Author: Emily Thompson Almost every week, someone, somewhere on the Middlebury campus screens a movie. The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) shows recent hits like "Brokeback Mountain" or "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" on Fridays. The French Department screens films like "La Haine" to expose students ...
Author: Justin Golenbock What's the deal with baseball fans in this country not buying into the World Baseball Classic?Okay, yes: it's a blatant MLB pitch designed to promote their product to an international audience. Is that a bad thing? Yes. Many of the top MLB stars from the two favorites (the American ...
Author: Zooey Burrows Whether you are a staunch environmentalist, a politically-minded Democrat, or are simply tired of seeing Bush and his party's majority in Congress make poor decisions on so many environmental issues, you should get involved this summer and help break the "conservative monopoly."May ...
Author: Benjamin Golze "WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!"If some caveman had been frozen for the past 10,000 years and woke up today, and I ran into him as he stumbled out of the Green Mountains, that is what I might say to him. A caveman deserves as much warm-hearted hospitality as anyone else. Then again, I ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner '08.5 What does it take to learn a lesson in life? When you were in high school, and you got caught drinking by your parents, it took a long grounding to realize it is a real pain to get caught - better be stealthier next time. But what if the cops nabbed you instead? A lesson ...
Author: Gretchen Schrafft Literary editor and political activist Anthony Arnove will visit Middlebury next Wednesday to discuss his book, "Voices of A People's History of the United States." Arnove co-edited Voices with Howard Zinn, the celebrated historian and political scientist whose "A People's ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner When Panda House mysteriously shut its doors last fall, it was not long before a new sign appeared, with a new name and new management. May Garden, nestled in the Marble Works shopping center in the same building as its predecessor, Panda House, offers not only better Chinese ...
Author: Amy McCowan For its third annual "Spring Job Fling," strategically located in the Ross Lounge during Monday's 5-6:30 dinner rush, Middlebury's Career Services Office (CSO) regaled job-hungry seniors with entry-level positions in the business, government, law, arts, sociology, psychology, language, ...
Author: Tom McCann, Sports Editor The Campus: So, have you been playing tennis since you were a fetus?Nate Edmunds: Well, I played a lot of other sports as well. I played soccer, and mostly baseball. I kinda started playing tennis because my brothers started playing so I'd just tag along with them. ...
Author: Christine Fisher This past Monday night, the town of Middlebury faithfully continued a centuries-old tradition by holding its annual Town Meeting in the Municipal Auditorium, located across the street from the Blue Hen. According to Vermont law, "a meeting of legal voters of each town shall ...
Author: Jake Cohen In keeping with the Middlebury College tradition of presenting a gift in honor of four years well spent at the College, the Class of 2006 offers an environmentally conscious gift to the College this year. The class will donate a new MiddRides van fueled by bio-diesel, and the gift ...
Author: Scott Greene The controversial issue of cigarette smoking came before the Community Council on Monday, Feb. 27, as Council members debated possible restrictions on smoking near the doorways of campus buildings.Reference and Instruction Librarian Brenda Ellis, the Staff Council's member at-large, ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND LISIE MEHLMAN Jordan receives grant for project bridging science and religionAugustus Jordan, director of the Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life at Middlebury College, recently received a three-year matching grant to facilitate discussions on science and ...
Author: Lynne Zummo '06 Two years ago, I cursed my wet jeans. The rolled up cuffs were soaked, dripping with water, cutting into my calves and filling me with a hate for life so strong that focusing on physics Professor Rich Wolfson's mad chalkboard scribblings was hardly an option. It was December ...
Author: Steve Beslow It is likely that, at some point in the future, Middlebury will no longer be the driving force in NESCAC hockey. Then again, maybe not. After going undefeated in the conference this season, the men's hockey team achieved its first goal of the post-season, cruising through the NESCAC ...
Author: Dave Barker I have one question after last week's symposium on Tibet. Could the sixth floor of John McCardell Bicentennial Hall be transformed into a Tibetan monastery? High above the daily scurrying of students with white coat ambitions, the floor would offer a good base for a few monks who ...
Author: Peter Viola '06 As renowned television broadcaster and defender of democratic values Bill Moyers has noted, one significant trait of the current political culture is that "the delusional is no longer marginal." Rabid ideology, feeding upon so-called "truthiness" and distortion of the facts, ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Student Government Association (SGA) convened Sunday in the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room to resolve current proposals that have not yet been finalized and to set forth final goals for the remainder of the spring semester. At the top of the list was the E-mail List Control ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED, SPORTS EDITOR Panthers honored by NESCACLast week, the NESCAC named the All-Conference teams for winter sports and, not surprisingly, a number of Panthers were selected for their impressive performances during the season.The Middebury women's hockey team collected the most accolades, ...
Author: Geoffrey B. Shields, President of Vermont Law School Today the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Rumsfeld v. Fair, upholding the right of the U.S. government to cut off funds from educational institutions that require all those who recruit on their campuses to assure equal treatment ...