Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury raised more money than any other liberal arts college in 2006, signaling a robust start to the likely $500 million Middlebury Initiative to be announced next fall. The $61.5 million total exceeded the College's fundraising goal by more than $10 million.The year's ...
Author: Colin Foss Walking through the bottom floor of the main library, you might notice a strange phenomenon: inside glass cases, resting on largish pedestals, there are assortments of little trinkets, mundane baubles that seemingly hold no aesthetic value beyond the fact that they are presented much ...
Author: Allison Ortega Over Winter Carnival weekend, the men's Middlebury swimming and diving team headed to Bowdoin's Leroy Greason Pool for the grueling three-day NESCAC Championships. Waiting there was the four-time defending champion Williams, who had provided the lone blemish on Middlebury's otherwise ...
Author: Jeff Patterson "At forward, a sophomore from Lake Placid, New York, number 24 Jamie McKenna," said public address announcer Dave Sears as he finished introducing the Panthers' starting lineup for the opening game of the NESCAC Tournament versus Williams. And right on cue, number 14 Jamie McKenna ...
Author: [no author name found] They clean your dorm, wash your dishes and sort your mail. You see their faces everyday, but rarely do you get a glimpse into their lives. The Campus has torn down the wall between student and staff to reveal the stories, interests and hobbies behind Midd's everyday heroes.Kirk ...
Author: Kerren McKeeman Beginning next year, Junior Counselors (JCs) will receive a stipend of $2,500 instead of an extra room draw housing point, according to a Feb. 26 e-mail to sophomores and juniors from Dean of the College Tim Spears. In addition, the position will be renamed "First-Year Counselor" ...
Author: Andrew Schlegel The NBA Draft has always been a menace to NCAA basketball. Fans and commentators alike have thought that the competition of college basketball is destroyed when the premiere players leave school early to play professionally.Before the most recent NBA draft, many of the top college ...
Author: Brian Fung Members of the College faculty joined students and staff in an open forum Monday to discuss the role of Wikipedia in higher education. Two presentations sponsored by Ross Commons offered differing treatments of the online encyclopedia and debated the value of open-source technology ...
Author: Kelly Janis The whir of snow plows. The scrape of shovels. The exasperated sighs of snowbound homeowners, suffocated by a whirlwind of white fluff.As Middlebury College students basked snugly in the reprieve of a snow day, the Northeast pulled out all the stops to wrench itself out from under ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen [CORRECTED FEB. 21] Two men are alleged to have assaulted a female student late Friday night at Brackett, the home of Tavern social house, according to a campus-wide crime alert sent by the Department of Public Safety on Monday evening.The assault, described as a sex offense ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Guster will headline the Middlebury College Activity Board's (MCAB) spring concert on April 27 after an opening by up-and-coming indie band The Format, according to MCAB officers. The Spring Concert will be a part of Guster's Campus Consciousness Tour, a project sprouting from ...
Author: Kelsey Smith You know that option when you create a Facebook invite that says you are promising a "night of mayhem?" Well it was promised and wholly delivered Saturday night at the Gamut Room, which played host to Fat Worm of Error - a costume-wearing, pandemonium-causing noise-rock group from ...
Author: Simon Keyes The Middlebury women's squash team was unable to repeat their promising NESCAC Tournament performance at this weekend's Nationals. Even with the return of two recently graduated Senior Febs, the women's team suffered multiple defeats. The Panthers were competing in the Kurtz Cup, ...
Middlebury College has chairs for almost every academic department, three chairlifts at the Snow Bowl and even a hockey goaltender named Cherry. But we're missing two things: a conference-contending basketball team and consistently comfortable chairs in our classrooms. With yet two more first-round ...
Author: David Infante Broomball is back despite blizzardThis semester Middlebury's most popular intramural sport makes its triumphant return to the frozen pitch outside McCullough Student Center after several lackluster winters. Broomball is back at Midd, and despite the recent snow it looks like the ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Collegeiate should be spelled "collegiate." Perhaps alcohol was being consumed at the time the editorial was written. It seems the generation preceding those on the Editorial Board has saddled your generation with enough issues of significance, that lowering ...
Author: Thomas Newton Honda has had the dream of creating a humanoid robot since 1986 when its engineers set out to create a machine that could simulate human motion. Twenty one years of research and experimentation later they have created the Asimo, a robot that resembles a miniature space man that ...
Author: Brooke Farquhar Tom Maldonado '08 could be called the Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Men's Hockey team. Although he wears a white no. 2 and not a black no. 8, with 84 consecutive starts, Maldonado's record is hot and shows no signs of dwindling. In the 24 games played so far this season, Maldonado assisted ...
Author: [no author name found] Feb break. It seems but a distant memory amidst the flurry of new Febs, scrambling for courses and brave forays into the icy landscape. A week into the second semester, two Middlebury students reflect back on their different vacation experiences.Opting for the sun, six ...
Author: Andrew Schlegel This year's NBA All-Star weekend took place in Las Vegas, Nev. The slam dunk contest followed the three-point shootout and the skills challenge to cap off an impressive Saturday night. Gerald Green of the Boston Celtics revolutionized the dunk contest and sent the crowd home ...