In an e-mail to students, faculty and staff in January, Old Chapel announced that the 2011 Middlebury College Commencement Weekend will see two changes to its program. Baccalaureate will now include recognition of national honors, and graduates and their families will be able to participate in informal ...
Over the past two weeks Egyptians have waged ideological battles across their country, arguing amongst one another about the problems within their nation, and about the political leaders that continue to represent them. On Jan. 25, following the precedent set by the Tunisian protests, Egyptians took ...
Teens turn to bath salts as alternative drugs Bath salts are no longer just for long, rejuvenating soaks in the Battell Hall bathtubs. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the aromatic concoctions are increasingly being used as legal alternatives to cocaine and heroine. Users get their ...
This past weekend, the Middlebury College community organized and participated in a variety of events to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Stephanie Pons ’12 and Whitney Hanson ’11 organized a volunteer event where people could come and prepare fabric which would be sent to Mothers ...
A group of students was recently awarded the contract to run the Juice Bar as part of the contest launched by Vice President for Administration Tim Spears last fall. If the preparation process goes smoothly, the Juice Bar will reopen at the start of the spring semester under the students’ management. A ...
According to data released by the Office of the Registrar, grades at the College have steadily increased over the past 10 years. The data tracked the grade point average (GPA) in every department from the last decade and found that the overall GPA has risen from 3.27 in the fall of 2000 to 3.45 in ...
After the spring semester exam period, Facilities Services will begin a $10.5 million renovation of Forest Hall that will add 11 new beds and bring the building’s systems up to code compliance. The renovation will also move the Mailing Service and Reprographics office to the Freeman International ...
Midway through its second year, the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) continues to tackle issues of diversity in the Middlebury academic setting. The CCSRE formally launched in the fall of 2009, but the idea had been developing for years. “The idea of creating a center ...
On Feb. 11 50 to 60 college students from across Vt. will converge on campus to discuss what role community service and civic engagement play in their lives. The conference, dubbed the Student Think Tank on Civic and Community Engagement, is part of a larger initiative led by New England Research Center ...
At its Jan. 16 meeting, the SGA passed several new resolutions, including a controversial resolution encouraging the administration to consider the re-instatement of a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on the College campus. The resolution, proposed by Brainerd Commons Senator Charlie ...
In recent weeks violence has erupted in the North African nation of Tunisia. The violence was first sparked on Dec. 17 when a young man lit himself on fire to protest the worsening economic conditions in the agriculture-based state. Such a visible display of anger ignited the simmering public resentment ...
JOHANNESBURG — While all of you are living it up in feet of snow, I’m sitting outside writing this in gloriously sunshiney, 70-degree weather (sorry for bragging). In all seriousness, I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to spend my Jterm interning with the Tapologo AIDS hospice in South ...
FourLoko drink to be recycled, used as fuel Four Loko may have been banned from the shelf, but it has not yet been completely obliterated. As many college students know, the high-powered energy drink, which contains a potent mixture of caffeine and malt liquor, continues to live on at campus parties ...
The Office of Public Safety continues to investigate the forced entry and burglary of Porter House, which was discovered on Dec. 28. Officer Chris Thompson, who discovered the break-in around 5:20 p.m. that day, reported the crime. At 11:15 p.m., students, faculty and staff received an e-mail informing ...
Despite promises made last October for expanded operating hours at the Grille on Sundays and Mondays, administrators now predict new hours will not go into effect until the beginning of spring term, at best. Last October, Dining Services hoped to expand the operating hours of the Grille to 5 p.m. to ...
The Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy (MMLA) has announced the addition of Swarthmore College to the summer school’s locations for 2011. Located in Swarthmore, Penn., the school and its new program will draw 70 faculty and staff members and over 250 students. The MMLA was created by the Language ...
In their first meeting of Winter Term, on Jan. 9, the Student Government Association (SGA) sought to address complaints about the lack of available newspapers in the dining hall and continued discussing old business, such as Pass/Fail and Midnight Breakfast. Currently, the SGA funds The New York Times, ...
On Jan. 9, citizens of South Sudan began the seven-day process of voting for their independence. The vote represents the culmination of a desperate 50-year struggle of South Sudanese citizens to secede from their neighbors to the North. Government officials from both sides will continue to discuss the ...
BEIJING — It was somewhere between the instant noodle aisle and distilled rice spirits section that an unsettling sensation started in my stomach. Caught in the whirlwind of a sudden onrush of shoppers scrambling for half-priced yogurt, I lost track of my friends. The first few days in Beijing had ...
Study sheds light on effects of being dumped According to a recent study by the University of Michigan, being dumped has a negative effect on a person’s attractiveness to the opposite sex. The study, published in the scientific journal Evolutionary Psychology, tracked how 198 U. Michigan students ...