Author: ERICA GOODMAN If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are. - Wendall Berry The sun has (briefly) emerged after weeks of hiding dormant behind layers of rain and clouds. A few maples and oak have maintained their colorful leaves but unfortunately, the peak of fall foliage has ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL "They ate hot cereal made out of whole wheat that was literally whole and slightly boiled ... Ivan's crew once had to wash their excrement in salt water and sift it with a sieve. What remained was cooked again." -From April Fool's Day, by Josip Novakovich ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese Seven consecutive wins. The streak just became more impressive. The Middlebury women's field hockey team dominated Rensselaer in a 4-1 win during its last regular season contest before diving head-first into the postseason with a 3-0 shutout win over Bates. There was never any ...
Author: Julie Ellenberger, Jason F. Siegel & Daniel L. J. Phillips Students targeted in recording suit Last week, yet another set of lawsuits was brought against 745 college students by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the illegal downloading of music on peer to peer networks. ...
Author: Liz Campbell In June 2005, the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees elected to partner with Investure, LLC, an asset-management company specializing in small colleges and nonprofit organizations, in order to more effectively manage Middlebury College's endowment and assets. The new ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE "Accept the insanity...convince the others it's a dance party...embrace the distortion...try to 'control' the 'confusion'...make sure ghosts doesn't sound like goats."So read the liner notes to "Broken Social Scene," the long-awaited third album from the Canadian band of the same ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg President Emeritus John M. McCardell, Jr., has been commissioned by the Robertson Foundation in New York to produce a thorough analysis of the effect of the 21-year-old drinking age on underage alcohol consumption. The research is tied intimately to McCardell's own convictions, ...
Author: GABE BROUGHTON Graphic artist Mike Mills' directorial debut is your classic late-summer coming of age story - sad, troubled teenage boy tossed around in a town of adults too confused by their own lives to help him sort out his own. Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) is seventeen and still sucks his thumb, ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED AND GEOFF HOMER Secor, Weymouth snag POTW Middlebury's Scott Secor '07 earned the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Week award handed out on Sunday for his performance in the Panthers' first win of the year on Oct. 22. Not to be overlooked, Channing Weymouth '06 was also recognized ...
Author: Stephanie Pritchard The Head of the Charles River (HOCR) is the most prestigious regatta of the fall racing season. Teams from all over the world come to Boston for two days of racing. This year the 41st HOCR saw over 1,000 crews ranging from youth (age 19 or younger) to grand veterans (age ...
Author: [no author name found] The story of a student being cited for underage drinking on private property struck me as patently unfair. Why couldn't he have been given a warning? If drunk, why not a ride back to his dorm? It seems that today's police are taught not to give anyone a break; a lawbreaker ...
Following a unanimous vote on Sept. 30 by the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Board of Trustees in favor of affiliation with Middlebury College, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of the affiliation during its October meeting on campus. "In approving ...
Author: Ian Thomas Fleishman Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard was presented to the Middlebury Community with such high acclaim that the blatantly wrong notes towards the opening of his performance came as a particular shock. Nonetheless, his playing of the Mozart sonata was creative and insightful, sentimental ...
Author: Betsy Currier Beacom '82 National trends not cause for department dismissalI am afraid that Middlebury College is losing its way. It is certainly beginningto look like a place I don't recognize.I refer to the proposed dismantling of the American Literature curriculum andthe way in which this ...
Author: Laura Barrett Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, gave a lecture entitled "The Assault on Journalism" on Monday, Oct.17 in Twilight Auditorium. Abramson spoke about the consequences of legally requiring journalists to break confidentiality agreements with anonymous sources. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt On Oct. 18, the Yuval Ron Ensemble, led by world-music composer and oud-extraordinaire Yuval Ron, saturated Mead Chapel with a harmonious mélange of Middle-Eastern melodies. The group, with a mixture of music and musicians from many different and often dissonant Middle-Eastern ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" begins a new chapter in the Stereolab novel, one that relies less on the Krautrock-ian chug-and-drone of earlier material in favor of more varied forms of expression. The cocktail-kitsch vibe of the late '60s is more prevalent than ever. And although ...
Author: Dan Berkman On Oct. 15, the men and women's cross country teams traveled to Albany, N.Y. for their final tune-up before their big NESCACs race this next weekend. This past weekend, the teams had a week off from racing which conveniently coincidenced with fall break. At Albany, both teams ran ...
Author: Eri Nosaka On Oct. 15, the Middlebury College men's rugby team battled Babson College to a 36-0 win. With efficient rucking, mauling and support play, the team proved that it was capable of impressive things despite a sub-par performance against St. Michael's the week before. With an ending ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL Last Tuesday, rainy and abysmal as it was, a crowd gathered in the seats of BiHall 216 to hear writer Tom Piazza read from his new book "Why New Orleans Matters." Born in Long Island, NY, Piazza is a graduate of both Williams College and the Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Currently ...