Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Rewind about a hundred years. The early 20th century was a time of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and also a whole lot of avant-garde artistic innovations. Art schools in Paris and New York were brimming with young pupils ready to take on the world with their wild ...
Author: Mary Lane and Derek Schlickeisen For some aspiring college students, the long process of applications and anticipation ends the day the coveted "fat envelope" arrives.Yet for others, getting in does not matter quite as much as getting enough - financial aid, that is. For 41 percent of students ...
Author: Samantha Michaels Faculty members faced a weighty agenda as they assembled for their monthly meeting on Feb. 25 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, with Nicholas Garza's '11 disappearance and the policy draft on student-staff sexual relationships prominent on the list of concerns. President of the ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez So here we are, three weeks into a new semester. The excitement of new classes has passed and the luster of this new semester has worn a bit. At this point, or if not now perhaps later on in the semester, I suspect a few of you might be sitting around one weekend night thinking ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Although Starbucks is no longer in the cards for Middlebury, Myron Hunt Associates is still expressing determination to bring another nationwide chain to town. Last Monday night, the Middlebury Development Review Board (DRB) and the townsfolk of Middlebury packed into the meeting ...
Author: Chris Anderson I read in The Campus recently that Dartmouth was eliminating loan and aid packages for lower income students. After reading that headline, my internal dialogue was something like: "Outrage! How could they - oh. This has to be a good thing. Because of course they have to supplement ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Bradford Cox of last year's lauded experimental psych-rock quintet Deerhunter has never been accused of conformity. A sufferer of Marfan syndrome - a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that gives him unnaturally long and spindly limbs - the front-man's stage performance ...
Author: Josh Chan For 85 years, longer than Battell, Ross and Atwater have existed, Middlebury College's Winter Carnival has been a three-day event. It is a historic and incredibly important Middlebury institution, and is the envy of college carnivals throughout the Northeast. It is a time when students, ...
Author: Thomas Brant On a visit to Baghdad's Shorja market last spring, Indiana Congressman Mike Pence commented on how peace was taking hold in Iraq. The market, he said, was "like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime."Pence must have been oblivious to the flak jacket he was wearing ...
Author: Kelly Janis For watercolorist John Hoare - who, along with dozens of other artists, showcased his art in Brandon, Vt. this weekend - the old stone farmhouse in which he lived for years on the tiny Greek island of Paros was, by the artist's own account, a natural incubator of artistic talent."There's ...
Author: [no author name found] Green Energy ExpoOn March 1 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., local homeowners, businesses, farmers and forestland owners with an eye toward a "green" future will convene in the College's own McCardell Bicentennial Hall for the 2008 Addison County Green Energy Expo: Building Sustainable ...
Author: Sara Black Remember in Mrs. Richardson's class when you got to dress up as Abraham Lincoln and in seventh grade when you dissected the frog? Or how about that time Mr. Rodriguez took your class to the planetarium? For many young people in the United States, the reality of the American education ...
Author: Anthony Adragna The College hopes to offer several open houses for the as-yet-unnamed space at 51 Main St. before Spring Break, with a grand opening coming soon after students return, Dean of The College Tim Spears said. Final designs for the space should arrive in the next couple of days and ...
Author: Ryan Tauriainen and Chelsea Guster On Monday, March 3 at 4:00 p.m. in McCullough Social Space, the American Red Cross and the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) will be hosting an historic open forum in order to discuss the discriminatory policies that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Author: Andrew Fuller Members of the Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) and Delta social houses met with the Community Council on Feb. 26 to discuss unresolved issues regarding their status for 2008-2009. The Community Council unanimously approved recommendations to President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz that ...
Author: Jeff Klein Last year's playoff loss in overtime to Colby is now a distant memory. Before a raucous crowd in Pepin Gymnasium this past Saturday, Feb. 23, the Middlebury men's basketball team made history yet again by serving up a 96-59 blowout victory over Williams. With the win, the Panthers ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal Women's hockey beats Wesleyan to earn top seedThe women's hockey team wrapped up its impressive regular season this past weekend with a convincing 5-1 victory over fellow NESCAC competitor Wesleyan. The victory sealed the Panthers undefeated season in NESCAC play and clinched the ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Proctor Terrace, Woodstove Lounge and the entire lower floor of Proctor Dining Hall will close to students starting March 10 as part of the first phase of a renovation effort. The main dining hall will remain open for the duration of the spring term. President of the College Ronald ...
Author: James O'Brien This week, thin white cards with words on them were placed in those plastic holder things on the dining hall tables. They said "Think about this…" and argued about tiny dining hall budgets. Here are my ignorant thoughts, which I invite you to respond to in op-ed form so that ...