Author: Andrea LaRocca The well-attended 100 Days Party at the Grille and dance in McCullough Social Space was brought to a sudden close on Saturday night, Feb. 19, when an audio speaker fire forced party-goers to evacuate the building at 1:30 a.m. early Sunday morning. Both Middlebury College Public ...
Author: Ben Salkowe A committee of students from the Student Government Association (SGA) and Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) has decided to extend the College's agreement with Napster, the streaming music service for students being funded through the student activities fee (SAF). "Based ...
Author: Sarah Polling-Leuhrman The Middlebury women's swimming and diving team ended their season with a remarkable performance this past weekend at the first NESCAC Championship swim meet ever to be held in the Middlebury Natatorium. Though they placed third with 1,337 points behind Williams, NESCAC ...
Author: Lauren Smith and Jodie Zhang The Middlebury Campus: How long have you been singing? Jason Grout: I've been singing since I was really little - throughout childhood and high school. I took voice lessons in high school. Joel Wolfram: I never really sang formally until senior year of high school ...
Author: Katie Flag Environmental Council sponsors "mini grants" The Environmental Council recently issued a new challenge to Middlebury College faculty and students, daring members of the College community to design creative ways to advance campus sustainability - with $100 in hand. The challenge is ...
Author: Taylor Johnston President Ronald D. Liebowitz has launched an investigation into the feasibility of a Feb graduation after announcing his interest in turning the Feb celebration into a graduation at the last Board of Trustees meeting. Heading the investigation process, Secretary of the College ...
Author: Virginia Lawton Harper "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."It is with these confusingly contradictory words that Jeffrey Eugenides ...
Author: JEFF PATTERSON Although the 54th NBA All-Star game was played in Denver's Pepsi Center, the Slam Dunk contest, arguably one of the most exciting events during the Weekend, was sponsored by Sprite, a division of Coca-Cola. During every commercial break the same ad would run, where Thirst, a cartoon ...
Author: Ana Christina Furney As the spring months approach, some sports teams on campus enter the final stages their season, while others are just beginning. For Middlebury's track team, the indoor season is coming to a climax. Competition began in early January for the runners, after competing in the ...
Author: Addason McCaslin The month of February is perhaps the coldest time of the year, but it is warmed by a celebration of acceptance and equality. February has historically been a month of great advancements in the Civil Rights movements. The 15th amendment of the U. S. Constitution was passed on ...
Author: Angela Towne Without effort and planning, Black History Month may be nothing more than plain-old February with a couple of Martin Luther King Jr. pictures. The month may come only with faint whispers of popular names like Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson. This year, however, in an effort ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell On Saturday, Feb. 19, violinist Gerald Elias performed along with pianist and Assistant in Music Cynthia Huard, in a program entitled "Music of the 21st Century" for a small crowd in the Center for the Arts (CFA). Throughout the night, the musicians performed works by Elias, ...
Author: Tom McCann After a tough loss to Bowdoin two weeks ago, it was important for the women's hockey team to bounce back with a two-game road trip to Williams. The women were not there to face the Ephs but instead took the ice against Utica College on February 19th, before a showdown against Elmira ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER We all know that countless students show up to college ready to reinvent themselves. Whether or not this is done consciously, these aspiring socialites all attempt to manufacture a vaguely similar persona for themselves. They want to be "chill."In college, there is no greater ...
Author: STEPHANIE DOSCH Ah, the Academy Awards - an event where beautiful dresses, bad speeches and Hollywood politics come together for one unforgettable night. I will never forget Björk's stint as an egg-laying swan, Whoopie Goldberg's crass jokes about the color of her wind or the year "Titanic" ...
Author: JACOB RISINGER OXFORD - Oxford is known across the world as being a relatively decent place to get an education. What is recognized less often is Oxford's equally impressive - if a bit complex - network of late-night, inebriated snacking facilities. Every night, as the sun slips behind the grey ...
Author: [no author name found] Those at the College who lament the loss of Proctor on the weekends make valid points. The closure of the well-loved dining hall does mean that a significant portion of the student body will have to re-locate on Saturdays and Sundays. There will be the suspension of the ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher A surge of student opposition to the College's decision to close Proctor Dining Hall on weekends shook the campus this past week and sparked the creation of a Student Government Association (SGA) proposal requesting the retraction of the controversial dining schedule modification. ...
Author: Claire M. L. Bourne 04' In recent years, Middlebury has made great strides towards fostering a social climate hospitable to diversity. However, by allowing the U.S. Marine Corps - armed with its disgraceful discrimination policy - to recruit on campus, the College is taking a giant leap backwards. ...
Author: SHEILA SELES Last Sunday night homosexuality held the spotlight on television. Apparently, sex does sell, and same-sex sex sells even better. The most hyped coming out occurred on the smartest show on television -"The Simpsons." The episode unfolds in typical "Simpsons" fashion. The writers ...