Author: Kathryn Flagg Local Shoreham resident Steven Browne was cited recently for allegedly cashing stolen checks, three of which have been traced back to the College's mailroom, the Department of Public Safety reported on Tuesday. Vermont State Police cited Browne to appear in court on four counts ...
Author: Dina Magaril In the spirit of holiday giving, the Mary Johnson Center held a silent wreath auction at Middlebury's Center for the Arts. Addison County community members and local establishments were asked to decorate wreaths using merchandise from their stores so that the wreaths could be auctioned ...
Author: Scott Greene A&M students post slavery video onlineThree white students from Texas A&M University in College Station recently posted a homemade video on YouTube depicting a master and slave scene in which a man in blackface is beaten for not following orders.The video, titled "The Adventures ...
Author: Tom Brant The Student Government Association (SGA) housing bill passed in early November has been met with a variety of opinions by Commons staff and students across campus. Some feel that the bill would disrupt the community created by the Commons and take away the advantage in room draw for ...
Author: Kacie Sherman Homelessness has its stereotypical depictions: men and women in dirty clothes begging in the street, shantytowns in cities' peripheries and people sleeping on park benches. In Vermont, and especially in Middlebury, those images couldn't be further from the true nature of homelessness. ...
Author: Rachel Schiffer After a two-day-long Thanksgiving extravaganza (yes, my family goes all out and celebrates two nights), the idea of gobbling down more food seemed an impossible feat. But on the third day after Turkey Day I was finally able to end the holiday weekend with a true finale dessert ...
Author: Scott Greene Alcohol-related visits to Parton Health Center have dropped to the level of two years ago after last year's record highs. Overall, Parton has seen a decrease in the total number of medical cases despite a steady increase in visits to the Counseling and Human Relations Center over ...
Author: Emily Thompson For those of us looking for sushi here in Middlebury, the Asiana House in Burlington fulfills that Japanese desire with its menu ranging from standard favorites like shrimp tempura and teriyaki salmon to innovative sushi maki. Due to its wide range of sushi and cooked entrees, ...
Author: Jessie Singleton The Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) held its first joint meeting of the year with the Student Educational Affairs Committee (SEAC) on Nov. 20 to move forward on the agenda for the academic year. Reports from the closed-door meeting indicate that the joint-committee focused ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed Student course registration for the spring semester has been running smoothly on Banner Web, according to Library and Information Service (LIS) staff members, after a slow server and performance issues frustrated students in previous years."In terms of how registration has gone this ...
Author: Hannah Washington PORTUGAL - Coming to Portugal, I had no idea that I would be stepping out of one version of "Harry Potter" world into another. We're all familiar with the general perception of Middlebury, complete with its Commons and Quidditch teams in rural Vermont, as a version of reality ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman Nan Jenks-Jay, who has served as Middlebury College's Director of Environmental Affairs since 1997 and has, throughout her tenure as director, played a pivotal role in the College's receipt of eight awards for its commendable and oft-emulated environmental policies, will become ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Professor Emeritus of Economics David K. Smith '42 passed away last Wednesday, marking the College's loss of a great mind and a good friend. His colleagues, former students and many friends and neighbors will remember the native Vermonter not only as a great scholar, but also as ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed, Scott Greene, and Derek Schlickeisen BU GOP questions race-based awardsA new student-sponsored scholarship offered to students at Boston University (BU) is being used to protest financial aid programs that are awarded based on ethnic background. The $250 Caucasian Achievement and ...
Author: Ben Salkowe Last August, just a month before Todd Swisher '10 was to begin his Middlebury career as a first-year, he received an e-mail from another soon-to-be MiddKid from Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. They were going to be roommates, the friendly e-mail said. Swisher had not found the site to check ...
Author: Kelly Janis The thick, warm chocolate. The soft, yielding dough. Ah, chocolate chip cookies. As any junk food connoisseur knows, these delightful morsels are most certainly not created equal. Some are endowed by their creator with some extra oomph - a little more oozing chocolate here, a little ...
Author: Kelly Janis and Scott Greene Midd adds masters degree in Chinese to Language SchoolsThis summer, the College's Language Schools will enjoy a much-lauded addition as fifteen students pursue a Master of Arts degree in Chinese, widely considered one of the most increasingly useful focuses of language ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen As college administrators across the country work to increase their visibility among students, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz has added more open office hours to the eight or nine student lunches held each semester. Liebowitz and his staff say the meetings, which ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Vermont ski resorts are gearing up for the season with high hopes for heavy snow. Given last winter's dismal performance of feeble snowfalls and dreary rainstorms, most ski resorts are especially dependent on high snow accumulation this year. So what is in store for this snow ...
Author: Trevor Lee Elevator outages trap several students in Bicentennial HallStudents were trapped multiple times in the elevators in McCardell Bicentennial Hall last week."We have been experiencing an intermittent problem recently where one or both of the passenger elevator controllers has been shutting ...