Author: Jaime Fuller The birthplace of the Environmental Studies major and the home of the idyllic Bread Loaf School of English seems the perfect place to host an Environmental Journalism Fellowship. Under the stewardship of Scholar-in-Residence Bill McKibben and Visiting Lecturer Christopher Shaw, ...
Author: Emma Gardner As the College community has made strides to convert the campus into a more environmentally friendly place over the past few years, students have begun to promote energy-saving alternatives to using personal cars through the year-old Zipcar program. While the College has long permitted ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Though much has been done in the 18 months since the College announced its commitment to carbon neutrality in May 2007, new innovations will hold the key to upholding that promise by 2016 given current economic conditions, according to faculty and students already searching for ...
Author: Mario Ariza With the aim of increased on-campus transparency, the College's top administrators showcased to the student body an abridged version of the in-depth presentation on the College's financial position Nov. 11 in the Grille. President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz and Chief Financial ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The Old Stone Mill is not a means to an end, according to its users. Instead, the space allows ideas to start off campus, outside of the context of students' everyday routines. "This space is appealing for students who want to do things - things not only for college credit," said ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Feeling timid? Try a dose of dog milk. Hormones making you feel out of synch? A drop of cuttlefish ink will do the trick. Wondering what to get your aunt for Hanukah? Snake venom - the ultimate cure for varicose veins. Homeopathic medicine, one of the many modes of alternative ...
Author: Mike Waters Hello! Or, as they say in Denmark, "Hola." They do not actually say this in Denmark, but they might as well as far as I'm concerned, because due to the complete inadequacy of my Danish classes and the fact that Danish is an impossible-to-pronounce devil language, I haven't learned ...
Author: Tim O'Grady On Nov. 7, The Rohatyn Center for International Affairs hosted "Projects for Peace Presentations" at the Robert A. Jones '59 House. This International Studies colloquium featured six Middlebury students, who discussed various humanitarian projects they participated in this past summer.Nine ...
Author: Ian Trombulak Friends, family and other members of the College community gathered at a memorial service on Nov. 8 to remember Nick Garza '11, who went missing in February and was found to have died in May. An oak tree was planted on the lawn between Le Chateau and Allen Hall, a first-year residence ...
Author: Hillary Hall The Community Council met on Nov. 4 to discuss several issues. Council member Assistant Professor of Italian Stefano Mula brought the first issue to the table: a motion urging the faculty to put its booklists on BannerWeb as soon as possible. Mula called this idea "easier for everybody."Ultimately, ...
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Author: Amanda Cormier Across the state, historians and preservationists are racing to save an image of quintessential Vermont that has begun to fade: sprawling blue sky, cows grazing on green pastures, and a barn nestled into the hillside. But before they can begin to preserve the bucolic imagery that ...
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 ...