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 ...
Author: David Lindholm Assistant Sports Editor The Middlebury Women's Volleyball team could not have asked for a better week going into the Nee England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) tournament. The Panthers lost only two games en route to a 4-0 week, sending visiting teams packing for ...
Author: Matt Klein Staff Writer College students often find themselves nearly broke, sick of cafeteria food and annoyed by the inadequate kitchens in dormitories. At least in Gifford, where I live, there are several two-burner electric ranges on each floor. An oven would be nice, but I can live without ...
Author: Anne DeWitt Local News Editor On Tuesday, Oct. 23 John Tenny, chair of the Middlebury Select Board, informed the board that the Middlebury Town Hall will remain in its current location at the convergence of South Main Street and College Street.When the plan of constructing a new building next ...
Author: Amy Brais Staff Writer It's 8 a.m. While most of the Middlebury College campus is probably still fast asleep or just waking up, three students sit in the WRMC studio on the third floor of Proctor, preparing to conduct a radio show as Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" fades into the background. For four ...
Author: Kate DeForest Arts Editor This year the College community has been graced by a series of notable lectures and talks as part of the traveling Smithsonian exhibit "Young America." By viewing the majestic, and oft pastoral or romantic, landscapes one gets a sense of the expansiveness the new American ...
Author: Mike Kirkland and Mike Mazzotta Staff Writers On Saturday, the men's and women's cross country teams traveled to Bowdoin to race in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships. The women won the annual race for the fourth consecutive year while seven of the 12men ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Staff Writer At this particular moment in time, I highly doubt my life could be much worse. And yet, despite my immense fury over my current situation, I cannot help but be at least a tiny bit amused over what I have managed to do. For all express purposes, I should not be writing ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Managing Editor The government issued a televised warning on Monday evening of new terrorist attacks that may surface in the next week. United States Attorney General John Ashcroft stated that the "administration has concluded … that there may be additional terrorist attacks ...
Author: David Lindholm Assistant Sports Editor I had just come in from the sub-zero temperatures of the tundra where they played the NESCAC men's soccer quarterfinals, and I saw that the common room in my hall was packed full of burly, unshaven men. This could have meant only one thing; it was Sunday ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff Staff Writer For those of you who were unable to catch this past weekend's game, there is only one thing to say — unfortunate (although your cardiologist might be pleased). Hard-hitting, heart-stopping, with the Panthers the ultimate victor — all one might want for a harvest ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts Editor "Somewhat Damaged" promised us much mysterious madness to come by opening the play with Nicole Lebouef's '02 enchanting delivery of "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allen Poe. Writer/actor Alex Poe '03 may have had in mind the calling of the sinister muse and the preparing ...
Author: Devin Zatorski News Editor Amidst a broad economic downturn, college and university endowments collectively plunged billions of dollars in the 2001 fiscal year, posting negative returns for the first time since 1984. While signs of economic vulnerability were evident in the summer months, the ...
Author: Craig Szela Staff Writer The Bicentennial Campaign raised $213 million dollars, $13 million more than its already ambitious goal, remarked Phil Benoit, director of public affairs. This campaign, which concluded on June 30, was celebrated during Homecoming weekend.President John McCardell said ...
Author: Ashley Elpern Editor-in-Chief The Academic-Athletic DivideGaining admission to competitive colleges is becoming increasingly difficult, but as the recent study commissioned by the presidents of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) reveals, student athletes targeted by ...
Author: Abdur Rahim-Syed The attack on the World Trade Center was morally repulsive as civilians were targeted. As many as 6,000 civilians were killed that day, and both the sanctity of life and the laws of war were left in the dust. Those responsible for the attacks did not have a personal quarrel ...
Following an episode during last Saturday's football game half time show, campus social house pledge events were suspended for two days and are slated to recommence Wednesday evening. The episode, which has been deemed by administrators and some current social house members as an exhibition of poor ...