Author: Mike Murali Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to President Bush Monday discussing ways in which their two nations could ease tensions. The government of Iran has become bolder in developing its nuclear program since achieving low-level uranium enrichment just last month. Iran ...
Author: Roger Perreault The name Nick Janson never fails to conjure up images of a seven-foot-tall, pony-riding hero. Messages and graffiti along the lines of "Nick Janson is the current president" and "Nick Janson invented numbers" bespeckle desks and walls across Middlebury. The Campus managed to ...
Author: Mike Murali Scott Russell Sanders, an English professor at Indiana University at Bloomington and a nationally recognized environmentalist, spoke last Thursday in the Charles A. Dana Auditorium, reading from his recent memoir, "A Private History of Awe." A discussion ensued the following day ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER I spent Saturday afternoon locked in a cartoon rivalry against the two dozen wasps that had annexed the wooden staircase leading up to my apartment. I passed a paranoid hour holding a tennis racket and a can of Raid "Hot Shot" (which fires up to 27 feet and kills on contact…so ...
Author: Erin Lackey On May 4, at 4:30 PM, Andrew Revkin will present a lecture on media coverage of climate change in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. This discussion, entitled "The Daily Planet: Why the Media Stumble When Covering Climate Change and Other 21st century Environmental Issues," is part of ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER It's the end of the spring semester and things are getting weird.For the past two years my column has been devoted to exposing the absurdities in campus life, but recently it feels as though the absurdities are no longer attempting to conceal themselves and are starting to run ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Owen Gutfreund, a Barnard professor and author of "20th Century Sprawl," delivered a lecture last Thursday entitled "Bridges and Bypasses: A historical perspective on a century of traffic and town planning in Middlebury." During the talk, Gutfreund used the history of automotive ...
Author: Aylie Baker "Activists by definition have to be optimistic," explained Saad Eddin Ibrahim in a lecture on Thursday, April 20 at the Robert A. Jones '59 House (RAJ). However, Ibrahim's talk , part of the Charles P. Scott Symposium, "Religion, Nation, and State," also conveyed a marked sense of ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Professor of Computer Science Matthew Dickerson's publisher released commercially last week his new book entitled "From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy." Co-authored with Augustana College Professor and Middlebury alumnus David O'Hara '91, the work investigates ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith Well, in less than three weeks it will be the end of the semester, and the end of my first year here at Middlebury. What will I have to show for it? To be honest, I don't really remember it, and I was sober the entire time. Just yesterday, on my daily walk to the library, I stumbled ...
Author: Mike Murali On Tuesday, April 25, Elena Kennedy '06 traveled to D.C. to present the preliminary results of a study entitled "The Electronic Tether." Her work examines the continued influence that parents have on their children through frequent cellular phone contact.Kennedy, a psychology major, ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Nepal democracyThousands of citizens rallied in Nepal's capitol to celebrate a Monday announcement by King Gyanendra that he will reinstate parliament. Gyanendra, under pressure to restore democracy after days of riots across the country, conceded in a televised address that ...
Author: Mike Murali Friday, April 14, Middlebury played host to VH1's Best Week Ever Live. Students turned out at Pepin Gymnasium to see four comedians poking fun at the week's events. Among the lineup was Midd Alum Jessica St. Clair '98.Those who tune in regularly would have recognized the format: ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith I don't believe that acting as a walking advertisement for Middlebury is more beneficial for "prospies" than telling the truth. That being said, when a friend of mine pathetically plopped down on a futon like silly putty in front of my young visitor and complained in a half-whining, ...
Author: Dina Magaril Cook Commons played host to the Special Olympics dance last Friday, April 14 in the Kirk Alumni Center. All of Cook commons as well as the rest of the Middlebury community were invited to attend the dance along with the Addison County Special Olympics team. This is the second time ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Students may have noticed a slew of events on campus geared toward issues of humanitarian and environmental concern since the month of April began. For those who haven't, the posters, banners, sculptures and flyers represent a coordinated publicity campaign called "30 days of ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen POLICE SHOOTINGMexican police shot and killed a man mistakenly identified as an illegal migrant worker Monday, infuriating local residents. Town residents rioted after the shooting, destroying two police vehicles and chanting slogans criticizing police for firing on fleeing ...
Author: Angelica Towne Frances Kendall, the facilitator of a March 30 workshop on "White Privilege," opened the event by asking, "Okay, firstly I want everyone tonight to talk from your heart and your gut, not your head. I know academia teaches us to try to sound smart and say what we know we're supposed ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen This Friday at 8 p.m., the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) will sponsor a live broadcast of VH1's hit comedy show "Best Week Ever" in the Pepin Gymnasium. Among the four comedians slated to perform is Middlebury alumna Jessica St. Clair, who graduated in 1998.Diehard ...
Author: Rachel Dunlap Last Thursday at precisely 5 p.m., I lay unconscious with a head laceration in the front seat of a fifteen-passenger van. Another victim was stuck in the driver's seat with a neck injury, while seven others yelped about various dilemmas from an old camper vehicle. Suddenly, the ...