Author: Sean P. Breen The Black Sheep Bistro is certainly the most "European" of restaurants easily available to Middlebury students. As the former chef of the famed Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh, Michel Mahe opened Black Sheep Bistro in 2002 with the vision of a simple French bistro and an uncomplicated ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Board of Trustees will convene in New York City for its annual December meeting this Thursday. The main topic of discussion will be the Strategic Planning Process for Middlebury's future, while other items on the agenda include a discussion of the comprehensive fee and financial ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel Following months of negotiations, members of the Boards of Trustees of Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) met in Monterey, Calif., on Dec. 2 to sign an agreement to make MIIS an affiliate of Middlebury. The agreement also coincides with ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland Need a ride? A white and yellow Addison County Transit Resource (ACTR) bus, the county's public transportation service, can take you there free of charge - both for you and soon for the environment.Waiting at any of the on-campus stops at Adirondack Circle, Old Chapel, McCullough ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Approximately 120 Middlebury students spent much of last weekend making their voices heard at the United Nations conference on global warming in Montreal, Canada. The trip's sponsor, the campus climate-change organization Sunday Night Group (SNG), hoped to increase awareness ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN As the Christmas story tells us, the three magi followed a "yonder star" over two millennia ago. They brought offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh, but the gift they sought lay beneath the Star of Bethlehem, guiding them "across a midnight clear." Unquestionably, the celestial ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In what was heralded as significant legislation from the Student Government Association, the SGA voted unanimously earlier this year to encourage professors to submit textbook requests to the College Store in a timely manner - the main thrust in an attempt to lower the rising cost ...
Author: Rachel Durfee College administrators and town officials met on Nov. 22 to gauge whether the College's promotion of on campus events minimizes the opportunities for students and parents to visit the downtown area. President Ronald D. Liebowitz and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Robert ...
Author: Joshua Carson As it turns out, wine and cheese isn't just a party theme. Also, Carlo Rossi and American cheese are not the only two options when planning one. A recent trip to Burlington's Smokejacks Restaurant on the corner of Church and Main Streets on the Church Street Marketplace corroborated ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG, CAROLINE S. STAUFFER & JASON F. SIEGEL Student vehicle crashes after off-campus partyShortly after 3 a.m. early Sunday morning, Dec. 4, a vehicle carrying several Middlebury students drove off a dirt road after leaving an off-campus party. The tires lost traction on the gravel ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer - Editor in Chief The Middlebury College Faculty voted for the creation of a new department and major in English and American Literatures and a new program in American Studies during its December meeting on the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 12. The final count in paper ballots ...
Author: Daniel l. j. Phillips Undercover police to patrol at ColbyAccording to the deputy police chief of Waterville, Maine, undercover police officers will be dispatched to patrol the Colby College campus to curb underage drinking after another weekend of heavy drinking. Last weekend, five female Colby ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN AND KRISTIN NIELSON This week's Overseas Briefing is brought to you by veteran Campus columnists Lisie Mehlman and Kristin "Claire" Nielson. Mehlman and Nielson co-authored "Beyond the Bubble" last year, a recurring column that documented their adventures beyond Middlebury College. ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg Social house pledge events ground to a halt last week after College employees found and reported 14 30-rack cases of beer in Alpha Delta Phi (ADP). The cans were used as evidence of an unregistered party at ADP and shed light on a pledge violation. While pledge resumed this Tuesday ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel A recent survey regarding a decrease in the temperature of campus buildings shows that student opinion is generally in favor of the initiative to lower the temperature of classroom buildings and dormitories by two degrees Fahrenheit.The sponsoring committee, a division of the ...
Author: Liz Campbell On Nov. 14, the Parton Health Center announced the arrival of the first doses of flu vaccine for Middlebury College students. But of the 500 doses ordered, only 100 were initially received during the second week of November, followed by a mere 50 additional vaccines a week later. ...
A new report in The Chronicle of Higher Education shows that President Emeritus John M. McCardell, Jr., was one of a handful of presidents paid more than $1 million by their institution in 2003-04. It also revealed that during the rest of his presidency, McCardell was making merely a fraction of that ...
Author: DANIEL L. J. PHILLIPS Confession board stirs up WesleyanFollowing the trend set at Oberlin College, Wesleyan University launched and recently ended its Anonymous Confession Board - an online message board that provided space that invited students to post their opinions or concerns. The Confession ...
Author: BEN SALKOWE, KATHRYN FLAGG AND JASON F. SIEGEL Senior honored with Marshall ScholarshipIn a press release issued Monday, Nov. 28, the Office of the British Consulate-General announced that 43 young Americans had been selected for the prestigious British Marshall Scholarship next year, including ...
Author: ANNABELLE CAZES PARIS - Upon waking up late one morning, I realized that all I had left to replenish my energy was some instant coffee, a few heart-shaped sugar cubes and a package of slimy lamb's lettuce. So I forced myself out the door and headed down to the corner grocery store, a modest ...