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 ...
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 ...