Author: Bob Wainright I had never been to a big-time college football game before, so when I visited Michigan this past weekend and attended the Michigan-Penn State game, I was thoroughly unprepared for the experience. Simply put, it was unbelievable. First off, more than 111,000 people were at the ...
Author: Josh Axelrod The Middlebury men's soccer team had hoped for a better result this weekend when it faced the Williams Ephs in a showdown of New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foes. But the day was not Middlebury's to win as it fell 3-0 to the always-competitive Ephs. Nonetheless, ...
Author: [no author name found] Smoking Ban?by Andrea GissingStudents for a Smoke-Free Middlebury (SFASFM) held its first open discussion forum Monday night in the lounge in Pearsons Hall. The new organization, which was formed on Sept. 26, is working with Mariah McKechnie, residential systems coordinator, ...
Author: Bob Wainwright After two straight weekends of extremely competitive match play, the Middlebury men's tennis team traveled north this past Friday for the Bates Invitational, while leaving its top five singles players behind for a well-deserved weekend off. Despite lacking their top players, the ...
Author: Erika Mercer "It's really liberating for me to cock my hip to one side and sneer sometimes." Uninhibited, notoriously hot-blooded and irresistibly charismatic, Ryan Adams has, in a span of two years, hypnotized the music world with his sound and persona. He's the eighth grade bully who picks ...
Author: [no author name found] We, as members of the Middlebury College community, and as proponents of peace and diplomacy in the world, respectfully urge the College to reconsider its commitment to present White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer '82 with a Distinguished Alumni Award. While we recognize ...
Author: Charles Goulding Since 1994, the Committee for Arts in Public Places (CAPP) has had a significant influence on the artistic and aesthetic appeal of the Middlebury campus. The committee, composed of trustees, administrators, faculty, students and members of the community, has acquired numerous ...
Author: [no author name found] Good morning, alarm clock. It's not time to wake up. No no, it's time to die. Sorry readers, I'm a bit on edge. My alarm clock and I are having a difficult time in our relationship. See, I want to end our relationship, and it wants to continue to wake me up with a rhythmic ...
Author: [no author name found] Transition and change are difficult. Construction is loud and the lines at Ross are long, challenging us to see how this is creating a better community. This makes it essential that students ask critical questions as to what is happening and why. The commons system is ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann In what amounted to a 1-1 week, the Middlebury field hockey team lost in heartbreaking fashion to Keene State in New Hampshire but kept pace with Williams and Bowdoin atop the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with an impressive 3-0 win over Amherst. With ...
Author: Andrea La Rocca Girlfriend. Boyfriend. Girl friend. Boy friend. These words win for the most heartbreaking homonym in the English language; they sound the same. But oh, if you ever mistake them to be the same (and we all have), then you quickly learn their differences with that dreaded line, ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff Middlebury has a very good football team — but Middlebury does not have a football team with a very good record. This weekend, in front of a packed Alumni Stadium full of rowdy fans and parents, the Panthers suffered their second heartbreaking loss of the season, this time to ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta On an ominous Friday afternoon, the Middlebury cross country team traveled to the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds to put on an exposition of its own. The women repeated as perennial state champions, while the men reclaimed the title after lending it to Lyndon State for safekeeping ...
Author: Julie Shumway Speculation Surrounds Second Circuit Court DecisionThe Associated Press reported that the same Second Circuit Court which reversed U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions' ruling on Vermont's campaign finance reform law has now put a hold on its decision, with the intent to ...
Author: [no author name found] I am writing in response to the article written by Kelsey Rinehart regarding child care in the Sept. 25 issue of The Campus. The article raises some important concerns about childcare in general, but I am concerned that the headline of the article, ''Quality Child Care ...
Author: Khairani Barokka On the evening of Oct. 7, Ben Scotch, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, gave a passionate lecture entitled "Liberty vs. Security? Progress Report on the USA. Patriot Act in the Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room. Scotch is part of a ...
Author: Yvonne Chen The annual Paul Ward '25 Prize in Writing was presented to Allison Williams '05 and Joshua Axelrod '05 on Oct.4. For nearly 25 years the prize has been awarded annually to a first-year student who exhibits excellence in writing. This was the first year since 1990 that the prize was ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg For hundreds of students, faculty members and Middlebury employees, Saturday night's playoff game between the New York Yankees and Anaheim Angels was a nightmare come true. After losing the closest World Series in several decades, New York was poised to rebound, finishing the ...
Author: [no author name found] The warmongers have already won half the war by successfully eliminating the real debate on Iraq. Through systematic manufacturing of consent the debate is narrowed to the point that all roads lead to the desired conclusion anyway: war. The debate was wiped off the TV ...
Author: [no author name found] The Robert Frost School of English does not exist, and it is not part of Middlebury College. Students cannot receive a degree from the Robert Frost School of English, nor do any of our professors teach there. But all of that could change. Middlebury College could be the ...