Author: Tamara Hilmes The windows of Carol's Hungry Mind CafÈ were foggier than usual last Friday night. Inside the local coffee shop, there was more to hear than the usual hum of chatty coffee drinkers and the periodic squeal of the espresso machine. Down in the basement below, the rising stars of ...
Author: Leslie Lim In response to homophobic graffiti found in the hallways of Ross Commons over Spring Break, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz sent a campus-wide e-mail over the break condemning the acts. Students and administrators met last Tuesday to discuss the incidents, and a student ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green Choose Responsibility, the local non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell, Jr. to study the 21-year-old drinking age, officially launched its website (www.chooseresponsibility.org) this week. Although Monday, April 9 was the official launch ...
Author: Kelly Janis In spite of its puny stature, the Green Mountain State wields mighty political brawn, which has made it an alluring attraction for some of history's most remarkable figures. On a snowy Wednesday night, Middlebury residents flocked to Ilsley Public Library's community meeting room ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Vibrant, charming woodcut prints of four-legged friends deck the walls and a six-foot wooden dog looms in the entrance, welcoming visitors with puppy dog eyes that laugh merrily, despite its statuesque, vertical posture. The multitude of cartoon-like images of dogs clustered ...
Author: Michelle Constant The introduction this past fall of a newly developed vaccine that prevents the contraction of human papillomavirus (HPV) has been met with success, according to Parton Health Center staff, with approxiamately 25 female students receiving the vaccine per week since September. ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed, Associate Editor New York AG alleges impropriety by lendersAn investigation of student loan providers has found that a number of lenders bribed college officials in exchange for steering business their way, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference on ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes, Local News Editor While we may consider ourselves pretty crunchy with our granola in the dining halls and Thursday night string band performances in the Gamut Room, in actuality it is the students at the University of Vermont who can claim their status as true hippies as Burlington ...
Author: Scott Greene It's 6 a.m. on Sunday, and the closed glass doors leading to the balcony just off my second floor room can do little to mute the constant explosions outside my dorm. Unable to sleep, I restlessly absorb the cacophony around me, each boom followed by a flash of red and yellow that ...
Author: Dany Noguera-Garces and Sonja Pederson-Green McCardell to launch Web site for non-profit in AprilPresident Emeritus and Professor of History John McCardell, Jr. along with his non-for-profit organization Choose Responsibility continues to publicize his campaign to effectively lower the drinking ...
Author: Leslie Lim The Thomas J. Watson Foundation has named three Middlebury seniors among its 50 fellows for 2007. The fellowships awarded to Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak, Carolyn Barnwell and Sathyavani Sathisan provide $25,000 grants for a year of independent research and overseas exploration. Nationally, ...
Author: Tom Brant The Community Council's Subcommittee on Social Houses recommended continuing Delta House under the conditions of their 2006 sanctions, at the Council's annual social house review meeting on Monday. The Subcommittee also recommended continuing the other four campus social houses - Omega ...
Mandatory student fees will total $46,910 for the 2007-2008 academic year, according to a letter sent to parents on Tuesday. The higher total reflects a combined 5.25 increase over this year's mandatory fees, including a five percent increase in the comprehensive fee set by the College Trustees and ...
Author: Thomas Brush Before I came to Middlebury College for my first year, my high school history teacher, a Middlebury alum, told me to "get to Storm CafÈ, it's the best restaurant in the whole world." Having spent a good deal of my Feb semester in European capitals, I thought little of my professor's ...
Author: Emma Moros On Thursday night, in the typically serene basement of Ilsley Public Library, farmers made livestock deals while children played with puzzles and everyone sipped on hot chocolate made with local farm fresh milk. The uncharacteristic liveliness can be attributed to Rural Vermont's ...
Author: Brian Fung The hubbub and commotion typically associated with lunch hour at Proctor Dining Hall ceased briefly on Monday afternoon as Daniel Kane '09 stood on a chair and called for attention. Proctor diners then paused in a campus-wide moment of silence meant to honor those who had fallen in ...
Author: Brian Fung When Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Bob Cluss moved to Middlebury over a decade ago, he had never owned his own home before. So it was a new experience for him when he checked his mailbox for the first time - and made a new friend."I discovered I had a mailbox buddy," said ...
Author: Kelly Janis This winter, Middlebury was infused with a burst of technological savvy when Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless set up shop alongside Unicel to vie for the town's wireless loyalties. This spurt of cell phone providers leaves Middlebury locals with a dizzying conundrum: which carrier ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed Members of the faculty discussed a proposal to restrict the number of majors and minors students can declare, and when they can declare them, at the monthly faculty meeting on Monday. The proposal drew immediate objections from faculty members of smaller departments who felt that ...
Author: Brian Fung The College's two largest programming boards will unite this spring in an effort to promote student participation in campus programming and to streamline coordination, according to Doug Adams, director of the Center for Campus Activities and Leadership. Planned changes will consolidate ...