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The Setonian

College Shorts

Author: [no author name found] Suspicious package found at UPennStudents evacuated the Upper Quad of the University of Pennsylvania following the discovery of a suspicious package on Sept. 21.Police received word on an unattended package around 7 p.m. and arrived at the scene to investigate. Students ...


The Setonian

Polls open for Senate elections

Author: Scott Greene Students will log-in to vote today as polls open online for the Fall Student Government Association (SGA) Senate elections. The elections begin after SGA leaders were forced to actively recruit candidates and extend deadlines to fill the ballot with even one student for each race, ...


The Setonian

A glimpse at the man behind the beverage

Author: Kacie Sherman His is a face you'd recognize - you might even know his first name - and if you know either of those, you definitely know his American League allegiance. Joe Controneo is the owner and all-around personality behind Middlebury Discount Beverage, more commonly known as BevCo. Controneo ...


The Setonian

Free beer tapped out at Grille Pub Nights

Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green When Pub Night resumes next Thursday, Middlebury students will see a restructured program that no longer includes free drinks for students of legal drinking age. The popular two free beers at Pub Night will be replaced with college-subsidized food and drink specials, according ...


The Setonian

Overseas Briefing

Author: Kelsey Eichhorn A mid-summer morning in Oslo, Norway finds the sun cresting the fjord horizon at 5:30 a.m. Exhausted university students do not enjoy rays peaking through the curtains at such an unseemly hour, yet daybreak is a welcome friend to the local Oslo Fjord fishermen, whose workday ...


The Setonian

Beyond The Bubble

Author: Claire Nielson and Lisie Mehlman Your beloved Beyond the Bubble writers returned to good 'ol VT having spent the summer shacked up together in DC. Apartment number 701, shockingly enough, received many mealtime visits from the fire department as we frequently forgot to turn on the overhead fan ...


The Setonian

Middbriefs

Author: Michelle Constant, Kathryn Flagg, and Scott Greene Battle joins Middlebury as new Health EducatorAlicia Battle recently assumed the position as Middlebury College's Health Educator, a position that had been vacant for the past four years. Battle said that she found the prospect of creating a ...


The Setonian

Chief Justice Roberts to address Middlebury

Author: Ben Salkowe Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. will deliver Middlebury's Fulton lecture next month, College President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced in an all-campus e-mail on Friday. While not an official part of the strategic plan's proposed college-wide convocation series, Liebowitz wrote ...


The Setonian

Proposed SafeRides to lead student government agenda

Author: Anthony Adragna SGA President Alex Stanton '07 will focus on the implementation of his SafeRides program and increased involvement in the student body this semester, he said in an interview on Sunday. Stemming from a campaign promise last year, Stanton will make the creation of SafeRides, a ...


The Setonian

Open seat sparks a heated House race

Author: Andrea Glaessner Autumn is just around the corner, and this year, Americans may be witnessing more than the usual turning of the leaves on Capitol Hill. With Bush's approval ratings dipping to a 31 percent in May, things seem promising for Democratic candidates across the country. Though the ...


The Setonian

Committee on social life tackles challenges

Author: Katie Hylas Five months after convening, Middlebury's Social Life Task Force - a student-run group billed as a potential solution to last year's frustration at organized social life on campus - has yet to produce any substantive recommendations. Plagued by sporadic student participation, the ...


The Setonian

College Shorts

Author: Zamir Ahmed Man opens fire on Montreal campusOne person was killed and 20 others were wounded after a 25-year-old man opened fire on the campus of Dawson College in downtown Montreal on September 13. The gunman later shot himself in the head after a shootout with police.Witnesses say that Kimveer ...


The Setonian

Overseas Briefing

Author: Jessica Weiss URUGUAY - After a brief hour of sleep my alarm sounds Yankee Doodle. Just about sunset. Perfect. Time to wake up. My tired body aches as I fall out of my bed onto the cold wood floor. I carefully calculate: three pair of underwear, one pair of pants, and then I throw a random assortment ...


The Setonian

Local businesses happy to see foliage, and students

Author: Dina Magaril The outdoor seating may have been full at Tully and Marie's this past weekend and students may have made reservations at their favorite eateries, but the consumer attitude in Middlebury was very different just a few months earlier. While fall foliage season is famed here in photogenic ...


The Setonian

Faculty numbers improve

Author: Scott Greene Middlebury College's total number of occupied faculty positions went up only slightly this year, despite the addition of 36 new teachers. The change signals the beginning of the gradual implementation of part of the College's Strategic Plan, which proposes to "increase faculty resources ...


The Setonian

Middbriefs

Author: Annie Onishi Schines take on new posts as Brainerd faculty headsBrainerd Commons received two new faculty heads this summer in the form of Robert and Marita Schine. The Schines take over the post from Karl Lindholm, who served as faculty head last year.The Schines have been affiliated with Middlebury ...


The Setonian

Students facing Facebook's realities

Author: Kathryn Flagg Be ware the perils of Facebook, warned Middlebury College Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hanson and Dean of the College Tim Spears in an August 31 e-mail outlining the pitfalls of the popular social networking website. The warning highlighted privacy concerns related to the website ...


The Setonian

New stogie shop lights up downtown Middlebury

Author: Kasie Sherman If you are not a tobacco connoisseur, never fear, Middlebury's newest store, The Emporium: Tobacco and Gift Shop, is anything but intimidating. Alongside high-quality cigars and cigarettes, the store sells the work of local artisans and the helpful staff is available to offer ...


The Setonian

Administration cutting back on Feb admissions

Author: Scott Greene Middlebury College will begin to scale back its February admissions program in an effort to transform a system that "no longer offers a structural advantage to the College," as recommended in the Strategic Plan approved in May. The College will make the February admissions (Feb) ...


The Setonian

Middbriefs

Author: Derek Schlickeisen Language School accused of Arab-nationalismFranck Salameh, an adjunct professor who taught at Middlebury's Arabic School in the summer of 2004, published an opinion piece this August in several online news outlets charging administrators and faculty with "a restrictive Arab-nationalist ...