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 ...
Author: Grady Ross Last Saturday morning, I took a walk in the fields around my house. I had four essays due last Friday, two looming on the horizon and a couple of midterms during the week about which I was not particularly excited. I knew I could get it done, but I had no motivation. For the first ...
Author: Kelly Janis On March 12, the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) released its final report on the death of Nicholas Garza, a first-year student who disappeared from the College last February, and whose body was found in Otter Creek nearly four months later. According to the report, Garza consumed ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Dining Room Servery Worker Stephen Draper, affectionately known as "Doctor Proctor" by many students, is retiring this April after 20 years at the College.Draper worked in Proctor Dining Hall for most of his 20 years at Middlebury and this year moved to the Freeman International ...
Author: Katie Siegner Throughout the process of reducing the College's budget and implementing financial cuts, it has remained a priority of the administration to avoid the elimination of faculty and staff positions and increase the efficiency of the current system. The College will ideally achieve ...
Author: Alice Wisener On a late Saturday afternoon right before closing time, Ellen Walter, owner of Blue Moon Clothing and Gifts, confessed that she has had a long and busy day, with streams of customers coming in and out. Her unique and different style shows through her merchandise and has proved ...
Author: [no author name found] Spring danceMarch 21, 2-5 p.m.The Unitarian Universalist Church in Middlebury is hosting a spring dance party for the whole family with particular attention to kids under 12 to benefit the tae kwon do K.I.C.K.S. scholarship program. Hike in CharlotteMarch 21, all day.There ...
Author: Molly Holmes On March 6, the Vermont-based jam band Phish reunited in Hampton, Va. for what would be the beginning of a new phase in the band's musical career. Critics deemed the festival a success for the band, and their recently announced summer tour is already sold out. But as the most famous ...
Author: Garrett Reynolds The Inter-House Council (IHC) is a student-only organization responsible, among other things, for keeping the social houses and super blocks in line. The IHC has historically been composed of the president and vice-president from each of five social houses: Alpha Delta Phi (ADP), ...
Author: Jaime Fuller On March 5, the Middlebury College Quidditch Club was an honorable mention at the annual PR Week Awards in the category of promotional event of the year. Last year's spring break quidditch tour came in second behind Fleishman-Hillard and Papa John's International's "A Pie in the ...