Author: Joyce Man Dick Forman, who began his long, intimate journey with music at a young age by playing classical piano, is a dedicated member of four-man Dick Forman Jazz Group and regularly teaches jazz at Middlebury College and around Vermont. Now, as he embarks on the revival of a project called ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Using a newly-available online database, college seniors worldwide can now post their senior theses for viewing by professors and their fellow students alike. The Web site, UGResearch.org, was developed last year by two Dartmouth graduates.According to a statement on the site, ...
Author: [no author name found] If social houses are required by College policy to make pledge a sober process, it follows that athletic teams should be held to the same, if not even stricter, standards for their recruits. Coach Peter Solomon's desire to respond quickly and severely when he became aware ...
Author: Caroline Vial No sex before suffrage "Are you faithful?" inquired the European radio station RTL 102.5 to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who responded, "I have often been faithful." Flighty or not, this answer was followed by Berlusconi's promise to observe a "total sexual abstinence" ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Over the years Carlo Rossi - the world's most beloved jug of wine - has convinced me to pull some outstandingly humiliating stunts. He's whispered sweet-nothings into my ear and massaged away my inhibitions until I've been midair between my trampoline and hot tub, moments away ...
Author: [no author name found] That a rift between the Student Co-Chair of the Community Council (SCCOCC) JS Woodward '06 and Student Government Association (SGA) President Eli Berman '07.5 exists is an unfortunate state of affairs that all lengths should be taken to remedy. That the tensions between ...
Author: Michael McCormick The women's squash team started 2006 with two impressive wins at the Amherst Invitational on Jan. 14 in their first matches since early December. Ranked 16th in the nation at the time, the Panthers were the underdogs as they took on 11th-ranked Amherst. The team fought its ...
Author: Haley Gilbert The results of a survey conducted this past fall by the Sunday Night Group, the environmental group on campus responsible for the Two Degrees Campaign, demonstrated that 72 percent of students surveyed support lowering the thermostat set point from 70 to 68 degrees throughout the ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed On Jan. 20, the Middlebury indoor track team traveled north to Burlington to take on the Division I University of Vermont in the team's third meet of the year. Several Panthers continued their strong start to the season, putting up impressive marks as a pair of regional championship ...
Author: Caroline Vial World Social Forum in MaliBamako, Mali - From Jan. 19-23, Africa hosted the World Social Forum for the first time since its inception in 2001. The presence of nearly 30,000 delegates representing 260 NGOs and organizations from all five continents marked a "turning point" in history ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In the second of two meetings scheduled for this month, Middlebury College administrators, faculty, staff and students joined community members in discussing the issue of alcohol on and off campus. The forum, designed to discuss the social life on campus in the context of College ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER Over the years Carlo Rossi - the world's most beloved jug of wine - has convinced me to pull some outstandingly humiliating stunts. He's whispered sweet-nothings into my ear and massaged away my inhibitions until I've been midair between my trampoline and hot tub, moments away ...
Author: CAROLINE S. STAUFFER AND JEANINE BUZALI Student injured in on-campus auto accidentElizabeth DiCioccio '06 sustained injuries in the torso area after the rear tire of a box truck ran over her on the Atwater B West Sidewalk on Wednesday, Jan. 18, according to an incident report compiled by Public ...
Author: Jessica Clayton On weekend mornings, as many people stumble out of bed, frantically reaching for ibuprofen and a bottle of water, one group of students is already on its way home. Almost every Saturday the Middlebury College Habitat for Humanity volunteers can be found hiking out to the project's ...
Author: Rural Banter Certain stereotypes add flavor to the landscape of country living. Rural life is not always depicted with the same nostalgia that is sometimes used to try and resurrect a romantic way of life associated with small town living. Certain stereotypes taint the picturesque scenes of ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel Since the beginning of the academic year, fewer and fewer students have set up their voicemail accounts and are increasingly depending on their cellular phones, a trend that is worrying many College departments who depend on voicemail to communicate important messages.According ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:The Middlebury Campus' recent color spread highlighting the Middlebury men's hockey team brought to light a disturbing trend that I've noticed over the course of the past two years: the exploits of the men's team are well documented, and the two-time defending ...
Author: Liz Campbell With the release of the Strategic Planning Report on Jan. 4, Middlebury College is entering a significant new phase of development. Over the course of J-Term, the Planning Steering Committee has opened discussion to students, faculty, staff and town members to encourage greater ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Emily Elizabeth, the gender-bending lead singer of Kiss Me Deadly, had the audience chanting "We are all alone" at the end of their show last Friday night. However, no one was alone in the sweltering Coltrane Lounge where music lovers and intoxicated undergraduates, looking ...
Author: Tristan Hayes On Sunday, Jan. 15, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz met with the Student Government Association (SGA) to review with his December meeting with the Board of Trustees, and to answer questions and address concerns members of the SGA presented. At a meeting the following ...