Author: [no author name found] Middlebury students have long lamented the inefficacies of the Student Government Association (SGA). But the feeling was mutual last month as our own collective apathy towards the SGA culminated in remarkably low numbers during the organization's special mid-term presidential ...
Author: Murray Dry After the Vermont legislature enacted the gay marriage bill into law last week, over Governor Jim Douglas's veto, news reports described Vermont as the fourth state to achieve this task, after Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa. Vermont actually deserves more credit than that, ...
Author: Grady Ross As a young girl, my cousin Eva was a figure skater. Eva is the younger sister of George. As a high school student, George found it his responsibility to care for Eva after school. His friends took to taunting him: "Haha, Georgie, you smell of Eva," which was the less graphic but more ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum The Panther women's tennis team split its games in Maine over the weekend, bouncing back from a 6-3 loss to 12th-ranked Bowdoin to solidly defeat Colby 8-1 on Sunday morning. Despite the loss to Bowdoin, the weekend was a bonding experience for the team. The six-hour bus ...
Author: Emma Stanford Hirsch, along with Siobhan O'Malley '10 and Hilary Cunningham '12, won the 2009 Alan Carter Chamber Music Competition. Their trio of flute, bassoon and clarinet performed Monday April 13 in Le Chateau Grand Salon. Emma Stanford sat down with Hirsch to discuss the trio's success.The ...
Author: Kaity Potak As the celebrations of GAYpril get under way, last week's decision by the Vermont state legislature to overturn Governor Jim Douglas' '72 veto against the proposed marriage equality bill could not have come at a more appropriate time. With a bold swiftness that inspired heated debate ...
Author: Eric Bartolotti Aircraft carriers are a marvel of technology. In fact, they are so technically marvelous that at least 65 percent of most experts consider it "near impossible" for something to possibly go wrong aboard one of this metallic monsters. With one exception: the landing of the planes. ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal Middlebury and Tufts took to Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium this past Saturday as the top two teams in the NESCAC conference. At 9-1, Tufts was having its best start in years, while Middlebury, at 8-1, was living up to its long-established pedigree. A victory would give either ...
Author: Julia Ireland The eighth-ranked women's lacrosse team lost to Union for the first time in the program's history last Thursday and similarly could not get on track Saturday as they were defeated by Tufts, 12-7.Middlebury had previously held an unblemished 33-0 record over Union, who is currently ...
Author: Dana Walters Troy Peters, 14-year resident of Vermont and conductor of both the Middlebury College Orchestra and the Vermont Youth Orchestra, will be leaving this icy land at the end of the academic year to conduct the San Antonio Youth Orchestra in Texas.Orchestra members are already lamenting ...
Author: Elissa Goeke In contrast to last year's disappointing 1-2 outcome with Hamilton College, this year's trip to Hamilton proved a tremendous success for the Middlebury softball team this past weekend. The team improved their record to 12-9 after taking three straight games from Hamilton. Several ...
Author: Tim O'Grady This past January, students discovered that the first-year orientation program known as MiddView would be eliminated beginning next fall as a measure to cut back on the College's costs. In response to this void, the Middlebury Mountain Club (MMC) has initiated an alternative outdoor ...
Author: [no author name found] Pearls, Politics,and PowerApril 16, 4 p.m.Former Vermont governor Madeline Kunin speaks at Elderly Serviceson Exchange Street toencourage women to enterpolitics and work for changein their communities. Tickets includedinner, $30. Info: 388-3983.Tom Paxtonconcert inMiddleburyApril ...
Author: [no author name found] MIKE PANZER '10Platform: no printing charge, increase cooperation between SGA and Community Council, adjust alcohol policy, keep financial aid need blind and full need, provide late night shuttle to Burlington, and address housing crisis.Campus comment: With significant ...
Author: Compiled by H. Kay Merriman Although Jack Lysohir '08.5 aptly likened the Febs' final ski down the Snow Bowl to the "descent back into their parents' basements" in his mid-year graduation speech, don't dismay, seniors - you have accomplished so much during your careers at Middlebury, yet there ...
Author: [no author name found] MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CREW RIDING AN ENORMOUS WAVE OF SUCCESSThis past weekend, the Middlebury men's and women's crew teams traveled to two different regattas looking to continue their dominant performance from the preceding weekend. The men had taken down UMass Lowell, Bowdoin ...
Author: [no author name found] The Dick Forman Jazz Group, led by Director of Jazz Activities Dick Forman, performed an assortment of ballads, blues, bebop and swing last Saturday night in the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
Author: Brian Fung Ever since journalism became a true profession in the early 20th century, citizens looked to the news to learn about the world around them. Today, the news is the news - and while print, TV and radio organizations still perform the same function they did a century ago, that very commitment ...
Author: Mike Waters Much has been made of Middlebury's "work hard, play hard" ethic. Constantly decried by its critics as the root of all that ails this institution - its high-stress academic environment and its destructive and embarrassing drinking culture - and yet defended by its proponents as part ...