Author: Kelsey Rinehart "What would you find if you took the rutted dirt road up the mountain?" asks Lynne Howard in an essay entitled "SPiNning." For her part, when she took a left-hand turn on Route 125 East at a small black and white sign, Howard discovered Spirit in Nature (SPiN) at the end of ...
Author: Ryan Reese This Saturday, the Middlebury women's cross country team added to their already impressive collection of championships, titles and overall domination of the opposition. On a day that was almost as beautiful as the outcome of the race, the women's squad won the 2003 NESCAC Women's ...
Author: Abbie Beane "Man it's a lot of pain, it's a lot of pain," persisted the first track and what should have been the title track of the film "High Life," as stout-hearted kayakers crashed into the rushing falls of the wild West and skiers hurled themselves over formidable mountain precipices, ...
Author: Greg Duggan If you thought that Vermont's economy subsisted solely on dairy products and maple syrup, think again. Creativity consists of a large chunk of the state's economy, as a forum hosted by the Vermont Culture on Culture and Innovation (VCCI) last Thursday proved. Held at the Vergennes ...
Author: Lanford Beard For the last three years I've been a snowflake snatched from the wintry sky. This year I want to be a Lesbian Avenger, donning a rainbow cape with pride and fabulousness. Halloween costumes speak volumes about a person.The moral majority, crazed though they be, have deemed Halloween ...
Author: Devin Zatorski Vermont is one of six states without a governor's mansion, but that's fine by Gov. Jim Douglas '72. He's been commuting from Middlebury to Montpelier throughout his 29 years in elected office. "It's about an hour and five minutes," he estimated. "But 50 minutes without school ...
Author: Dixie Delon Sam Rodriguez has not adequately fulfilled his duties as president of the Student Government Association (SGA). The simple fact that my friends and I found out about the original elections this year only when we read that they were cancelled is proof enough that this administration ...
Author: Meghan Keenan In his passionate and animated lecture last Friday entitled "Guerilla Tactics for Breaking Into the Film Industry," Josh Newman stated the best part about being a successful movie producer - "It beats having a real job." Although it was not the most profound comment regarding the ...
Author: Sean Breen This year's fall men's tennis season came to a close with an impressive performance by two of it's rising stars. Nathan Edmunds '06 and Brian Waldron '06 were both invited to this past weekend's Dartmouth Invitational. The top New England Division I tennis teams were all there: ...
Author: Andrea Gissing By the time Winter Term starts, 288 new mailboxes will fill the alcove across from the mailroom window in McCullough basement, thus restoring Middlebury to a one-student-one-mailbox campus. The remodeling of McCullough basement is in progress. "Originally construction was planned ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe John Sharpe '06, who lived on the fourth floor of Milliken as a first-year student, began his sophomore year living in a converted lounge on the same hall - a living arrangement he accepted in order to remain in Ross Commons.Sharpe was one of approximately 150 rising sophomores ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Middlebury College's Volunteer Service Organization (VSO) held a cow-pie bingo event Saturday, Oct. 25 to raise money for Heifer International, a non-profit organization that works to alleviate world hunger.Participants of the cow-pie bingo bought a square on a large grid marked ...
Author: Kate Doorley Every year at Homecoming, the Middlebury College Alumni Association presents achievement awards to alumni who have reached milestones in their professional or personal lives. Last Friday, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas '72 was presented with this award before he addressed a sizeable audience ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos The Middlebury football team was dealt a 16-0 loss to Trinity College on October 25, a sour note during Homecoming weekend that put the Panthers at 2-4 for the season. With two games left on the 2003 schedule, Middlebury will need to win both in order to match last season's ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller Some music has the marvelous gift of being able to create new and beautiful worlds, giving rise to dormant feelings and stirring imaginations to soar far away from whatever dreary surroundings in which they find themselves trapped. Such was the mysterious music that filled ...
Author: Hans Manzke Brown Couch? Who? Yeah. If you're like me and have slowly and unwittingly turned aside from the whole folk-pop scene championed by the ubiquitous Dave Matthews Band and the continually rising popularity of home-grown Vermont jam collective Phish, your ear, like mine, was a long way ...
Author: Abbie Beane Anyone still searching for last minute Halloween costume ideas? Well, who knew that dressing up as Catwoman, a red rubber ball or a condom could be so frightening? A new form of body painting involving liquid latex takes "horror" to a new level.This simple rubber compound is a fluid ...
Author: Abbie Beane Each year the College finds an increasing number of ways to explore what a liberal arts education is all about - comparing and contrasting a variety of subject areas to create interdisciplinary programs, projects, performances and symposiums. Most recently the arts and history departments ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland Halloween has evolved since we were children. The holiday used to mean dressing up, making ghosts out of Kleenex and cotton balls, parading the streets and eating an obscene amount of candy out of pillowcases or plastic pumpkins. The night was delightfully frightening - you never ...
Author: [no author name found] The Case of the Disappearing Dining Ware - SGA to the Rescue?About 5,186 dining ware items are missing from Proctor and Ross Dining Halls alone. Since the beginning of the year, the Dining Services staff has watched its supplies dwindle, whisked away by students who grab ...