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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author: Amanda Cormier Four months after surviving the 40-foot fall that endangered his limbs and life, Robert Demic of Bristol is one step closer to reaching the goal he set in June - to tap dance by July of 2009.Last Friday, Demic, who the Addison County Independent called, "The Miracle Man," did ...
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 ...