Author: Katie Flagg As Commencement draws near, students, faculty and staff unhappy with the choice of Rudolph Giuliani as Commencement speaker are mobilizing to protest Giuliani's politics and policies. College administrators predict that the protests, should they occur, will not interfere with the ...
Author: Dina Magaril Inevitable room draw imperfections have once again left many underclassmen with unsettled living situations for next fall, but the actual number of students entering summer draw this year does not appear to be cause for serious concern. As of Tuesday, Cook Commons had received ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Last Thursday, members of the Middlebury College community gathered at a lunch reception in McCardell Bicentennial Hall to celebrate the winners of this year's Faculty and Staff Appreciation Awards. The Marjorie Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award was presented to Assistant ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Store: Neat Repeats Resale ShopAddress: 3 Bakery Lane (next to Taste of India)Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.Those of you who are frequent lunch goers at Taste of India or even Tully and Marie's must notice the hot pink sign pointing to the underground ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Let me be one of the first to say this: Congratulations to the Class of 2005. As you move beyond the Middlebury bubble, I wish you happiness and good fortune. Your four years are surely filled with memories and lessons, both good and bad, which will be with you always. Like those ...
Author: Polly Johnson Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced on April 20 his resignation from the Senate, causing much shock and surprise and sparking a race for his successor. Jeffords, who had been a member of Congress for the last 30 years, cited health issues plaguing both him and his wife, Liz. ...
Author: AnnMarie Wesolowski Last Friday, April 29, over 1,200 people participated in Middlebury College's second annual Relay for Life and collectively raised over $175,000 for the American Cancer Society (ACS). The 18-hour walk-a-thon that honors those touched by cancer by raising research funds for ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus L. Dennis Kozlowski, ex-chief executive of Tyco International and ex-Middlebury College trustee, took the stand last week in his own defense at his retrial in New York State Supreme Court. Named one of BusinessWeek magazine's "Top 25 Managers to Watch" as recently as 2001, Kozlowski ...
Author: CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Monterey decision deadline extended On the evening of Wednesday, April 27, President Ronald D. Liebowitz announced his plan to slightly defer a final decision on the potential acquisition of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in an all-campus e-mail.After ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Recently, as Americans have realized the necessity of empowering the American worker and small private businesses, an ever-disapproving attitude towards large corporations has emerged. Here in Middlebury, many have noticed that the influx of corporate America has been intruding ...
Author: KATIE FLAGG AND CAROLINE S. STAUFFER SGA proposes universal wireless Internet access The Student Government Association (SGA) voted 13-0-1 Sunday to support the "Remaining Technologically Competitive" bill that was introduced this week into the Senate. The bill, authored by Feb Senator Dean ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN I have always had a fascination with maps. The land we call our Earth has been reproduced infinite times in bold colors and hundreds of languages. Maps can tell us anything from the distance from Detroit to Memphis, to the principal commodity of Kazakhstan. Sometimes they lead ...
Author: Peter Mueller Last Wednesday, April 20, 2005, Middlebury College hosted the Professor D.K. Smith Visiting Economic Lecture Series in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. This year's event, entitled "Vermont's Business Landscape: Entrepreneurs Tell their Tales," showcased accomplishments of Vermont entrepreneurs ...
Author: Katie Flagg Eli Berman '07.5 secured the Student Government Association (SGA) presidency Tuesday, besting candidates Dan Saper '06 and Elizabeth Schaumberg '06 to secure the SGA's top spot and the distinction of being one of the youngest SGA presidents in recent history. Also on Tuesday, JS ...
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Author: AnnMarie Wesolowski President Ronald D. Liebowitz's house was the setting for the Charles A. Dana Scholars' Dinner on April 25. Over 30 students and members of the staff and faculty gathered to recognize the Charles A. Dana Scholars of the Class of 2007 for their academic success and leadership ...
Author: Abigail Mitchell The culmination of President Ronald D. Liebowitz's call for an immediate response to the tsunami disasters in Southeast Asia materialized on April 17 when the total amount of aid generated by the College was tallied. The grand total to be donated is $10,910.12. These proceeds ...
Author: Katie Flagg Princeton students advocate chastity At Princeton University - largely regarded as the country's most conservative Ivy League school - a small group of undergraduates is pushing the discussion of sexual issues on campus in an entirely new direction. According to these students, in ...