Author: Tim O'Grady The College faculty has begun implementation of a new rule mandating that all students complete senior work as a requirement for graduation, a rule that will take effect for the class of 2013. Senior work is defined as a culminating thesis, creative project or special seminar paper ...
Author: Roz Vara The Vermont Folklife Center was filled to capacity Friday night as it welcomed the opening of its newest exhibit, "The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers." Through a combination of photographs and interviews, the multimedia exhibit offers a glimpse into the ...
Author: Jaime Fuller, Stephanie Joyce DEMS MOBILIZE TO AID WITH VOTER REGISTRATIONWith only 48 days until November 4th, College Democrats kicked off the campaign for presidential nominee Barack Obama on campus at a well-attended event in Dana Auditorium Sept. 17. Co-presidents Will Bellaimey '10.5 ...
Author: Kaity Potak This week, instead of bringing the term "thirsty Thursdays" to life, heading down to Two Brothers Tavern or even spending your evening writing a history paper, consider going to the Center for the Arts to see the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's (VSO) "Made in Vermont" concert. This ...
Author: Jordie Ricigliano President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz recognized the efforts of five members of the faculty by honoring them with endowed professorships Sept 8. Stephen Trombulak, Grace Spatafora, Sunhee Choi, Sallie Sheldon and Andrea Olsen were hand chosen by Liebowitz to serve endowed ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Vermont Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz (D) spoke to students about the importance of voting and civic participation this election year during a lunchtime talk in Carr Hall on Thursday, Sept. 11.In light of a presidential campaign that has broken race and gender barriers, ...
Author: Cloe Shasha This July, Middlebury College released a Master Plan for a campus layout proposal to be applied over the next 50 years. Project Manager Jennifer Oster Bleich worked on the plan, along with a team of experts, over the past two years. She emphasized that the plan is not a blueprint ...
Author: Alice Wisener With the frenzy of Middlebury's annual Fall Family Weekend just around the corner, and the hectic move-in day of fall semester just barely behind us, it is easy to forget that students are not the only ones around here stressed when the population of Middlebury temporarily explodes. ...
Author: Tess Russell On Sept. 10, acclaimed author Eric Schlosser - most famous for "Fast Food Nation," his radical critique of "the All-American meal" - addressed a packed Dana Auditorium in which the student crowd overflowed onto the stage. Schlosser, who began his career at The Atlantic Monthly and ...
Author: Kaity Potak Autumn in Vermont. It seems lately that there is no end to the posters, pamphlets and persistent planning committees that advertise the latest and greatest ways to celebrate the fall. Take a look at the Middlebury town bulletin board, and it is difficult not to notice a common ...
Author: Jaime Fuller The polls open today at noon for the annual Student Government Association (SGA) Senate Elections, in which students will vote for two senators for each class and one senator for each Commons.SGA President Bobby Joe Smith III held an informational meeting last Friday for all students ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Online student paper fights administrationThe chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at Quinnipiac University was threatened with dissolution this week because of their involvement with an independent online newspaper. The online paper, the Quad News, which is staffed ...
Author: Lizzie Zevallos Tents sprout across the lawn of Marbleworks every Wednesday and Saturday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30p.m., creating a one-stop-shopping enterprise for all of your gourmet desires. See if you can wake yourself up before mid-day this weekend and take a look at (and a taste ...
Author: Nicole Lam As the attendees of last week's Chamber of Commerce meeting listened to bylaw changes and voted yay or nay, they were pleased to find that the overwhelming sentiment was not one of serious business, but of community spirit. The meeting was conducted over dinner and saw speakers referring ...
Author: Livingston Burgess The so-called "work hard, play hard" ethic returned to Middlebury this week, along with its adherents. The two come on the heels of a summer that saw President Emeritus John M. McCardell, founder of the group Choose Responsibility, develop the "Amethyst Initiative" in an effort ...
Author: Scott Greene Though the College announced the appointment of Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics Sunder Ramaswamy as the next President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in May, the final countdown for his time at Middlebury officially began on Sept. ...
Author: Grace Close "It was a great community project to save a historic building," Doug Anderson said, beaming as he looked around his office, proud of Middlebury's most recent accomplishment: the ten-year, five-million dollar renovation and recent July reopening of the Middlebury Town Hall Theater. ...
Author: James Kerrigan Tragedy struck the College at the end of the spring when the College community learned of the death of Nicholas Garza '11, whose body was recovered from Otter Creek on May 27. President Ronald D. Liebowitz notified the College community in an email sent to all students, faculty ...
Author: Jaime Fuller The College community lost one of its most promising young students on August 1, after Pavlo Levkiv '11 drowned while swimming in New Jersey. A memorial service was held in the 19-year-old's honor on Aug. 5 in his hometown of Rockaway Township, N.J., and 250 people gathered to remember ...
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