Author: Richard Lawless There comes a time in every lo-fi indie rocker's career when they decide it's time to get rid of the tape hiss and actually record an album with normal production standards. Lo-fi originators Pavement gradually cleaned up their sound over the course of their career, eventually ...
Author: Dave Barker MADRID - There exist slices of America here in Madrid. Homesick students can catch an English movie, watch college basketball at an Irish pub or visit Taste of America, where maple syrup and brownie mix fill in the gaps of the simple and meat-filled Spanish diet. I try to avoid these ...
Author: Ben Gore '05 I am continually amazed at what jerks the people who run this school are. If it's not bad enough that they're working to destroy the campus community with an ineffective lockdown and the universally disliked commons system, now they continue their habit of inviting strikingly inappropriate ...
Author: Tom McCann It took 76 minutes of hockey, but the Panthers outlasted Manhattanville College to book their place in the NCAA semifinals this coming weekend. Middlebury earned the right to host the NCAA Quarter Final by thumping Bowdoin College in the NESCAC Championship game last week and as face-off ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:This letter is in response to last week's article, "Midd-kids, you have it sooo good." We all have the right to lobby for those issues we find important - global, national, local or personal. Furthermore, we should be grateful, not critical of those individuals ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team began their season on Saturday in a match against Brandeis. They decidedly defeated the Owls 9-0 giving the Panthers confidence as they prepare for their spring trip to California.The Panthers solidly won all nine matches without dropping ...
Author: Caitlin Taylor Imagine your name is Jorge. You come from the highlands of Guatemala where, although the civil war has ended, violence is still occurring. Your home, along with many others, was burned when the military suspected that there were Communists living in your village. You left for ...
Author: Nick Fager Last Friday, Middlebury's McCullough Student Center hosted three prestigious comedians in a sparsely attended but successful night of laughs. The African American Alliance (AAA) Comedy Jam's three visiting comedians, who go by the names of Spank, Mike Bonner and Shang, touched on ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen Green Don't get me wrong; there are a lot of Febs that I love dearly. However, I think one of the things Middlebury College seriously overlooked when designing the Feb program is their placement in upperclassmen housing. Febs are first-year students, and as first-years, especially ...
Author: Sam Wilson One of the things that really bugs me about the Bush Administration is how often its rhetoric has nothing to do with reality.We heard about Iraqi ties to al- Qaeda, and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, both of which ended up being bogus. Then we heard about a Social Security crisis ...
Author: Erica Goodman As if the midterm overload were not enough - I have yet another test for you. (Have no fear. This score will not affect your GPA.)Question 1: How do you know if you are a true New Englander? Answer: You spend $50 on a motion detector security light for outside your house and ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Imagine you're a 17-year-old girl and you spend your days on a rose plantation dethorning flowers. Imagine this job pays almost nothing, and the conditions are terrible. You are surrounded by harsh chemicals, fed almost nothing and barely allowed to use the bathroom. This is ...
Author: RYAN REESE Panthers grab more accolades As the men's and women's hockey teams stormed through their respective NESCAC tournaments this past weekend, they also managed to pick up quite a few honors and awards. The women's team placed five players on the All-NESCAC First and Second Teams. Senior ...
Author: Ethan Lake The Office of Campus Sustainability has sent campus wide e-mails announcing this spring's environmental competition. The challenge has been issued to Middlebury students - how can they improve campus sustainability using a frugal budget? Before this question is answered (the revealing ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Wonnacott, the commons of Dean Matt Longman and the giant squirrel, splits the dorms on the south side of College St. with Brainerd Commons. Wonnacott's dorms include: Battell (first-center and south), Gifford, 108 South Main St (the Chinese House), 20 Adirondack View (the Japanese ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN West Barnett, Vt. Population 1,670. The town's Lake Harvey is known as the place where Jacques Cousteau acquired a taste for underwater diving while vacationing there as a child. West Barnett's second claim to fame? Its basketball protégé, Taylor Coppenrath. It's not the size ...
Author: Isabel Yordan It's very nearly here. My mental countdown has already started and I hope yours has too. All I can think about lately is spring break. Maybe that's because there is a pool in Palm Springs that is calling my name, but more likely it's because I would rather not think about the ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The enhancement of academic excellence has been one of the foremost topics of discussion at Middlebury College since before President Ronald D. Liebowitz took office. A position paper created during the Presidential search cited that one of the goals of the College was to ...
Author: Nick Fager We all know that dating on college campuses is nearly extinct. Think about how many times in the last year you have seen a couple out to dinner or a movie, or even heard of a couple going out to dinner or a movie for that matter? The number is surely incomparable to the staggering ...
Author: Ricky Klein '07 Four years ago, Middlebury College maintained a policy that buildings would be unlocked around the clock - a policy which was the envy of many other schools and a selling point to hundreds of students. One could argue that locking the doors between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 ...