Author: Kaity Potak "Buy Local" is a familiar mantra to most Vermonters these days. From bumper stickers to facts posted on farmers' market bulletin boards, the movement implores consumers to support their communities and promote environmental conservation by purchasing food locally as often as possible. ...
Author: Eleanor Horowitz On Oct. 29, a group of over 50 students gathered to watch Al Gore's live webcast for Power Vote. The Sunday Night Group (SNG) and the College's chapter of Power Vote sponsored the event held in the Orchard in the Hillcrest Environmental Center on Wednesday night while American ...
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Author: Mario Ariza The Crest Room was witness to a strange sight on Oct. 28. The school's top brass, including President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Patrick Norton and Acting Provost Tim Spears presented a joint session of the Student Government Association (SGA) ...
Author: Nicole Lam The week before Halloween, festive treats and goodies fill up Middlebury shops and restaurants as everyone gets in gear for the holiday. Instead of reaching for the typical candy corn, orange and black M&M's, and orange caramel-filled chocolates sold in supermarkets like Shaw's, ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Rolling Stone magazine editor Eric Bates gave an opinionated address on the presidential election on Oct. 28 as part of the "Meet the Press" lecture series. Bates spent half-an-hour giving his perspective on the candidates, the campaigns and the mainstream media before relinquishing ...
Author: Adam Schaffer With the Nov. 4 presidential election rapidly approaching, College Republicans and Democrats are scrambling to convince undecided voters to come out for their candidates.College Democrats gathered Oct. 24 in the Hillcrest Environmental Center to make phone calls to potential supporters ...
Author: [no author name found] Lighted Pumpkin PatchOct. 30, 6-8 p.m.Come celebrate the fall at the Middlebury pumpkin patch near Helen Porter Nursing Home. Hot cider and Halloween cookies will be served, come add to the display with your own carved pumpkins. "Smokey Joe's Café" at Town Hall TheaterOct. ...
Author: Amanda Cormier As the worldwide financial crisis deepens, Vermont social welfare programs have witnessed an influx of low-income residents seeking help to make ends meet. Across the state, health care and home heating have risen to the forefront of concern.The Vermont Coalition of Clinics for ...
Author: Michael Suen 2007 Leahy Global Health Scholar Harriet Napier '12.5 spent part of her first semester volunteering at an emergency housing shelter for underprivileged infants in Romania. "I have experienced, first hand, children who have been denied their right to appropriate medical help because ...
Author: Ian Trombulak The College hosted and won the second annual Intercollegiate Quidditch World cup for the second year in a row on Oct. 26, beating out Vassar College once again for the title. Fourteen schools sent teams this year, coming from as far as the University of Washington for the opportunity ...
Author: Photos by Andrew Ngeow and Judy Jiad Not all Halloween costumes are scary, especially this cuddly giraffe. Middlebury residents of all ages came out in droves to participate in the first Annual Spooktacular Halloween Parade.This ghoulish ghost surveys his options as he draws his treat from a ...
Author: Austin Davis Molley Kaiyoorawongs '09, who has recently spearheaded a campaign to decrease student apathy concerning dining hall management, is expanding her crusade to include advocating a change to the administration's course evaluation policies. The ubiquitous posters covering campus state ...
Author: Denizhan Duran JUICY CONTROVERSY ERUPTS AT WILLIAMSSimilar to Middlebury Confessional, the Web site that aggravated much of the student body last spring, Williams College is now beleaguered by JuicyCampus, a controversial online gossip forum that started a page for the college on Sept. 30. Williams ...
Author: Mike Bayersdorfer Ever heard of shinty? Probably not - and that wouldn't be that terribly surprising, either. Shinty is a game played in the highlands of Scotland and at some universities and cities in the lowlands, but its reach is pretty much limited to Scotland. If you know what Irish hurling ...
Author: Alice Bennett Each year on Oct. 31, children dressed as witches and vampires go house-to-house, collecting tricks and treats from porches adorned with paper ghosts and jack-o-lanterns. Such traditions define the distinctly American holiday, yet we often forget about the supernatural legends ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The Department of Public Safety released the Middlebury College Annual Crime Report Statistics for 2007 on Oct. 9. The report includes crimes committed in 2005 and 2006 as well. While most rates of specific crimes did not drastically change between 2005 and 2007, the drop in burglary ...
Author: Tim Miles Another step has been made in Dr. Anders Holm's quest to bring green energy to the town of Middlebury. Holm, an otolaryngologist in Middlebury, has been designing a hydropower project in Otter Creek for the past few years. Finally, Holm has sent in a preliminary application in to ...
Author: Rodrigo Seira Ethan B. Linck, an explorer, ornithologist, and high school senior, spoke last Thursday in Bristol about his latest exploration trip. In a presentation entitled "Dispatch for the Last Unknown: Ecology, Culture and Exploration in Papua New Guinea," Linck discussed his experiences ...
Author: Grace Close The heroic deeds of Polish Catholic social worker Irena Sendler are now cemented in history. During the Holocaust, Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto and relocated them to non-Jewish family households to protect their safety. Once safe in the homes of their ...