Author: Kelly Janis With 184 students signed up as of Monday, the College has registered more participants for the second annual Power Shift Youth Climate Conference than any other institution in the nation. "The organizers of the conference are really impressed with us, which is an amazing feeling," ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Students' spending on campus has proved resilient in the face of the College's financial woes and the national economic recession. However, overall changes in the spending habits of the College community have forced the managers of the Grille and Juice Bar to alter hours and menu ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When you venture to talk to Maggie LeMay, expect to be taken on a tangent."In Vermont, we've always been very lucky about having more gay rights than any other state in the country, with civil unions and different kinds of affirmative action," said LeMay, one of the four sisters ...
Author: Kelly Janis Library and Information Services (LIS) is considering instituting printing quotas and establishing a sound-proof cell phone room in the Main Library. The plans were announced on the "All Things LIS" blog that Dean of Library and Information Services Michael Roy created shortly after ...
Author: Grady Ross In an economic climate that many are comparing to the Great Depression, the state of Vermont is revamping its food stamp program - a program that found its start in that first major period of financial distress. Renamed 3SquaresVT, the new program is designed to reach out to more ...
Author: J.P. Allen Middlebury residents gathered on Feb. 13 to discuss U.S. values and politics with Anna-Marie Slaughter, a distinguished scholar and recently-appointed high official in the Obama administration. Held in the Town Hall Theater, the talk was sponsered by The Vermont Humanities Council, ...
Author: Nicole Lam At this week's meeting, the Student Government Assoication (SGA) discussed the recent financial decisions made by the College administration which were made with little opportunity for input from SGA senators and committees. "Although I understand that many concerns were sensitive ...
Author: Dana Walters KRISPY KREME CHALLENGE BOASTS SWEET REWARDSOn Feb. 7, North Carolina State University hosted the "Krispy Kreme Challenge" for the sixth time, and the smell of success wasn't so sweet. Duke University sophomore Zach Hing competed in the challenge, which asks people to run a four-mile ...
Author: Hillary Hall Last April in a tight election, College students elected Bobby Joe Smith '09 as the Student Government Association's (SGA) president for the 2008-2009 school year. Voters responded to the three platforms he called his most important: communication between the SGA and the community, ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Brooker House and Palmer House, Middlebury's two "super block" houses, will continue to be used to house students united by a common interest in the fall of 2009. This year Brooker is themed as an outdoor interest house and Palmer houses students interested in arts and architecture. ...
Author: Liz Scarcini The Middlebury Fire Department recently turned up the heat at one of their bi-weekly meetings by sampling eight different homemade chilis. Eight firefighters aim to compete with several other chefs in Middlebury's first annual chili contest. The Better Middlebury Partnership, formerly ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce Money concerns can strain even the healthiest of relationships and the relationship between the town and the College has never been tension-free. When the College opened 51 Main at the Bridge last year, it took an unprecedented step toward competing with local business and potentially ...
Author: [no author name found] It's a British comedy, dahlingFeb. 19, 20, 21, 8:00 p.m.and Feb. 22, 2:00 p.m. The Middlebury Community Players present "Lettice and Lovage" at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Hailed as "a deliciously offbeat comedy," "Lettice and Lovage" features a tour guide to ...
Author: Beth Connolly I spent thirteen hours aboard Trenitalia. In English, this is called learning things the hard way; in Italian one would say, essere una stupidona. It all started well enough. The train departed from the ancient Greek city of Siracusa and traveled up the Sicilian coast. Outside ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When Bristol farmer and activist Erin Buckwalter recently worked with a group of Winooski children at the town's community garden, she was surprised to find that many of them did not know carrots grew underground.Until August, Buckwalter ran the community and youth garden programs ...
Author: Kelly Janis After months of deliberations by the Budget Oversight Committee, College President Ronald D. Liebowitz publicly announced the first set of a series of cost-cutting measures aimed at reducing expenditures by $20 million over the next several years to counter a mounting budget deficit. ...
Author: Tim O'Grady The release of course textbook lists two weeks before the semester commences and a $500 giveaway for College Bookstore members were the first of a myriad of developments for the newly renovated Bookstore in Proctor Hall.The new bookstore, which will sell textbooks, school supplies ...
Author: [no author name found] Relationship WorkshopFeb. 12, 6:30 p.m.The One-World Literary Project will be hosting local author Greg Krech's presentation, "Cultivating a Sense of Gratitude in Relationships: Lessons from Japanese Psychology, or How to Appreciate Your Partner Without Trying to Fix ...
Author: Kaity Potak Governor Jim Douglas faced heat from the town of his alma mater regarding the latest state budget and health-care cuts this past week. Middlebury residents gathered on Court Square on Feb. 2 to call attention to the details of Douglas' cuts and to remind citizens to continue pressuring ...
Author: Jaime Fuller On Feb. 28, well-known medical anthropologist and physician Dr. Paul Farmer will speak at the reopened Social Space in the McCullough Student Center. Farmer is the keynote speaker preceding the global public health symposium to be held from March 5 to 13.Romany Redman '11, one of ...