Author: Annabelle Fowler Wisconsin students to pay $2 to bring Iraqis The University of Wisconsin is considering a proposal to raise the school's tuition for all students by $2 as part of an initiative to bring a number of Iraqi exchange students to campus. The additional payments, which collectively ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner The distant and vacant eyes of the six-year-old "Newsie in Snow Pathos" bear no marked difference from a pair on the face of any bored and restless kindergartener. But in the context of the Henry Sheldon Museum's current photography exhibit entitled "Let Children Be Children: ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Citing a lack of progress and a need for new eyes, mother of missing Middlebury student Nicholas Garza '11 has enlisted the help of a volunteer search and effort group. Texas Equusearch, a volunteer and non-profit group with significant experience in searching for missing people ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Proctor Terrace, Woodstove Lounge and the entire lower floor of Proctor Dining Hall will close to students starting March 10 as part of the first phase of a renovation effort. The main dining hall will remain open for the duration of the spring term. President of the College Ronald ...
Author: Andrew Fuller Members of the Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) and Delta social houses met with the Community Council on Feb. 26 to discuss unresolved issues regarding their status for 2008-2009. The Community Council unanimously approved recommendations to President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz that ...
Author: Anthony Adragna The College hopes to offer several open houses for the as-yet-unnamed space at 51 Main St. before Spring Break, with a grand opening coming soon after students return, Dean of The College Tim Spears said. Final designs for the space should arrive in the next couple of days and ...
Author: [no author name found] Green Energy ExpoOn March 1 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., local homeowners, businesses, farmers and forestland owners with an eye toward a "green" future will convene in the College's own McCardell Bicentennial Hall for the 2008 Addison County Green Energy Expo: Building Sustainable ...
Author: Kelly Janis For watercolorist John Hoare - who, along with dozens of other artists, showcased his art in Brandon, Vt. this weekend - the old stone farmhouse in which he lived for years on the tiny Greek island of Paros was, by the artist's own account, a natural incubator of artistic talent."There's ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Although Starbucks is no longer in the cards for Middlebury, Myron Hunt Associates is still expressing determination to bring another nationwide chain to town. Last Monday night, the Middlebury Development Review Board (DRB) and the townsfolk of Middlebury packed into the meeting ...
Author: Samantha Michaels Faculty members faced a weighty agenda as they assembled for their monthly meeting on Feb. 25 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, with Nicholas Garza's '11 disappearance and the policy draft on student-staff sexual relationships prominent on the list of concerns. President of the ...
Author: Mary Lane and Derek Schlickeisen For some aspiring college students, the long process of applications and anticipation ends the day the coveted "fat envelope" arrives.Yet for others, getting in does not matter quite as much as getting enough - financial aid, that is. For 41 percent of students ...
Author: Annabelle Fowler Cypress College police arrest pro-life activists Pro-life activists were arrested on Thursday for trespassing on the campus of Cypress College. According to Mark Posner, public information officer at Cypress College, the group, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, was asked ...
Author: Tarsi Dunlop London - In London, American politics is a hot-button topic of conversation. Sometimes snippets are heard in coffee shops, other times politics dominant students' conversations, and occasionally it is background fodder for class discussions. Regardless, as an American abroad - ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have begun lavishing money and attention on tiny Vermont in the lead-up to the Democratic primary here on March 4. With Republican Senator John McCain commanding a prohibitive lead in the race for his party's nomination, the state's ...
Author: Adam Dede Overfilled classes have left many students scrambling for second and third choices in course selections. This is due, in large part, to the size of the class of 2011, and although the long term recommendation of the Strategic Plan to add 25 more faculty members will help as current ...
Author: Mary Lane and Derek Schlickeisen A growing number of elite U.S. colleges have begun offering "free tuition" to many of their applicants. On Feb. 25, Brown University joined Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Dartmouth in committing to completely eliminate the cost of tuition for students whose families ...
Author: Scott Greene The Concert Committee of the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) announced over the weekend that alternative rock group Cake will headline its Spring Concert on April 19 at Chip Kenyon '85 Arena, a performance which will mark the band's first trip to the East Coast since ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner The Middlebury Campus: What inspired you to do this particular Benefit Bake? Was there a particular person or group who asked you to help raise the money or was it an individual decision? If it was an individual decision, what was it that made you believe it was a cause worth ...
Author: Denizhan Duran Minorities make up 24 percent of the Class of 2011, according to the Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett, up from 20 percent for the whole student body as a result of the effort to make Middlebury more racially and socio-economically diverse. This is similar to patterns in universities ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner What brings Vermonters together better than cheddar and apples? The answer is local. "Local food" was the theme which dominated Monday night's discussion at Ilsey Public Library of Barbara Kingsolver's latest book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." The book tells the story of the ...