Author: Kelly Janis On March 3, Middlebury residents convened in the Municipal Gymnasium on Main St. for the annual Town Meeting, an over-200-year-old tradition which gathers registered voters together in communities statewide to discuss civically relevant issues, approve the subsequent year's budget ...
Author: Annabelle Fowler Members of the American Red Cross participated in an open forum on March 3 regarding the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) policy that permanently bans gay and bisexual men from donating blood. The forum, moderated by Co-President of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Members of the College administration released a progress report concerning the implementation of the Strategic Plan on Feb. 13 describing efforts since September 2007 to achieve the Plan.The report refers to over 30 specific goals outlined in the Strategic Plan and discusses ...
Author: Adam Dede The Student Government Association (SGA) met on March 2 to discuss safety and the comprehensive fee. The two-part meeting included a presentation from Student Comprehensive Fee Committee Chair AnnMarie Wesolowski '08, which was followed by a conversation with Director of Public Safety ...
Author: Chelsea Utterback With decorated vans that proudly declare its organization and purpose, Middlebury Quidditch is taking its founding skills to other surrounding colleges over spring break. Beginning March 22, 25 members of the College's Quidditch team are visiting eight colleges with the aim ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Starting on March 10, Proctor Dining Hall will begin its renovation process. Woodstove Lounge will close to students, but the rest of the dining hall will stay open until the end of the summer. The news about the upcoming renovations has prompted a flood of anticipatory nostalgic ...
Author: Nicole Lam Ned Castle's photographs reflect his passion. Each photograph has eyes staring right back at the viewer, just as Castle intends. Each man and woman in the black-and-white photographs wants to tell the audience something. One might never hear their voices, but being aware they have ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Assistant Professor of Arabic and International Studies Ikram Masmoudi will resign at the end of the current school, highlighting the struggle to keep top-notch professors in "critical languages," in both the Language Schools and academic school year faculties. Critical languages, ...
Author: Jon King The Community Council voted March 3 to request that the College's Inter-House Council (IHC) clarify the procedures for establishing new social houses on campus by writing a manual. Discussion of the motion followed negotiation among council members and house representatives about possibly ...
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 ...