Author: Stephanie Pritchard Middlebury Crew traveled to the Stonehurst Capital Invitational Regatta in Rochester, NY this weekend. The competitive field of 45 teams included both Division I and III teams, most notably Harvard, Brown, Williams, Syracuse and Dartmouth. The regatta is famous for its unique ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury's Student Government Association (SGA) wrapped up two days of elections last Friday, with Sean Denny and Garrett Saito clinching the two first-year Senate seats, and Nick Monier and Max Nardini claiming the sophomore seats. In the only other contested race, Alpheus ...
Author: Dan Berkman Conditions were less than ideal last Saturday as the men and women's cross country teams traveled down to Boston's Franklin Park for the All-Divisions Open New England Race. After heavy rains, the normally fast course was quite slick and muddy for the more than 300 runners who ran ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT What do you imagine when you think about Scandinavia? First, you think pure, rosy-cheeked, dirndl-clad milkmaids prancing down cobblestone paths in happy little clogs. Second, you think IKEA. Those are two very different images of Scandinavia, yet how diverse are they really? ...
Author: Jason Siegel UConn group aims for equality Last Saturday, Connecticut became the fourth state to recognize civil unions. However, one UConn group has pledged to keep fighting until full marriage equality is achieved. Queers United Against Discrimination (QUAD) has worked over the past year ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL By the time he was 22 years old, Don Mitchell had already become a successful Hollywood screenwriter. Shortly after graduating from Swarthmore College, he owned two apartments in San Francisco and had two Porsches to shuttle himself back and forth between them. Mitchell is one ...
Author: Justin Golenbock Three years ago, while voting in Barney Frank for another 20 years, I innocently checked "yes" on question four, effectively banning the abusive sport of greyhound racing in the state of the Massachusetts. This conscientiousness, I determined, would reverberate throughout my ...
Author: Ellen Grafton On Saturday morning, President Ronald D. Liebowitz led the dedication of the new library mural by artist Matt Mullican. The 25- by-75-foot mural, entitled "L'Art d'Ecrire" (The Art of Writing), hangs in the foyer of the library directly across from the upper mezzanine, and has ...
Author: Joyce Man The works of master painters Degas, Monet, Rodin and Pissaro are housed in the most illustrious museums and highbrow collections in the world. Some of them rest among other famous canvases in the exclusive collections of the Musee d'Orsay, others repose in the grand halls of New York's ...
Author: May Chan Amy Chavasse is a dance artist-in-residence who teaches dance regularly at Middlebury. She founded Chavasse Dance and Performance Company in 1995 and her work has been produced throughout the United States and Europe.The Middlebury Campus: You have studied dance extensively, taught ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In a remarkable gesture of philanthropy and generosity, an anonymous donor made history a year and a half ago after donating a record $50 million to Middlebury College - the largest gift in the College's history and the single largest donation ever granted to a New England liberal ...
Author: [no author name found] Pushing the most recent Middlebury graduates off campus mere hours after their commencement ceremony is an inauspicious way for young alumni to begin a relationship with their alma mater. The time limit is logistically problematic for graduates traveling cross-country, ...
Author: Geoff Homer Completely dominating the competition, the men's water polo team picked up where they left off last season: crushing their opponents. This past weekend, the squad traveled to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where they took on opponents Boston College (B.C.), Dartmouth, Bates and ...
Author: Joshua Carson Walking with an open container of beer, a Middlebury College student was stopped on campus by a Middlebury Police Department (MPD) officer last fall. The officer drove up and asked, "What's in your hand?" to which the underage student, who wishes to remain anonymous, answered the ...
Author: [no author name found] Importance of rising grades inflatedInflated grade point averages at Middlebury College warrant investigation, but they should not be a cause for alarm.It must be noted that grades are not the only numbers going up at Middlebury - so are the standardized test scores and ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell "Poets are the most ruined people you'll ever meet," said Greg Delanty in his thick, burly Irish accent. It was Thursday night and I was sitting in on the first of the Ross Commons Poetry Series. The night's featured poet was Greg Delanty, a native of Cork, Ireland, who has ...
Author: Justin Golenbock It's Monday morning, Boston's just won the wild card, and it's all Sox talk, all the time. What are our chances, I ask? What do we need to do to repeat? "Johnny Damon needs to cut his hair," Jackie Laryea, '07, demands while breaking from her essay on Torture: the body in ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury's Student Government Association (SGA) opened voting for Student Senate at noon yesterday after struggling to recruit candidates from the classes of 2006 and 2007. With no competitive junior or senior races, the more crowded field of first-years and sophomores has ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Catwalk or gallery? That's what countless fashion and art critics have been asking themselves with increasing puzzlement over the last few years. Haute couture designers have always shocked with preposterous color, outrageous amounts of tulle and twinkle and, of course, ...
Author: Amanda Goodwin LONDON - I am finally on terra firma in London. This is a comforting statement because my abroad experience had a rather inauspicious start when my flight out of JFK was delayed for three hours due to the original aircraft's being struck by lightning. The arrival at Heathrow was ...