Author: Dan Stevens On March 1, the Athletic Department announced a change in Fitness Center protocol. Due to a mandate from the State Fire Marshall, the College was forced to modify several aspects of the Fitness Center - most visibly the removal of personal belongings from the hallway directly outside ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Fostering dialogue for a handful of students, alumni and administrators, the Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) Diversity Committee sponsored a sparsely attended forum for anti-defamation on Tuesday evening in Mead Chapel. The forum sought to discuss racial ...
Author: Rache Durfee The Blue Hen Kitchen and Market will be renamed the Middlebury Market and Café when it reopens in April. A sign outside the Blue Hen on College Street reads, "Closed for Renovations. Reopening in April." Sama Hayyat, a Middlebury resident, purchased the Blue Hen from its former ...
Author: Katherine Doorley Middlebury residents have voted to approve plans for a new bridge across Otter Creek. At the recent Town Meeting, the bridge proposal asking, "Shall the Town support the Cross Street Bridge location and conceptual intersection design and circulation as recommended by the ...
Author: Tom McCann The article in The Campus last week about the Career Services (CSO) Spring Job Fling blew my mind. In particular I refer to the comments made by Susan Walker, the Associate Director for Internships. Speaking of the job search process for current seniors, she said, "What's important ...
Author: Polly Johnson UPenn students caught in fireSix University of Pennsylvania students and one Bryn Mawr student were sent to the hospital on March 3 after a raging fire erupted at about 3:30 a.m. in a three-story student rowhouse at 4042 Sansom St., a Penn residence. While five of the seven students ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND LISIE MEHLMAN College admissions consider SAT errorsEarly last week, the College Board disclosed that moisture damage on answer sheets had led to the incorrect scoring of 4,000 SAT tests of students throughout the Northeast. The admissions offices of Vermont's University of ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus Students, faculty and townspeople gathered in Dana Auditorium this past Thursday to view a program devoted to exploring and celebrating the work of Larry Kramer. Kramer, a renowned gay rights and AIDS activist as well as a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and non-fiction writer, ...
Author: Katie Hylas Sunday March 12, the Student Government Association (SGA) met in the Robert A. Jones House to discuss a potential revision to the current smoking policy at Middlebury College. The Community Council's proposed revisions aroused emotion in both smokers and nonsmokers. In response ...
Author: Scott Greene The Middlebury College faculty met on Monday, March 13 in John M. McCardell, Jr., Bicentennial Hall to discuss a proposal regarding changes in tenure and reappointment appeals procedures, a new faculty-inclusive admissions strategy and current elections for the Educational Affairs ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN In small towns where the village center usually consists of a main road and two, maybe three more densely populated avenues, parents generally do not warn their children to stay "off da street." Instead of the sight of drug hustlin', the streets in rural villages are simply what ...
Author: Liz Campbell In response to increased campus-wide concern about social life at Middlebury College, Ann Hanson, dean of Student Affairs, and Tim Spears, dean of the College, have invited students to participate in a task force on student social life. The Committee will convene throughout the ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Three months after Middlebury's faculty voted to merge the major programs in American Literature and English, opinions remain mixed as to whether the move was a good one. Proponents say the new Department of English and American Literatures reinvigorates an awkwardly organized ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel and James Dolan Food occupies a special place in the lives of Middlebury students. Many plan their day according to when, where and what they are going to eat. As in other areas of life, students turn a critical eye to their food, questioning its quality, its source, its variety. ...
Author: SALIM SAGLAM POITIERS, FRANCE - Concerned with their post-university career, the French students are on strike against Contrat Première Embauche (CPE), the new employment law proposed by the French PM Dominique de Villepin. This law enables the employers to fire newly hired employees between ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Student Government Association (SGA) convened Sunday in the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room to resolve current proposals that have not yet been finalized and to set forth final goals for the remainder of the spring semester. At the top of the list was the E-mail List Control ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND LISIE MEHLMAN Jordan receives grant for project bridging science and religionAugustus Jordan, director of the Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life at Middlebury College, recently received a three-year matching grant to facilitate discussions on science and ...
Author: Scott Greene The controversial issue of cigarette smoking came before the Community Council on Monday, Feb. 27, as Council members debated possible restrictions on smoking near the doorways of campus buildings.Reference and Instruction Librarian Brenda Ellis, the Staff Council's member at-large, ...
Author: Jake Cohen In keeping with the Middlebury College tradition of presenting a gift in honor of four years well spent at the College, the Class of 2006 offers an environmentally conscious gift to the College this year. The class will donate a new MiddRides van fueled by bio-diesel, and the gift ...
Author: Christine Fisher This past Monday night, the town of Middlebury faithfully continued a centuries-old tradition by holding its annual Town Meeting in the Municipal Auditorium, located across the street from the Blue Hen. According to Vermont law, "a meeting of legal voters of each town shall ...