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The Setonian

Opera Project Ends on High Note

Author: Lucie Greene The production of "L'incoronazione di Poppea" by Claudio Monteverdi, was performed on Wednesday, Jan. 29, and Thursday, Jan. 30, in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, as the final result of both two semesters of opera study, and one intense Winter Term production course. A joint ...


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NESCAC Presidents Opposed to Athletics Survey

The presidents of the 11 colleges and universities that make up the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) have decided to decline a request made by U.S. News & World Report to release statistical information on their athletic programs. The unanimous decision, made at a Dec. 18 meeting, ...


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Protest Drums Sound at Montpelier Peace Rally

Author: Daniel Roda On Saturday, Jan. 18, thousands of Vermonters flooded the streets of Burlington and Montpelier to protest the Bush regime's apparently inexorable determination to wage war on Iraq. This, in conjunction with numerous other protests across the nation and the world, indicates an increasingly ...


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Men's Hoops Rejected in 3-Loss Week

Author: Matt Ross The Panthers had an up-and-down February break, going 2-3 and 2-2 in New England Small Colleges Athletic Association (NESCAC) play. With two games left before the NESCAC tournament, the team is 13-9 overall and 2-5 in the league. The Panthers started the week hot, burying Colby 86-67. ...


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British Rocker David Gray Blows the Roof Off of Tsongas

Author: Suzanne Mozes David Gray's performance on Thursday, Jan. 30, at the intimate Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Mass., sustained the mounting hype surrounding his U.S. tour.Soloing on piano, Gray opened with "The Other Side." However, with an unexpected sweep of the red velvet curtain serving as a lush ...


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Students Face Immigration Trials

Author: Namik Kirlik Many things changed for international students after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in terms of our status and the process of obtaining valid documents to study in the United States. First, the U.S. Patriot Act, which was implemented as a response to the terrorist attacks in 2001, ...


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Midd Briefs Middlebury Lags in Diversity

Author: Nicolas Emery The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) ranked Middlebury College 20th out of the nation's top 24 academically rated liberal arts colleges with regards to its comparative success in integrating African-Americans into its faculty and student body.The JBHE used data compiled ...


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Nordic Speeding Up as Season Intensifies

Author: Josh Axelrod With temperatures becoming tolerable, and February break beginning on campus, Middlebury's nordic ski team has been busy with weekly carnivals. Action started off last weekend in Stowe, Vt., where the Panthers raced to excellent finishes at the University of Vermont Carnival.The ...


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Local Resident Thankful for Help

Author: Alice Munson Last Saturday as I was leaving the Redemption Center one of your fine young students tapped on my window and said I had a flat tire. I got out and these two great guys said they would change it for me. Remember now it was very cold! After they easily changed it (or they made it ...


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Goldberg Backs War with Iraq

Author: Bryan Goldberg Much of this last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus read like a pat-on-the-back for a couple dozen students protesting the war in Iraq. In the very same issue, the spokesman for this effort, Wellington Lyons '04, submitted a piece which outlined his dissent ("War Objector ...


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Dateline Romania A Winter Term Spent Helping Children

Author: Caroline Stauffer Over Winter Term, 13 students participated in a unique service-learning project in Romania. Biology 270, "Early Experience and Brain Development," was the result of a year of organizational work by Assistant Professor of Biology David Parfitt. According to Parfitt, who is ...


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Women Squash Opponents in Final Test Before Nationals

Author: Holly Haertel Going into the last tournament of the season, the Middlebury women's squash team was boasting a record of 8-3 having only lost to Colby, Bowdoin and Amherst in the regular season. However, after traveling to Smith this past weekend, they have added three wins to their record. Having ...


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Bumpy Trip Ends with Camel Crushing

Author: Emily Berlanstein A vital league victory last weekend against Connecticut College has put the Panther women's basketball team back on the winning track. Coming off a five-game losing streak, Middlebury pounded Connecticut, 73-53, behind 18 points from Kristin Hanley '03. The attack was well-rounded ...


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Rob Chisholm '03 Captures First Prize With Essay

Author: Tom Drescher Rob Chisholm '03 was recently awarded the grand prize in the Ohio State University National Undergraduate Essay Contest in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics for his paper on the resource management system of a lobster-fishing community in Nova Scotia, his native ...