Over the past few weeks, these pages have seen a flurry of debate over the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) of 21. This week alone, three separate pieces in the opinions section deal with the topic, and each of the last four weeks have included at least one op-ed submission targeting this contentious debate. In…

Maribeth Gero’s daughter Jessica was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma when she was 13 years old. Jessica has been in remission for 21 months, but her mother remains an advocate of cancer awareness.

“Cancer is extremely hard,” said Maribeth Gero. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”

Maribeth Gero joined activists of the same mindset at the…

As quickly as success and glory can come, it can also be taken away in the blink of an eye. The Panthers are all too aware of that reality right now.

For four Middlebury College students living at Quarry Road, October 30 is a day that will live in infamy. The day marked the first, though to the dismay of some, not the last, time the Vermont liquor inspector would take action against collegiate underage drinking.

India: the land of Bollywood, curry, the Taj Mahal, Kama Sutra, snakes, elephants and pleny of folklore. For most of us halfway across the world, the recent economic boom that has catapulted India to the international stage in recent years seems at odds with our more romantic and exotic perceptions of India.

Lights out and two screens on either side of the stage flipped on to show Neil (Baron ’10) and Andrew (Powers ’11.5) sitting on couches watching TV, discovering that their show, “Mister Show with Neil and Andrew,” had begun and that the stage was empty.

Though many first-years believe that they are going to be doctors some day, through introductory calculus courses and the looming prospect of organic chemistry, many become quickly dillilusioned. Middlebury is littered with ex-pre-meds. So, who makes it all the way through? Who are these determined pre-meds?

I spoke with a group of pre-med students and…

The former Neil and Otto’s Pizzeria has not changed drastically since Paul Neri bought it from its previous owners in August 2009.

With warmer weather just around the corner (hopefully!), nobody can escape the urge to do a little spring cleaning.

As the sky opened up last week and unloaded every ounce of snow it had up and down the East Coast, it was apparent that the ski gods were looking favorably on the Middlebury ski teams.  With the home Carnival weekend coming up and a relatively warm and dry winter up to that point, the…