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COLLEGE SHORTS

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 ...


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Ross Conrad buzzes with activity

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 ...


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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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MIDDBRIEFS

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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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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Military to recruit on campus

Author: Caroline Stauffer Captain David Doucette of the United States Marine Corps was on hand Tuesday evening to explain the US' policy of "don't ask don't tell" concerning homosexuality in the armed forces in a standing-room-only McCardell Bicentennial Hall lecture room. After completing the presentation, ...


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Rural Banter

Author: Erica Goodman Vermont is bursting with "alfalfa sprouts." You can see them in the produce section of Hannaford. But more likely, they will be calmly waiting in line behind you at the Co-op. A salad bar item out shopping? Not quite. Weary of life in the big city, sick of the skyscrapers and ...




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