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Twitter takes College, classes by surprise
UPDATE: FOLLOW THE CAMPUS ON TWITTER: www.twitter.com/middcampus.
What do the Pentagon, the White House, Karl Rove and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) have in common with National Public Radio, Shaquille O'Neal, Lance Armstrong, Jimmy Fallon, Coldplay, the United Nations and now, Middlebury College? They are all using the Web's fastest-growing social network, Twitter, to share news and ideas en masse at lightning speeds.…
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Yogurt mogul delivers send-off to 2009 grads"You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well," Hirshberg says
On May 24, when President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm Gary Hirshberg announced during his speech at Middlebury's Commencement that he planned to "get the bad part over first," he could just have easily been talking about Sunday morning's weather, which forced the Class of 2009 to sport blue ponchos under the requisite uniform of robe, sunglasses and bed-head.…
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Cuts to save College $20 million
When the Middlebury College Board of Trustees convenes for its annual spring meeting from May 7 to May 9, money will be at the forefront of its discussions, especially the $20 million in budget cuts Old Chapel is planning for the next academic year.
"By and large, we're going to devote most of our time to talking about the financial situation," said President of the College Ronald D.…
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Total applicants for the incoming first-year class have declined 11.7 percent, a drop attributed to changes in the application process. As of May 4, the College's Office of Admissions received 584 deposits for September enrollment and 82 for February. Dean of Admissions Robert Clagett predicts that the College will meet its target enrollment of 600 students for September and 90 for February.
Ever woken up in the middle of a field in strange clothes? Jim Ross, a history teacher at Mt. Abraham Union High School, does it 10 to 12 times a summer, but the clothes he wears have been meticulously researched, and rather than waking up in the middle of Battell Beach, he wakes up among hundreds of tents at Fort Ticonderoga.
From our vantage point as journalists, college life tends to become distilled into an admittedly predictable collage of "big moments." As such, a retrospective of the past year would inevitably be highlighted by the College's two national championship victories - congratulations are in order again to the women's cross country and men's rugby teams - as well as by a stunning portrayal of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," brilliantly brought to life in a 1920s setting; by the (quite literally) groundbreaking undertaking of the Cross Street Bridge; and by the final conclusion to the renovation of McCullough.
It's every Middlebury student's biggest predicament. You want to take advantage of that beautiful spring day, but you would feel too guilty leaving campus to go to a nearby lake or waterfall Instead, take a five-minute walk to the back of the CFA and bask in the sun next to the pond, head up to the roof of a building of your choice or take a walk into town and find your adventure.
On Saturday, May 2, a packed crowd in the Château Theatre got to encounter the French language in its most animated, phlegmy incarnation. Spit flew, buttons popped and a variety of paper and cardboard horns paraded before the audience in a production of Eugène Ionesco's "Rhinocéros," put on by Associate Professor of French Charles Nunley's upper-level class, "Study/Production of a Play.
Count another championship for the rugby men of Middlebury. The Middlebury Rugby club defeated Georgetown 45-18 in the semifinals and Wisconsin-Madison 27-11 in the finals to capture their second Division II national championship in three years. The Panthers overcame a halftime deficit in the semis and withstood a comeback attempt in the finals on their way to the national title.