Author: Andrea Glaessner Treehouses are a childhood staple. As a kid, there is something liberating about having your own exclusive dwelling high up in the trees, far away from parents, chores and homework. But unlike playing with Barbie in high school, remaining fond of the taste of Play-Doh or sleeping ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN A granite pad lays cracked and moss-covered over the old Colonel's remains, the stump of a diseased elm tree splitting the gravestone down the middle. In light strokes, the dedication across the top begins, "Here lies Colonel George Wray, who died in the year of our Lord 1804..." ...
Author: JASON F. SIEGEL Students protest Confederate flag On Saturday afternoon, approximately 20 Louisiana State University (LSU) students held a protest against the flying of the Confederate flag during a football game.Accompanied by approximately 20 police officers, the protesters followed the lead ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz and Board of Trustees Chairman Frederick M. Fritz '68 will attend a Nov. 10 meeting of the College's alumni chapter in London. On the agenda will be discussions of Middlebury's growing international network of alumni and its ...
Author: LIZ CAMPBELL AND BEN SALKOWE Personnette appointed VP for Facilities Services Susan R. Personette, previously a project executive for the planning and project management group Genesis Planners, recently joined Middlebury College as associate vice president of facilities services. In her new ...
Author: Chris Knapp In an effort to educate the College community about Middlebury's judicial system, the Judicial Board hosted a mock hearing of a plagiarism case in the Redfield Proctor Room on Tuesday night."In a real hearing, all deliberations are confidential," wrote Associate Dean of the College ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips The Faculty Council completed the third and final open meeting on Tuesday to discuss an Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) proposal that would establish a department and major in English and American Literature and a new interdisciplinary program and major in American ...
Author: Joshua Carson and C. Gregory Lazerus If you're looking for a small, cozy, English-style pub, look no further than Main Street in Bristol, Vt. The Bobcat Café is nestled amongst local business in the heart of this quaint town 20 minutes from Middlebury. With a large bronze bobcat hung across ...
Author: Laura Barrett Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, gave a lecture entitled "The Assault on Journalism" on Monday, Oct.17 in Twilight Auditorium. Abramson spoke about the consequences of legally requiring journalists to break confidentiality agreements with anonymous sources. ...
Following a unanimous vote on Sept. 30 by the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Board of Trustees in favor of affiliation with Middlebury College, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of the affiliation during its October meeting on campus. "In approving ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg President Emeritus John M. McCardell, Jr., has been commissioned by the Robertson Foundation in New York to produce a thorough analysis of the effect of the 21-year-old drinking age on underage alcohol consumption. The research is tied intimately to McCardell's own convictions, ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In a remarkable gesture of philanthropy and generosity, an anonymous donor made history a year and a half ago after donating a record $50 million to Middlebury College - the largest gift in the College's history and the single largest donation ever granted to a New England liberal ...
Author: Jason Siegel UConn group aims for equality Last Saturday, Connecticut became the fourth state to recognize civil unions. However, one UConn group has pledged to keep fighting until full marriage equality is achieved. Queers United Against Discrimination (QUAD) has worked over the past year ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury's Student Government Association (SGA) wrapped up two days of elections last Friday, with Sean Denny and Garrett Saito clinching the two first-year Senate seats, and Nick Monier and Max Nardini claiming the sophomore seats. In the only other contested race, Alpheus ...
Author: DANIEL L. J. PHILLIPS & KATHERINE N. DOORLEY New SGA-sponsored shuttle service goes beyond the bubble Back by popular demand, the Student Government Association (SGA) is offering students a round-trip shuttle bus service to New York City and Boston over fall break. The SGA announced the ...
Author: Ben Salkowe The Board of Trustees convened this past weekend for its annual fall retreat to discuss major issues before the College - on the agenda was the strategic planning report, Axinn '51 Center for the Humanities and the College's affiliation with the Monterey Institute for International ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner and Jessica Clayton Frolicking in the vast expanse of green pasture, Charles Dickens and Robert Frost chase after Mercury and Aurora Borealis. Names which normally arise when discussing literature and stargazing are now used to refer to four of the fluffy young alpacas of Moonlit ...
Author: Christopher Hassig Vermont is once again in the middle of a national political debate, but this time the subject is campaign finance reform. The Supreme Court has selected a case for consideration in the judicial term that challenges a strict Vermont campaign finance statute. The Vermont case ...
Author: Annie Onishi The Middlebury College Community Council met Tuesday to discuss policies regarding senior move-out after Commencement and to receive an update on the implementation of a quota system for the amount of paper allocated to students, faculty and staff in public College computer labs.The ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher The College recently announced that it has finalized the sale of a 30-acre lot on Route 7 to Vermont-based development firm Middlebury South Village (MSV), LLC, which plans to begin work on a comprehensive residential community of the same name early next year. The development ...