Author: Joseph Bergan If you were driving on College Street on Thanksgiving evening you would have driven through a somber Middlebury campus, dark save for a few lit dormitory windows. While most Americans gather away from school to carve turkey and shop at 4 a.m., international students often stay ...
Author: Andrew Fuller Congress is aiming to combat illegal file sharing on college campuses in a new financial aid and education spending bill that recently received the approval of the House Education and Labor Committee. Strongly supported by the Motion Picture Association of America and other industry ...
Author: Theo May Tensions between the College and the town of Middlebury have risen in recent weeks as the administration set about reserving parking spaces for faculty and staff.At issue are parking spots on Route 125 (College Street) and Route 30 (South Main Street) that have College signs instructing ...
Author: Cloe Shasha On Nov. 13 the Parliamentary Debate team set up a wooden soapbox in the Ross Fireplace Lounge. In order to speak at the inaugural soapbox debate, students had to stand on the object. Two dozen Middlebury students with a wide range of interests participated in the first debate entitled, ...
Author: Kelly Janis In a campus-wide e-mail issued on Nov. 29, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced the College's commitment to donate $18 million to the Town of Middlebury in the form of 30 annual $600,000 installments, beginning in early 2011. The money will allow the town to borrow ...
Author: Aviva Shen On Nov. 16, the Class of 2008 announced that it will fund the restoration of the Starr Library Reading Room at the Donald E. Axinn Center at Starr Library as its senior gift. The Reading Room restoration is part of a larger plan to restore historic library spaces in the new center.Other ...
Author: Bryant Cobb Library sells books to community membersFrom Nov. 12 to Nov. 19, the New Library hosted a book sale. All of the books sold were either books that had been withdrawn from the selves to make room for newer editions or were duplicates of books that the library already has. On the first ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Assistant Professor of Economics Caitlin Myers and five Middlebury students found surprising results when they traveled to Boston, Mass. last January as part of their Winter Term class, "Deconstructing Discrimination," to conduct a study on discrimination. The class, comprised ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes If you find yourself craving the catch of the day after a long day of shopping on Church Street, walk a couple blocks down to the Burlington Bay Market and CafÈ located on Battery St., near the ferry. This market and restaurant combo is located right on the edge of Lake Champlain ...
Author: Brian Fung President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz sought to deflect criticism for his stance on military recruitment practices at an open forum in McCullough Social Space on Nov. 26. During the hour-and-a-half discussion, Liebowitz defended the administration's decision to allow the U.S. ...
Author: Kelly Janis "I am a particularly stammering idiot right now, because my heart is pounding," said Elissa Campbell above the din of shoppers milling about the Emerald Room of the Sheraton Conference Center in South Burlington. "Like, I'm hot and sweating and completely hysterical and about to ...
Author: Mary Lane The Five Town Massive, produced by Nine37 Productions and located each year in Bristol, Vt. will be held Dec. 26-30 and feature "multi-media events throughout the week," as the festival's official Web site advertises. This self-titled interdisciplinary arts extravaganza is open to ...
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 ...