Author: Jacob Heller After reeling off six consecutive victories, the Middlebury baseball team dropped three straight last weekend. These losses leave its record at 11-7-1 with two weeks remaining in the season. The first loss came against a Skidmore team that Middlebury should have defeated. Skidmore ...
Author: [no author name found] As winter melts into spring, bright sunny days carve turns at the Snow Bowl and midnight snowshoe romps on the cross country trail fade behind Middlebury residents. When buds blossom, the Green Mountain Club (GMC) of Waterbury urges people all over Vermont to get outside. ...
Author: Simon Isaacs The Middlebury College Handbook states that graduates are expected to be "thoughtful, ethical leaders able to meet the challenges of informed citizenship." It is certainly in pursuit of this goal that curricula and syllabi are planned and taught. I am writing on behalf of the Middlebury ...
Author: Claire Bourne Dining Services welcomed back over 800 plastic tumblers with open arms on Earth Day (April 22) thanks to an initiative spearheaded by Carl Larson '03, Caitlin Prentice '05 and Charles Mahal '03. The three students enlisted the help of "a couple dozen" environmentally conscious ...
Author: Alison Damick Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26 marked the second ever French Colloquium at Middlebury College. From 4:30 p.m. Friday, when the colloquium's principal convener, Professor of French Edward Knox, introduced the opening address of Jeremy Shapiro, associate director for the ...
Author: Lindsay Whitton Representatives of Middlebury College accepted an Environmental Merit Award on behalf of the College during an Earth Day celebration held in Boston on April 22. Recipients of the annual award are selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The New England ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin The Student Government Association (SGA) designated this week as Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week. Although last year this event consisted of only a luncheon, it has been extended this year to a full week of activities that encompass many student organizations.Nominated faculty ...
Author: Zach Foster This past Wednesday, the Middlebury women's lacrosse team displayed both the grace and efficiency that is necessary in the art of proper "cow-tipping." In a match-up of the two remaining undefeated NESCAC teams, the top ranked Panthers traveled to Williamstown to face the sixth-ranked ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller The production of "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" that went up in Hepburn Zoo Theater last weekend was dominated by the incredibly intense and compelling performance of Damian L. Washington '03. He was on stage from the very second that the audience entered the theater, but he ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein On Tuesday, April 22, Gov. Jim Douglas '72 of Vermont and Gov. George Pataki of New York signed a joint agreement updating a protection plan for Lake Champlain, the sixth largest lake in the United States. The agreement, entitled "The Lake Champlain Management Plan, Opportunities ...
Author: Michael Hatch Studio art majors Dave Sharp '03 and Gigi Gatewood '03 opened an exhibition of their independent work titled "Again, For the First Time," last Friday in the Johnson Gallery. On display until Wed., April 30, the exhibit showcases Sharpe's paintings and site-specific sculptures and ...
Author: Daryn Cambridge Even though Saddam Hussein may be considered an "evil" dictator, that does not mean that, by waging war against his regime and working to dispose him of power, it makes George W. Bush a "good" leader, a liberator, or, in any way, justified in his actions. As much as Bush would ...
Author: Thomas McCann For college students across the nation, downloading music and videos is an everyday occurrence. Now, however, the music industry is fighting back and the ripples of that reaction have reached Middlebury College. Downloading media through programs like Imesh, Kazaa and Morpheus ...
Author: Andreo Niccoleo Zimmermann Runner Nicole Wilkerson's Achilles heel is her achilles heel. Quite literally that is about the only thing that could slow Middlebury's assistant cross-country and track coach down. Following a strong college career at Rice University in Texas and after flirting with ...
Author: Crystal Belle With such a headline as "Riddim Rolls Out The Red Carpet" (The Middlebury Campus, April 23, 2003) one would imagine that the article which ensued would contain cultural, factual, unbiased information. Yet once again that failed to be the case, as a prominent dance group like Riddim ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Sam Rodriguez '04 clinched the Student Government Association (SGA) presidency in a tight election last week, while Erin Sullivan '04.5 was elected Student Co-chair of Community Council (SCCOCC). The campus learned of the election results through an e-mail sent on Friday afternoon. ...
Author: Lucie Greene Andrew Bishop '05 seems to be one of those people who simply epitomizes "cool." You know? The sort of person who, with casual indifference, manages to display a skill for singing and performance, possess a distinct gritty voice with amazing stage presence and then - almost by accident ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Associate Professor of English Robert Cohen was one of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists who were awarded a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation this year. Cohen is a an award-winning novelist who teaches courses in creative ...
Author: Richard Lawless The 2002-2003 Middlebury College Performing Arts Series went out with a bang with Arnaldo Cohen's brilliant performance this past Friday at the Center for the Arts. Entering the hall with a personable demeanor, Cohen took a few moments to collect his thoughts before commencing ...
Author: [no author name found] War debt (on taking my son to college) Amy McGill, associate director of the Center for Educational TechnologyYesterday, it seems, you watched the world heavily from my hip: across the lawn, an old Hmong woman tended her plot, her terraced fields reduced to a tiny square ...