Author: Kevin King Life at Middlebury may as well be built around the idea that the more work students are assigned, the less time they will have to realize the sheer lunacy of the way the campus around them is run. I, for one, refuse to let pending term papers and extraordinarily sub-par grades blind ...
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Author: Gregg Eriksen Staff Writer Lt. General William E. Odom, former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and proud former Middlebury parent, offered his thoughts last Monday in a lecture on United States foreign policy in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead of focusing on terrorism ...
Author: Ryan Abernathy Staff Writer A friend once told me, "The better the economy, the worse the punk scene." Punk certainly flourished in the 1980s and early 1990s, but as the economy took off, the genre suffered. Perhaps the wealth and prosperity had finally placated America's once-angry youth. ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff Staff Writer "Athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice — once when we retire and again when death takes us," Johnny Blood. How true is that quote? For those of you who have ever played competitive sports for a long time, know ...
Author: Rose Boyer Staff Writer "The number of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) treated at Parton Health Center has fallen very significantly over the last eight years," said Yonna McShane, director of Health and Wellness Education at Middlebury. Eight years ago, the Parton Health Center was treating ...
Author: Devin Zatorski News Editor Following a lengthy drafting process, Community Council's finalized Handbook language on the Middlebury College Honor Code will face a student referendum this Thursday and Friday, with voting on whether to accept the amendments linked to the Middlebury Automated Registration ...
Author: Emily Berlanstein Staff Writer This weekend the Middlebury women's basketball team inaugurates the 2001-2002 season against non-conference foe Johnson & Wales in a tip-off classic. The Panthers rank among New England's best, and the program boasts a 76 percent winning record over the past ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts Editor The Tibetan Festival Saturday afternoon in McCullough began with Louisa Conrad's '04, president of Students for a Free Tibet, introduction of Cathy Zaccone, the international issues liaison for Senators James Jeffords (I-Vt.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Zaccone's speech ...
Author: David Lindholm Assistant Sports Editor We didn't find out anything we didn't already know about athletes getting help in the admissions office when the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Report story broke two weeks ago. While the numbers were surprisingly high (recruited ...
Author: David Lindholm Assistant Sports Editor Total domination. Two words that perfectly describe the Middlebury Women's Hockey team in the last six season. The team's record over that time: 134 wins, 21 losses, three ties. In league play, the women have not lost a game dating back to 1998 and ...
Author: Devin Zatorski News Editor The Student Government Association (SGA) has designed a multi-part strategy for encouraging students to vote in the referendum later this week, both to ensure maximum participation and to help constituents make informed decisions, said President Brian Elworthy '02.5. ...
Author: Matt Waxman Staff Writer What happens when you return to Middlebury for an extra semester just to defend the intramural (IM) football Super Bowl title and you lose? Just ask Max Moyer, '01.5. What do you do with your time when you've been devoting 55 hours a week to IM football logistics ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Managing Editor Middlebury College's rural existence has not given a false sense of security to employees at the College, who, like most Americans, are on heightened alert since the tragedy of Sept. 11 and the events that have unfolded since. On the morning of Thursday, Nov. ...
Author: [no author name found] Entrusting the Honor Code to VotersAfter two months spent deliberating proposed changes to the Middlebury College Handbook language regarding the College's Honor Code, the Community Council and the Student Government Association (SGA) are about to submit the revised language ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller Staff Writer This weekend several associates of the Middlebury College community will take on new roles as they join other members of the Middlebury Community Players to present Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The School for Scandal." The Community Players are looking forward ...
Author: Kate DeForest Arts Editor I have found it to be extremely helpful, in going to a production of any one of Shakespeare's plays, to read the text beforehand; it's not that the plays themselves are terribly confusing, but what people do to the them often is. However, judging by quite a few of ...
Author: Becky Ruby Staff Writer Students may have noticed that the stacks of plastic cup racks in Proctor Dining Hall has seemed shorter lately. In fact, during the busy lunch and dinner rushes, the lack of reusable cups has forced Dining Services to provide paper cups for student use.Already this ...
Author: Padma Govidan Staff Writer "Monsters Inc.," a film from Pixar, is a candy-colored, fast-paced and inventive homage to lost days when children were easily scared—and thus, truly innocent (at least according to the film industry). Although it doesn't quite have the heart of "Toy Story" or "Toy ...
Author: Andrew Brooks Staff Writer On Sunday night, Tim Miller's spectacular performance piece "Glory Box" was unleashed upon audiences in the McCullough social space. Movement and narrative became intertwined to form Miller's experience as a homosexual man in the United States and his fight for equal ...