Author: Chelsea Coffin In addition to brand new junior and senior housing and an ellipsoidal dining hall, the Atwater Commons Project readies for another full-on facelift next summer with Le Ch‚teau, Allen Hall and Coffrin Hall.Built in 1925 and modeled after the French Pavillion Henri IV of the Ch‚teau ...
Author: Edward Pickering Wilfred Thesiger, one of the 20th century's greatest explorers, died this summer at age 93 in England, far from the remote and inaccessible lands where he spent nearly all his life. Thesiger is considered by many to have been the last in a long and illustrious line of English ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Earlier this semester, two prospective students came to stay with this writer for a three-day weekend. When they arrived, they asked to experience Middlebury's nightlife, to attend classes and to eat the food. They also asked if there was an anime club. Sure enough, the prospectives ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes "I will not forget you. You are carved in the palm of my hand."So begins and concludes Judith Thompsons' "Perfect Pie," performed this past weekend in the Seeler Studio Theater, with a rightly deserved visceral image.This faculty show, directed by Professor of Theater and Women's ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart We all want to change the world, but how many of us succeed? Last Friday, Co-founder and President of the Middlebury-based organization ECOlogists Linked for Organizing Grassroots Initiatives and Action (ECOLOGIA) Randy Kritausky showed that his organization is doing just that ...
Author: Peter Yordan One day, looking back during one of those Wonder Years moments, I might realize that my college career came to an end on an intramural soccer field on Oct. 26 when the Iron Monkeys, my intramural soccer team, were eliminated from the playoffs. It was a ragtag band of teenagers that ...
Author: Andrea Gissing The annual winter parking ban will go into effect Nov. 1 and will last until April 1, 2004. During this period, overnight parking will be limited to student parking lots between midnight and 8 a.m. in order to facilitate effective snow removal and improved security. "Vehicles ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In the second meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate on Oct. 26, Mike Villarello '05 was elected Speaker of the Senate, while two seats on the body remain unfilled. A special election will be held on Thursday and Friday to fill the position of Senior Feb Senator, ...
Author: Jack Donaldson As much hype as we have been hearing recently about "dynasties" in sports, there are actually very few great teams that, year in and year out, put up championship caliber performances and dominate their respective fields. The Chicago Bulls of the early 90s, the Yankees of the ...
Author: Matthew Clark Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up. There are IVs and drips and tubes coming from every pore. Curious, he rises, unlocks the door and peers down the hallway. Tables are askew, chairs over-turned, gurneys flipped and vending machines smashed. Despite the chaos, it is utterly quiet. No ...
Author: Ian Fleishman According to Jaye Roseborough, executive director of the Career Services Office (CSO), Middlebury alumni "are really active in reaching out to [Middlebury] and trying to help our students get post-graduate jobs." It appears that they are also effective.Each year about 100 alumni ...
Author: Erika Mercer It is a rare artist who can employ subtle colors to paint the most complex pictures of human experience and emotion. Elliott Smith achieved this in his short musical career, depicting scenes of heartbreak, addiction, redemption and desire with profound delicacy and sensitivity. ...
Author: Taylor Johnston After three weeks of deliberation, two recommendations for changes in the sexual assault judicial process emerged from the Monday, Oct. 27 Community Council meeting. The Council recommended giving sexual assault victims the option of participating in hearings through closed ...
Author: Lanford Beard The most powerful tools for understanding tragic moments in history lie in the eyes of the survivors. Visting Assistant Professor of Italian Natasha Chang and the students of her first-year seminar (FYS) took exactly this approach when they and a group of nearly 50 students from ...
Author: Andrew Gustafson Perhaps in our small corner of Vermont we can garner some important lessons from the events of the past few weeks in California. Raging incompetence. Severe apathy. Disregard for constituents. These were charges that Republicans like Tom McClinkock and Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
Author: Gab Fonseca and Jena Siegel In the Oct. 9 issue of The Middlebury Campus, an anonymous student stated: "I totally support gay rights, but I feel as though most of the events are more focused on the 'in-group' of MOQA members, rather than building bridges with the rest of the school" ("MOQA Colors ...
Author: Daniel Phillips Last winter during the Atwater dining hall construction excavation, the icy runoff from the site froze into a 15-foot cascading ice flow that lured an extreme group of on-campus climbers for several ascents in the middle of the night. However, their undercover escapades are on ...
Author: Chris Grosso Americans love to expose the shortcomings of the U.S. political system, and they definitely enjoy a good, hearty laugh once in a while. What happens when one creatively combines the two? You get a political parody. That's the case only if the jokes are funny, though. Middlebury ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This past weekend's "4play," a pleasing collage piece about relationships that Hepburn Zoo audiences have come to expect from the annual First-Year Show, had a refreshing twist this year - the whimsical short play "The Ugly Duckling" by A.A. Milne (of "Winnie the Pooh" fame).The ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In a discussion on the merits of Winter Term held during an open meeting of the faculty on Oct. 13, a majority of the faculty present criticized Middlebury College's 4-1-4 calendar and encouraged the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) to eliminate Winter Term. Approximately 65 ...