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, ...
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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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 ...
Author: Erin McCormick With the seemingly constant winter precipitation since the beginning of second semester coupled with the blizzard on Feb. 17, the Facilities Maintenance Department (FMD) has been faced with the task of snow removal and the de-icing of campus.Although this winter has been fairly ...
Author: Elizabeth Siegel Mixed emotions resulted from last week's arrest and arraignment of James Husk, a 63-year-old Addison County native who now faces trial for arson. The Vergennes resident was taken into custody at the Middlebury barracks on Thursday, Feb. 17 for the recent string of fires, three ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...