Author: [no author name found] The College — administrators in Old Chapel and of the commons system and the staff of the Center for International Affairs, specifically — should be commended for their forethought in inviting two speakers of note to campus in the last three weeks, Elie Wiesel and, ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg The Middlebury women's soccer improved to 2-0-1 on the season as they dominated both Norwich and Wesleyan. Building on their first game, a 2-2 tie against Trinity, the Panthers scored a total of 16 goals in two games. On Wednesday, although Middlebury did not start scoring until ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann RugbyIn dominating fashion, the Middlebury rugby club opened its 2002-2003 campaign with a 57-0 rout of in state competitor Johnson State University. This, mind you, was in the absence of team stars Jodi Kramer '03 and Epeli Rokotuiveikau '04, who aim to return in two weeks ...
Author: [no author name found] Among the many topics that dominated campus news last spring, none provoked more vociferous discussion than the College's policy on sexual assault. From a debate that initially took place silently on posters on the walls of academic buildings and residence halls and in ...
Author: Jon White Joined by a crew of four Middlebury students, cyclist, environmentalist and mountain climber Tim Leach rode into town Sunday afternoon to refresh the movement to save Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Leach is leading the northeastern leg of the Alaska Coalition's three-pronged ...
Author: [no author name found] There was a minor banquet awaiting students in the Ross Dining Hall on Monday at lunchtime: shrimp and satan stir-fries were simmering in one corner, while elsewhere students could choose between two kinds of wrap sandwiches, two kinds of pizza, black bean chili or chili ...
Author: Richard Saunders Ah yes, it must be fall. I know that because, just about the time leaves change color, a Middlebury student writes an article for The Campus on his or her outrage at the state of College food. Later this fall, I know when winter will arrive because another student will undoubtedly ...
Author: Mark Garcelon As Scott. Ritter so eloquently and powerfully argued during his talk of Sept. 23 here at Middlebury, the Bush government refuses to produce any of the intelligence it says it possesses that supposedly demonstrates that Saddam Hussein either has re-built his weapons of mass destruction ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Have you ever felt stereotyped due to your race, sex, physical capabilities or specific social group? Have you worried that your academic achievements or failings may confirm the stereotypes attached to your group? Have you ever questioned the bias of the people who are responsible ...
Author: Liz Braunstein To the delight of many barefooted, grooving students who filled nearly half of the McCullough Social Space on Sept. 20, Strangefolk performed a two-hour show to promote their newly released live album, "Coast to Coast." Their set began with a rendition of the "Fat Albert" theme ...
Author: Kate Prouty Memory playing tricks on you is not necessarily the worst thing in the world, unless maybe you can't remember why it is you walked into a room. But when material from a performance two years ago reinvents itself into an original dance piece, then it's somewhat of a mental blessing.All ...
Author: Robert J. Keren In his column "Summer Workers Demand Respect from Language Schools," (The Middlebury Campus, Sept. 13, 2002) Vinay Jawahar '03 asks the question "…why is it so much worse to hear English than any of the seven languages the student is not studying?" On the chance that this ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Mary Smyth Duffy, former director of The May Belle Chellis Women's Resource Center, or Chellis House, and the wife of Middlebury College Lecturer in English David Bain, passed away on Sept. 17 at the age of 46. She died of congestive heart failure and complications following ...
Author: Jon White With Washington on the brink of war, Scott Ritter, former chief inspector of the United Nations Special Commission to disarm Iraq, addressed a spill-over crowd Monday evening in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall. In his passionate speech, he sought to "inject a shadow of doubt over ...
Author: Chris Richards As the keynote speaker of this year's Clifford Symposium, "Art Matters: Visions for the Arts in the 21st Century," theater legend Edward Albee commanded a Mead Chapel audience to get into the trenches and fight against what the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright described ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta and Mike Kirkland On Saturday, the cross country teams traveled to Williams College to compete in the Purple Valley Classic. Despite intense training since returning to campus and hot temperatures, the Panthers made their coaches quite proud. Both teams, and particularly the ...
Author: Julie Shumway As the world's leaders contemplate environmental issues in the wake of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, Vermont's state government is taking an additional step forward. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has been working ...
Author: Charles Goulding This year Middlebury College is looking to better illuminate the path for students interested in careers in nonprofit social work. The Career Services Office (CSO), in conjunction with Service Learning, Community Service and the Student Employment Office, have collaborated to ...
Author: Abbie Beane The old farm of Conrad Ormsby remains an imposingly handsome panorama, just as it looked 60 years ago in the photographs taken by Fritz Henley. Henley was one of the nine photographers sent on assignment by the U.S. government to capture proof of a 1930s and '40s Vermont in need ...
Author: Bob Wainwright When I awoke this afternoon I looked down at my floor and I realized fairly quickly that I was not yet prepared for the perils associated with leaving my bed. So, not wanting to subject myself to any undue stress, I instead turned my attention to the table next to my bed in search ...