Author: Colin Foss As three courageous, 19th-century women set off on a safari through "Terra Incognita," the rusty Hepburn Zoo became a lush jungle, an arctic tundra and finally the intersection of time and space. Exploring the romantic dreamworlds with big-eyes and even bigger characters, the pioneering ...
Author: Allison Ortega Ranked second in the most recent national poll, the Middlebury women's lacrosse team showed their offensive firepower early and then held on for victory on Saturday at Kohn Field in a NESCAC matchup against Trinity. Playing in front of a large crowd assembled to celebrate the ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman "This is The Grille. It is a great place to meet with professors over lunch," said student tour guide Angelo Fu '10 to wide-eyed prospective students on a tour last week. Upon matriculating to Middlebury, however, many Middlebury students see the Grille as something else: a drunken ...
Author: Sage Bierster No sex column would be complete without an article on pornography. It is in-your-face sexuality taken to extremes. It has infiltrated every media available, and everywhere it appears it generates controversy. It is a $10 billion industry that is forever caught between our most ...
Author: Andrew Donnantuono For men's lacrosse, 2007 has been a tale of two seasons. Undefeated at home (6-0) and winless on the road (0-3), Middlebury continued that trend last week with an 11-2 trouncing of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at home on April 10 before losing in double-overtime ...
Author: Chelsea Utterback Cox '07 recognized for community service workJessica Cox '07 was awarded this year's Vermont Campus Compact (VCC) TD Banknorth Commitment to Service and Engagement Award on March 29. The award is given for exceptional participation in community service.Cox contributed to the ...
Author: Bridget Cummings Dorman "A girl that talks to animals. A cramped zoo. All the zoo animals going down the Mississippi in a houseboat. Fantastic!" writes local Middlebury resident, Lisel Peters-deCourval. The twelve-year-old critic is describing William B. Catton's new book, "Kathryn and the Runaway ...
Author: H.Kay Merriman Rutgers' profile surges after Imus scandalAfter radio show host Don Imus's reference to the predominantly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos," the team's coach and players have been commended for their cordial response to the insult. As a result, sale of ...
Author: Matty Van Meter I came to this campus, as many of you did, to immerse and engage myself in an intellectual community which is not only diverse and stimulating, but subtle, self-aware and conscientious. In the classroom, and indeed in most situations, I have not been disappointed. When it comes ...
Author: Emily Temple According to the jacket of the album, "The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn is a departure from the obscured blur of stained glass rÍve to a more self-exploitive memoir. Parts are dreamy and parts are savage, but, as with an opera where death represents a secret heaven, ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen The largest global warming demonstration in American history took place on April 14, all thanks to an idea conceived by six recent graduates of the College and Scholar-in-Residence Bill McKibben. Step It Up 2007, a campaign of more than 1,400 coordinated demonstrations in ...
Author: Thomas Newton We grew up with the story of Napster. And most of us at one point used Kazaa. When Kazaa fell several options sprouted up, including Limewire, Soulseek and Bittorrent. This rather long list of software goes to show the popularity of what the music industry hates about technology ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander I was in Sweden over the break, experiencing what we have yet to see at Middlebury: spring. The temperature in Stockholm blew my travel buddy and me away with warm breezes and constant sunshine over the glittering water of what is appropriately called the Venice of the ...
Author: Jeff Patterson Middlebury has seen its share of polo shirts, has recruited die-hard water polo players and has chemistry majors that can speak at length about Polonium, but Federico "Kiko" Velge '10 might be the College's first authentic polo star. A native of Portugal, this serious polo player ...
Author: Viraj Assar I write this week out of confusion and frustration, having woken up on Monday to early reports of serial violence on the campus of Virginia Tech in my hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia. In the same week as the eighth anniversary of the Columbine massacre, and after reports of bomb ...
Author: Tom Brant Thirty-three people were confirmed dead and more than a dozen wounded in the wake of a shooting rampage that occurred Monday morning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. By Tuesday afternoon, Virginia Tech Police identified a student, Cho Seung-Hui, 23, as the gunman responsible for ...
Author: Sara Black "That graffiti does not represent some isolated incident that one can respond to by scolding whoever committed the crime," Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) co-President Nick Ballen '08 wrote in an e-mail, regarding the recent indecent slurs tattooed on the walls of Ross two weeks ...
Author: Andrew Schlegel The Panthers easily defeated Plymouth State 8-2 on Forbes Field with what Tri-Captain Nick Lefeber '08 described as "good displays of hitting particularly from the bottom of the order, good defense, good pitching from Steve Shortle."After repeated delays, the weather finally ...
Author: Ceara Danaher Prindle Mullin Wissler is a firecracker of a lady. The petite 94-year-old artist was the center of attention at Ilsley Library on the evening of April 12, and for the remainder of the month, Wissler's paintings will be on display in the library. The show is a precursor to the 21st ...
Author: Jeff Patterson Outside for the first home tennis match of the spring season, the number-three ranked Middlebury men's tennis team outplayed the out-of-town Williams Ephs, 8-1. The outlook of Wednesday's match was determined right from the outset as the Panthers took all three doubles points ...