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Author: [no author name found] 2008 Election Talk Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.Middlebury College professor emeritus Eric Davis will present "The 2008 Presidential election in Historical Perspective: Comparisons with 1932, 1960 and 1980" at the Middlebury Inn. Sheldon Museum members $18; non-members $20. Reservations ...


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Dish group pushes for accountability

Author: Emily Nunez A new student initiative to decrease student indifference about dining hall dishes spearheaded by Molley Kaiyoorawongs '09 began publicizing its agenda on campus last week. Kaiyoorawongs hopes that by informing the student body about the negative impact that failing to return dining ...


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College Shorts

Author: Nicole Lam CHAPEL UNVARNISHED DESPITE RENOVATIONSA recent $33 million renovation project at Trinity College in Connecticut modernized some of the oldest classrooms, dormitories and seminar offices in the country. When inspections showed that the roof and dormer of three building complexes were ...


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Community unites to christen Axinn

Author: Stephanie Joyce When Donald Axinn '51 looked out the south-facing window of his First-year dorm room in Starr Hall fifty years ago, he never imagined that one day the building he was looking at, Starr Library, would bear his name. Thirteen years of planning culminated in the dedication of the ...


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MiddBrief

Author: Ian Trombulak The College's weeklong Food Symposium kicked off on Oct. 20 in the Orchard at Hillcrest Environment House, where Professor of Environmental Studies John Elder gave a lecture about local food and its potential to help fight climate change.Elder began the lecture discussing the beauty ...


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School cuts costs, ends hires

Author: Amanda Cormier President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz issued a campus-wide memo Oct. 8 outlining how the College will ensure its financial health during the global economic downturn through an immediate hiring freeze and a careful reduction in spending.The memo served as a follow-up to ...


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Amethyst brings drinking age debate to the Capitol

Author: Kelly Janis Last week, the non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. in 2007 to foster dialogue about underage drinking relocated from the cramped Middlebury store front in which it was born to a new office in southeast Washington, D.C., just blocks from the ...


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Symposium keys into the history of Axinn

Author: Derek Matus During Homecoming week, the annual Clifford Symposium hosted two faculty panels to discuss, debate and exchange ideas with the Middlebury community: by transcending department lines and uniting different methodologies to tackle specific topics, the event inaugurated the new purpose ...


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New Web site offers services to boost GPA

Author: Cloe Shasha Started in 2006 by two college students from the University of Wisconsin Madison, the Web site www.theclassconnection.com now serves over 600 colleges and 350 high schools across the country. The mission of the website is directly stated: the creators want to help students get better ...


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Jansen reinvents bookstore amid renovations

Author: Tim O'Grady Robert Jansen has enacted a plethora of changes since becoming manager of the Middlebury College Bookstore in January 2007. As he plans for the future, Jansen strives to create a world-class bookstore that delivers more value back to students.One way he plans to achieve his goal ...


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MiddBriefs

Author: Miles Abdilla and Ian Trombulak PROFESSORS EASE STUDENTS' FINANCIAL FEARSIn response to a bombardment of questions from both students and faculty members regarding the state of the U.S. economy, Professors of Economics David Colander, Peter Matthews, Scott Pardee and Bob Prasch held a discussion ...


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Welch Bids on Bailout

Author: Andrea Glaessner Vermont Congressman Peter Welch joined 263 of his fellow House representatives Oct. 3 in approving the $700 billion bailout package designed to rescue ailing credit markets. Although the House rejected the bill on Oct. 1, 58 representatives, including Welch, changed their votes ...


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Café pleases Provençal pallette

Author: Kaity Potak What happens when a Provençal chef with 30 years of gastronomic experience graduates from "La Colline" in Montpellier, France and moves to the United States? He ends up in a different Montpelier entirely - The New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt, that is. Chef Robert ...


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Overseas Briefing The foreign language of British-English

Author: H. Kay Merriman Whilst studying Shakespeare and Journalism at "the most creative college in the U.K." this semester, I have successfully resigned my Middlebury prepster status for that of a hipster, developed a nasty second-hand smokers' cough, watched multiple British professors mock Sarah ...


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Focus accrues on engagement during students' second years

Author: Lois Parshley The College's administration is working on a new program to provide direction for sophomores called the "Sophomore Year Experience." President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz hopes the new program will keep sophomores from feeling forgotten, as first-years have the First-Year ...


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College Shorts

Author: Stephanie Joyce UNCONVENTIONAL EXHIBIT RAISES AWARENESSEmploying an unconventional technique to raise awareness about sexual assault, students at the University of Northern Colorado hung t-shirts decorated with stories and artwork from stair railings around campus this week. Each shirt depicted ...


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SGA Beat Bumps in the road

Author: Mario Ariza Although Student Government Association (SGA) President Bobby Joe Smith has proved to be an efficient executive thus far, this week the SGA hit its first speed bump of the semester. Whereas the previous week's debate was orderly, and that meeting's movement from topic to topic organically ...


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Improv troupe searches for niche

Author: Cloe Shasha Last winter, in the middle of the academic school year, a group of students joined together to practice improvisational theater. On Sept. 29, four of these students performed their first official show under the title of "Middlebrow."Neil Baron '10, Adam Kritzer '11, Danny Metzger-Traber ...




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