Author: Charlie Goulding Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed visiting Winter Term Professor Kenneth Feinberg to the position of head of the newly formed Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund in November of 2001, just two months after the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Both the fund and Feinberg's ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Yale Loses Four Students in Car CrashFour Yale University undergraduates died and five others were injured as a result of a car crash that occurred early Friday morning, Jan. 17. The accident occurred when the sport utility vehicle they were driving collided with a tractortrailer ...
Author: David Freedman Heading into the final stretch of the season the Middlebury men's and women's swimming and diving teams look ready to make a strong showing at the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships at the end of February. The women's team garnered momentum for ...
Author: Erich Kahner The men and women's indoor track and field teams continued to improve over the last two weeks. Several athletes garnered top finishes at the Saint Lawrence Invitational on Jan. 18 and at the McGill Invitational last weekend. A few individuals in particular put together a string ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed As President Bush prepares his State of the Union address to outline the policies for the second half of his tenure, he must confront a solemn but distinct possibility: that he is indeed beatable in the 2004 presidential election. Despite the fact that no single Democrat has yet ...
Author: Alexandra Hay Stripes of light shine on the pale golden stage, a grotesque mask sits on a pole upstage left -- a hideously distorted papier-mache` image of a man's face, or a monster's. A Cuban song plays softly, the woman's voice full and rich. The first dance in Artist-in-Residence Amy Chavasse's ...
Author: Jonathan White A Worried State of the UnionIn Tuesday evening's State of the Union address, President Bush solidified the compassionate conservatism that he touted during his run for election in 2000. He proposed using the federal budget to fund the development of hydrogen automobiles, while ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Dorothy Douglas, Vermont's new first lady, has lived in Middlebury all of her life. One of six children, Douglas' relatives own Foster Brothers Farm Inc. and Foster Motors, which are both located in town.In 1975, Dorothy Foster became Dorothy Douglas. Her husband, now Governor ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer If the United States were to engage in war with Iraq, it would be the first time in history that the United States has entered a conflict of a size comparable to World War II or Vietnam without a draft. However, on Jan. 7, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill ...
Author: Wellington Lyons So we're going to war again.Whether you're on the right, left or center of the political spectrum, there are a number of reasons to be upset with our leaders for what they have gotten us into.Let's start at the beginning. Why are we preparing to invade Iraq? The story goes that ...
Author: Lindsay Whitton On Monday, Dec. 9, the Middlebury College faculty voted to include all grades received while studying abroad in student grade point averages (GPA). The Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) had planned on proposing that abroad grades and course titles be listed on students' permanent ...
Author: Emily Berlanstein With three consecutive wins under its belt, it seems that the Panthers women's basketball team has gelled just in time for conference play. Last week, they beat Green Mountain College handily, followed by a winning weekend against Amherst and Trinity. These wins were important ...
Author: Mary Mendoza On Jan. 25 and 26, Middlebury College hosted the "Digital Bridges 2003" conference. This conference focused on the effects and accessibility of the Internet and consisted of several different panels exhibiting how the Internet affects both businesses and the individual. Both Middlebury ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg With three New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) wins, the women's hockey team remained unbeaten in their last seven contests and improved to 11-1-1 on the season. After the successful week, the Panthers moved ahead of Bowdoin in the conference standings and now ...
Author: Michael Stahler On Wednesday night, I had a nightmare involving Hepburn Hall, in which I'm a Residential Advisor (RA). It began with a voicemail from my commons residential advisor saying, "they have closed our lounges." It also included the sight of one of my residents trying to get into the ...
Author: Lucie Greene On Saturday Jan. 18, Dick Forman and his jazz group took to the stage at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall. The quartet was comprised of Don Stearns on Sax, Jim Daggs on bass, Bob Lemnah on drums, and special guest Paul Asbell. Formerly the head of the Center for the Arts and ...
Author: Christian Holt During holiday break, my family always gets together to go Christmas tree shopping. There, hark! is a tree that is perfect. Perfectly shaped, beautiful branches, and of course, a good three feet taller than our living room ceiling. What a beautiful spirit of Christmas! Now where's ...
Author: David Freedman Over the past month, the Middlebury men's and women's swimming and diving teams have taken on four opponents, three in the first week of Winter Term. The men rebounded from two losses against perennially strong squads from Dartmouth College and Amherst College to earn two victories ...
Author: Jonathan White A Worthy Cause, Poorly ExecutedOn Thursday, Middlebury College will open its doors to the American Cancer Society for that organization's "National Smoke-Out Day." The event, which is aimed to help cigarette smokers quit smoking, is the latest in a campaign to change the College's ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin Middlebury College welcomes well over two dozen visiting professors in nearly every subject offered this Winter Term. Coming from as far away as Berlin and Moscow to as close as the College's home state of Vermont, these professors bring with them an abundance of outside experience ...