Author: Bob Wainwright The Middlebury men's tennis season began with two decisive wins last Saturday as the Panthers defeated both Skidmore and Union, 7-0. Against Skidmore, sophomore Justin Ingoglia took on the top spot, while winning handily 7-5, 6-3. First-year Nate Edmunds played in similar dominating ...
Author: Tom Drescher The Community Council recently completed a review of all academic interest houses at Middlebury College and reported its positive results to President John McCardell.Composed of students, administration, staff and faculty, the Council is one of the College's most influential governing ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Bruce Young, a former member of the Department of Public Safety's special events staff, passed away suddenly on Sunday night. Well-known in the local Middlebury community, Young served for 37 years on the Middlebury Fire Department and nine years on the Middlebury Rescue Squad. ...
Author: David Lindholm Saturday, March 15MEN'S HOCKEY vs. Elmira 7:00 p.m.In the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Championship Tournament, Middlebury will host Elmira at Kenyon Arena. The Panthers will look to bounce back from a loss to Trinity in the NESCAC finals that snapped a 20-game undefeated streak. ...
Author: Dan Phillips The New Left, the College Progressives, Middlebury United for Peace, Environmental Quality and Amnesty International presented an anti-war petition to the Sudent Government Association on March 3 in hopes of gaining the body's approval for a resolution opposing a pre-emptive U.S. ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos After a 5-3 victory over Hamilton in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) tournament semifinals on Saturday, the Middlebury men's hockey team managed a second-place finish in the tournament after a 4-2 loss to Trinity the following day. Despite being ...
Author: Bob Wainwright In his Sports Illustrated column last week, Rick Reilly described what he termed "the best college tradition" -- Middlebury athletes picking up Butch Varno before football and basketball games. It's a great story, and Reilly, as always, does it justice with his writing. But there's ...
Author: Meghan Keenan When a band names itself after Jerry Seinfeld's parents' retirement community, you know they have to be an original and refreshing group of musicians. And this band lives up to its name. Comprised of sophomores Simon Perkins, Colby Hewitt, Dave Irwin, Taylor Davis and Danny Greenstein, ...
Author: Lucie Greene When sitting or studying in The Grille, it's quite easy to let a lot of the music be a comforting, but distinctly background, entity. It's also easy, with a range of cover tunes, to simply allow the much played lyrics to wash over you, in a haze of biology, physics, political science ...
Author: Andrew N. Zimmermann In what turned out to be a successful weekend for Eastern schools, Middlebury finished eighth at this year's NCAA Skiing Championships at Dartmouth College. Four out of the top 10 finishers were Eastern schools with the University of Vermont (UVM) finishing second to a strong ...
Author: Jonathan White Galvanizing Middlebury College Awareness in the Critical Fight Against AIDSThe Middlebury Campus welcomes the initiative put forth by Elizabeth DiCioccio '06 and Jamie Hess '03 in establishing a Middlebury chapter of Students Against Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC). Bringing the fight ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer While this winter may seem unnecessarily harsh to students who have been living in Middlebury for four years, Assistant Director for Maintenance and Operations Norm Cushman sheds a different light on this winter's severity. While this year has undoubtedly been colder than ...
Author: Ian Fleishman Since the end of the last school year, the Career Services Offices (CSO) has experienced a marked decline in student interest in certain services offered, particularly on-campus interview opportunities. The CSO has been forced to turn away firms and businesses interested in interviewing ...
Author: Edward Pickering Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and continuously in print since its first publication in 1974, Michael Shaara's civil war novel, "The Killer Angels," will appeal to a wide range of readers, not merely history buffs and retired soldiers.Overly enthusiastic commentators have ...
Author: Thomas McCann Middlebury celebrated its first National Sportsman Day March 4 in collaboration with several other New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) schools. It was decided at a NESCAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) meeting consisting of two representatives from ...
Author: Crystal Belle Have you ever twisted your legs and arms melodically to a pulsating hip-hop beat? If so, you are participating in the phenomenon known as break dancing. The art form dates back to the 1970s, when dancers in the South Bronx mixed martial arts, disco dancing and aerobatics to form ...
Author: Erika Mercer Picture a barren winter landscape: a field masked in snow, several solitary brown, lifeless blades of grass poking through its top white layer. A gray sky and a row of leaning, drooping trees complete the stark, desolate scene -- a scene which threatens to be too stark and cold ...
Author: Andrea Gissing U. Penn Pegged for Pirating MoviesThe University of Pennsylvania received many complaints from Universal Studios in the past week regarding the illegal sharing of movie files between students. U. Penn's Office of Information Security apparently received 100 allegations of copyright ...
Author: Richard Lawless To its own credit, Middlebury College has always done a remarkable job of attracting talented musicians for its Performing Arts Series. This time, the College's Arts Series organizers have outdone themselves with internationally acclaimed pianist Paul Lewis, who performed at ...
Author: Michael Hatch The multimedia dance work of Dominique Zeltzman and Selene Colburn, "The Stomach Never Lies: True Confessions and Moving Images," performed this past Thursday and Friday, March 6 and 7, at the Flynn Space in Burlington, tackled topics ranging from the possible war with Iraq to ...