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The Setonian

Preface to Lunch Revisiting our unofficial motto

Author: James O'Brien I heard someone say the words, "work hard, play hard" this weekend, and that, along with the Natural Ice that somehow ended up in my CUPPS mug, made me want to throw up. The whole "Work Hard!!! Play Hard!!!" philosophy is possibly the second dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's ...


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Out on a Lim Choosing to stray from my usual choice

Author: Leslie Lim Something eerie happened to me during the first few days of school. It was night and most appliances in my room were turned off, but I kept hearing really low strains of music. I attributed it to sensitive ears and somebody else's music. But it happened again, and determined that ...


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Faculty flaunts its expertise in the press

Author: Rachael Jennings After the flood of Web pages directly linked to the College, www.google.com brings up a few interesting search results on Middlebury: a New York Times article on Neil Waters' history class and the banning of Wikipedia as a relevant source of research, a variety of sites describing ...


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Sports Briefs

Author: [no author name found] ROOKIE MATT RAYNER '12 GETS PLAYER OF THE WEEK IN WINMiddlebury athletes are making a habit of grabbing NESCAC Player of the Week honors.The latest sportsman with an outstanding week was rookie wide receiver Matt Rayner '12, who was named NESCAC Special Teams Player of ...


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Editorial Lecture season needs the right space

Author: [no author name found] The campus is in the midst of an idyllic stretch from fall family weekend through homecoming. This weekend students will enjoy the blissful ignorance that only fall recess can provide. And what a fall it has been. The campus has been blessed with more than just beautiful ...


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The Kite Runner

Author: Emma Stanford Last Monday, students at a packed Wright Memorial Theatre saw one of the decade's most popular and powerful books brought to vivid, wrenching life. Arian Moayed performed a concentration in under one hour of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's compelling book about love, guilt and ...


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Organic garden harvests fresh ideas for fall

Author: Aylie Baker Reaching the end of that wonderful grace period between a bountiful summer and icy November chills, the Middlebury Organic Garden is still going strong. Director Jay Leshinsky and a dedicated group of students keep the harvest thriving even with winter fast approaching. This year ...


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Overseas Briefing The foreign language of British-English

Author: H. Kay Merriman Whilst studying Shakespeare and Journalism at "the most creative college in the U.K." this semester, I have successfully resigned my Middlebury prepster status for that of a hipster, developed a nasty second-hand smokers' cough, watched multiple British professors mock Sarah ...


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Notes from the Desk Where the ladies at?

Author: Grace Duggan After several years working for the The Middlebury Campus as a staff writer, photographer and editor, I think I can safely say that our campus newspaper is certainly no "Old Boys Club". Looking at our Opinions section, however, there is an appalling lack of female contributors to ...


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Bullpen catcher of the week Ryan Bohling '10

Author: Peter Baumann The Campus highlights a Middlebury athlete whose contribution was vital to the game but did not necessarily show up in the box score. "Bullpen Catcher of the Week" honors those whose efforts go unnoticed to all except their teammates and coaches.The inaugural recipient of the award ...


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Field hockey repeats history, falls to Bowdoin

Author: Maeve McGilloway The Middlebury field hockey team, ranked second in the country, dropped a 2-0 decision to unbeaten Bowdoin on Saturday morning at Ryan Field in Brunswick, Maine. Both top-ranked Bowdoin and second-ranked Middlebury had undefeated records prior to the game. This loss drops Middlebury ...


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In my humble opinion Underdog spirit gone in Beantown

Author: Daniel Roberts Sorry if a sports column doesn't interest you, but 65 percent of the students here (I just made that up) are from J.O.B., so let's talk Red Sox.From the latest issue of GQ magazine: "Boston… Enough. We get it. You rule the universe… But remember, fifteen years ago, your teams ...


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Women's golf finishes first again

Author: Kyle Goodenough The women's golf team hosted seven schools on its home turf this past weekend for the third annual Middlebury Invitational tournament. The women were especially excited about the opportunity to play at home this year because they didn't have the chance to play on the Ralph Myhre ...


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Conrad Olson '09 set to hit the national stage

Author: Jeff Klein The Division III tennis world will soon have a new national champion. That national champion could very well be a Panther.Yes, Conrad Olson '09 has the potential to do great things next week, but first, backtrack two weekends.Olson and the Middlebury men's tennis team competed in ...


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The 5th Page

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Café pleases Provençal pallette

Author: Kaity Potak What happens when a Provençal chef with 30 years of gastronomic experience graduates from "La Colline" in Montpellier, France and moves to the United States? He ends up in a different Montpelier entirely - The New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt, that is. Chef Robert ...


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Welch Bids on Bailout

Author: Andrea Glaessner Vermont Congressman Peter Welch joined 263 of his fellow House representatives Oct. 3 in approving the $700 billion bailout package designed to rescue ailing credit markets. Although the House rejected the bill on Oct. 1, 58 representatives, including Welch, changed their votes ...


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MiddBriefs

Author: Miles Abdilla and Ian Trombulak PROFESSORS EASE STUDENTS' FINANCIAL FEARSIn response to a bombardment of questions from both students and faculty members regarding the state of the U.S. economy, Professors of Economics David Colander, Peter Matthews, Scott Pardee and Bob Prasch held a discussion ...