Author: Liz Campbell In June 2005, the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees elected to partner with Investure, LLC, an asset-management company specializing in small colleges and nonprofit organizations, in order to more effectively manage Middlebury College's endowment and assets. The new ...
Author: Julie Ellenberger, Jason F. Siegel & Daniel L. J. Phillips Students targeted in recording suit Last week, yet another set of lawsuits was brought against 745 college students by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the illegal downloading of music on peer to peer networks. ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are. - Wendall Berry The sun has (briefly) emerged after weeks of hiding dormant behind layers of rain and clouds. A few maples and oak have maintained their colorful leaves but unfortunately, the peak of fall foliage has ...
Author: By Kathryn Flagg and Ben Salkowe In a score for Brainerd Commons, a steady crowd of over 200 turned out last Friday night for a late October pool party, complete with more than $2,200 worth of inflatable tubes and rafts and a two-story high projection screen showing "Jaws." Telling students ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland Erica Goodman '06 was named Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) volunteer of the year for her work to maintain one of the area's prized recreational assets. The Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) is a great link between the town, the College and the countryside and is open to the ...
Author: ANNABELLE CAZES PARIS-Though the Monoprix - France's most unpleasant and aggravating excuse for an American grocery store - might have everything from Princesse Tam-Tam lingerie to Nutella, the aisles are too narrow, there are always too many people and worst of all, the checkout lines are never-ending. ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Last Tuesday, instead of the daily dose of rain that had been dousing the Northeast Region for the past two weeks, the skies opened up and surprised Vermonters with an unseasonably early snowstorm. Though Middlebury residents only saw flurries, which melted before they even ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel The Strategic Planning Committee held a town meeting in the McCullough Social Space last Thursday in an attempt to present its completed work and gather feedback from the College community.Addressing a sparse crowd of around 15 or 20 people - about one-third the number who had ...
Author: Annie Onishi On Sunday, Oct. 30, the Student Government Association (SGA) met to discuss Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, grade inflation, lowering the temperature of all buildings on campus and installing printers in residence halls. Isabel Yordan '07 provided the SGA with an update on the ...
Author: Zoey L. Burrows On Friday, Oct. 28, Sarah Bray '08 won the 27th presentation of the Paul Ward '25 Prize for excellence in writing by first-year students for her art history essay, "The Erotic Drawings of Augustine Rodin: A Feminist Approach." This year a record 37 students were nominated. Students ...
Author: Rachel Durfee In the wake of two of the most destructive hurricanes this nation has witnessed, a group of volunteers from the Vergennes Volunteer Rescue and Middlebury Ambulance squads recruited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responded to a nation-wide call for outside support. ...
Author: Rachel Durfee, Francesca Filippelli Looking to avoid that awkward morning-after confrontation in the dining hall? Tired of holding your cumbersome tray as you wait for your made-to-order Ross omelet? Turned off by the prospects of yet another cup of acidic "Central Highlands Brew"? Might we ...
Author: Christine Fisher "There's no such thing as a free lunch, let alone free beer."The mention of "free" beer and pizza offered at Middlebury Campus Activity Board (MCAB)-sponsored Pub Nights in a Sept. 29 Middlebury Campus article raised the eyebrows of town officials on the grounds that Vermont ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG French dept. publishes Montreal travel guide Taking a trip across the border? The Middlebury College French Department announced last month that it will again publish "Vous Allez à Montréal," its free travel guide to Montreal. The guide, published in French, is designed to guide ...
Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt On the afternoon of Oct. 24, approximately 15 members of Hillel and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) joined forces to remove proselytizing flyers aimed at Jews from books in the Main Library and followed it with a discussion over dinner. The flyers were concentrated ...
Author: Chris Knapp A committee of Middlebury College faculty members has proposed the creation of a linguistics program at the College, which, if approved, would come into existence beginning with the 2006-2007 academic year.The College currently offers a number of classes in linguistics which enjoy ...
Author: Annie Onishi On Oct. 10, Middlebury students may have noticed a change at the McCullough Student Center - what was once an unused coat closet had suddenly become home to the Center for the Arts (CFA) Box Office and a small branch of the Middlebury College Store.Over the summer, simple renovations ...
Author: LINDSEY SELDIN MADRID - My curiosity got the best of me a few weeks ago when I decided to attend my first, and most likely only, bullfight here in Madrid. On a chilly Sunday afternoon, I headed off to the stadium, ignoring my nerves and avoiding excessive food consumption before witnessing the ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Vermont is likely to pass legislation that would permit the sale of Plan B emergency contraception in select pharmacies, though Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for over-the-counter sales of the drug is delayed indefinitely.Plan B, which consists of a pair of Progestin-only ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland It's Friday night, and you walk up to the door of your favorite social house to find a long line of like-minded fellow students already tapping their party shoes impatiently against the pavement. "What's going on?" you inquire toward the crowd. A frustrated chorus of responses ...