Author: Peter Baumann Like any other Middlebury student, I complain a lot. I don't understand why our 2006 Strategic Plan placed an emphasis on recruiting new faculty in order to improve our faculty-to-student ratio, yet the additions seem awfully slow in coming, at least when staring at 35+ student ...
Author: James Riley For three years I have resisted contributing to the noble tirades of The Campus's op-ed section. Through the great residential lockdown of '05, through the gradual boa constrictor-ization of the administration, through the curiously inconsistent disciplinary action taken against ...
Author: [no author name found] From the dark deputy head in "Cinders" to the front-man for campus band The Easy Answers, Lucas Kavner '06.5 delivered acclaimed performances on both the musical and theatrical stage. The Middlebury Campus checks in with the man who won over Wright Theatre and pumped-up ...
Author: Maddie Oatman I can't get away from Haruki Murakami. So much so that when I recently went to check out another one of his books, I didn't even have to look up the call number - I already knew exactly where I would find his shelf in the library. Murakami, a Japanese fiction writer who is heavily ...
Author: Anthony Adragna The Middlebury Police Department (MPD) has added two retired Vermont State Police troopers to the investigative team convering the disappearance of Nick Garza '11, who vanished on Feb. 5 during February Break.MPD retained the two troopers on contract, who were formerly stationed ...
Author: [no author name found] High school takes you "Back to the 80s"At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7, as well as on the 8th and 9th, Middlebury Union High school will be performing a musical extravaganza entitled "Back to the 80s," a play that follows the senior class of William Ocean High School. ...
Author: Jeff Klein Sometimes in life, you just need a little luck. The Panthers now know that as well as anyone.The Middlebury men's basketball team displayed a valiant effort against Trinity Saturday night in Amherst, Mass. but eventually fell to the Bantams, 72-63. But this past Monday at noon, the ...
Author: Ryan Kellett HANGZHOU - As a preview of coming attractions this summer at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, a crowd of cheering Chinese citizens filled the Zhejiang Dragon Arena to watch China compete against Cuba in women's volleyball. And fresh off the news of Raul Castro's election in Cuba, ...
Author: Jeff Patterson Seconds after letting loose a stick-bending slap shot from inside of the face-off circles, Charlie Townsend '10 let out one word that spoke volumes. The volume in the arena was such that the word went inaudible, but reading his lips, you could tell it rhymed with the "puck" he ...
Author: Jake Cohen You may have seen a whole bunch of bald-headed students running around campus this week. No, it is not the rebirth of an "American History X" cult - it is the men's swim team. This weekend the team finished in fourth place in the NESCAC championship after three days of intense competition. ...
Author: Alex Garlick Barack Obama is a lot of things to a lot of people, but there is one thing his supporters and detractors both admire - his rhetoric. Which is a good thing. Right? Well, maybe not. Academics and pundits suggest that Americans are very suspicious of rhetoric, Obama's best weapon. ...
Author: Adam Clayton The incredibly risible and somewhat pitiful saga that has engulfed football club Valencia climaxed recently when a judge determined that the club was within limits to tell David Albelda, previous fan-idol- turned villain and long-time club veteran, he was to leave along with other ...
Author: Emily Temple Stephen Malkmus has changed the face of music as we know it. Now, be advised, he started this process close to 20 years ago and, as far as I'm concerned, finished it about 10 years ago when a little band called Pavement met its demise. Malkmus formed his soon-to-be-legendary rock ...
Author: Robert Norberg The After Dark Music Series wrapped up its 13th season Saturday night at the Middlebury United Methodist Church with a performance by a local favorite and mainstay - singer-songwriter and folk/blues guitarist Chris Smither. Smither has appeared in the After Dark series for the ...
Author: [no author name found] The weekly editor's picks, by the numbers, Midd scoreboard, and locker room features.
Author: Rachael Jennings Information about the Independent Scholars Program at Middlebury is hard to come by. Most students at the College are unfamiliar with the process of applying to design your own curriculum, and many are unaware that the program even exists. But for the few brave souls who choose ...
Author: Jake Cohen The Middlebury swim team sent its women's contigent to Wesleyan University this past weekend to compete in the 2008 NESCAC championships. There, the women continued their late-season success by placing second in what was one of the tightest races in the conference history.Although ...
Author: Tess Russell Back in September, when Nat Nelson '11 realized that he was about to throw up on floormate Emily McDonald '11, he apologized - roughly 0.76 seconds before the impact - for tainting her classy black dress with his vomit which, he admitted, "was not really black or classy in any ...
Author: Denizhan Duran Minorities make up 24 percent of the Class of 2011, according to the Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett, up from 20 percent for the whole student body as a result of the effort to make Middlebury more racially and socio-economically diverse. This is similar to patterns in universities ...