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 ...
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 ...