Author: Katie Flagg As Middlebury College's May 22 Commencement draws ever closer, most graduating seniors turn their eyes beyond the College campus as they prepare to enter the workforce or graduate studies. But two Middlebury students, having snagged coveted one-year grants for a year of independent ...
Author: Jodie Zhang and Lauren Smith The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been playing violin?Megan Guiliano: About 17 years. I started playing violin when I was three through the Suzuki program organized in my hometown.The Campus: Tell us about your participation in the orchestra. How many hours ...
Author: Jason Lockhart What happens when you mix a bit of mid-season struggles with the best coaching in the country and great team leadership? The seventh National Championship in eleven years. The men's hockey team successfully defended their national title at home, steamrolling past unlikely finalist ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca On Monday afternoon, Robert D. Putnam, author of the renowned book "Bowling Alone" and the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, addressed an overflowing crowd in Dana Auditorium with his talk "Community Engagement in a Changing America." So ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER (Quick disclaimer: the following column is intended for the enjoyment of the 80 or so Middlebury College students who don't sing in an a cappella group. I feel obligated to say this because a cappella is a dangerously popular extracurricular activity and the following could turn ...
Author: James Edward Kerrigan Ten games against five different colleges in eight days tested the depth of Panther Baseball. They split all three of their two-game series with Gettysburg, Macalaster and Albright; beat Babson College and took two of three from NESCAC rival Williams. Six wins and four ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson Don't miss next week's reading by Jay Parini, D.E. Axonn professor of English and Creative Writing and renowned author, because it just may be your only chance during your time here at Middlebury. Parini, who will read on April 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the basement of the new library, ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury men's lacrosse team knows that if they are to make a run at the National Championship again this year, they will need to once again turn Kohn Field into a fortress. Beating the Panthers at home has never been easy, and on current form nothing appears to have changed. ...
Author: Andrew Carnabuci '06 I am greatly alarmed by the general mood of seething indignation around campus regarding the announcement that Rudy Giuliani will be coming to speak for graduation, as demonstrated by an article in last week's campus and talk of an "alternate" graduation speaker, and would ...
Author: Lauren Smith The Center for the Arts (CFA) concert hall was filled on Thursday, March 17, with the sounds of the Middlebury College Orchestra under conductor Troy Peters. The performance was entitled a "Student Showcase" and featured the world premiere of compositions by Andrew Lindblad '05, ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg ’05 Thus far this year, America has witnessed two massively controversial incidences in which academic leaders uttered shocking and controversial remarks. The first scandal concerns Harvard University president Larry Summers - unarguably one of the world's greatest economic ...
Author: RICHARD LAWLESS Like any music nerd, I love record shopping in New York. What I don't like are annoying trendy poseur music store clerks in Brooklyn who don't know anything about music. Recently I found myself in a fashionable Brooklyn corner record store, akin to Burlington's Pure Pop Records ...
Author: David Murphy Haglund '06 Today I visited the new Atwater dormitories for the first time. These buildings were just being wrapped up when I left to study abroad last spring, and the hype surrounding them was at its height. Many of my classmates were scrambling to get into Atwater Commons - some ...
Author: Ben Gore '05 I would like clarify a few things about my submission in the last issue of The Middlebury Campus:[1] Neither the title nor the photo of Hitler were my idea. Even the snarky Wall Street Journal blog, OpinionJournal.com, noted: "Accompanying the article is a thumbnail photo of Hitler, ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca In the next few weeks, President Ronald D. Liebowitz will visit four more sites to conclude his eight-city presidential tour. Liebowitz has already visited Denver, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and plans to visit Westchester County, Boston, Washington D.C. and New ...
Author: Katie Flagg With the much-anticipated April room draw rapidly approaching, students planning to live on campus next year are busy scrutinizing floor plans, knocking on strangers' doors and debating living arrangements among friends. An already stressful process, however, could potentially become ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Parents of Middlebury students will begin receiving letters from President Ronald D. Liebowitz today announcing a 2005-2006 comprehensive fee of $42,120 - a 4.25 percent increase from the current fee. An e-mail from the President's office will be sent to students in the next several ...
Author: Sarah Polling Luehrman Last weekend, Middlebury Swimming and Diving sent a small, elite team of women to the NCAA Division III Championships, where they placed ninth out of 53 teams attending for the second year in a row. The Panthers' strong performance at NCAA's was the culminating event in ...
Author: JEFF PATTERSON Notre Dame and Indiana were locked out of the NCAA tournament when the seeds were unveiled Sunday evening. As a result, Indiana, whose state bird is Larry and whose state motto is "Play Basketball or Die," will have to host four first-round games without a hometown team in the ...
Author: SHEILA SELES There is a sport on television that combines men in cowboy hats, arenas of screaming fans, the possibility for serious injury and the best athletes I've ever seen. Those athletes have names like Little Yellow Jacket, Crossfire Hurricane and Red Wolf. The sport is bull riding. The ...