Author: Claire Nielson and Lisie Mehlman Your beloved Beyond the Bubble writers returned to good 'ol VT having spent the summer shacked up together in DC. Apartment number 701, shockingly enough, received many mealtime visits from the fire department as we frequently forgot to turn on the overhead fan ...
Author: Kelsey Eichhorn A mid-summer morning in Oslo, Norway finds the sun cresting the fjord horizon at 5:30 a.m. Exhausted university students do not enjoy rays peaking through the curtains at such an unseemly hour, yet daybreak is a welcome friend to the local Oslo Fjord fishermen, whose workday ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green When Pub Night resumes next Thursday, Middlebury students will see a restructured program that no longer includes free drinks for students of legal drinking age. The popular two free beers at Pub Night will be replaced with college-subsidized food and drink specials, according ...
Author: [no author name found] Our Student Government Association (SGA) is in trouble. With only one competitive race in the upcoming senate elections, the campus-wide indifference towards this institution seems to have reached a new high. While we give the SGA leaders credit for the energy and enthusiasm ...
Author: Sara Jameson Featuring pieces ranging from the pervasive energy of Beethoven to the exotic nostalgia of Bartók, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra combined musical grace and vigor in its stunning performance last Friday night. Under the musical direction of world-renowned violinist Jaime Laredo, ...
"I have been swimming upstream my whole life," revealed Francois "Buttercup" Clemmons. "It is a painful thing to deny who you are." In writing his memoir, "A Song in My Soul," Clemmons embarked on an intellectual and emotional journey to come to terms with his life as a gay, black man. Now, while Clemmons ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:September 14th's Middlebury Campus lead article ("Administration cutting back on Feb admissions") may have generated some unnecessary concerns and I write to add perspective.Adjustments to the Feb program will continue to be made very gradually, and the results ...
Author: Daniel Roberts You know what activity at the beginning of each semester I really like? Going to get books. The walls containing giant, heavy anthologies that you have to buy, even though you know the teacher will only assign a few chapters from them. The long lines snaking out into the hallway, ...
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Author: Kacie Sherman His is a face you'd recognize - you might even know his first name - and if you know either of those, you definitely know his American League allegiance. Joe Controneo is the owner and all-around personality behind Middlebury Discount Beverage, more commonly known as BevCo. Controneo ...
Author: Andrew Schlegel After starting their season with four convincing wins, the men's soccer team had a tough time this week. In Wednesday's game at Colby-Sawyer, the team came out flat and had trouble finding the back of the net until late in the game. The Colby-Sawyer game was followed by a devastating ...
Author: Allison Ortega The Panther field hockey team employed strong defense and opportunistic scoring to edge both Skidmore and Wesleyan in individual 1-0 shutout victories last week. On Wednesday Sept. 20, the team traveled to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to challenge the undefeated Skidmore Thoroughbreds ...
Author: Scott Greene Students will log-in to vote today as polls open online for the Fall Student Government Association (SGA) Senate elections. The elections begin after SGA leaders were forced to actively recruit candidates and extend deadlines to fill the ballot with even one student for each race, ...
Author: [no author name found] Suspicious package found at UPennStudents evacuated the Upper Quad of the University of Pennsylvania following the discovery of a suspicious package on Sept. 21.Police received word on an unattended package around 7 p.m. and arrived at the scene to investigate. Students ...
Author: Andrew Chae Last week national news broke that the social networking start-up Facebook.com was on the verge of a near billion-dollar sale. The official reports from the news wires published that Yahoo, out of a bidding group that also included the likes of Microsoft and Viacom, was close to ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Candidates for Vermont's open U.S. House seat debated foreign policy Tuesday night in Mead Chapel. With public opinion polls predicting Democratic gains in November's elections, the race has become one of the most closely-watched Congressional competitions in the country. ...
Author: [no author name found] Ever fantasized about traveling back in time and enjoying dinner with one of the most eloquent orators in history? Well, your chance has arrived. This coming Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Ilsley Library on Main St. in downtown Middlebury, Jim Rubin, who has been portraying ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Finance Committee cut the budget of every student organization by 12.5 percent for the 2006-2007 year, student leaders were informed earlier this semester. The funding cuts came at the same time that the Student Activities Fee, which provides the budget for the Finance Committee, ...
Author: Astri vonArbinAhlander My name is Astri and I've scored big. After all, I have my own column in this illustrious newspaper - a column with few editorial guidelines other than "Write what you want." How did I get it? I'm not a trendsetter. Rather, I belong to a fast on-coming trend - Sweden. ...
Author: Katie Hylas Everything I ever hear about Middlebury is positive (unless it's about the weather). If you go to Middlebury you are expected to LOVE it. "Oh it's such a beautiful school, such a great school, oh and you can ski whenever you want!" With all this positive propaganda, I lose track ...