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 ...
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: Andrea Glaessner When Middlebury citizens filed into the local municipal building for their annual town meeting last Monday, there was nothing extraordinary seeming about the forum that was to take place.The townspeople first thanked their snow removal crews for their upstanding work during ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Humanitarian hero Paul Rusesabagina launched the College's convocation series Saturday night with an address at Mead Chapel on his role in saving more than 1,200 refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The talk, entitled "Hotel Rwanda: A Story Yet To Be Learned," moved ...
Author: Alex Garlick COPENHAGEN - "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." In my European travels I have tried to follow that mantra as much as possible. I ate pickled herring in Sweden, I tried currywurst in Berlin and I visited a coffee shop in Amsterdam. In Denmark, I was determined to become a part ...
Author: [no author name found] Scott Center polls students on religious questionsThe Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life issued a survey last week in an attempt to gather information about religious beliefs, activities and concerns at the College. The survey was sent to roughly 850 random ...
Author: Colin Foss Senators of the Student Government Association (SGA) debated a public speaking initiative for the College curriculum during their meeting last Saturday. The initiative would apply a public speaking (PS) label to certain voluntary presentation-intensive courses that would be reflected ...
Author: Kelly Janis While it might not rank high on a list of students' preferred destinations, Porter Medical Center is "interconnected with the College on many levels," according to Ronald G. Hallman, the hospital's Vice President of Development and Public Relations. In fact, said Hallman, "The very ...
Author: Brian Fung The number of Commons Residential Advisors (CRAs) at the College will be reduced from 10 to five next year, Dean of the College Tim Spears confirmed last Saturday. The change has drawn mixed student reactions and, along with plans to offer junior counselors (JCs) $2,500 stipends next ...
Author: Kelly Janis Middlebury Market has now become Middlebury Market and Sama's CafÈ, the newest of 54 College St.'s many distinctive faces. Chef and owner Usamah "Sama" Hayyat is no stranger to Middlebury. He grew up in the town and worked at the Market and CafÈ when it was known as Baba's, serving ...