Author: Jake Heller This is the year. At the beginning of every baseball season Red Sox fans forget about the disappointment of the season before and reaffirm their steadfast belief that in fact this is the year. This is the year in which the Curse of the Bambino will be lifted and Boston will take ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College women's volleyball team has gone an impressive 4-3 in its last seven outings, played over an exhaustive 10-day stretch. The Panthers began by playing Skidmore at home on Oct. 8. In a tight, four-game series, the Panthers narrowly beat out the Thoroughbreds ...
Author: Sally Hartman Homecoming Weekend will be an event not to be missed given the Middlebury College football team's performance at Bates last Saturday. The Panthers traveled to Lewiston, Maine, to face off with the Bobcats, who shied away from some characteristically fierce and persistent competition ...
Author: Daniel Phillips What's different at Career Services Office (CSO) this fall? Students have turned out in record-setting numbers to the annual Senior Meetings on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18, 167 seniors have already been through the four steps required for participation in recruiting and the August ...
Author: [no author name found] Each week The Middlebury Campus will take one member of the Middlebury College community. to a local thrift store to revolutionize the way they look at life, liberty and personal style. This week, we celebrated the oncoming Halloween holiday by whisking away Campus Arts ...
Author: Carl Larson Middlebury College's installation of the Enhanced Access System (EAS) and the United States' war in Iraq were both justified by circumstances that later proved questionable. The Bush administration, despite objections from citizens and other nations, insisted that Iraq possessed ...
Author: Andrea Gissing "The College fosters connections between students and between students and faculty through a variety of cultural, academic and social events - some of which span from the classroom right into the residence hall," says the Middlebury College 2003-2004 Prospectus. Indeed, with a ...
Author: Peter Yordan The men's and women's rugby teams braved marginal conditions this weekend to play a pair matches of against lightly regarded opponents. While the men pounded on their unfortunate opponents 63-0, the women suffered a frustrating set-back.The men's team, riding a strong victory over ...
Author: Taylor Johnston Members of Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) social house went before the Community Council this Monday to ask the Council to lift its probation, enacted last spring as a result of facilities damage and poor relations with the custodial staff.Several members of ZOO accompanied house President ...
Author: [no author name found] "In the beginning, there was curiosity," stated Brenda Dixon Gottschild in this weekend's performance of "Tongue Smell Color," and she was right - there certainly was an immense feeling of curiosity as audience members filled the Center for the Arts (CFA) Dance Studio ...
Author: Edward Pickering September 11, 2003, marks the day I lost interest in the ongoing war. The previous evening I had stepped aboard a plane bound for Scotland. Somewhere above the Atlantic, in the stuffy confines of an IcelandAir jet, my awareness of world affairs quietly stole away. Before me ...
Author: Tom McCann In every sport, every team chasing a championship will have one week, weekend, or game that could potentially make or break the season. The past week might have been that period for the Middlebury field hockey team. Facing a home game against Keene State, and then a crucial trip to ...
Author: Daniel Phillips and Joshua Carson Following Trot Nixon's walk-off homerun Saturday night, students at University of Massachusetts-Amherst began to riot in the southwest residential area on campus. The riot started shortly after the game ended and was not broken up by the UMass Police Department ...
Author: [no author name found] Students, faculty and members of the eco-business community gathered last Friday in Lawson Lounge to discuss the potential of biodiesel as a solution for the world's rapidly disappearing petroleum reserves. With fervor still lingering after this summer's highly publicized ...
Author: Ryan Reese On the banks of the Merrimac River in Lowell, Mass., on Sunday, spectators bore witness to a promising season opening regatta for the men and women of Middlebury crew. The Head of the Textile was the site of successful pulls for both the men and women, with each squad capturing one ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell We have all had them-those utterly bizarre, other-worldly nighttime musings we call dreams. I bet at one time or another every college student has suffered the humiliation of leaving the house completely naked only to wake up at the peak of embarrassment and breathe a sigh of ...
Author: Greg Duggan Get ready to hold onto your wallets. Shopping in Middlebury and everywhere else in Vermont has just gotten a little more expensive. On Oct. 1, the sales tax in Vermont increased from five percent to six percent and the telecommunications tax escalated to six percent. These raises ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury women's soccer team fell from atop the NESCAC standings this past weekend, dropping a 2-0 contest at Amherst on Saturday. The Panthers slipped into a four way tie for second place in the league with the loss, where they sit one game behind Williams, who they will ...
Author: Crystal Belle It seems to be a phenomenon. Everywhere you turn, they stand out like stilettos trudging through Vermont grass - dreadlocks. Twisted, knotted, long, short, locks. Where, when and how did this hair trend begin? Although most people tend to think of Bob Marley, Rastafarianism and ...
Author: [no author name found] At the Expense of Student-Faculty LunchesAn administrative memo last month requested that professors limit luncheons with students in the dining hall to one per week. The e-mail, distributed to all faculty and staff by Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hanson and Dean of the ...