Author: CLAIRE NIELSON AND LISIE MEHLMAN The last time Markandbar came into town, there was a lot of antiquing and a lot of separation anxiety between Claire and Lisie. This time, there was less antiquing and more separation anxiety. When the Mehlman parental unit arrived in town, we jetted off to explore ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED & TOM McCANN, SPORTS EDITORS Women's golf takes home goldAfter recording a seventh-place finish in its first tournament of the spring season, the Middlebury women's golf team fared considerably better in its second tournament. The Panthers returned to Middlebury having captured ...
Author: Justin Golenbock To return to the roots of physical education in western society:In Ancient Sparta, young boys were required to attend six hours of physical training a day until their eighteenth birthday, in mind of the mandatory military service upon reaching that date. In the neighbor city-state ...
Author: Liz Campbell Two Middlebury students were rescued from Lake Champlain after their sailboat capsized last Tuesday evening, April 18. Chris Wearn '08 and Robbie Burton '08 were sailing out of Point Bay Marina in Charlotte, Vt. when a gust of wind capsized the boat, launching them into the frigid ...
Author: Katie Hylas This March, Associate Professor of English Timothy Billings was awarded a $181,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - one of the largest grants ever offered to a Middlebury professor. The grant is intended to foster higher level interdisciplinary competence. Billings will ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Vermont has always seemed a friendly and inviting state. Amiable neighbors smile as you pass on the street, people are constantly holding doors open and drivers halt at every crosswalk to let pedestrians and women with baby carriages safely cross. New York Staters, on the other ...
Author: Amy McCowan Completing its annual review evaluating each house's fulfillment of house missions, the Community Council Subcommittee on Social Houses recommended that all five of Middlebury's social houses continue operation in the 2006-2007 academic year. The Subcommittee, consisting of Chair ...
Author: Angelica Towne Frances Kendall, the facilitator of a March 30 workshop on "White Privilege," opened the event by asking, "Okay, firstly I want everyone tonight to talk from your heart and your gut, not your head. I know academia teaches us to try to sound smart and say what we know we're supposed ...
Author: Caitlyn Olson Fly fishing seems simple enough. Take a stick with some string attached to it and throw the fuzzy doo-dad at the end of the string in the water. Following this line of thinking, though, a person might as well reduce football to a bunch of spandexed men crashing into each other. ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen POLICE SHOOTINGMexican police shot and killed a man mistakenly identified as an illegal migrant worker Monday, infuriating local residents. Town residents rioted after the shooting, destroying two police vehicles and chanting slogans criticizing police for firing on fleeing ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed, Sports Editor Burke currently has a 6-3 record with a 2.20 ERA this season for the Middlebury softball team.The Campus: Why did you start playing softball?Brittany Burke: My sister played it when I was little. And so, I wanted to be like her. And my dad played with her, so I would ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Students may have noticed a slew of events on campus geared toward issues of humanitarian and environmental concern since the month of April began. For those who haven't, the posters, banners, sculptures and flyers represent a coordinated publicity campaign called "30 days of ...
Author: Caitlin Vincek Wandeirng into the Hepburn Zoo last weekend was like entering into a storybook. Once the show started, however, was not "Into the Woods," where it's not all princes and castles. Or it was, but with a twist.Most of the characters - Little Red (of the Riding Hood fame), Jack (who ...
Author: DREW EDELSTEIN '07 The past few weeks of Middlebury Campus articles have both brought to light and criticized the apathy epidemic that has struck Middlebury College. I want to dispel the notion that one can only change the world with a loud voice. The countless number of students working at ...
Author: JESSICA SINGLETON '08.5 and DAVID HOPKINS '06.5 On behalf of the Roosevelt Institution, we would like to congratulate the organizers of Midd8, faculty and staff participants, and those students who have joined our efforts to promote the United Nations Millennium Goals. The UN unveiled the eight ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The College's Public Safety log for the week of April 5 through April 9 reported two incidents of sexual assault in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 1. Both incidents allegedly took place in Prescott (Delta House), and are undergoing an investigation conducted ...
Author: Dina Magaril Cook Commons played host to the Special Olympics dance last Friday, April 14 in the Kirk Alumni Center. All of Cook commons as well as the rest of the Middlebury community were invited to attend the dance along with the Addison County Special Olympics team. This is the second time ...
Author: Polly johnson Arrests made in Duke lax scandalIn another twist in the Duke lacrosse scandal, two Duke University lacrosse players were arrested early Tuesday morning on charges of raping and kidnapping an exotic dancer who was hired to perform at an off-campus party in early March. The two students ...
Author: Robbie de Picciotto Rugby is played at Middlebury during both the fall and spring seasons, but the intensity differs greatly between the two. According to Alexander White '09, "The actual results of our spring games have little significance beyond pure pride. People are a bit more laid back ...
Author: Benjamin Golze Two events of note happened last week.#1: Meowsker, live at Pub NightLet's face it: for all its popularity, Thursday night Pub Night at the Grill hasn't been the best place to hear music at Middlebury. Campus mainstays like the Easy Answers, the Dark Horse Candidates and the Doughboys ...