Author: Tyler Lohman BERLIN - Living in East Berlin, my travel to school in the mornings is rather long and full of trains, buses and the transferring between the two≠ - about an hour combined. This ride occasionally becomes quite monotonous as I listen to my iPod, read or simply wait. However, on ...
Author: Hannah Wilson As students from the College were migrating to Proctor for their routine Sunday morning waffle bar on the bright, sunny and cold Nov. 18, members of the broader Middlebury community were stretching and warming up in preparation for the 26th annual Middlebury Turkey Trot. Both ...
Author: [no author name found] The southwest part of Vermont was racked with violence on Nov. 1-2, when a series of murders stunned the towns of Brandon, Rupert and Rutland. The violence began late Wednesday night in the small town of Rupert, Vt. when Benjamin Ploski, 32, engaged in an argument with ...
Author: Anthony Adragna As the sun rose on a crisp, fall day, students took to Battell Beach, otherwise named "the pitch," with the goal of leaving the Muggle world. On Nov. 11, college students from all over entered the world of "Harry Potter" during the first annual Intercollegiate Quidditch World ...
Author: Patrick Jobson In a short but heated 20-minute debate, the Community Council's weekly meeting on Nov. 12 revised the College's policy on student-faculty relationships to include a prohibition against the practice.The College has been discussing the possibility of updating the sexual relations ...
Author: Michael Suen Middlebury's initiative to install a campus-wide wireless network is underway, and most buildings will likely offer wireless service by the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year, according to College officials. Following the selection of the enterprise-driven Aruba Networks ...
Author: Kelly Janis American flags wafted over the leaf-strewn altar of the Middlebury United Methodist Church on Nov. 11 as the congregation held a special Veterans Day service to honor local residents who have served in the military. The gathering - which featured patriotic hymns, the recitation of ...
Author: Michelle Constant If the Early Decision I application pool for the Class of 2012 continues to resemble last year's pool, approximately 700 applications will have found their way to the Office of Admissions by today's application deadline. While Early Decision I applications are projected to ...
Author: Will Mallett The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) conducted a wild apple tree release workshop in the Murdock Woods on Nov. 10 as part of an ongoing series of workshops designed to benefit both the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) and the volunteers who participate. The afternoon event was both ...
Author: Mary Lane Dave, a large man covered in tattoos and his colleague, Chris, a skinny, black-haired man with a thick Boston accent, stood in front of a group of some 40 Middlebury College students at a Christian Fellowship meeting on Nov. 4. Both share testimonies regarding their transformations ...
Author: Thomas Brant & Cecelia Goldschmidt Note: the Focus layout is best viewed in Acrobat Reader with the "facing" option selected under View--Page LayoutIs the College finally becoming a global village?It turns out that the answer is yes. But we've only just started. On paper, Middlebury is admirably ...
Author: Chi Zhang Blogger responds to Midd relationship debateThe College's recent discussion regarding a student-faculty relationship policy has made an appearance in DankProfessor, a blog by Barry Dank, emeritus professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. With an academic specialization ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Wednesday, Nov. 21You wake up today and realize that you are completely alone. Quite possibly, you are the only student left on campus. To numb the pain, you eat one last meal at Proctor before all of the dining halls close for the rest of break. With no dining halls to cater to ...
Author: Theo May The College's off-campus housing program will likely accept a greater share of students seeking to live in and around town than usual this Winter and Spring Term due to a projected increase in the number of students returning or arriving for the first time to campus, according to administration ...
Author: Bryant Cobb GW student caught with swastikas in dorm room George Washington University first-year Sarah Marshak faces expulsion after being caught writing swastikas on her dorm door. University officials claim that Marshak was "dishonest" in statements she made to the University Police regarding ...
Author: Scott Greene Members of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) demonstrated peacefully outside the Ross Dining Hall in conjunction with an information table sponsored by the United States Marine Corps on Nov. 13. The students protested against the College's allowance of such recruiting and ...
Author: Nicholas Spenger VALPARAISO - I returned to ValparaÌso just in time to enjoy week two of my vacation from the university. Sept. 18th is Chilean Independence Day, exactly one week after the anniversary of the golpe. It's oddly appropriate that, after a week of protests and, for many, dark memories, ...
Author: [no author name found] Ten Thousand Villages Craft SaleOn Nov. 16 and 17, the Memorial Baptist Church, located at 97 S. Pleasant Street, will hold a craft sale featuring fair trade products from around the world. "At Ten Thousand Villages, we work with over 100 artisan groups in more than 30 ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Members of the College faculty gathered at the Kirk Alumni Center on Nov. 5 to discuss work load for professors at the College, proposed changes to the Judicial Board and consensual student-faculty relationships.Associate Professor of German Roman Graf presented a report from ...
Author: Adam Dede Next week will be the first Middlebury Privilege Week. Sponsored by the SGA Institutional Diversity Committee (IDC), the week will focus on issues of socioeconomic diversity and the attainability of the American Dream, culminating in an open conference on Nov. 17."Were focusing on ...