Author: Emma Gardner A good sandwich is hard to find, so when one falls into your lap, make sure you know where to find it again - chances are, the source is the Grapevine Grille. In the past three years at Middlebury I have made it my mission, my vocation, my life's work - call it what you will - to ...
Author: Livingston Burgess During the week of finals, Dec. 8-11, dining services plans to provide snacks and drinks in the Grille as a late-night study break, Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette said recently. The new offerings, known as "Drop-in Snacks," will replace the hot meal known as "Midnight ...
Author: Austin Davis On Nov. 4, the College Bookstore announced that it would begin posting booklists for classes online starting spring 2009.The bookstore's Web site now lists all of the required textbooks for each class as well as each book's new and used price at the bookstore itself. Currently, ...
Author: Adam Schaffer With the first round of applications due Nov. 15, the College's Department of Admissions and students worldwide are bracing for what promises to be the most competitive application season in history.According to Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett, applications "are running 12 percent ...
Author: [no author name found] The First Thanksgiving Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m.In the latest presentation of the One World Library Project lecture series, Abenaki educator JudyDow will discuss myths about the first Thanksgiving. Information: (802) 453-4147 www.oneworldlibraryproject.orgIn Praise of Local Artists ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce On Nov. 3, members of the College community received an e-mail from Acting Provost Tim Spears about plans for a new Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity to be located at Carr Hall. For many, this was the first news that there were plans for such a Center, but ...
Author: Derek Matus LIGHTS OUT FOR SMOKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOLSA new state law in Pennsylvania that forbids smoking in all public buildings includes a smoking ban on 14 public university campuses, which has met with mixed reactions from campus and other groups.While this move was supposedly meant ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Students preparing to take off-campus Winter Term courses were notified of the trips' unexpected cancellation last week. The main impetus for this last-minute decision was the national financial crisis and its effect on the College's shrinking endowment. Last spring, students were ...
Author: Rodrigo Seira Several Vermont ski resorts including Smugglers' Notch and Sugarbush have banned two new lines of Burton snowboards that feature suggestive images of Playboy models and cartoons depicting self-mutilation. The resorts' official bans come as the latest development in a series of ...
Author: Kevin Redmon My day begins at 5:23 in the morning when Adi sends me a series of text messages. He's standing in the pre-dawn dark outside a Virginia polling place, trying to talk his way inside with a camera crew. He sounds a little disappointed that I'm not in the Bureau yet. As I pull on pants, ...
Author: Scott Greene Select members of the College community received news of another tragedy in the early hours of Oct. 31, when former student Matti Rudolph was found dead after a night in which he was escorted home for violating an on-campus ban. Rudolph, who enrolled at and withdrew from the College ...
Author: [no author name found] Himalayan Market in MiddleburyNov. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Handcrafted treasures from Tibet, India and Nepal will be showcased in this benefit for the Bridge School scholarship fund. South Asian cuisine will also be for sale. Middlebury Bridge School, 1469 Exchange St.Champlain ...
Author: Lois Parshley A College delegation went to Japan in early October to investigate the possibility of establishing a Middlebury School Abroad program in Japan - thereby expanding the Middlebury program's offerings to an additional country. Middlebury currently has study abroad programs in twelve ...
Author: Tim Miles Barbara Ganley, former Lecturer and Tutor in Writing, left the College last spring to pursue her mission of encouraging creativity through digital media in rural communities across the country. Ganley has recently founded the Centers for Community Digital Exploration, an organization ...
Author: Patrick D'Arcy On Oct. 31, an elephant, a cow, a bunny, a collection of garden vegetables and 30 or so others set out on bikes from the lawn of Twilight Hall as part of the critical mass bike ride that marked the finale of Middlebury's First Annual Bike Week.Will Drucker '08.5 conceived the ...
Author: Hillary Hall and Derek Matus BUSINESS GROUP PITCHES "BIG BOX SWINDLE" TO PROMOTE BUYING LOCALWhy should I buy local? Stacy Mitchell of the national nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance answered this very question for a crowded auditorium in Twilight Auditorium on Oct. 28. Mitchell, a ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Vermonters flooded polling stations across the state this Election Day, drawing a close to the epic presidential campaign drama that has riveted Americans for the past 18 months. Vermont was one of the first states the media declared blue, handing President-elect Barack Obama ...
Author: Adam Schaffer STUDY SHOWS PARTYING MAY RESULT IN BRAIN DAMAGEIt now appears that Facebook pictures and a nasty hangover are not the only scars students have to contend with after a night of sin at KDR. New research from the University of California at Davis suggests that there is a correlation ...
Author: Amanda Cormier The creation of a Sexual Assault Oversight Committee (SAOC) was announced by President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz in an e-mail to the College community on Oct. 28. Recommended by last year's Task Force on the Status of Women, the Committee will provide oversight on all ...
Author: Scott Greene Students evacuated McCardell Bicentennial Hall just before 5 p.m. on Nov. 2 when "copious" amounts of smoke in a fourth floor lab set off the smoke alarms and prompted the response of numerous Middlebury and neighboring town law enforcement authorities.In what the College's Department ...