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Sports Editors’ Picks 03/11/10

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The Campus Spring Sports Preview

Women’s Tennis

The Middlebury women’s tennis team kicks off its official season this Saturday with a doubleheader, facing Brandeis at 8 a.m., followed by Wellesley at 2 p.m. After a winter of training spent confined to the Bubble, the recent advent of spring weather has the team excited to return to the Proctor courts…

Men’s basketball can’t hold on in NCAA play

A.J. Gordon founded Gordon College in 1889 as a Catholic school “to prepare the people of God to do the work of God in bold and creative ways.” On Friday, however, either the school basketball team was not as prepared as Mr. Gordon intended his students to be, or getting out of Pepin Gymnasium with a…

Women’s hockey falls to Trinity in four overtimes

For family, friends and fans, the NESCAC semifinal women’s hockey game on Mar. 6 was nothing if not a nail-biter. Sitting on the edge of their seats for almost four and a half hours — more than twice the length of a normal game — the crowd at Amherst’s Orr Rink watched as the Panthers…

Panthers surge past Bowdoin in title game

The men’s hockey team successfully returned to the top of the NESCAC as they won the title last Sunday afternoon, skating against Bowdoin on Maine ice and defeating the Polar Bears 3-2 with a last-minute goal by tri-captain Charlie Townsend ’10. Going into the tournament, the Panthers certainly had a lot to prove.

Despite the…

Editorial: A drinking age endorsement

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…

Op-Ed: Vermont’s out-of-touch ‘health’ establishment

In last week’s Campus, Dr. John Searles defended the legal drinking age of 21 by doing what the establishment does best: lying. From high atop his bully pulpit, Searles graced Midd-kids with a letter to the editor devoid of relevant science and saturated with ridicule, even stooping so low as to accuse me, a college…

Op-Ed: Refusing to settle for nuclear

I am tired of pragmatism, of “centered” political views, of sacrificing change for compromise. In the past year, I have watched as those in power touted the Canadian oil sands as a solution to weaning America off foreign oil; as they turned universal access healthcare into something simply less exclusive than what is offered today…

Local Brief: Cycling against cancer

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…

From the Statehouse

3/5 – Governor Jim Douglas announced $630,000 in funding for an affordable housing project for the elderly as well as money to make the Georgia and Bristol municipal buildings handicapped accessible. These grants will reach five communities in Vermont. Vergennes will receive the $500,000 Community Development Block Grant that will be used toward improvements to…

Editorial Cartoon: Proctor lunch

Waters to Wine: In search of a “balance”

As somewhat of an addendum to my previous column about the Community Council’s so-called review of keg policy, I thought I might lend my voice to the debate about alcohol that has been raging — probably unnoticed — in these pages for weeks. As The Campus’ alcohol columnist, it is my duty to reiterate points…

Behind Enemy Line: Rawr

James O’Brien complained last week that everyone in the previous week’s issue of The Campus was “so very angry, especially in the opinions section.” Mackenzie Beer was roiling in hysterics over being labeled. The Republican columnist was seething at the spring. I wrote about manly stuff. All these negative vibes seemed to gravitate around one…

Come as you are – as you were – as I want you to be: Former dean explores Nirvana

On Wednesday, March 2, Middlebury residents came as they were to the Ilsley Public Library in downtown Middlebury for the lecture “Nirvana and Religion.” The lecture was part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays series, held on the first Wednesday of every month at Ilsley and other locations statewide. The monthly series is designed…

Local Wanders

Located in picturesque downtown Bristol, Art on Main has been supporting local artists and their endeavors for the past nine years. Art on Main is a “non-profit, community-supported artist-cooperative gallery” that exhibits and sells pieces of art of various mediums ranging from woodwork and photography to textiles and paintings.

The gallery is sustained by the…

One in 8,700: Where the personalities of Middlebury proper are celebrated

Holly Stark, the work-study coordinator at Mary Johnson Children’s Center, has traveled a long, winding path from Vermont and back again.

“When I was growing up I was just like some of the kids you may see here at the high school, just thinking, ‘I gotta leave!’ And I did leave,” Stark said.

Stark grew…

Local Lowdown 3/11/10

Town swing dance

March 11, 8 – 9 p.m.

The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, the College’s big band, is sure to get your feet tapping at the Town Hall Theater. Grab a partner (or just your dancing shoes) and step out to a night on the town. Tickets are…

Op-Ed: Does Middlebury College really care about the planet and its people?

It’s quite easy nowadays to vilify Big Business and conglomerated corporate interests. In fact, in a way, it’s become even fashionable — certainly not much of a surprise after watching the financial giants pull enormous profits out of thin air, cause a near collapse of our economy and then steal (under the guise of a…

Notes from the Desk: A license to drink

For the past month or so, the opinions pages of The Campus have played host to a dialogue regarding the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) of 21. The latest such piece to appear in our pages was written by Dr. John Searles, in response to Nick Alexander’s ’10 op-ed on the subject. As someone with…

Men’s lacrosse squeaks by Bates

Coming into Saturday’s home opener, the men’s lacrosse team had an all-time record of 21-0 against Bates. Couple that with preseason rankings of #3 and #4 from InsideLacrosse and LaxPower, respectively, and it seemed a given that the Panthers would crush the Bobcats.

Men miss NCAAs for second straight year

The Middlebury men’s hockey team saw its season come to an end this weekend, as they beat Williams 4-1 on Friday, March 6 but fell to Amherst in the NESCAC championship game the following day by a score of 5-2.

Individuals post good results at ECACs

The winter indoor season continued for three of the Panthers’ best track athletes this past weekend. Adam Dede ’11 was the only athlete for the men, competing in the pole vault.

SGA Update – 03/11/10

Members of the Student Government Association (SGA) committed $12,000 to expand Midnight Breakfast this spring at its meeting on March 7.

LIS reports printing decrease under quota

Even as the newly implemented printing quota system has already reduced the use of printers across campus, students find themselves nearing the end of their free allowance of pages.

Editors’ Picks – 03/11/10

Men’s b-ball stunned by home loss

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.

Middlebury Great Eight

Liquor inspector describes duties

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.