Author: Jason Siegel On Nov. 6, the Middlebury College community lost a member of its family when Lorraine Zak, 51, passed away following a year-long battle with cancer. Throughout her 25-year career at Middlebury, Zak played an important role in student life. After starting her work at the College ...
Author: Jennifer Shapland In June of 1971, a social phenomenon called the "Back-to-the-Land Movement" was beginning to build momentum across the United States. In an effort to escape the rampant consumerism of the 1950s, many people fled the polluted, industrialized cities for rural safe havens to pursue ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen In recent weeks, two separate incidents affecting the student-run Islamic Society's ability to communicate with the Middlebury community have led the club's leadership to suspect harassment. The events sparked a condemnation from President Ronald D. Liebowitz and are now ...
Author: Rachel Durfee There is a newcomer in town whose menu offers a return to the quintessential culinary classic often overshadowed by nouveau gourmet trends. Instead of boasting courses concocted in the now old-news Italian, Asian or Fusion schools, this new restaurant serves dishes derived from ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel and Ben Salkowe MIT students have 'Sex' on their mindsIn an unusual departure from their highly scientific courses, some 24 lucky MIT students are analyzing a cultural phenomenon equally as complex: "Sex and the City."In an upper-level Women's Studies seminar called "Sex and ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate voted unanimously on Sunday, Oct. 30, to support the Textbook Requisition Forms Legislation, to be enacted immediately. The bill, co-authored by Brainerd Commons Senator and visiting Tulane student Jennifer Bowen, Atwater Commons Senator ...
Author: Katherine N. Doorley "Grandmas for Clean Air" and "Roast Coffee, Not Tires" were two of the many slogans displayed on the signs of protesters who gathered earlier this year to combat an International Paper Company proposal calling for a test-burn of shredded tires at its Ticonderoga plant. Vermont ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN PRAGUE - The advent of the TV-show on DVD has played a large role in shaping my study abroad experience. I have enough sense not to let "24" and "Gilmore Girls" dominate my life whilst in the Czech Republic. And when I say that I don't allow them to dominate my life, I mean that ...
Author: Zoey L. Burrows Twenty students and seven professors congregated Tuesday afternoon in the Robert A. Jones '59 house for the second formal African Studies meeting in the past several years. History Professor and African Studies Director Jacob Tropp said the meeting was long overdue in light of ...
Author: KATHRYN BROOKS FLAGG College produces four Watson nomineesMiddlebury College boasts four nominees for the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Proposals from Lauren Markham '06, Molly Nora '06, Alison Shapiro '06 and Amber Trotter '06 have been selected by the College to vie for Fellowships ...
Author: Joshua Carson The College is teaming up with Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) to explore the possibility of providing free Saturday bus service to and from Burlington. The initiative was conceived this summer when Jim Moulton, executive director of ACTR, invited Student Government Association ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...