Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green, focus editor Despite having a reputation as being a predominately Caucasian campus, the Middlebury College Admissions Office remains committed to recruiting students of color. "We remain as committed as ever to making our student body as much of a microcosm of the greater ...
Author: Annie Onishi With the Planning Committee for Middlebury's Future nearing the final quarter of its yearlong strategic planning process, Dean of Planning and Secretary of the College John Emerson said early this week that parts of the strategic plan may be released as soon as next month.While ...
Author: Zach Hecht-Leavitt This summer the Bread Loaf School of English will open a fifth campus in North Carolina, President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced last Wednesday. The campus will be located at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) and will be the sixth to open since Bread Loaf's ...
Author: Katherine Doorley Last semester ended with many members of the Middlebury community questioning their own ability to discuss issues of diversity and belonging, and wondering how Middlebury could work to improve communication among members of the campus community on important issues.The Deliberative ...
Author: Liz Campbell Tim Spears, dean of the College and professor of American literature and civilization, has recently developed an initiative to enhance diversity on campus through a revitalized series of lectures and events. As part of the College's ongoing attempts to promote a more diverse educational ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips, associate editor The long, downhill walk into town can prove rewarding if you stop and treat yourself to a meal at Storm Café on Mill Street, but the place does not deserve the reputation as one of the best restaurants around. Nestled within Frog Hollow Mill along the ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner As students of Middlebury College, we are lucky to get a little taste of Vermont. From within the boundaries of the campus, we look out a small window that frames the landscape of the scenic state with its picture-perfect sunsets, vast expanses of land transforming from green ...
Author: Sonja Pedersen-Green, focus editor In The Village Voice this summer, Middlebury College was criticized for its lack of racial sensitivity and the use of racial profiling. Perhaps the most notorious example of this was in a campus-wide crime alert last year, in which a suspect was referred to ...
Author: Jason Siegel Congress protects college right-wing Congress is considering a new Academic Bill of Rights in response to many conservative students alleging discrimination or humiliation by professors due to their conservative viewpoints. David Horowitz, a former leftist turned arch-conservative ...
Author: BEN SALKOWE AND THOMAS C. DRESCHER Student leads walk for multiple sclerosis cure On Sept. 7, 2004, Carrie Bryant was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). She had turned 19 only weeks earlier, and was just about to begin her first year at Middlebury. Instead, Bryant was in hospital rooms ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Time to topple an old country myth and let sleeping cows lie.Perhaps it is my role as token farmer among my friends. Maybe it is due to my ag pride, expressed through cow-covered t-shirts and Farm Bureau bumper stickers adorning my walls. You see, time and again, friends have ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In its first meeting of the year, the Community Council voted unanimously Monday to uphold the spirit of the new interpretation of the liquor law - including mandatory guest lists for registered parties - while preserving as much individual student responsibility as possible. While ...
Author: ANNA SPENCER MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY - Being abroad has changed my perception of home - again. My first change of perception came when I moved out of my parents' house and into Stewart Hall my first year. Suddenly "home" became my dorm room and where I went over Winter Break was my parents' house. ...
Author: Daniel j. Phillips Just after midnight Sunday, an anonymous male made a call from an emergency phone within Gifford Hall and told the operator at Public Safety's telecommunications center that there was a bomb outside a particular individual's room. According to Public Safety's system, the call ...
Author: Katie Flagg Two weeks into his fourth semester at Middlebury College, President of the Student Government Association Eli Berman '07.5 is already campaigning for the "positive change" he advocated in his platform last spring. As Berman cites high hopes for the year ahead, his enthusiasm in pursuing ...
Author: Joshua Carson Craig Strachan was one of the lucky ones. Heeding the warnings of the local government, he and his girlfriend Valerie Leous collected a few personal belongings - important documents, light clothing, pictures - and evacuated from the city of New Orleans. Within days, everything ...
Author: Ben Salkowe According to attorneys and Middlebury College officials involved in a lawsuit filed by O'Neil Walker alleging racial discrimination by the College a ruling in the case is imminent. The College suspended Walker last spring after two campus judicial boards found him guilty both of ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury College's response to liquor inspector Michael G. Davidson's re-interpretation of the Vermont law regarding alcohol at open parties was put to the test last weekend with events hosted by Omega Alpha (Tavern) and Kappa Delta Rho (KDR). In addition to registering ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner To many students' dismay, the Middlebury Bubble has just lost a major escape route. The rumors are true: the Vermont Transit-sponsored Middlebury bus service has been terminated. Now it sadly seems the only way out of our "academic island in the mountains" is by foot or car. ...
Author: Zach hecht-Leavitt Ask Dean of Advising and Assistant Professor of American Literature Karl Lindholm to impersonate Bob Dylan, and chances are he'll comply. The "entertaining," "down to earth," and "approachable" new acting faculty head of Brainerd Commons is equally at home advising students ...