Author: Kelsey Rinehart We all want to change the world, but how many of us succeed? Last Friday, Co-founder and President of the Middlebury-based organization ECOlogists Linked for Organizing Grassroots Initiatives and Action (ECOLOGIA) Randy Kritausky showed that his organization is doing just that ...
Author: Andrea Gissing The annual winter parking ban will go into effect Nov. 1 and will last until April 1, 2004. During this period, overnight parking will be limited to student parking lots between midnight and 8 a.m. in order to facilitate effective snow removal and improved security. "Vehicles ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In the second meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate on Oct. 26, Mike Villarello '05 was elected Speaker of the Senate, while two seats on the body remain unfilled. A special election will be held on Thursday and Friday to fill the position of Senior Feb Senator, ...
Author: Ian Fleishman According to Jaye Roseborough, executive director of the Career Services Office (CSO), Middlebury alumni "are really active in reaching out to [Middlebury] and trying to help our students get post-graduate jobs." It appears that they are also effective.Each year about 100 alumni ...
Author: Taylor Johnston After three weeks of deliberation, two recommendations for changes in the sexual assault judicial process emerged from the Monday, Oct. 27 Community Council meeting. The Council recommended giving sexual assault victims the option of participating in hearings through closed ...
Author: Daniel Phillips Last winter during the Atwater dining hall construction excavation, the icy runoff from the site froze into a 15-foot cascading ice flow that lured an extreme group of on-campus climbers for several ascents in the middle of the night. However, their undercover escapades are on ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In a discussion on the merits of Winter Term held during an open meeting of the faculty on Oct. 13, a majority of the faculty present criticized Middlebury College's 4-1-4 calendar and encouraged the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) to eliminate Winter Term. Approximately 65 ...
Author: Megan Michelson When Dean Ouellette was 20 years old, he decided that he wanted to hike all 272 miles of the Long Trail, which winds along the Green Mountains through the entire length of Vermont. He set out by himself, with a backpack filled with a sleeping bag, tent, unreliable cooking stove ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston The times, they are a-changin' - and so are the leaves in Vermont. That's right, folks, autumn is here, and with it, the landmark foliage that causes the mountainsides of Vermont to burst into a myriad of colors.The changing fall colors that cover the rural Vermont landscape ...
Author: Joshua Carson The lounges were packed, dialogue between the opposing fans hostile and the outcome - sadly predictable. The palpable dynamic on campus during the American League Championship Series (ALCS) between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees was intense. Debate that started in ...
Author: Andrea Gissing and Joshua Cannon NYU Mourns Second Student SuicideThe New York University community is struggling to accept and understand why two undergraduate students committed suicide from the top stories of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library within one month of each other. The most recent death ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones The constituents of the handbook-designated "Appointed Standing Committees" help govern facets of Middlebury College life ranging from athletics to study abroad. Many of these committees have space reserved for appointed student members. Today, four days after fall break, ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united state of ... Vermont?" Yes, you may have to rethink the Pledge of Allegiance. And no, that's not a joke, at least not if the Second Vermont Republic (SVR) has anything to say about it. This newly formed democratic grassroots group ...
Author: Edward Pickering The words "wilderness" and "wasteland" are used interchangeably to describe any barren, imposing landscape. To say that the Western Highlands of Scotland are barren would be an understatement - a failure of description. The West Highland Way stretches from Glasgow north to Fort ...
Author: Taylor Johnston The Sexual Assault Policy Group brought a proposal before the Community Council on Tuesday, Oct. 14 to recommend changes in the judicial and reporting process for sexual assault crimes, including a means to report assaults anonymously and have assault cases tried in ways more ...
Author: Thomas Drescher The Student Government Association (SGA) will hold special elections this Thursday and Friday to fill five vacancies in the Senate. A shortage of candidates for the initial elections has left the SGA Senate without Senior, Inter-House Council (IHC), Senior Feb, Cook and Brainerd ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe ZOO: Still on ProbationThe Community Council voted to keep Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) social house on provisional status on Oct. 6 after members of ZOO went before the Council to ask that the house's probation be lifted. ZOO was placed on probation last spring largely as a result of ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart "Stop the tire fire!" was the message of the Oct. 15 public forum aimed at preventing the International Paper Co. (IPC) of Ticonderoga, N.Y., from using tires as a fuel source in its mill boilers. "We are here tonight because we don't want to breathe the smoke of burning tires," ...
Author: Kate Doorley Do you think marijuana should be legal? Recently, Vermont has been asking itself this very question, and members of the Vermont legislature are coming up with an answer - yes. The state government is currently in the process of drafting legislation which would legalize marijuana ...
Author: Daniel Phillips The results are in: reported forcible sex offenses at Middlebury College have risen over the past two years, while crime as a whole - robbery, burglary, arson and liquor law violations - has decreased, according to the Department of Public Safety's annual security report. The ...