Author: Richard Lawless Widely-celebrated British organ virtuoso Thomas Trotter took the stage in Middlebury's Mead Chapel last Sunday afternoon, delivering a terrific 90-minute set with pieces ranging from baroque to contemporary on the chapel's powerful organ.Trotter is internationally renowned for ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Senior Alex Poe's adaptation of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus premiered this past weekend in the Hepburn Zoo, stinging audiences with directorial and authorial innovation on the Algerian Nobel Prize-winning book.Poe, in his last year as a double major in theater and literary studies ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer As a result of repeated complaints from student organizations concerning the procurement of funds, the Student Government Association (SGA) finance guidelines have undergone drastic revision. According to the Student Co-chair of the Community Council Ben LaBolt '03, specific ...
Author: Khairani Barokka "You need culture, 'cause you're in the mountains!" emcee Damian Washington '03 said to a packed and cheering McCullough audience at the annual International Students' Organization (ISO) Cultural Show last Friday. If they needed it, they certainly got it — with a twist. The ...
Author: Edward Pickering The development of a proposal to ban smoking in and on the perimeters of residence halls has sparked heated debate throughout campus. The proposal will go before the Community Council and the Student Government Association (SGA) in early December. If approved, the proposed changes ...
Author: [no author name found] I have only read the Middkid.com forum twice in my life. The first time I was so offended, I cried. Slip on a veil of anonymity and it's shocking where people will go, from the objectification of women through top ten lists to jokes about rape to racism and public attacks ...
Author: Richard Lawless Middlebury College welcomed acclaimed hip-hop group The Roots to its cavernous Nelson Arena last Saturday. Performing for a packed crowd, the group unleashed such favorites as "The Next Movement" and "You Got Me" from their breakthrough 1999 album, "Things Fall Apart." Highly ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta This past Saturday, the Middlebury Panthers traveled to Westfield State College in Massachusetts to take part in the 2002 NCAA Division III New England Regional Cross-Country Championships. The women raced well and extended their season for another week by capturing a berth in ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin Tired of the dining hall scene? How does a free gourmet dinner, complete with candlelight and full service sound? Try the Chateau dining room every Friday evening, when Dolci, a student-run organization, transforms the space into a full-blown restaurant. The student head chef ...
Author: Nicole Maddox Last weekend, the Middlebury Debate Society hosted the annual Edwin R. Lawrence Debate Tournament, which began on Friday afternoon and ran late into Saturday evening. Almost 50 teams gathered in Bicentennial Hall, including representatives from Amherst, Vassar, Trinity, Wesleyan, ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos The Middlebury's men's hockey team expects to find itself in contention to win the NCAA Division III championship this year despite the absence of Coach Bill Beaney, who is taking a year off for personal reasons and to assist the College in its fundraising efforts. Neil Sinclair, ...
Author: Alex Castillo-Kesper How does the modern artist engage tradition in his or her realm of personal expression? The term "individual artist" was a foreign expression to India during British colonialism, and still remains an ambiguous phrase in modern Indian painting. As India tried to break away ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Middlebury College students and parents arriving in September or reuniting on Fall Family Weekends know that finding a place to eat in town is a daunting task. Those who forget to make reservations or rely on luck to find a table are often left to scrounge around the dining halls ...
Author: Matt Ross In the four years under Head Coach Jeffrey Brown, Middlebury men's basketball has reinvented itself with solid recruiting and year-round dedication — all leading up to a season that will showcase unprecedented talent and a new, up-tempo offense. One glance at this year's roster and ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Edwin Colodny, interim chief executive officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care, announced on Nov. 8 that the hospital had overspent on its Renaissance Project construction budget by $81.3 million.State regulators had approved $228.4 million in spending for the construction of new ...
Author: David Freeman The Middlebury men's and women's swimming and diving coach Peter Solomon has plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the fast-approaching season. In a scrimmage with Norwich College and Plymouth State College where no scores were tabulated for the Panthers but race times were ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's like passing by a closed bedroom door, overhearing a conversation from within the room. You don't know who the people talking are, and you know you shouldn't be listening in, but the phrases you gather are too intense and intriguing to turn your ear away. The conversation is ...
Author: [no author name found] The destruction of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) closet last month prompted responses from the president, the provost and dean of faculty, and the Faculty Council and Staff Council. I have now heard of backlash responses from members of the faculty, the staff ...
Author: Kate Prouty When reviewing a modern dance piece, you're not supposed to award all of your praise to the dancers (I don't know who said this. It's just one of those insupportable rules). After all, it's the choreographer who decides what his dancers do. He is the puppet master, the mind and organization, ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed The greatest virtue of democracy is the principle of freedom and liberty that it staunchly defends. And that freedom traverses from chanting slogans against the World Bank in Washington, D.C., to demonstrating against oil drilling in Alaska, to protesting Ari Fleischer at Middlebury ...