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 ...
Author: Rural Banter Car making a funny sound? Should your mechanic not find the problem, perhaps you had best call animal control. Last week, my mother's sedan had a lonely stay in the garage without anyone taking it for a spin. Mom Goodman pulled out of the driveway for her Friday afternoon grocery ...
Author: Jeanine Buzali On Oct. 8, Kathy Skubikowski and a team of other professors received a cluster grant from the Mellon Foundation to start a project for faculty on social justice education, which is to be held simultaneously on the Denison, Furman, Middlebury, Scripps and Vassar campuses. The project ...
Author: Mallory Falk On the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 10, Middlebury College faculty members met at Kirk Alumni Conference Center for the first of three open meetings scheduled this month to discuss the future of the American Literature and Civilization Department, which may merge with the English Department ...
Author: Chris Cadwell Middlebury Bagel and Delicatessen has been a place where members of the Middlebury College community and local residents have been coming together to eat breakfast for years. Owned and managed by the Rubright family - Jim, Kathy and their two sons, Ryan and J.J. - the restaurant ...
Author: Jeanine Buzali The construction of The Donald E. Axinn '51 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, to be located in a renovated Starr Library, is now scheduled to break ground this year. The plan is to convert the old library into a brand new facility that will house the English Department, ...
Author: Sean P. Breen Mary's Restaurant, part of the Inn at Baldwin Creek in Bristol, is a much-loved secret among Middlebury's dining-out crowd. The 20-minute drive north of Middlebury along Route 116 is especially beautiful during the fall season as the leaves begin to change and the sun is still ...
Author: Daniel L.J. Phillips Public Safety confirmed earlier this week that the anonymous student who allegedly called in a bomb threat at Gifford Hall on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 25, was referring to a "bong," not a bomb, outside a particular student's room.Director of Public Safety Lisa Boudah ...
Author: Polly Johnson Last Saturday morning on Middlebury's Town Green was no ordinary weekend morning. On Oct. 1, dogs and their owners took over the town from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., all in the name of participating in the Addison County Humane Society's (ACHS) annual Woofstock. The event brought together ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG Bachelor's degree payoff takes a hit While it still pays to earn that college degree, the financial benefits derived from earning a bachelor's degree are beginning to falter. In a market where the percentage of college-educated young people has never been higher, the wage premium ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Great ideas are never far from a good cup of coffee. Perhaps it is the caffeine that sparks new thinking. Or maybe this association comes from the way the drink connects people passionate about its flavor and history. No matter how you like it - with cream and sugar or strong ...
Author: LIZ CAMPBELL AND KATHRYN FLAGG Power outages disrupt campus dining services Middlebury College retail dining services lost power on two separate occasions last week, disabling dining operations for several hours. Both power outages occurred just before lunchtime, leaving many students, faculty ...
Author: Jason Siegel On Sept. 6, at the first faculty meeting of the year, the yearlong Ad Hoc Committee on Grading (AHCG) was formed to research the issue of grade inflation over the past few years at Middlebury. The committee was born out of preliminary research that the Educational Affairs ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN The cow barns are much quieter at Paul Seiler's farm these days. The Swiss native started his American dairy-farming career in Woodstock, Vt., before relocating to Addison County. When Paul started up his own farm, he milked conventionally - meaning he ran his 40-50-cow dairy in ...
Author: Amanda Goodwin LONDON - I am finally on terra firma in London. This is a comforting statement because my abroad experience had a rather inauspicious start when my flight out of JFK was delayed for three hours due to the original aircraft's being struck by lightning. The arrival at Heathrow was ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury's Student Government Association (SGA) opened voting for Student Senate at noon yesterday after struggling to recruit candidates from the classes of 2006 and 2007. With no competitive junior or senior races, the more crowded field of first-years and sophomores has ...
Author: Joshua Carson Walking with an open container of beer, a Middlebury College student was stopped on campus by a Middlebury Police Department (MPD) officer last fall. The officer drove up and asked, "What's in your hand?" to which the underage student, who wishes to remain anonymous, answered the ...
Author: Peter Mueller On Sept. 27, Eastview at Middlebury, a new non-profit organization that facilitates retirement community living, began giving tours of its future site. As of now, there is little to see other than farmland, but the view is bound to change since the area is set to offer 101 new ...