idly by as everyone with an opinion ...
Author: Marissa Anschutz There are those moments in your life when you witness something truly beautiful and you know, for that space in time, you are a part of something magical. These are the times when you look around the room and you see imagination and creativity exploding from every corner; when ...
Author: Anne DeWitt Local News Editor Gorham Lane resident Allen Israel has filed a legal complaint against Middlebury College regarding the noise produced by Bicentennial Hall. He asserts that the disruptions have decreased his quality of life and, furthermore, that they violate the College's permit ...
Author: Oren Frey In the past several days, you may have noticed the transition of the table tents in Proctor and Freeman from blue to yellow. These new placards announce an event that most of the student body will experience this Thursday, Nov. 15: the Environmental Fair, a collaborative effort of ...
Author: Devin Zarkowsky Staff Writer Middlebury community members gathered at 7 p.m. last Wednesday, Nov. 7, at the Ilsley Public Library to partake in a community forum framing the Sept. 11 tragedies in a local historical perspective. Prefacing comments applauded Middlebury College workers, who worked ...
Author: Dan Russell Staff Writer The Middlebury College men's basketball team enters thisr season a radically altered and much younger team, bidding farewell to nine seniors from the '00-'01 season. Last season, the team went 11-13 and qualified for the first inaugural New England Small College ...
Author: Drew Pugsley Last year when President George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore battled for electoral votes and the presidency none of us realized how important Mr. Bush's plan to boost military morale would be. But after eight years of Defense Department cuts and virtually stagnant growth ...
Author: Raam Wong Opinions Editor Trying to write something about sex that hasn't been said countless times before is a daunting task. Like sex, I wouldn't know where to begin. What could I possibly say about sex that people haven't already learned from episodes of "Real Sex," high school health classes ...
Author: Brian Elworthy and Erica Rosenthal Students will vote on proposed changes to the Honor Code handbook language during MARS Spring term registration at the end of this week. We want to take this opportunity to share with you why we support the proposed changes to the Honor Fode. As the President ...
Author: [no author name found] Among the proposed changes to the Honor Code language is a more clear defininition of student and faculty responsibilities. While the information is the same, the proposed draft collects all relevant responsibilities into one concise section. It reads:Student ResponsibilitiesIt ...
Author: Philippe Danielides Staff Writer What do the words skeevy, shifty, sketchy, dirty, horny, easy and unfaithful have in common? No, they are not Hugh Hefner's version of the seven dwarfs (although that would be funny), but rather adjectives used to typify a minority group constantly berated and ...
Author: Laura Isham Staff Writer This Saturday I went to a swing dance in McCullough. Plenty of people from the Footloose Club, as well as other students who knew how to swing dance, went to this event. There were many talented dancers there, and although this was simply a fun dance, not a performance, ...
Author: Katie MacDonald Staff Writer Seeking to assist the helpless animals, the Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) continues the enormous task of improving the lives of homeless animals. Established in 1975, the mission of this local humane society strives "to promote ethical and humane treatment ...
Author: Cragin Brown Staff Writer If the frigidity of Vermont winters isn't enough to chill you to the bone, joining the Middlebury Polar Bearing Club may be a bare necessity. Every Thursday night this semester, 30 to 40 of Middlebury's bravest caravan to nearby lakes for some often cold, always fun ...