Author: Patrick Jobson The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate decided in its final meeting on May 4 to support a proposal to reallocate available parking spots and also alleviate parking confusion on campus. The SGA had many things on its table on what was going to be a long and heated meeting. ...
Author: Samantha Michaels After nine months of drafting and weeks of heated debate, the Student Government Association (SGA) gathered on May 4 to pass the Freedom of (Textbook) Information Bill, which calls for the online publication of course booklists before the start of each semester. Under this ...
Author: Dina Magaril On the surface, even frequenters of Middlebury's Chinese restaurant scene would have a hard time finding anything different about their beloved establishment. But behind the kitchen doors, big changes have taken place.The ambiance with its gray-green walls and floor-to-ceiling mirrors ...
Author: Anthony Adragna While gender relations across campus have generally improved over the last decade, sexism remains a dominant and controlling facet of social life, a report released April 29 from the Task Force on the Status of Women (TSW) at the College found. In the report, the group acknowledges ...
Author: [no author name found] Little Shop of HorrorsStarting on Thursday, May 1 and running through Saturday, May 3 will be Middlebury Union High School's productoin of Little Shop of Horrors. The play will take place in the high school's auditorium and will begin at 7 p.m. all three nights. Tickets ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Though the first full opening of the newly renovated space at 51 Main Street is not until May 15, the open house on April 25 has had students, faculty, staff and town members alike buzzing with excitement over the décor, the mood and the opportunities at the aptly named 51 ...
Author: Afsana Liza At 3 p.m. on a bright, sunny Friday afternoon, a huge crowd of Middlebury College students, faculty and townspeople gathered together to fight cancer as a unified force. Energetic event coordinators and helpers set up tents, tables, food and entertainment for participants for the ...
Author: Kelly Janis "For years, they've been fighting," said Cowasuck tribe member Todd Hebert, pointing to portraits of several Abenaki tribes, situated side-by-side on the walls of the Ndakinna Cultural Center. "They've been against each other. And now, here they are in the same room, facing each ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen, Mary Lane To celebrate her 100th birthday, philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis chose to award $1 million in $10,000 Project for Peace grants for 100 projects designed to promote peace throughout the world, all of which would be carried out by undergraduate students in ...
Author: Tom Brant A betting man might wager that a discussion between a drag queen and a U.S. Congressman moderated by a college president has never or would never take place. However, the betting man would have lost on April 29, when a drag queen, a college president and a Congressman did in fact convene ...
Author: Nicole Lam Historically, many of us would associate religious art with the Middle Ages and the Age of Enlightenment. Recently, however, a new style of religious art is becoming more popular in our 21st century culture. In the Sixth Annual Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts on Saturday, ...
Author: Samantha Michaels Bobby Joe Smith III '09 secured the Student Government Association (SGA) presidency on April 25 after last week's run-off election against Hiba Fakhoury '09. His victory marked the culmination of a particularly exciting race, with elections splitting into two rounds in light ...
Author: Anthony Adragna California students unite to oppose ArnoldOver 2,000 students and staff from 30 California colleges and universities united to protest the proposed one billion dollars in cuts to higher education by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, on April 28.Various members of the state government ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Robert Levine '08 and Katy Smith Abbott, associate dean of the College and visiting assistant professor of Art History, won the run-off elections to determine this year's Senior Awards ceremony speakers who will address the Class of 2008 on May 24 during Commencement Week. The student ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Last Friday, over 100 students showcased their undergraduate research either through visual or oral presentation in McCardell Bicentennial Hall during the Second Annual Spring Student Symposium. Members of the College community met in Great Hall to acknowledge the work completed ...
Author: [no author name found] Lilac Wand Hand-OutThe Middlebury Garden Club will distribute lilac wands on April 26 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind Ilsley Public Library. What, exactly, is a lilac wand? When in doubt, consult Google - and remain baffled. Local News's best guesses ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Dean of the College Tim Spears discussed the impending opening of 51 Main, the newly renovated space at 51 Main Street that will become a bar and lounge, in a brief meeting on-site on April 22. Plans to turn the space into a chocolate bar have been postponed pending its success ...
Author: Thomas Brush The past three Mondays have seen the whir of traffic jams, bicyclists and joggers which mark a typical spring afternoon on Main Street supplemented by a perhaps slightly less congruent sight - Yannig Tanguy leaning against the brick retaining wall in front of Steele's Auto Center, ...
Author: Michelle Constant On April 19-21, between 40 and 50 students from the College, local high school students and other community members united on campus for the Power Shift Vermont 2008 conference. On Monday, the group traveled to Montpelier to demand that the Vermont legislature and governor ...
Author: Brian Fung Complaints about the College's annual room draw process have spiked in recent weeks as an unusually high number of rising juniors and seniors failed to secure their preferred housing options for the next academic year. Students and administration officials attributed the housing difficulties ...