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 ...
Author: [no author name found] 9th Annual Face Off Against Breast CancerOn Jan. 26 and 27 the Middlebury Otters and the Middlebury Mystix, two local women's hockey teams, will host the ninth annual Face Off Against Breast Cancer Hockey Tournament. The tournament will take place at the Howard Brush Memorial ...
Author: Denizhan Duran Faculty achievments celebrated by CollegeThe President's office has announced news about recent accomplishments by Middlebury faculty. Burke Rochford, professor of Sociology and Religion, has published a book named "Hare Krishna Transformed," which currently is the seventh bestselling ...
Author: Kelly Janis Every year since 2000, the Middlebury College Citizens Medals program has sought to recognize exemplary local residents for their civic contributions and service in the fields of medicine, education, business, philanthropy, government and the arts.According to a summary of the annual ...
Author: Cecelia Goldschmidt We've heard it time and again: students at Middlebury are apathetic and tuned out from today's political goings-on. Well, this week The Campus set out in search of students who have bucked the trend with their involvement in the 2008 primaries, either on campus or by volunteering ...
Author: Kelly Janis Last week, College administrators announced the $2.1 million purchase of the historic Old Stone Mill, located adjacent to the Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, for the purpose of furnishing students with additional studio and gallery space to complement in-town offerings. The ...
Author: Eleanor Horowitz In the wake of national tragedies such as the Columbine shootings, Sept. 11, and last year's Virginia Tech shootings, college public safety departments nationwide have shored up emergency planning techniques and increased their overall safety efforts. Now, offices are pursuing ...
Author: Samantha Michaels Students, faculty and local residents crowded into Dana Auditorium on Jan. 10 for an open forum to discuss the College's Master Plan - a hierarchal, comprehensive guide to the physical development of campus over the next 50 years. The presentation, led by landscape analyst ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Dartmouth to eliminate loans, aid packagesFollowing similar decisions by Harvard University and Yale University, Dartmouth University has decided to waive tuition for students whose families make under $75,000 annually. As part of the plan, the University will eliminate loans ...
Author: Kelly Janis Thanks to dozens of cans of paint, some rolled-up sleeves and the spirit of collaboration, the walls winding down a long corridor in Middlebury's new teen center - located in the Russ Sholes Senior Center building on College Street, across from the Middlebury Market & Sama's ...
Author: Patrick Jobson The administration will reduce the amount of activities in orientation and create an outdoor experience for every incoming student who was not accepted for Middlebury Outdoor Orientation (MOO) beginning next fall. According to Tim Spears, dean of the College, and Katy Abbott, ...
Author: Angela Evancie Like many of Rio´s older neighborhoods, Santa Teresa wears on its sleeve as much of its history, an imposed love affair with European culture and architecture, as its present: the development of a new tourist economy in the face of rampant poverty. Narrow cobblestoned streets ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed FEBRUARY 13, 6:30 a.m. - 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. ...
Author: Brian Fung Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette faces a tough uphill battle this spring as intransigent students and a rapidly tightening budget threaten to bring the College's worsening dish-theft problem to near-crisis proportions.If the shortages persist into the spring semester, the ...