Author: Tess Russell 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 ...
Author: Grady Ross Several years ago, my family decided to take a guided tour at a zoo we were visiting. Everything was going quite well: we rode the little trolley from cage to cage oohing and ahhing at the crocodiles and monkeys and giraffes. Then we got to the panther. "We call these panthers," informed ...
Author: Brian Fung 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 ...
Author: Anna Briggs A selection committee compromised of select seniors has chosen Jake Liberman '09 to be the student speaker for this year's Commencement. Liberman will be joining Gary Hirschberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farms in sending a final message to the class of 2009."When I thought about what I ...
Author: Tim O'Grady 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 ...
Author: [no author name found] Wildflower walkMay 9, time TBAJoin the Green Mountain Club's very own Ave Haviland for a hike up Forest Service Road Number 32 in Goshen to Silver Lake. This is an easy-to-moderate three to four mile hike. Call496-6677 for details.Garden Club saleMay 9, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ...
Author: [no author name found] On May 3, Shelburne Farms held a free Calf Open House, allowing Eddie McCaffray '09 and Emmeline Cardozo '09 to get acquainted with chickens, pictured above. Those interested in farming were able to check out the farm's Brown Swiss Cow herd which makes milk for Shelburne ...
Author: Jaime Fuller NYU WARNS OF HIGH COSTNew York University is one of the most expensive higher education institutions in the country, with an annual cost of $54,000, and their low endowment per student means they cannot provide ample financial aid for all students. Eighty percent of undergraduates ...
Author: Liz Scarinci and Liam Gluck In the back room of Ilsley Library's second floor, a slice of Americana sits in seven cardboard boxes of vinyl records. These LPs, many of which are still wrapped, bring customers back several generations in popular music. Louise Mosher, cashier and Friends of the ...
Author: Hilary Hall Despite torrential rain this weekend, Relay for Life pulled it together on May 1 to create a successful event, raising over $100,000 to fight cancer."We made the decision barely 48 hours before due to the chance of rain," said Relay for Life co-chair Ruthie Reinken '09. "The transition ...
Author: Liam Gluck Maggie Surprenant is quick to tell you that "taking the bus is really cool." Having been a resident of Addison County for 33 years, she started driving the mid-day Middlebury Shuttle route for Addison County Transit Resources in February 2007. She also drives the Burlington Link ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Middlebury College's local food initiative is a couple steps ahead of other colleges and universities. The amount of local food in Middlebury's dining halls - 25 percent from Vermont alone - is a number higher than at most other institutions. Some other colleges and universities ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes In the past two weeks, four members of the Middlebury crew team have been diagnosed with and treated for community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), a strain of antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria. The College has taken measures to prevent further spread of the bacteria, which include ...
Author: [no author name found] The Middlebury Maple Run started at 9 a.m. at Porter Hospital on South Street, winding 13.14 miles through town and the College to end again at the hospital. The run was the first of its kind in Middlebury, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting The Cystic Fibrosis ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Since 1996, nonteaching staff positions have nearly doubled at Middlebury College in order to accomodate expansions in other areas of campus life. This trend, however, may end with the significant budget cuts Old Chapel has made in the past six months as Middlebury plans to cut ...
Author: Catherine Klem VALDIVIA - By some luck of fate, I managed to defeat all odds (namely buying my plane ticket for the wrong month) and find my way to Chile at the end of February to begin my five-month semester abroad in Valdivia. After being accosted for sitting in the wrong seat on the bus, ...
Author: Elizabeth Scarinci David Weinstock is not afraid to ask people tough questions, if poetry is what comes out of it.On April 23, more than 20 community members gathered in the basement conference room of the Ilsley Public Library, as they do every Thursday, for the Otter Creek Poetry Society meeting. ...
Author: Kara Shurmantine The results of a run-off election for president of the Student Government Association (SGA) pronounced Mike Panzer '10 victorious before 1:30 p.m. on Fri., April 24. Vrutika Mody '10, his opponent, lost by a slim 40 votes.The election put an end to a two-week presidential contest ...
Author: Grady Ross Two of my friends here have lost a grandparent in the past three weeks. Lonely, empty, disorienting
Author: Katie Siegner White Whale Web Services came to visit Middlebury on April 27 and 28, the first step in the College's Web makeover process that should be completed by Winter Term 2010.College officials say that the current Middlebury home page is out-of-date and leaves much to be desired, prompting ...