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 ...
Author: Ben S. Salkowe Community Council heard arguments on the College's nondiscrimination policy and recruitment procedure Monday from a large group of students, faculty and staff at a panel discussion held in Dana auditorium. Having heard from the community, the Council will begin deliberation next ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT, MATTIE GRATCH and CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Physics department under external review This past Wednesday marked the end of the second of three external academic department review committee visits for the 2004-2005 school year. The evaluation team, comprised of three faculty members ...
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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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, ...