Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe In celebration of National Get Organized Month, the Ilsley Library played host to Porter Knight '89, a professional organizer and Middlebury alum, and her troupe of multi-talented performers for the town of Middlebury's first ever Organizing Variety Show. Armed with plate-spinners, ...
Author: H.Kay Merriman Springsteen visits Midd with son on college tourBruce Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa and their 17-year-old son Evan visited Middlebury on Dec. 6, 2007. Evan, the eldest son of the famous musician, interviewed with Assistant Director of Admissions Scott Atherton. Student tour ...
Author: Brian Fung Members of the Inter-House Council (IHC) issued a recommendation to administration officials on Jan. 8 that, if ratified, would render on-campus social house The Mill a "non-residential organization" for the spring term. The recommendation comes nearly a month after a fire with an ...
Author: Annabelle Fowler The Office of Admissions has received a record 7,680 applications for the Middlebury Class of 2012, a seven-percent jump in the number of applicants compared to last year. Admissions officials expect the pool to grow to roughly 7,800 as they continue to receive applications ...
Author: Kelly Janis "He loved it there," said Donald E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing Jay Parini - author of Robert Frost: A Life - of the Homer Noble Farm in Ripton, Vt., where Robert Frost resided during his stay at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. "It was isolated. It had wonderful ...
Author: Aviva Shen At the December 10 faculty meeting, the faculty voted unanimously to approve changes to the judicial system to give students more responsibility in the process for their own behavior. The recommendations called for limited rehearings of an appeal, the prohibition of accused students ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes As college students, many of us chose to travel thousands of miles from home in order to attend our quaint little college amidst the Green Mountains. While we are usually too busy juggling classwork with extracurriculars and spending time with friends to miss the families that ...
Author: Thomas Brant When I stand in a long line at Proctor waiting impatiently for the blue-uniformed server to replenish the supply of chicken parmesan, all I can think about is how good chicken parm is, how I cannot wait to eat it and how sad I will be when my stomach tells me there no room for more. ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Over the summer, talk began about the College possibly leasing the space at 51 Main Street, the former home of Eat Good Food, a restaurant that went out of business last spring. In late December, Dean of College Tim Spears that Middlebury College would be opening a "chocolate bar" ...
Author: Kelly Janis Cat lovers pounced on a purr-fect opportunity to bond with some of the finest of the fuzzy creatures in question at the 11th Annual Vermont Fancy Felines Cat Show, held Jan. 5 and 6 at the Sheraton Conference Center in Burlington. The show - which each year attracts animals and owners ...
Author: Kate Dellas SYDNEY-Studying abroad in Sydney, Australia was somewhat of a blissful experience. The 24-hour trip was a long nap, interrupted by timely meals and movie choices. We arrived in Sydney only to be swept up by a group of eager study-abroad counselors with a distinctly Australian approach. ...
Author: [no author name found] As Shrek once said to Donkey, "Ogres are like onions. Ogres have layers." In this respect, liberal arts colleges are a lot like ogres and onions: they all have layers. Most students interact with just a few layers of Middlebury: friends, coaches and professors among them. ...
Author: [no author name found] Weekend of MusicThe After Dark Music Series continues at 7 p.m. on Jan. 18 at the United Methodist Church with Austin's "Elana James and The Continental Two." Leading the group is a violinist and singer who is among the youngest to earn a place in the Texas Western Swing ...
Author: Michael Suen In the last month, a burgeoning demographic has begun to assert its potential in swaying the outcome of the presidential elections: the college student. With the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses over, the race for the White House is now in full swing.Whether or not Middlebury's ...
Author: Mary Lane It's 11:26 p.m. on Saturday night and most kids on Midd Rides are headed to or from Fletcher house."This shirt is gonna get me p---- automatically!" exclaimed one dark-haired student as he assessed the appeal of his pin-striped orange Ralph Lauren oxford shirt. Laurent Lussier, a weekend ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg When Christine Bachman '09.5 found out last month that Assistant Professor of Sociology Laurie Essig had been fired, her first response, she said, was disbelief. That such a wildly popular professor would be dismissed was unthinkable. "It was a huge crush," said Bachman. "It was ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Faculty members gathered on Jan. 7 to discuss a proposal regarding "amorous relationships" between faculty and students. Led by President of The College Ronald D. Liebowitz and Faculty Associate in Admissions Miguel Fernandez, the meeting covered a range of moral, ethical and professional ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Yale to increase funds spent from endowmentYale University announced plans to increase spending from the school's endowment by 40 percent next year. The move comes amidst controversy that the nation's wealthiest universities continue to raise tuition annually while the value ...
Author: Derek Schlickheisen Somebody's epic night meant another typical morning for Donna Paquette, team leader of the Ross Commons custodial staff: three light fixtures were in shatters on Hadley 3, the drywall down the hall in Lang was sporting a couple of fist-shaped holes and the foosball table ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes For many, putting up the Christmas tree means digging the dusty box out of the attic, separating what seems like an endless amount of artificial evergreen boughs and placing them in color-coded slots embedded in a pole camouflaged with more fake greenery. While artificial Christmas ...