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 ...
Author: Anthony Adragna New aerial photography taken as part of the Nick Garza disappearance investigation revealed an 'object of interest' in Otter Creek, according to officials. The discovery provided investigators with the first new clue in recent memory and prompted a second search of the creek.Members ...
Author: Cecilia Goldschmidt, Mary Lane and Derek Schlickeisen The scene was unexpected: after a student informed her of a typo in one of her in-class exam's questions, a Middlebury professor left her office for the exam room with the intention of offering the class a corrected version of the question. ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Though most of the events sponsored by PowerShift Vermont occurred on campus earlier in the weekend, the environmental conference culminated events that linked the climate change movement on campus to efforts for change in the greater community of Vermont. On April 20, Vermont ...
Author: Adam Dede Last week's Student Government Association (SGA) Presidential election has left the question of who will take Max Nardini's '08 place undecided. With the SGA having voted to withhold full election results, the only thing known about last Friday's vote is that Hiba Fakhoury '09 and ...
Author: Kelly Janis Last August, as I was sitting in my hometown Barnes & Noble and fantasizing about my imminent return to Middlebury, I leafed through a sea of Vermont travel guides and compiled a list which, eight months later, reads like a prophetic road map of two semesters' worth of Local ...
Author: Adam Dede The Calendar Committee has made a change to its recommendation to give a break from classes for the Spring Student Symposium in response to student objections to the original plan. As a result, the Winter Carnival will likely enjoy its traditional Friday without classes in the 2009-2010 ...
Author: Kelly Janis On April 20, local residents joined College students on the Town Green for an Earth Day Fair, sponsored by the Addison County Relocalization Network (AcoRN) and the Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Committee (MAGWAC). The two-hour event featured an opening drumming circle, a ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Who says 'Get Outside Week' comes only once a year? In honor of spring's arrival, The Campus offers you a guide to popular hiking spots around Middlebury to get you out of the classroom and into some fresh air.1. Cooley Glen/Emily ProctorLocated in South Lincoln in the Green Mountatin ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Madson staff urge students vaccinationsThe University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-Madison) has begun a campaign to ensure all students are properly vaccinated against the measles after a recent outbreak in the community. Four came down with the measles over the past month and ...