Author: Peter Mueller On Sept. 27, Eastview at Middlebury, a new non-profit organization that facilitates retirement community living, began giving tours of its future site. As of now, there is little to see other than farmland, but the view is bound to change since the area is set to offer 101 new ...
Author: ZAMIR AHMED, TOM McCANN & RYAN REESE Cronin earns NCAA award Recent Middlebury graduate Brittany Cronin '05 was named the Vermont State NCAA Woman of the Year after four years of sensational service to the Middlebury women's soccer team. The standout had a particularly impressive final season ...
Author: Brett Cluff When Professor of Biology Sallie Sheldon came to Vermont nearly 20 years ago, she faced a serious problem. Intent on studying relationships between fish and certain aquatic plants, she was frustrated to find that a single plant species had come to dominate many bodies of water here ...
Author: James Kerrigan The women's soccer team saw eight goals and two shutouts this past week. Unfortunately, they can only call one shutout and five goals their own. A 3-0 loss to Tufts on Saturday offset the 5-0 win over Norwich on Wednesday afternoon.Middlebury traveled to Norwich on Wednesday to ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA (Smog), formerly known as Smog, is the name adopted by singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, a pioneer of the lo-fi revolution. He debuted in 1988 with a cassette-only released entitled "Macrame Gunplay" and signed with Chicago-based label Drag City in 1991 after the release of the ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Whether you were sipping your piña colada in Cancún reliving spring break, in New York City on your way to your hedge fund internship or sitting in a dorm room talking to yourself in Chinese last July, you can bet someone here in Middlebury had you on their mind. That is because ...
Author: [no author name found] A joint challenge issued to students, administrationOn a sunny afternoon during finals week last May, Middlebury College students crowded into McCullough Social Space to hear College President Ronald D. Liebowitz address the mounting unrest on campus in response to the ...
Author: May Chan This Friday and Saturday, the Middlebury Dance program will bring a treat to kick off your weekend. "The Birdhouse Project", a performance directed by Andrea Olsen, Middlebury College professor of Dance, celebrates the 40th anniversary of Middlebury College's Environmental Studies Program ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Peter Plagens - painter, educator and novelist - is a visting professor of Contemporary Art and Criticism for the semester and was a Newsweek senior writer for fine arts for over 15 years. The Middlebury Campus: You have your hand in many aspects of the art world. What do you ...
Author: Ryan W. Reese The women's field hockey team took its show on the road this past weekend and wound up playing a matinee in Boston to a less-than-welcoming crowd. Their counterparts from Tufts were stiff and unprepared for the hardcore and unyielding style the Panthers typically bring. Being ...
Author: Sarah Luehrman After a successful and eventful NESCAC volleyball weekend hosted in the Pepin Gymnasium here at Middlebury, the Panthers hold a record of 4-3 overall and 2-1 within NESCAC thus far. "We got a good look at our competition this weekend," commented captain Lacee Patterson '07, "and ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH Imagine waking up one morning to find your current lover's bags packed and ready for departure, while simultaneously opening a mysterious letter enclosed in a pink envelope revealing not only that 19 years earlier you and an anonymous woman had a son, but also that this young ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I second Jake Kuipers' opinion printed in last week's paper [Notes from the Desk, Sept. 15, 2005].It is absurd that students living outside the New England area are provided with absolutely no support from Middlebury at the beginning and end of each semester. ...
Author: MIKE IVES 06.5' Please allow me a brief, but far from immaterial, history lesson: In 1883, workers at the Vermont Copper Mining Company in Rutland took up arms demanding payment of wages owed them by their employer. In response, then-governor Barstow called on the local regiment of the Vermont ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed After a disappointing loss in the NCAA Championship game to end last season, the Middlebury men's tennis team wasted no time in getting back on track. The Panthers kicked off their fall campaign in style with a great showing in front of a home crowd at last weekend's Middlebury Invitational. ...
Author: Sean Breen This past week, I had the pleasure of spending a long evening in Ferrisburg, Vt., just off Route 7 at a small cottage of a restaurant - the Starry Night Café. At Starry Night, everything smells good. The eclectic, dimly-lit décor is a refreshing change for any Middlebury student, ...
Author: Justin Golenbock True greatness is defined in those agonizingly few crystallized moments when man reaches his pinnacle and performs a truly miraculous feat. Sports have long been considered a medium for greatness in civilizations scattered through history, a fact recognized in 1896 when the ...
Author: JOYCE MAN New York is seeing a lot of action these days. Fashion Week just blazed through Bryant Park. World leaders have descended upon the United Nations Building for the 60th General Assembly Summit. And in the Upper East Side's Museum Mile, another monumental exhibit of 275 pieces spanning ...
Author: Jon Brand The conditions for the first meet of the season were far from ideal, but that did not hamper the fine performance turned in by the Middlebury men's and women's cross country teams. Both squads raced to first place finishes on a drizzly, overcast Saturday in the Xth Middlebury Invitational. ...
Author: ANNIE ONISHI College hosts climate crisis symposiumThe 2005 Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium Review, titled, "Renewal: Perspectives and Possibilities in an Age of Climate Crisis," is being held at Middlebury College this weekend. This year's symposium marks the 40th anniversary of the College's ...