Author: Alex R. Garlick Housing in Brainerd Commons is just that, pretty common. There really are not any coveted features or signature rooms that draw students to the commons. If anything, Brainerd is notorious for having its commoners emigrate with visions of better housing on their minds. Most Brainerd ...
Author: Meg Young I went into room draw bright-eyed, bushy tailed, and convinced that there were maybe 550 other first-years - tops - against whom I needed to fight for a room. I learned quickly that there were at least 647 (189 of them in my commons). Yes: I was the last number in room draw. (OK, maybe ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will speak at the graduation of the Middlebury College class of 2005 on May 22. Giuliani will also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The prominent Republican, who was honored as Time magazine's 2001 Person of the Year, is best ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca As the most recently completed commons, Atwater is where it is all at this year for room draw. Those who live there now plan to stay for the new senior suites and the new dining hall, and those who do not live there are daydreaming about the same things. Even though the remote ...
Author: Katie Flagg Students in Ross Commons have transcended the proverbial "Life sucks and then you die" with a new optimism - "Life is mediocre and then LaForce!""[Ross] is clean and functional," said Taylor Long '07, a resident of Hadley. "It is [also] a lifeless, overbearing, claustrophobic, prison-like, ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson If you're like most Midd-kids, you've likely reached that point in the ski season where you have skied the Snow Bowl slopes to the point of collapse - but by no means are you ready for the season to end. This weekend, head to Stratton to enjoy the sparkle of some fresh slopes ...
Author: JASON SIEGEL PARIS - The Magical Mystery Tour has finally arrived in Paris, after stops in New York, London and Madrid (and a final stop in Moscow to go). No, it's not the Beatles (or what's left of them); no, it's someone Paris loves even more: the International Olympic Committee (IOC).On the ...
Author: THOMAS C. DRESCHER AND CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Scam e-mails plague community inboxes Library and Information Services (LIS) sent out a campus-wide e-mail alert last week regarding a recent spate of reported fraudulent e-mail receipts. The e-mails in question, which appear to be from "reputable ...
Author: Katie Flagg They do not have a dining hall. They do not have shiny new senior suites, nor do they have oh-so-funky architecture or state-of-the-art dorms. But despite Middlebury's craving for "quality senior housing," students in Cook Commons - affectionately, Cookers - are largely happy with ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner For the second time in the past year, the popular ski town of Killington has voted to secede from Vermont and join their eastern neighbor, New Hampshire, in protest of the high property tax caused by Act 60. At a town meeting in March 2004, Killington first voted to the pursue ...
Author: Katie Flagg Binge drinking rates vary state to state A report released this month by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) contends that the amount students drink may be related to where they go to school. The report analyzed data from two national surveys and found that location by state is ...
Author: Polly Johnson The times they are a changing, and that change is beginning right here in Vermont. Last week residents met in town meetings across the state to consider proposals as varied as banning smoking in restaurants and requesting the recall of Vermont's U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. In ...
Author: Mattie Gratch The Middlebury men's rugby team, in an effort to raise funds for post-season play, has accepted positions as dining hall monitors in Proctor, Ross and Atwater Dining Halls. The fundraising effort follows a recent budget cut in the athletic department that eliminated funds for both ...
Author: Kimberly Schrimsher Wired to the Internet in an airport in Bombay, Piya Kashyap '07 was overwhelmed with emotion. After receiving numerous blogs of support from friends, family and even strangers, Kashyap's J-term project, a series of weblogs chronicling her J-term travels in India entitled ...
Author: Ben Salkowe In a few weeks Room Draw 2005 will be at your doorstep. It will start with the arrival of your dear room draw card shortly after Spring Break. Then there will be stress and anxiousness, pouring over fine-print, hard-to-read floor plans and knocking on strangers' doors to see their ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher Members of the Middlebury College Civil Liberties Union (MCCLU) gathered more than 200 signatures Tuesday night at Proctor Dining Hall for a petition opposing the Student Government Assocation's (SGA) approval of security camera installation for a four-month trial period in ...
Author: Lauren Smith You took a first-year seminar on the weird connection between physics and art, and then realized you were completely in love with U.S. history. Your choice of a first year seminar landed you in Stewart Hall, square in Brainerd Commons with your friendly physics and art geeks. Now ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The enhancement of academic excellence has been one of the foremost topics of discussion at Middlebury College since before President Ronald D. Liebowitz took office. A position paper created during the Presidential search cited that one of the goals of the College was to ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN West Barnett, Vt. Population 1,670. The town's Lake Harvey is known as the place where Jacques Cousteau acquired a taste for underwater diving while vacationing there as a child. West Barnett's second claim to fame? Its basketball protégé, Taylor Coppenrath. It's not the size ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Wonnacott, the commons of Dean Matt Longman and the giant squirrel, splits the dorms on the south side of College St. with Brainerd Commons. Wonnacott's dorms include: Battell (first-center and south), Gifford, 108 South Main St (the Chinese House), 20 Adirondack View (the Japanese ...