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 ...
Author: Thomas Brant and Joeseph Bergan College has been represented in films, television shows and a certain Tom Wolfe book as a place of ridiculous revelry where you will not be held accountable for your actions. Our society tells us that drinking is fine as long as you do it before you enter the ...
Author: Anthony Adragna After being refused entrance to a private Tavern party on Nov. 3, a group of male students were heard stating a homophobic epithet in response, according to witnesses. The event is currently under investigation by the Department of Pubilc Safety. President of Tavern Tim Reed ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe "Hi, Walter, this is happenin'! Come on in. Did you bring your wallet? We're having a sale!" This was Kathy Clarke's jubilant greeting to Walter Salzman of Brandon, Vt. as he walked into the Frog Hollow Craft School's Seconds Sale on Saturday, Nov. 3. Clarke, the studio manager ...
Author: Scott Greene LeRoy Graham named new College registrarThe College announced the appointment of LeRoy Graham to the position of College registrar on Nov. 4. Graham, the former senior associate registrar at Dartmouth College, will be guide the operations of an office responsible for registration ...
Author: Kelly Janis On Nov. 3, local residents equipped themselves with hats, gloves, hiking boots, cameras and the odd Robert Frost poem to join forces for the Town of Middlebury's effort as part of Step It Up's National Day of Climate Action.Step It Up is a nationwide campaign spearheaded by Bill ...
Author: Theo May Nearly 80 Middlebury students, of 6,000 in total attendance, travelled to Washington, D.C. last weekend for the Power Shift 2007 conference, marking a significant milestone in the growth of the climate movement. Most of the Middlebury students drove down to Washington in a bio-bus sponsored ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe The Emergency Planning Steering Committee sent a student-wide e-mail on Oct. 12 informing that all students must enter personal evacuation plans on BannerWeb prior to registration for spring courses, in an effort by the College to improve its pandemic readiness. The e-mail ...
Author: Kelly Janis For all those looking to merge your sweet tooth with your penchant for frilly papers and rubber stamping, Blanca Jenne has got you covered. In the two months since Jenne busted open the doors of Scrapbook & Rubber Stamp Paradise and Sweet Surprises Down Candy Lane, customers ...