Author: Leslie Lim Middlebury is currently the proud owner of a certain college ranking, and a certain nagging fault along with it. Two weeks ago, I read in this very same paper about Middlebury's number one ranking in the Sierra Club's "Ten That Get It" list. Different from many other college rankings, ...
Author: Sarah Bryan Sept. 20 was a day of gorgeous weather, home field advantages and sweet victories, including those of the cross country teams. Both the men's and women's teams swept the Panther Invitational on Saturday Sept. 20, pulling away with strong overall finishes and some noteworthy individual ...
Author: James O'Brien After my last column came out, a friend asked me what my thoughts were on "labels." I thought the question was interesting enough, so I'm taking a one week break from my pseudoinvestigative journalism to answer this question. The three main categories of Middlebury romantic involvement ...
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Author: Andrey Tolstoy The humble author of this column was nurtured by bears on the outer reaches of the rapidly shrinking Arctic Circle, among the caviar bushes, liquor streams and herring-tree lined promenades of stately Leningrad. For two years now he has been hiding behind his impeccable American ...
Author: Tess Russell After a few weeks of getting 'A's in Mod partying while coasting through classes, the work is starting to pile up for many of us. Trying to juggle school assignments, campus jobs, extracurricular activities and social obligations necessitates a great deal of self-discipline and ...
Author: Aylie Baker Two years ago, eco-visionary and human rights attorney Van Jones urged a packed Dana auditorium to consider the power behind inter-group collaboration in the environmental justice movement: "Who are you going to take with you?" he asked. "Who are you going to leave behind?"Saturday ...
Author: Jesse Davidson I think the lack of social excitement that I experienced on campus this past weekend had little to do with a shortage of parties, or the usual whip-cracking by Public Safety. And it certainly had nothing to do with playing chess and listening to National Public Radio last Friday ...
Author: Scott Greene The College took steps last week to mitigate the effects of a sluggish economy, hoping to counter both a decline in gift-giving and an underperforming endowment by reducing spending across the board and avoiding an increase in the comprehensive fee, according to President of the ...
Author: Gregg Humphrey, Director of Elementary Education The Teach For America recruitment has begun again on campus soon to be followed by Teach Kentucky, representatives from independent schools, and placement agencies such and Carney, Sandoe & Associates. Clearly there is a groundswell of interest ...
Author: Daniel Roberts An important person that you have probably never heard of (I say this with a complete lack of snobbery, it's just a fact) died a week ago at the young age of 46, and there's a reason why we as college students, but more importantly as the next generation of America's leaders, ...
Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen 1-0. Winning one game at a time is coach Bob Ritter's motto and precisely the way the Middlebury Panthers started off their football season as defending NESCAC champions. "Even though Coach has us take one play at a time and one game at a time," said wide receiver Jamie Millard ...
Author: [no author name found] In a vote taken last spring, the Middlebury faculty approved a measure to require senior work for all students, beginning with the class of 2013. We applaud this audacious decision as it exemplifies two values that Middlebury stands for: high-level academic discourse, ...
Author: Denizhan Duran President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced on Sept. 16 that Middlebury's 94-year old Summer Language Schools would expand with a new site on the campus of Mills College in Oakland, CA. The entire Arabic school, as well as portions of the Spanish, French and Italian ...
Author: Rachael Jennings Two years ago, the top hiring industries for Middlebury's Class of 2007 were Education and Finance, with Teach for America and Lehman Brothers scooping up more graduates than any other employers. Particularly in the wake of Lehman's recent disintegration, many students are ...
Author: James Schwerdtman The dreary morning of Sept. 21 gave the Middlebury campus its first taste of fall and its first taste of this year's men's tennis team. Over the weekend, eight teams from across the northeast met at the Proctor courts for the Middlebury Invitational, the first and only home ...
Author: [no author name found] "We know that we have five guys that can win on any given weekend," said captain Harrison Bane '08.5 after leading the Panthers to a first place tie with Skidmore at the Williams invitational on Sept. 20 and 21. Trailing nine shots after day one, and playing with seven ...
Author: Dean Atyia Dear Career Services Office, We had a very productive relationship up until last week, and for that I thank you. It started as a casual interchange; I had just broken up with my last conduit to gainful employment, and you were wearing that really pretty little alumni search bit, you ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger Last Friday William Hosley '77, executive director of the New Haven Museum, gave a lecture entitled "Robbins Battell: A Social Vision for Collecting Art," which focused on the art collections and art-related charity work of 19th-century New England philanthropists Elizabeth ...
Author: Jessie Singleton "It's the economy, stupid," Clinton advisor James Carville cleverly coined during the 1992 Presidential race against George H.W. Bush. In the years that followed, our economy achieved unprecedented success, bringing jobs to the unemployed, confidence to consumers and real income ...