Author: Erica Goodman As if the midterm overload were not enough - I have yet another test for you. (Have no fear. This score will not affect your GPA.)Question 1: How do you know if you are a true New Englander? Answer: You spend $50 on a motion detector security light for outside your house and ...
Author: Dave Barker MADRID - There exist slices of America here in Madrid. Homesick students can catch an English movie, watch college basketball at an Irish pub or visit Taste of America, where maple syrup and brownie mix fill in the gaps of the simple and meat-filled Spanish diet. I try to avoid these ...
Author: Caitlin Prentice On April 1, college students from across Vermont will converge on the state house lawn in Montpelier to support House Bill 49, a climate change action plan for the state. Here's the catch - in order to show their support for cleaner transportation options, students will ride ...
Author: DINA MAGARIL, CAROLINE S. STAUFFER AND ALEXXA GOTTHARDT College searches for Financial Aid director, prepares for new aid model As the comprehensive fee continues to escalate, Middlebury College is taking extra care in its selection of a new Director for Financial Services in order to make the ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer On Tuesday afternoon the Community Council passed a resolution 12-5-1 recommending a revision to the College's current recruitment policy. Student Co-Chair of Community Council J.S. Woodward '06 and Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hanson co-authored the final version of the ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer Members of the Program Coordination Group investigating Middlebury's acquisition of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) gave a presentation and answered questions Tuesday afternoon in Warner Hemicycle. President Ronald D. Liebowitz was also on hand.In ...
Author: Polly Johnson Whether or not you've made the trek to Vergennes, Vt., you've definitely heard of the small town near Middlebury and its quaint Vermont charm. It was established in 1788 as Vermont's first city, and is also its smallest city, being only two square miles in size with a population ...
Author: CAROLINE S. STAUFFER AND THOMAS C. DRESCHER Senator addresses federal aid issues Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) informed student media reporters from across the country of President Bush's plans to cut funding for collegiate financial aid programs in a conference call Tuesday afternoon. He ...
Author: Mattie Gratch Priscilla Sinclair '07 was chosen out of six nominees to receive the 2005 Angels Award on March 11. The fifth annual Four Angels Award Ceremony celebrates the unforgettable lives and legacies of four Middlebury students from the Class of 2003 - Anisa Gamble, Tiffany Holmes, Iniko ...
Author: Katie Flagg With the much-anticipated April room draw rapidly approaching, students planning to live on campus next year are busy scrutinizing floor plans, knocking on strangers' doors and debating living arrangements among friends. An already stressful process, however, could potentially become ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca In the next few weeks, President Ronald D. Liebowitz will visit four more sites to conclude his eight-city presidential tour. Liebowitz has already visited Denver, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and plans to visit Westchester County, Boston, Washington D.C. and New ...
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 ...