Author: Anthony Adragna The College was buzzing last week with the 60 prospective students who received free trips to the College. The visits were part of the busiest time of year for the Office of Admissions, which also announced plans to introduce more financial aid dollars for qualified students."With ...
Author: Kerren McKeeman Beginning in the spring of 2008, seniors will be allowed to apply for rooms in any of the College's five Commons during room draw, according to an all-student e-mail sent by President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz last week. The change is the result of a proposal from the ...
Author: Ceara Danaher A new phase of the Middlebury Downtown Street Lighting plan is now being put into action as town employees strategically plan how best to light the downtown area. As a piece of the project, Court Square is soon to be filled with highly efficient, historically-styled streetlights."We've ...
Author: Sarah Black Facilities unsure why LaForce is falling apartFacilities Services has erected temporary canopies over the entrances to LaForce hall to protect building occupants from stones that have been falling from the building facade while they attempt to figure out why the stones are loose. ...
Author: Tom Brant and Zamir Ahmed Gentleman's Quarterly calls Smith women uglyAn feature in the April issue of Gentleman's Quarterly entitled "Where to find her 2007" lists all-female Smith College as one of 17 places not to look for hot women. The article has provoked the ire of several Smith students, ...
Author: Tom Brant, news editor Energy efficiency and landscaping issues were the main topics of discussion at the second forum for the Master Plan on Monday in Dana Auditorium. Administrators and professional planners identified significant weaknesses with the College's infrastructure and grounds, and ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen 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 percent increase over this year's mandatory fees, including a five percent increase in the comprehensive fee ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach PARIS - If you've ever visited Paris, you couldn't help but have noticed it before. It all begins with a little peck on the cheek, a simple "hello." Instantaneously, that peck takes a turn for the dark side. Kisses grow ever more impassioned with each moment of lip-on-lip ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...