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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 ...


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Music service draining student activities fee

Author: Ben Salkowe A committee of students from the Student Government Association (SGA) and Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) has decided to extend the College's agreement with Napster, the streaming music service for students being funded through the student activities fee (SAF). "Based ...


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Author: Katie Flag Environmental Council sponsors "mini grants" The Environmental Council recently issued a new challenge to Middlebury College faculty and students, daring members of the College community to design creative ways to advance campus sustainability - with $100 in hand. The challenge is ...


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Davis explores Feb graduation

Author: Taylor Johnston President Ronald D. Liebowitz has launched an investigation into the feasibility of a Feb graduation after announcing his interest in turning the Feb celebration into a graduation at the last Board of Trustees meeting. Heading the investigation process, Secretary of the College ...


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OVERSEAS BREIFING

Author: JACOB RISINGER OXFORD - Oxford is known across the world as being a relatively decent place to get an education. What is recognized less often is Oxford's equally impressive - if a bit complex - network of late-night, inebriated snacking facilities. Every night, as the sun slips behind the grey ...


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Students decry Proctor closing

Author: Thomas C. Drescher A surge of student opposition to the College's decision to close Proctor Dining Hall on weekends shook the campus this past week and sparked the creation of a Student Government Association (SGA) proposal requesting the retraction of the controversial dining schedule modification. ...


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RURAL BANTER

Author: ERICA GOODMAN Some towns pass along gossip. Others send the good old flu circulating. Middlebury has its own ideas of what to spread through a community. A petition to limit retail expansion with nearly 1,000 signatures from Addison County residents was brought to the meeting of the Select Board ...


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College appoints new WAGS chair

Author: Kimberly Schrimsher When Middlebury College students consider the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, they are not likely thinking about the vastly different effects the disaster had on men and women in the region. Yet that is precisely what the College's new chair of Women's and Gender Studies ...


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Coyote hunt revives biting in town response

Author: Andrea Glaessner Organized coyote hunts are cropping up all over Addison County with cash incentives for hauling in the "villainous predators." There have been three hunts scheduled in the past two months with over 600 enthusiastic gamesmen. But not everyone is strapping on their boots and cleaning ...


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COLLEGE SHORTS

Author: Thomas C. Drescher and Caroline S. Stauffer Colby dining offers alcohol to of age studentsColby College is pursuing a new approach to confront the problem of alcohol abuse on college campuses. It will, in fact, serve beer and wine in its dining halls to students of legal drinking age on select ...


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Public safety ups dorm security Dorms on new locking schedule

Author: Katie Flagg Students across campus are fumbling in their pockets for cards after a Feb. 5 announcement from the Department of Public Safety unveiling a new schedule for the residence hall locking system. As of Sunday, all residence halls have been locked at nine o'clock at night, and dormitories ...


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High demand for Snow Bowl shuttle

Author: [no author name found] For students at a school that has its own ski facility, the massive popularity of a shuttle service to the slopes should come as no surprise. Established in October 2004, the shuttle, which runs from Middlebury College to the Snow Bowl has already gained so much support ...


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College Shorts

Author: Andrea Gissing Cell phones not welcome at Mississippi State UniversityThe Mississippi State University (MSU) faculty senate is moving towards banning cellular phones from all classrooms. They are working on a policy that, if implemented, would justify removing students from classrooms for possessing ...


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Climate conference heats up global issue

Author: Katie Flagg Students, professors and leaders in the environmental movement gathered at Middlebury College at the end of January to discuss strategies for renewing public interest in the global warming crisis. With recent February temperatures hitting an unusual near-record high of 50 degrees, ...


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Author: Katie Flagg, Caroline Stauffer, Eri Nosaka Bread Loaf to offer new international fellowship




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