On Sept. 30 the citizens of the world’s only totalitarian state were able to view the individual who will likely succeed their current dictator. Through a low-resolution image fed to the state-run national newspaper, they saw a round-faced young man in between his father and a general, unsmiling and ...
The Saturday night of my first full weekend in Madrid, there was a huge festival in the center of the city called “La Noche en Blanco.” In the week leading up to this big night, I could not walk down any main street without seeing an advertisement for the event, yet no one seemed to know what it ...
Students wishing to relax and play online video games have been denied access to the college’s online network on three separate occasions during the first term, prompting outrage among the campus’s devoted online gamers. While the first two periods lasted only three days each (Aug. 8-11 and Sep. ...
US Senate examines for-profit college practices For-profit colleges have recently taken a huge hit in public perception after being exposed in U.S. Senate hearings as falsely inflating their post-college employment statistics. An employee at Education Management Corp.’s Art Institutes testified ...
Stocked with pies, crumbles, syrups and nearly every kind of apple you could ever want, the Champlain Orchards farm shop is as Vermont as Vermont gets. Go upstairs, though, and you’re in Jamaica. Bill Suhr, the owner of the Shoreham orchard, opened the door to the Jamaican immigrant workers’ second-story ...
Nathan LaBarba ’14 and Joanie Thompson ’14 were elected first-year senators to the Student Government Association (SGA), and Charlie Arnowitz ’13 won the Brainerd Commons senator position in last Friday’s election. LaBarba and Thompson were two of eight first-year candidates running for this ...
Though the new website launched in February 2010, one facet of Middlebury’s revamped online presence did not take off until May. MiddLab, a virtual compendium of student and faculty research at the College, is still in its infancy in September after a slow summer, but its link sits prominently on ...
Victor Zhikai Gao, a former interpreter for Deng Xiaoping and currently an influential figure in China’s economy, will speak on campus Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. He is the first prominent politically- and economically-involved figure from China to speak at the College about China’s ...
The Monterey Institute of International Studies will offer 50 new scholarships each year for applicants that fund attendance of Middlebury College Language Schools, the Monterey Institute Summer Intensive Language Program or Monterey’s Intensive English Program before beginning graduate enrollment ...
With the full SGA elected last week, Sophomore Senator Tony Huynh ’13 assuming control as Speaker, and the first briefing by Treasurer Will McConaughy ’11, the Senate emerged from this weekend as a fully functioning body for fall 2010. After passing their first resolution — supporting the renewal ...
Has the western world been hypocritical in its condemnation of the Iranian government for its implementation of capital punishment? Such was the claim that Iranian President Mahmous Ahmadinejad made in his address to reporters on Sept. 21 at the United Nations headquarters. Ahmadinejad berated the ...
CONCEPCIÓN — While the earthquake in Haiti last Jan. received a flood of political, humanitarian and media attention for its catastrophic level of destruction, the incredible 8.8-magnitude earthquake a little over a month later in southern Chile went largely unnoticed by comparison, despite the fact ...
Weight loss courses help overweight students The percentage of overweight college students has increased to 11.3 percent in 2009 from eight percent in 2000. As concern for the growing number of overweight students rises, some colleges are responding by allowing their students to raise their GPA by ...
This year’s Clifford Symposium, entitled "Beyond Rx: Global Health," opens today and will run through Saturday, introducing experts from a wide variety of fields covering global health through lectures, discussions, poster sessions, performances and workshops. Faculty organizers of the event include ...
First-years and Brainerd Commons Owls hit the polls today to elect their representatives for student government. Ballots will be distributed to students by e-mail, and voting will take place until noon Friday. Still on the fence? Check out this cheat sheet before you vote. BRAINERD SENATOR Charlie ...
As per a final decision made by Dining Services on Sept. 14, the Juice Bar will remain closed and not re-open, as was previously reported. “There was some miscommunication about whether or not that decision was going to stick this fall,” said Vice President for Administration Tim Spears. However, ...
With the onset of fall comes cooler days, changing leaves and, for many students, the Jewish High Holidays. With Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 8 and Yom Kippur on Sept. 17 and 18, this month Hillel co-president Zach Fenster, ’12, is well-occupied by more than just the back-to-school routine. “We’re ...
Nearly 2,500 Middlebury students enjoy meals at Ross and Proctor dining halls each day, but for students with food allergies, every meal is another possible chance for disaster. Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette is in charge of protecting students from various allergies. A 13-year veteran ...
French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has received harsh criticism from the European Union for his government’s recent initiative to deport 1,100 Romanian and Bulgarian Roma people, commonly referred to as Gypsies by French citizens. Since July, over 1,000 Roma have already been forced to leave the ...