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 ...
Author: Catherine Ahearn Faculty members who published books in the past year were honored on April 24 at a reception in Special Collections at the Main Library. Eighteen authors were recognized for 24 titles, which were displayed for attendees to browse. The reception formally began when attendees, ...
Author: Becca Fanning As Middlebury community members came out of winter hibernation to enjoy the beautiful weather, listen to live music and sample local foods, the message for the environment was perfectly clear. Despite the current economic crisis and the nation's seeming preoccupation with large-scale ...
Author: Amy Francisco This past Sunday, students waking up before noon may have noticed the yellow flags, cheering supporters and almost 200 racers participating in the newly created "Middlebury Maple Run - The Sweetest Half." The name refers both to one of Vermont's quintessential winter activities ...
Author: Nicole Lam YALE ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 WORLD FELLOWSOn April 23, Yale University announced next year's Yale World Fellows. The fellows include an advisor to the president of South Africa, a United Nations television producer and the opinions editor of leading Russian business daily, Vedemosti. ...
Author: Garrett Reynold Dining Services has been one of the divisions targeted for streamlining as the College searches for creative ways to scale back the budget. By January 2010, the College will operate just two dining halls - Ross and Proctor - which will both be newly renovated to meet the needs ...
Author: Amanda Cormier Andy Buxton never minds keeping his varied posts behind the bar - part nurse, part psychiatrist, part trivia master (he likes to combine local knowledge with pop culture references), part friendly conversationalist. He especially loves his job on days like today, when the raw ...
Author: Grady Ross At the heart of the crowded vitality of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Florida runs Main Street USA, a tribute to the role of a traditional American main street as the lifeblood of any town. Complete with a barber shop, bakery and a cinema, the quaint homage to small-town life ...
Author: Hilary Hall Despite voting glitches, a wide majority of student voters elected Molly Dwyer '10 as the Student Co-Chair of the Community Council (SCCOCC) for the 2009-2010 academic year. Dwyer, a two-year Community Council veteran, gained 466 of the 731 votes cast and beat out two first-year ...
Author: Dana Walters On April 14, Dean of the College Gus Jordan sent out a campus-wide e-mail informing students that they would have to pay a $50 parking fee per semester next academic year. This new fee will affect on-campus residents as well as commuters and Language School students, who will be ...
Author: Grady Ross Vermont ranks last among all 50 states in its demand for petroleum products, and emerges second only to Hawaii in least consumption of natural gas. Still, nearly 3/5 of Vermonters use fuel oil as their primary source of home heating. Furthermore, in January 2009, the state paid on ...
Author: Greg Larsen ATHENS, Ga. - When I told my friends at Middlebury that I'd be studying this spring at the University of Georgia, a surprising number of people replied with the question, "Georgia the country?" And I'm sure when this briefing shows up in the paper, many people will see Athens and ...