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MiddBriefs New Mailboxes for Middlebury

Author: Andrea Gissing By the time Winter Term starts, 288 new mailboxes will fill the alcove across from the mailroom window in McCullough basement, thus restoring Middlebury to a one-student-one-mailbox campus. The remodeling of McCullough basement is in progress. "Originally construction was planned ...


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Room Draw Up for Discussion

Author: Megan O'Keefe John Sharpe '06, who lived on the fourth floor of Milliken as a first-year student, began his sophomore year living in a converted lounge on the same hall - a living arrangement he accepted in order to remain in Ross Commons.Sharpe was one of approximately 150 rising sophomores ...


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MiddBriefs Cow-Pie Bingo On McCullough Field

Author: Andrea Gissing Middlebury College's Volunteer Service Organization (VSO) held a cow-pie bingo event Saturday, Oct. 25 to raise money for Heifer International, a non-profit organization that works to alleviate world hunger.Participants of the cow-pie bingo bought a square on a large grid marked ...


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Vermont Governor Comes Home to Middlebury

Author: Kate Doorley Every year at Homecoming, the Middlebury College Alumni Association presents achievement awards to alumni who have reached milestones in their professional or personal lives. Last Friday, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas '72 was presented with this award before he addressed a sizeable audience ...


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Still Giving Peace a Chance Vermont Rallies Together

Author: Alyssa Thurston President Bush officially declared an end to the war in Iraq in May. Yet in the state of Vermont and around the nation, national sentiment against the United States' continuing presence in Iraq, as well as against Bush administration policies both at home and overseas, has only ...


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The Local Flavor

Author: Michael Ives Eat Good Food is an eccentric establishment. Nestled at 221 Main Street in Vergennes, an Andy Warhol-esque sign with a screaming woman beckons the hungry visitor to come inside. My friends and I bypassed the charming patio, as Vermont's short-lived outdoor dining season was decidedly ...


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Overseas Briefing

Author: Nicholas Emery According to the English writer John Boynton Priestly, "A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours." Apparently, Priestly spent at least one fantastic holiday in Italy, and he certainly wasn't there to do anything remotely useful. Since ...


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College Shorts

Author: Megan O'Keefe and Virginia Harper College Students Love BushCollege students are more likely to register as Republicans and support President Bush than the general public, according to a survey released on Oct. 22 by Harvard University's Institute of Politics. In a nationwide poll of 1,202 undergraduates, ...


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Vermont's Biggest, Best, and Most 'Amaizing' Corn Maze

Author: Andrea LaRocca Ben and Jerry's, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, Church Street and now the Great Vermont Corn Maze. Yes, there's a new attraction to add to your list of Vermont fun - "amaizingly cornfusing fun," that is - for next year. The Great Vermont Corn Maze, located in Danville, Vt., is ...


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Build-up Includes Ch‚teau Makeover

Author: Chelsea Coffin In addition to brand new junior and senior housing and an ellipsoidal dining hall, the Atwater Commons Project readies for another full-on facelift next summer with Le Ch‚teau, Allen Hall and Coffrin Hall.Built in 1925 and modeled after the French Pavillion Henri IV of the Ch‚teau ...


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Making a Difference One Country at a Time

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 ...


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MiddBriefs Winter Parking Ban Takes Effect

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 ...


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Alumni Lend Career Advice to Students

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 ...


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Consensus Reached on Sex Assault Policy

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 ...


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MMC Breaks Into Ice Climbing

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 ...


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Faculty Input Lands Winter Term in Hot Water

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 ...


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The Vermont Long Trail Legend

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 ...