Author: [no author name found] While some students spent the bitterly cold Winter Term huddled in line for the ski lift at the Snow Bowl and others drank away the chill in their dorm rooms, one group of 50 braved the cold, fostered their competitive nature and lined a snow-covered Battell Beach in hopes ...
Author: Kelly Janis After months of deliberations by the Budget Oversight Committee, College President Ronald D. Liebowitz publicly announced the first set of a series of cost-cutting measures aimed at reducing expenditures by $20 million over the next several years to counter a mounting budget deficit. ...
Author: Martin Breu The Middlebury ski teams are nothing if not consistent. When the snow settled this weekend, the Panthers found themselves in fourth place overall, the same position they enjoyed in the first two carnivals of this season. Dartmouth continued its dominance of the college circuit, winning ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When Bristol farmer and activist Erin Buckwalter recently worked with a group of Winooski children at the town's community garden, she was surprised to find that many of them did not know carrots grew underground.Until August, Buckwalter ran the community and youth garden programs ...
Author: Beth Connolly I spent thirteen hours aboard Trenitalia. In English, this is called learning things the hard way; in Italian one would say, essere una stupidona. It all started well enough. The train departed from the ancient Greek city of Siracusa and traveled up the Sicilian coast. Outside ...
Author: [no author name found] STUNNING SEASON GIVES BEN RUDIN '09 SENIOR SPOTLIGHTBen Rudin '09 was named NESCAC Player of the Week for the second time this season. He has led the way in a remarkable resurgence for Middlebury basketball, which sports a 20-2 record heading into the final weekend of ...
Author: Ben Benson Over the holiday break, as I consumed all sorts of holiday goodies, I decided that I was going to attempt to eat healthier when I returned to Middlebury for J-term. Like most people, I can tell you that eating salad instead of French fries is the healthier choice, but I'd like to ...
Author: Grace Duggan and Melissa Marshall We are senior English majors. We spend winter term Friday nights explicating Milton instead of trying to dissect the ingredients in the punch at the Mill. We are some of the only students setting up camp in the blue library chairs on Sunday afternoons (anyone ...
Author: Katie Siegner With the renovations of the McCullough Student Center nearing completion, students are already seeing changes and improvements to the building. "While McCullough was closed, there was a noticeable lack of an all-campus social space," said Katie Horner '11. The project is on schedule ...
Author: Tess Russell "50 percent of Middlebury graduates marry each other." If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone work this dubious statistic into a lunch conversation at Atwater … Well, let's just say I'd be making much more frequent use of the CoinStar at Hannaford. At this point, ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Currently your friendly Digital Media Lab Assistant, recent graduate Sam Morrill '08 not only knows how to supervise the film making process, but he also has an impressive body of creative work. Perhaps the most intriguing is his recent film set in Havana, Cuba that will be ...
Author: Hannah Burnett With over a billion people in our world living on less than a dollar a day, the problems of extreme poverty and disease can be daunting, to say the least. It can be hard enough to even imagine such suffering as a part of our world, let alone begin thinking about how to end this ...
Author: [no author name found] This weekend, six campus bands vibrated the Pearsons Lounge in a charity event to help raise money for the Middlebury Alternative Break trip to San Francisco. Tickets to the event cost $4, and the band with the most ticket stubs in their respective jar was declared the ...
Author: Kelly Janis Poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez kicked off the College's week-long celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15, delivering a keynote address titled "The Consistent Relevancy of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 21st Century." In a lecture comprised by personal ...
Author: Adam Schaffer The College community packed into Dana Auditorium on Jan. 14 to engage a panel in discussing the escalating conflict in Gaza. The conflict boiled to the surface again on Dec. 27, when Hamas fired rockets from Gaza into Israel. Israel retaliated with targeted air strikes into Gaza, ...
Author: Robert McKay Wind engineer Jito Coleman got his start during the energy crisis of the 1970s. Today Coleman is president of Northern Power Systems, a Waitsfield-based company that makes wind and hybrid power systems and specializes in getting green power to remote locations. Coleman is also ...
Author: Robert LaMoy In response to Kate Lupo's '10 article "The Sexism of Laughter" (Jan. 15), I must respectfully disagree with the assertion that women cannot be funny without compromising their intellect. Let's address the examples provided in the article. America laughed at Tina Fey's impersonation ...
Author: Emma Stanford No term paper can compare to the stress of standing up before one's peers and performing, alone, an original monologue. But four days a week this Winter Term, the twelve students in Visting Lecturer in Theatre Dana Yeaton's "Going Solo" class do exactly that. On Tuesday morning, ...
Author: James Schwerdtman A week of hard work can really show when it comes to competition. Nowhere was this more apparent than this past weekend in Middletown, Conn., where Wesleyan College hosted the Wesleyan Track and Field Invitational. Coming off of their season opener at Dartmouth the weekend ...
Author: [no author name found] This past week has been an exciting one for Middlebury students. Our bucolic Vermont campus has been galvanized anew by the zeitgeist surrounding the inauguration of the nation's next president.Whomever we supported in last fall's election, we followed Tuesday's events, ...