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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Polly Johnson If you've ever wanted to meet someone who is the General Manager of a soap store and a beekeeper in his spare time, look no further than Ross Conrad of Middlebury, the acting general manager of Vermont Soap, a company located in town on Exchange St. The company specializes in the ...
Author: Katie Flagg At approximately 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a female student was accosted near the northeast entrance of Stewart Hall. An unidentified male grabbed her shoulder bag and dragged her a few feet in the snow while she resisted his attack before fleeing on foot toward Old Chapel Road. ...
Author: Katie Flagg Bush proposes Perkins loan cut Students may soon have to dig even deeper into their pockets for tuition payments if President Bush has his way. The president's new education budget proposal calls for the termination of the Perkins Loan Program to make up for funding shortages in ...
Author: Katie Flagg Following President Ronald D. Liebowitz's Feb. 13 announcement of new security protocol, the task force for the implementation of the enhanced access system has been hard at work facilitating the adoption of new security measures. According to Assistant Treasurer Tom Corbin, head ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Coydog: [ k dôg , -d g ] n. offspring of a coyote and a dogFrom the moment of birth, mothers thrive on worrying about their children. What results is a long list of demands to ensure that their greatest fears do not lead to the demise of their offspring. My mother, of course, ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart GUADALAJARA - The Office of Off-Campus Study neglects to mention to those headed off to study in Guadalajara that they will be risking their lives twice or thrice daily while abroad. But so it is in Guadalajara, the second largest of Mexico's metropoleis. Several times a day, ...
Author: Erin McCormick In an effort to reopen Proctor Dining Hall for weekend service, the Student Government Association (SGA) narrowly passed a bill Sunday night to revive Proctor on weekends and question the place of Middlebury Commons Dining at large."The passing of this bill is a victory for all ...
Author: Sarah Shaikh Military officials confirmed on Monday that a unit of 200 Vermont Army National Guards, who were deployed to Iraq on Jan. 24, 2004, will be returning to the United States Thursday, March 3. This group of returning guardsmen, the first to be deployed to Iraq from Vermont, is a section ...
Author: CLAIRE NIELSON AND LISIE MEHLMAN Our friend Nura is like a demigod to us. She can do backbends with the best of them. (Claire wanted to write that Nura could turn straw into gold. Lisie does not understand how she is friends with Claire. Then she is reminded of -- actually, she just doesn't ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer Both event organizers and the Department of Public Safety have proclaimed Winter Carnival 2005 a resounding success. Winter Carnival Head Susan Harnett '05 and Amber Rydberg '06, assistant head, confessed to feeling slightly apprehensive going into the weekend, as they had ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer Although it remains focused on the expansion and development of the commons system, Middlebury College continues to support Academic Interest Houses. Students have recently submitted proposals requesting the additions of Portuguese and Arabic Language Houses and after moving ...