Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury's efforts to achieve sustainability in its campus operations and endowment investments have earned the College high marks from Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI), a national non-profit which recently ranked schools on their progress towards social responsibility. ...
Author: Brian Fung and Anthony Adragna Danlere new head of Health and Wellness Former University of Vermont and Saint Michael's College staff counselor Jyoti Daniere has been selected as the College's new director of Health and Wellness Education.One of Daniere's first objectives is to create programming ...
Author: Anthony Adragna With the reinstatement of Delta House, a large pledge class and the potential creation of another organization of similar size, social houses appear primed for growth and an alteration in their social role on campus, following several years of decreasing student involvement. ...
Author: [no author name found] Open Mic Night at Carol's Hungry MindItching to hear some new music? Something that has not even hit Pitchfork.com or iTunes? Come check out Middlebury's own up-and-comers on the music scene at Carol's Hungry Mind, located at 94 Main St., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 7-9 p.m. ...
Author: Kelly Janis As the dust settles in the wake of the Oct. 22 derailment of a freight train in downtown Middlebury, the numerous local agencies instrumental in the ensuing response and clean-up are taking stock of their performance, and looking toward the future with a newly-honed conception of ...
Author: Adam Dede The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate voted nine to three with one abstention to approve a change to the Finance Committee guidelines that will limit student organization travel to a 300-mile radius. AnnMarie Wesolowski '08, Finance Committee chair, presented the proposed ...
Author: Scott Greene The annual Vitality of the Artistic Community Association (VACA)-sponsored Halloween party required the presence of the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) for the second consecutive year as police arrested two people in connection with an altercation with officers from the College's ...
Author: Brian Fung South Carolina students killed in beach blazeA deadly fire in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., killed seven and injured six, Oct. 28. The origins of the incident are still unclear.According to The University of South Carolina's Daily Gamecock, of those who perished in the fire, six were USC ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe In the past, the arrival of November meant that the chilly air and biting winds would force students into the comfort of their heated rooms, and the eateries in town would become little more than seemingly mythical, distant dreams of scrumptious sandwiches and ethnic food ...
Author: Mary Lane A Shoreham, Vt. high school student has filed suit with the U.S. District Court in Burlington against Middlebury Union High School (MUHS) for denying student-run Christian fellowship club Youth Alive official club status. MUHS has been served papers, but no official court date has ...
Author: [no author name found] Mummy Mania! at Sheldon MuseumFor anyone who has ever dreamed of rattling the crypts of ancient mummies to discover what lies within, the Henry Sheldon Museum on Main St. in Middlebury will offer the next best thing on Saturday, Oct. 27 when it holds Mummy Mania, an event ...
Author: Bryant Cobb New languages offered through student classesMidd on the Globe, a student-led initiative to teach languages not offered by the College, announced it will offer classes in Korean, Swahili and Serbo-Croatian this semester. The languages offered were determined by expressed student ...
Author: Joseph Bergan and Thomas Brant College is one of those "big moments" in a person's life where everything seems to change. We ditch backpacks for messenger bags, swap a cozy room just outside of Boston for a cramped cinder block barrack and leave our parents for a stranger who may turn out to ...
Author: Matt Doyle HANGZHOU, P.R.C - In Leonardo DiCaprio's latest movie, "Blood Diamond," Leo's character, Danny Archer, explains the insanity that is the African diamond trade by simply stating, "T.I.A. This is Africa." Here in Hangzhou, China, a few of my classmates have adopted this saying and applied ...
Author: Kelly Janis Simmering apple slices embedded in a flaky crust were the order of the day at the Cabot Apple Pie Festival, held last weekend at the Cabot School in Cabot, Vt. "It's about pie, lots of apple pie," said volunteer Carla Payne. "All homemade."The annual event - one of the crowning markers ...
Author: Aviva Shen The identity of the social space formerly belonging to Eat Good Food (EGF) is starting to gather definition as planning continues into the fall semester. This past summer, Dean of the College Tim Spears and a committee of students who were on campus at the time began brainstorming ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Members of the Community Council convened on Oct. 15 to review the College's sexual harassment policy, which, according to Council officials, will be updated to help protect the privacy of individuals filing a harassment complaint. Gus Jordan, associate dean of the College, led the ...
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Author: Scott Greene The 2007-2008 academic year will see more than 350 Middlebury students study abroad in more than 40 countries at more than 90 different programs and universities, including 30 current locations for the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad, which have been in operation for over a ...
Author: Will Mallett Should you have been so lucky as to find parking around the United Methodist Church on Sunday night, you would have found seating in that building scarce. Jazz and blues enthusiasts from the extremities of the region were gathered for the commencement of this year's After Dark Music ...