Author: Lisie Mehlman The Middlebury College Community Chorus lent spring fever a whole new meaning on Sunday afternoon during its annual Spring Concert. Inside a packed Mead Chapel, the Chorus performed many a soulful Gershwin tune and Brahms gypsy song, each extolling the beauty and newness of springtime. ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh As the rest of the student body prepares for exams and moving out for the summer, the seniors on campus are preparing for the commencement of their lives after college. As exams come to a close on May 23, the staff, faculty and students will prepare for senior week which concludes ...
Author: Polly Johnson Recognizing the need for Middlebury to take a stance against the genocide that is taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz informed the community of the College's position on divestment in companies with direct ties to Sudan in an ...
Author: Dan Stevens The Student Government Association (SGA) held its weekly meeting this past Sunday at a new venue, convening at Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hanson's house to discuss SGA matters and share dinner. Over the course of the meal, the SGA discussed several important matters including smoking ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE Friday, May 12, is WRMC's annual spring concert-fest, Sepomana. In seeming anticipation of the event, I received this letter about its origins from a crazy-man/former-WRMC-ringleader Pauls Toutonghi '98, and I decided to run it:We came up with the word "sepomana" in a Monday-afternoon ...
Author: Jack Lysohir For an antidote to that memorable (or unmemorable) Saturday night, fried eggs and a stack of pancakes are a must. While the made-to-order omelets at Ross Dining Hall are delectable, and a brunch at Rosie's is hard to beat - a stroll downtown to Middlebury's own Steve's Park Diner ...
Author: James Kerrigan The Middlebury Sailing Club competed in four regattas this spring while many more members logged countless hours of relaxed sailing on Lake Champlain.More traditional teams typically have captains to fill leadership roles, but the Sailing Club has deemed three "commodores" as ...
Author: Scott Greene The end of April brought a rise in theft at Middlebury College, with eight reported incidents from April 17 through April 25. The eight thefts make up one third of the total reported thefts on campus since the beginning of 2006. Seven of the eight incidents involved the disappearance ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel A beloved member of the Middlebury community was lost on April 29, when Catering Manager Charles "Chaz" Sternberg passed away in his home after a long illness. He was 60 years old. A dynamic, exuberant presence on campus, Sternberg immersed himself in everything he did, from ...
Author: Liz Campbell Following a severe spinal cord injury during a ski race in February, sophomore Kelly Brush, a member of the alpine ski team, has been undergoing extensive rehabilitation at Craig Hospital, a rehabilitation center designed specifically for people with spinal cord injuries, in Englewood, ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips Does it not seem decidedly contradictory for the College to expect the Class of 2006 to donate to the same alma mater that left such a bitter taste in its mouth after fining seniors $500 for not leaving campus quickly enough on the same day of their milestone commencement ...
Author: Justin Golenbock Everyone saw it coming. Next year, business as usual.In the latest "twist" in the Duke lacrosse team scandal, a Duke University panel convened to investigate the criminal culture among their own student-athletes and recommended that the suspended lacrosse team be allowed to ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg At a ceremony held last Wednesday in the Ross Fireplace Lounge, students, faculty and staff gathered to recognize the outstanding achievements of Middlebury College employees. With an unprecedented crowd on hand to congratulate recipients, President of the Student Government Association ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN Employers plan to hire more grads A senior? Still no job? Worry not. The National Association of Colleges and Employers released a report last week whose results reveal that employers expect to hire 14 percent more college graduates this year. These results are based on the polling ...
Author: Chris Dowd In a couple of close calls, both the men's and women's track and field teams finished third this past weekend in the NESCAC Championships, hosted by Bowdoin. Williams won both meets, and Tufts barely edged out the Panthers to take second place. Coach Martin Beatty called the weekend ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Once there was a giving tree ~ Shel SilversteinWhile off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz, Dorthoy and company are grabbed by irritable trees as the girl from Kansas attempts to take apples from their branches. Indian mythology describes the Tree of the Sun and the ...
Author: Dave Barker I sent my acceptance card to Middlebury over four years ago with the foolish notion that I would be attending an outdoors resort. After the rigor of getting into a select liberal arts school, I figured that it would be all play and no work for four years in pastoral Vermont. The ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Owen Gutfreund, a Barnard professor and author of "20th Century Sprawl," delivered a lecture last Thursday entitled "Bridges and Bypasses: A historical perspective on a century of traffic and town planning in Middlebury." During the talk, Gutfreund used the history of automotive ...
Author: Rachel Durfee The setting is perfect: a quaint village in rural New England, where cows outnumber people and citizens smile and wave as they pass each other on Main Street. Idyllic in every way, time seems not to have interrupted life in this small town, where the dirty, exhaust-choked smells ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER It's the end of the spring semester and things are getting weird.For the past two years my column has been devoted to exposing the absurdities in campus life, but recently it feels as though the absurdities are no longer attempting to conceal themselves and are starting to run ...