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 ...
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: Nick Alexander On multiple occasions over the past few months, a number of elevators throughout the College have malfunctioned, trapping unsuspecting students within. In mid-November, students found themselves imprisoned several times in the cable elevators of McCardell Bicentennial Hall when ...
Author: Tom Brant and Akshay Khanna Bunt garners distinction for outstanding teachingAssociate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rick Bunt is the 2007 recipient of the Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching, the College announced Friday.The award is given each year to a faculty member in one ...
Author: Tom Brant On Friday afternoon, as students were eagerly awaiting the Middlebury College Activities Board's (MCAB) screening of "Casino Royale," the latest movie in the James Bond series, projectionist Stewart Lane realized there was a problem: the distribution company had delivered the film ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Inside the big red barn just two miles from campus on Sheep Farm Road, oodles of baby pigs, sheep and goats fill the stalls that line the interior of the building. Upon first walking in, despite the slightly unpleasant smell, it is hard not to be delighted by the wooly white lambs ...
Author: Ceara Danahar When asked about the best sugaring winter he's ever seen, Steve Fisher is quick to reply: 1980, hands down. That year, Fisher recalls, he boiled down enough sap to make 500 gallons of maple syrup. He accomplished that feat by using about 1,500 taps, one per tree. Now, a couple ...
Author: Kristin Ward PARIS - When I first arrived in the French third grade classroom where I volunteer, the students immediately jumped out of their seats to say "Bonjour." "Say it in English," the teacher insisted, and there came a chorus of "Allo." I have volunteered in numerous American elementary ...
Author: Kelly Janis The Girl Scouts' Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties and Caramel deLites, which cause mouths to water across the state of Vermont and the nation at large, are arriving soon at a doorstep near you. But this year, something is missing.The Girl Scouts program has evolved continually throughout ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner In the wake of a controversial finale to last week's Middlebury Town Meeting, which saw passage of non-binding resolutions calling for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and the impeachment of President Bush, the Middlebury Select Board started its first bimonthly meeting Monday ...
Author: Tom Brant and Brian Fung Traditionalist students: 'Keep Wesleyan Weird'To some students at Wesleyan University, the traditionally non-traditional school is losing the things that make it unique, the Hartford Courant reported last week.Holly Wood, a junior at Wesleyan and founder of a popular ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Several weeks into the 1918 fall semester, a number of out-of-state students began to develop colds. The colds soon led to fevers and chills, but the symptoms did not initially raise alarm and there was little worry on the campus. Little worry until one of the students, Charles Thompson ...
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 ...