Even as the newly implemented printing quota system has already reduced the use of printers across campus, students find themselves nearing the end of their free allowance of pages. By making students pay for additional printing, the College seeks to cut down on waste and trim its budget however. ...
Members of the Student Government Association (SGA) committed $12,000 to expand Midnight Breakfast this spring at its meeting on March 7. Based on high student attendance in the fall and positive feedback from the student body, the Student Government Association has decided to continue and expand Midnight ...
For four Middlebury College students living at Quarry Road, October 30 is a day that will live in infamy. The day marked the first, though to the dismay of some, not the last, time the Vermont liquor inspector would take action against collegiate underage drinking. That night the Vermont liquor inspector, ...
The unmarked SUV students may have noticed Public Safety officers driving around campus in recent weeks is simply the department’s newest addition to its regular fleet of two vehicles. It has not yet been marked to identify it as a Public Safety vehicle because the department is awaiting a price ...
For two decades, chaos has engulfed the nation of Somalia. The United States government has been a key player in the rehabilitation effort in this nation, and recent government policies indicate that this trend will continue. In a New York Times article published on March 5, it was reported that the ...
Over 200 students will participate in this year’s Student Research Symposium on April 16, an increase of 50 percent from last year. The event has been expanded for the first time to include performances in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts and presentations in foreign languages. The ...
The Dean of Students’ office will restructure the distribution of Residential Advisors (RA) for the 2010-11 academic year in order to achieve a more balanced ratio of RAs to the students they oversee. Under the new system, the administration will retain the same number of RA positions. Many of the ...
ALEXANDRIA — Prior to traveling to Egypt, I had never been out of the United States (Canada doesn’t count), so I really wasn’t sure what to expect from a land as exotic as the Middle East. When I arrived, culture shock was my first reaction, but, like all who go abroad, I had expected this. What ...
Due to the recent economic crisis and Middlebury’s current financial balance, executives of the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) imposed major budget limitations on commons councils at the beginning of the 2009-10 year. In spite of these loses, as the College enters the midway point of the ...
Lecture example sparks media frenzy on Roberts What started out as a simple law lecture turned into a media frenzy on Thursday at Georgetown University. Professor Peter W. Tague started his criminal law course in the morning by telling students that the Supreme Court’s chief justice, John G. Roberts, ...
Applications to the College have increased by 16 percent compared to last year, with 7,976 prospective students vying for entry into the Class of 2014, according to Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett. The increase in popularity could be attributed to the College’s gradual climb in The U.S. News and World ...
The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) has reinstated raffles for students over the age of 21 during Pub Night this semester, a decision praised by many seniors who remember longing to participate as underclassmen. The move came after MCAB received comments from various upperclassmen, nostalgic ...
The SGA voted to contribute $47,000 to fund an expanded Outdoor Introduction for New Kids (OINK) program for the fall of 2010 at its Feb. 28 meeting. After the administration withdrew financial support for the reinstatement of MiddView, the outdoor orientation program supported by the Middlebury Mountain ...
All Middlebury students studying abroad in Chile are accounted for and doing well after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the region on Feb. 27. Saturday’s quake hit Chile at 3:28 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. By 4 a.m., the Schools Abroad program had alerted Dean of International Programs Jeff ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz revealed that an Academy-Award winning filmmaker, a decorated Army Colonel and the President of the Juilliard School are among the seven Honorary Degree Recipients for the 2010 graduation ceremony, exclusively to The Campus. Members of the Honorary Degree ...
By the fall of 2010, the Middlebury College Summer Language Schools, in collaboration with an undisclosed online partner, will launch a language software program geared toward teaching Spanish and French to K-12 students across the United States. According to Michael Geisler, vice president of Language ...
DAKAR, Senegal — An African international student, studying abroad in Africa. Even I felt it was weird to go for study abroad to my home continent while I am actually already studying abroad in the U.S. My friends on campus kept asking, ‘why not France?’ and one of my relatives was suspicious ...
A combination of both financial and environmental concerns led Library and Information Services (LIS) to recently remove 50 computers from the two language labs in the basement of the Sunderland Language Center. The computers, which were about five years old, have either been recycled for parts or ...
Midd students race to complete their ice creations before the judging starts.
The much-anticipated music video to “Midd Kid,” by the Allen Jokers, which premiered on Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Donald E. Axinn ’51 Center at Starr Library, continues to stir controversy among all members of the College community. Some see the video as an honest interpretation of campus social ...