Author: Adam Dede After the administration's fall announcement that this year's Winter Carnival will be the last to enjoy a three-day weekend, student organizers working behind the scenes on the Carnival hope that a stellar showing at this year's celebration will prove to the Calendar Committee that ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Middlebury College will be participating in a nationwide effort to develop and provide feedback on a proposed comprehensive rating system that colleges can use to evaluate their sustainability and compare their environmental practices to those of other schools. Although ratings themselves ...
Author: [no author name found] A Classy Rummage Sale in VergennesBeef up your wardrobe and benefit the Champlain Valley Christian School on Feb. 20-23 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. when the Your Turn Consignment Shop in Vergennes holds its "Classy Rummage Sale." Besides slashing every item in the store to rummage ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Princeton wants new students to study abroadPrinceton University unveiled a plan that would urge up to a tenth of newly admitted students to spend a year abroad doing foreign service work before they come to school as a freshman. The University's president, Shirley M. Tilghman, ...
Author: Mary Lane and Derek Schlickeisen What's in a decimal point? For some, it means a trip to Central America to help rebuild a town ravaged by natural disaster. For others, it means playing catch-up to learn their language of choice in time to study abroad.For all Febs, however, being a ".5" student ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Middlebury residents craving Grande Mocha Frappacinos and gingerbread lattes will have to continue to make the trek to Burlington to get their fix. At the end of January, the Starbucks corporation announced that it would not, in fact, be placing one of its franchises in Middlebury. ...
Author: Kelly Janis When Liz Cronin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, her teammates on the Middlebury Otters were not content to relegate the matter to the figurative sidelines. Members of the women's community hockey team decided to transfer their energy from the puck to a cause which now affected ...
Author: Cloe Shasha The Department of Public Safety notified the College community about harassing phone calls to students on campus on Jan. 19, in an e-mail was sent out asking for victims to report detailed information about the received calls. The caller's voice was identified as male.Since Jan. ...
Author: Michael Suen From Jan. 22 to 24, the Connect·Ed Conference on Global Education was held in Monterey, California. Co-hosted by Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), the conference saw more than 400 leaders - representing universities, governments, corporations, ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes It is Valentine's Day and couples all over the world are looking for ways to express their love for one another. Some choose flowers, others candy, but some opt for matching tattoos. "Bald Bill" Henshaw, the owner of Yankee Tattoo at 198 Pearl Street in Burlington, says people ...
Author: Samantha Michaels In an effort to expand the College's environmental initiatives, students met with a Vermont State Climate Panel on Jan. 21 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall to discuss new policies and opportunities for activism. The dialogue was part of Focus the Nation, a teach-in movement across ...
Author: Michelle Constant Middlebury is not among a list of 15 high-profile colleges and universities being investigated by the New York Attorney General's Office for their study abroad programs. According to The New York Times, schools including Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Fordham, Manhattanville, American ...
Author: Kelly Janis Sometime in the not-so-distant future, an orphan in Zambia will don a t-shirt from the 2005 Addison County Fair and Field Days, while another sports the emblem of the Vermont Voltage Soccer Club. The warmth furnished by these relics of central Vermont is attributable to the Mothers ...
Author: Andrew Fuller The Middlebury College Bookstore is launching a campaign to lower textbook prices and promote the recycling of textbooks by making used textbooks more widely available. The campaign will begin with the start of the spring semester and will coincide with the bookstore's continued ...
Author: Adam Dede Students and faculty packed into a small meeting room in Old Chapel on Jan. 28 to witness as the trepidatious members of Community Council entered and took their seats to hear a proposal to form a Queer Studies academic interest house. The proposal came from the Middlebury Open Queer ...
Author: Brian Fung Gunman kills two at LTC before herselfThree female students at Louisiana Technical College were fatally shot on Feb. 8 when, according to police, one of the three entered a crowded classroom and shot two in their desks before turning the weapon on herself.The victims' identities have ...
Author: Adam Dede Since last month's Inter-House Council (IHC) recommendation to strip The Mill of its residential status for fire safety violations, the members of the social house have been working to overturn the ruling and become more fire safety conscious. Currently, The Mill still holds residential ...
Author: Anthony Adragna FEB. 17 - Search and rescue workers turned their attention to the vast Ridgeline area of campus Feb. 16 in the continuing search for Nicholas Garza '11, who vanished late Feb. 5.The Middlebury Police Department [MPD] suspended the search portion of their investigation on Feb. ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed Police and search teams have suspended their search for Nicholas Garza '11 until Feb. 16 at the earliest, after their initial search for the missing first-year student on Monday and Tuesday failed to turn up significant clues regarding his disappearance. The 19-year-old Garza was ...
Author: [no author name found] Valentine's Concert at the Henry SheldonOn Thursday, Feb. 14, Peter and Karen Sutherland will perform work songs "from the farms and factories" at the Henry Sheldon Museum. The event costs $7 for members of the museum and $10 for non-members. So if you are looking for ...