Author: Andrea Gissing President Ronald D. Liebowitz will announce this week key changes to the approach the administration will take towards development of commons infrastructure. Liebowitz's plan calls for postponing the renovation of Proctor Dining Hall in favor of building more senior housing. Liebowitz ...
Author: Katie Flagg The Environmental Council met with Ronald Liebowitz on Monday, January 17, in what was Liebowitz's first meeting with the Council as College president.The Council came bearing gifts; Liebowitz left with a reusuable travel mug and cutlery, personalized notebooks made fully from recycled ...
Author: BEN SALKOWE AND KATIE FLAGG Cups rejoice, students be warnedIn a last-ditch effort to rescue the missing fleets of proctor cups (and their missing plateware cousins) Director of Dining Services Matthew Biette notified students last week via e-mail that "The DRS [Dish Recovery System] is dead." ...
Author: Katie Flagg On Sunday morning at 4:40 a.m., a resident in Milliken Hall reported that an unidentified male entered her room. The intruder left after the student told him to leave. The Department of Public Safety, in a community-wide safety alert issued by e-mail, described the suspect as a white ...
Author: Tom Drescher NOTTINGHAM - Reach into your pocket. You probably have some loose change floating around. Take it out, but don't look at it yet. Just estimate. What does it feel like? A few quarters and nickels? $0.63? $0.29? $1.05? You're probably not too far off. Now it's my turn. Let's see...I'd ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca On Jan. 22, Middlebury College hosted the Digital Bridges 2005 conference, which was the culmination of an annually taught January term class called Digital Bridges, which Michael Clauden, David K. Smith professor of applied economics, pioneered in January 2000. Both the class ...
Author: Andrea Gissing The time for the mid-year graduation is fast approaching. Over a hundred students are preparing to end their Middlebury careers and move off into the world beyond. However, as they figure out how best to secure their mortarboards so it does not fall off during the Jan. 29 ski-down, ...
Author: Polly Johnson On Jan. 11, at the Universalist Unitarian Church on Cross St. in Middlebury, the citizens' groups Moms for Safe Milk and People for Less Pollution convened at a community meeting to discuss the impending decision of the paper company, International Paper, to burn tire-derived fuel ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe On Jan.16, the Student Government Association Senate (SGA) approved a proposal that would allow first-year students to join a social house during their second semester at Middlebury College. The bill, authored by Inter-House Council (IHC) President Kris Burfitt'05 and sponsored ...
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 ...