Author: Erica Goodman No need to lose anymore sleep. The snow is finally here. Let J-term begin.For the avid skiers and snowboarders around campus, I understand your previous concern. The weather outside has been less than frightful so far this winter. With the thermometer during most of December ranging ...
Author: Myra Palmero In March 2004, Secretary of the College Eric Davis announced that he would be stepping down from his position as Secretary after May 2005 Commencement to join the faculty as a full-time Professor of Political Science before his final retirement in January 2008.Though Eric Davis ...
Author: Laura K. Budzyna One of the most valued honors bestowed on Middlebury professors - the annual Marjorie Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award - has just received a generous financial boost from Professor Emerita of History Marjorie Lamberti herself. This past October, Lamberti met with Student ...
Author: Katie Flagg College unveils online events calendar
Author: CLAIRE NIELSON AND LISIE MEHLMAN After a months-long hiatus, Middlebury's own beyond the bubble extraordinaires reemerged in the worn and slightly smelly Roo driving along Route 7. We had held, at one time, great hopes of snowshoeing and tellemarking and finding an outdoor adventure as stimulating ...
Author: Kristin Fraser On Jan. 7, students and members of the faculty and staff met in Coltrane Lounge to discuss the College's stance on discrimination in light of recent incidents on campus. An e-mail from six students sent to faculty summarized several of these incidents, which included the Frisbee ...
Author: Rachel Norton & Sharah Shaikh Addison County residents need not look any further for a convenient and efficient way to get into Burlington. Chittenden County Transit Authority (CCTA), in association with Addison County Transit Resources, began operating the Burlington LINK Xpress on Oct. ...
Author: Andrea Gissing UC-Davis political scientist sues CIA for infoLarry Berman, University of California-Davis political scientist and historian, filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after the CIA refused to release Vietnam-era presidential briefings. ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer MOROCCO - A four-hour wait for a friend's delayed flight at Casablanca's Mohamad V airport proved an appropriate introduction to the strange conglomeration of modern and ancient, progressive and conservative and rich and poor that is Morocco. The seemingly commanding presence ...
Author: Ben Salkowe In response to the tsunami tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people living along the Indian Ocean, and affected countless more, Middlebury College administrators and student leaders across campus convened during the first days of the term to discuss collaborative ...
Author: Tristan Hayes January at Middlebury is an image of skis and hot chocolate combined with frantic students running from building to building in an attempt to avoid the cold. However, this January there is a significant difference that cannot only be seen but can also be felt. Let us paint you ...
Author: Katie Flagg Middlebury College is ringing in the New Year with resolutions of an especially bold sort, led by a new president eager to chart the College's course for coming years. Just days after the end of the Fall 2004 term, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced his comprehensive ...
Author: Daniel Phillips Last year, there were on average four members at the College Democrats' bimonthly meetings. Currently boasting a total of 87 names on their mailing list - a number that surpasses membership of many political organizations at Middlebury - the College Democrats are proof that political ...
Author: Virginia Harper UCLA Faculty Protest U.S. Education BillA new education bill, which passed through the House of Representatives on Oct. 21, has professors at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) worried. The International Studies in Higher Education Act proposes the creation of ...
Author: Crystal Belle When arriving at Middlebury College almost four years ago, the innate beauty of the college campus amazed me. I loved everything from the McCullough spruce tree to the miniature-sized town. However, there was something that was very apparent to me - how vast and spacious the actual ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones Embroiled somewhere in the vicinity of the recent debate about the worth of Winter Term is a surge of Winter Term course offerings centered on aspects of Middlebury College. These are courses that could never be offered at another college - not because of some unmatchable ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Recently I had the opportunity to travel to Paris with a planeload of Italian tourists. Now I'm sure most of us are familiar with the stereotypical American tourist, and I dare say may have even participated in propagating that notoriously ignorant and obnoxiously loud stereotype ...
Author: Megan Michelson Helen Thomas was not wearing her signature red dress, which she wore for so many years as the White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, when she spoke at the Sheraton Conference Center in South Burlington last Sunday. Dressed instead in dark blue, Thomas addressed ...
Author: Benjamin Salkowe A committee of students and administrators reviewing the role of orientation trips within the first-year orientation program has opted to postpone their final recommendations for the time being and solicit student opinion via an online survey.Dean of Student Affairs Ann Hanson ...
Author: [no author name found] As discussion on the future of Winter Term continues on campus, speculation mounts as to what calendar could replace the current system. Dean of Faculty, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English Alison Byerly said that the Educational Affairs Committee ...