Author: Tamara Hilmes If you thought you'd never be able to push the 'easy button' or order a frappucino in Middlebury, Vt. - think again. Both the Starbucks and Staples corporations have submitted proposals to the Middlebury Planning Commission and Development Review Board for approval for each to ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg "Welcome to World Headquarters, the nerve center." John M. McCardell, Jr. - professor of History and president emeritus of Middlebury College - is a familiar fixture on the College's campus. But this jovial pronouncement was offered in a high-ceilinged, one-room office just off ...
Author: Nicole Wyndham Stanford protests new Rumsfeld appointmentStudents and faculty at Stanford University have protested the appointment of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to a university think tank, the Hoover Institution. Professor Pamela Lee began an online petition after Rumsfeld's ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Oct. 22 - Residents and business owners in downtown Middlebury were evacuated this afternoon after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed while traveling through town.The accident, which included up to 14 railway cars according to State Trooper Steve Coote, occurred around ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Middlebury College, through its involvement in the College Sports Project, is now undertaking a five-year long data collection and analysis project to determine if there is a negative correlation between athletics and academic performance. John Emerson, dean of Planning, is the ...
Author: Michelle Constant Members of the new Task Force on the Status of Women at the College discussed increased access to childcare for faculty members, increasing faculty diversity and protecting female students during social situations at the group's first open meeting on Oct. 11. Faculty, staff ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes If you are looking for a meal to set your taste buds ablaze with flavor, stop, drop and California roll on over to Asiana House and sushi bar at 191 Pearl Street in Burlington, Vt. While I am no connoisseur of raw fish dishes, I can safely say that the sushi that I sampled at this ...
Author: [no author name found] Vermont Skydiving AdventuresDoes the thought of a weekend with your parents make you want to jump out of a plane? If so, you might consider seeing the fall foliage for which Vermont is famous from a whole new angle. Leap on over to Vermont Skydiving Adventures, located ...
Author: Samantha Michaels NPR host Bill Littlefield to address CollegeAs part of the College's "Meet the Press" series, Bill Littlefield, host of National Public Radio's "Only Game," will speak at McCardell Bicentennial Hall on Oct. 15. In his lecture entitled "Why We Need Sports," Littlefield will ...
Author: Patrick Jobson Memphis football star gunned down at nightUniversity of Memphis junior Taylor Bradford was shot to death on Sept. 30 on university grounds, prompting the university locked down all residence halls and canceled Monday classes as an "early precaution" in case that there was still ...
Author: Mary Lane Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.While glancing over your half-yearly bill from the College, something may have caught your eye on one line item - the Student Activities Fee (SAF) jumped $120. This year's increase of the SAF to $360 has resulted in many benefits including cheaper ...
Author: Adam Dede On Oct. 7 the Student Government Association (SGA) continued their discussion from last meeting concerning the addition of class booklists to BannerWeb. With details still in the works, the initiative will give students the option to buy books online, prior to the beginning of term. ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Students who stopped by Saturday's Orange Crush concert in Kenyon Arena may have noticed ways in which the event differed from their usual weekend fare: uniformed catering staff served hot food to guests who at times found themselves mingling in the decked-out gymnasium with ...
Author: Molley Kaiyoorawongs FERRARA - I just saw my coach's penis. I'm in Italy and the second grueling practice of Tchoukball just ended. I suppose he was on the way to take a shower in this locker room that isn't really a locker room. The "men's locker room" is an empty room except for some benches. ...
Author: Chelsea Utterback Student representatives attending the Community Council's weekly meeting on Oct. 8 were shocked to learn that the College's Board of Trustees had in May approved a new College calendar that eliminates the first day of Winter Carnival, traditionally a class-free Friday in February. ...
Author: Kelly Janis On Oct. 6 and 7, the Robert E. Miller Expo Centre in Essex Junction, Vt. boasted the highest concentration of Navajo wedding sets, 19th century hand-cut doll dresses and vintage sewing machines for miles as it played host to the annual Champlain Valley Antiques Festival. The two-day ...
Author: Brian Fung Cook Commons found itself under fire from College community members last weekend after sponsoring a "Surrender Your Booty" party on Oct. 5 that included the screening of a pornographic film. An R-rated version of "Pirates," the highest-budget pornographic movie ever made, was initially ...
Author: Mary Lane MacPherson When local artist Doug Lazarus first started holding major art shows in 1976, he had a little inkling that the major theme of his displays during the 21st century would be water.Lazarus, whose art gallery and studio, The Great Falls Fine Art Center is located in downtown ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Around noon on Saturday, Oct. 6, a procession of dog lovers and their four-legged friends took to the streets in a great jingling of collars and wagging of tails. Passersby grinned at the puppy parade as it marched a half-mile loop around town, finally returning to the town ...
Author: Hannah Wilson In true Vermont fashion, on the first Thursday in October, restaurants, co-ops and stores around Vermont donated some of their sales to the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA). NOFA uses the money collected from Share the Harvest to help fund its Farm Share ...