Author: Scott Greene Middlebury College vaulted into the top five of the recently released U.S.News and World Report "America's Best Colleges" ranking of the country's top liberal arts colleges, moving up from eighth to fifth place in the publication's annual calculations. Both the report and College ...
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 ...
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) ...
Author: Amy McCowan This is a special edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. The following article is a reprint from April 20.Completing its annual review evaluating each house's fulfillment of house missions, the Community Council Subcommittee ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer and Thomas C. Drescher This is a special edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. The following article is a reprint from April 27.Patrol Officer Vegar Boe said that drugs and alcohol likely played a role in ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus This is a special edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. The following article is a reprint from April 6.The social house Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) no longer exists at Middlebury College. "The Delta House," the social ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen and Benjamin Salkowe President Ronald D. Liebowitz placed Delta social house on an immediate one-year suspension and denied the organization residential status for the 2006-2007 academic year, members were informed earlier this month. The President's decision came in the wake ...
Author: [no author name found] This is a special online summer edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. All articles following the lead story are reprints of the previous events leading up to the suspension. The Middlebury Campus is now ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg This is a special edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. The following article is a reprint from Dec. 1.Social house pledge events ground to a halt last week after College employees found and reported 14 30-rack cases ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer This is a special edition featuring Middlebury Campus coverage of the Delta House investigations and suspension decision. The following article is a reprint from May 4.The Champlain Channel Five Reporter Ben Stein was on campus Friday asking students questions about the ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN At 21 years of age, I am announcing my retirement. Although I will not yet be playing shuffleboard under shady Florida palms, it is true, the moment of departure is nigh. With Commencement approaching rapidly, it is time for me to say goodbye to Rural Banter and bid a fond farewell ...
Author: [no author name found] The Middlebury Campus is now on recess for the summer. Breaking news updates will be posted throughout the summer as they occur, and weekly publication will resume on Sept. 14. Please contact campus@middlebury.edu with questions or comments through the recess.
Author: Polly Johnson As more of Middlebury's social life moves off campus and into the town bars, the more risk students face - especially underage students attempting to gain entry and drink in these bars - being caught and cited by one of the several Middlebury Police Department (MPD) officers who ...
Author: Jack Lysohir "Very apropos" hall of fame reviewer Daniel L.J. PhillipsOne of the great things about George Lucas's first critically acclaimed film, "American Graffiti" is that a teacher mentions that he dropped out of Middlebury College. The other great thing about "American Graffiti" is that ...
Author: Amy McCowan School is back in session for the students at the C.V. Starr Middlebury Schools in Paris after three to six weeks of student protests against France's new First Employment Contract (CPE) disrupted classes at the Paris 1, Paris 3, Paris 4 and Poitiers campuses. On April 10, French ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus Officers from the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) were invited to participate in last week's Social Life Student Task Force meeting. Patrol officers George Merkel and Kevin Emilio, along with Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley, were asked to partake in the ongoing discussion ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN, POLLY JOHNSON AND KATHRYN FLAGG At their annual May meeting this weekend, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees granted tenure to eight current assistant professors: Tim Huang of the Computer Science department, Pete Nelson of Geography, William Pyle and Thierry Warin of Economics, ...
Author: Christine Fisher Currently, there seems to be a game of political musical chairs going on in the Green Mountain State. James Jeffords' (I-VT) decision to resign from his position as U.S. senator has initiated a domino effect, as the popular Bernie Sanders (I-VT) vacates Vermont's lone seat ...
Author: Liz Cambell The Middlebury College Board of Trustees convened over the weekend for its annual May meeting. The main item on the agenda was the Strategic Plan and its financial feasibility, while other topics of discussion included the election of new trustees, the approval of the College's budget, ...
Author: ARIELLE WEISMAN SPAIN - "Viejos verdes" is the Spanish way of saying dirty old men, of which there are many here in Spain. I have always marveled at the abundance of elderly people out and about on the city streets. You just don't see quite as many of them on the T in Boston or in university ...