Author: [no author name found] Dance lessonsApril 9, 7 p.m.Come to the Middlebury TownHall Theater for big band music. Dick Forman is bringing the Sound Investment, Middlebury College's jazz ensemble, downtown for dance lessons at 7 p.m. and a performance at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10, or free with a Middlebury ...
Author: Tim O'Grady "Power Strip: How Much Can You Take Off" is an ongoing competition, run by the Sustainability Integration Office, to encourage students to minimize their daily electricity usage. Five teams of five students track their normal energy use for one week using a Kill-a-Watt meter, then ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Students have the Student Government Association (SGA), Commons Councils and protests to ensure their voices are heard by the College administration. The American people have their vote (and their dollar). But how is the will of the faculty expressed?As part of The Campus's series ...
Author: [no author name found] 4/7 - State lawmakers voted to override Governor Jim Douglas' Monday veto of a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry.The Senate passed the bill with enough support to garner the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto, 23-5. The House announced its 100-49 vote ...
Author: Elizabeth Scarinci For decades, the town of Middlebury has not had a functional passenger train. During college breaks, students arrange for taxis or carpools, or sometimes resort to asking a friend or advisor to drive them to the nearest train station, a 45-minute drive away in downtown Rutland. ...
Author: Jaime Fuller This week, candidates for Student Government Association (SGA) President and Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) are stumping for students to sign their petitions so they can ask the SGA to accept their candidacy on April 12. After that, candidates have until next Thursday ...
Author: Grady Ross The idea of home always becomes more clearly defined for me when I travel. No matter how many sights I see or people I meet, travel never fails to lose some of its novelty after extended periods of time. Lying in a hotel bed with the sheets too tightly tucked in hospital corners, ...
Author: Aseem Mulji In a meeting on March 19, the Student Government Association (SGA) and Faculty Council hammered out a compromise on the contentious Honor Code amendment on faculty proctoring, which SGA Chief of Staff Katie Hylas '09 called "the biggest thing the SGA has accomplished since I've been ...
Author: Hilary Hall The Community Council met on Mar. 30 to review the Queer Studies House, a new Honor Code protocol and the campus social houses. After unanimously passing the last meeting's minutes, the Council listened to an update from the Queer Studies House, which is in its first year as an academic ...
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Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe The United States has no federal laws against public nudity, but Vermont is one of the only states in the Union without laws requiring clothing in public. The townspeople of Shoreham, however, are not trying to play into the naked Vermonter stereotype: they took off their ...
Author: Jaime Fuller PUBLIC SERVICE CAREERS MORE LUCRATIVE IN CRISISDue to the shortfall of oft-sought occupational opportunities in this time of economic crisis, many college seniors are pursuing careers in public service. Fourteen percent of this year's senior class at Harvard University applied for ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Aylie Baker '09 has been awarded a Watson Fellowship for the 2009-2010 year. Her project is titled "Voices for the Future: Using Islanders' Stories for Civic Engagement," and explores the use of audio storytelling to build community and create a dialogue about sustainability on ...
Author: Catherine Ahearn Changes in the application protocol and a six-percent decline in prospective students' campus visits have led to a smaller applicant pool for the Class of 2013, whose members will receive their decision letters on March 27. However, 45 percent of the incoming class has already ...
Author: Hilary Hall On March 10, the Community Council met to discuss its plans for the remainder of the spring semester. Following the unanimous approval of last week's minutes, Acting Dean of the College Gus Jordan brought up the Community Principles plan from last semester. Community Principles, ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) announced that Santigold will perform at the College in April. In place of what has traditionally been the "big" spring concert, MCAB decided this year to split the funding between a number of smaller performances throughout the year, ...
Author: Simran Bhalla Despite the flailing job market, the Career Services Office (CSO) has been working hard to make sure opportunities exist for the Class of 2009, venturing away from the previously advocated financial careers to offer options more lucrative in an economy where the current unemployment ...