Author: Claire Bourne Efforts to provide the Public Safety Office with more space and the Pan-African-Latino-Native-American (PALANA) Center with a more prominent location on campus have spawned plans to significantly remap the locations of a number of Middlebury College offices. A 1998-99 space audit ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe As a part of Visibility Week, Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) hosted a lecture entitled "Politicizing the Personal: Reflections on Civil Unions" in Robert A. Jones '59 Seminar Room on Wednesday, March 12. The lecture drew on both the politically charged and deeply personal ...
Author: Edward Pickering Changes to Middlebury College's smoking policy will take effect as soon as President John McCardell formally accepts the recommendation he received from Community Council.The Community Council's recommendation stipulates that, "each residential hallway shall determine, by majority ...
Author: Andrea Gissing NYU Expels Disabled StudentMike Donnelly, a student at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science's John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought, was expelled after one semester for failing to meet the program's academic requirement. ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Vying with well-known senators for the Democratic nomination in 2004, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., has taken his presidential campaign from the Green Mountain State to the neighboring Granite State and beyond. Chatting with constituents over coffee and addressing eager ...
Author: Tom Drescher The Community Council recently completed a review of all academic interest houses at Middlebury College and reported its positive results to President John McCardell.Composed of students, administration, staff and faculty, the Council is one of the College's most influential governing ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Bruce Young, a former member of the Department of Public Safety's special events staff, passed away suddenly on Sunday night. Well-known in the local Middlebury community, Young served for 37 years on the Middlebury Fire Department and nine years on the Middlebury Rescue Squad. ...
Author: Dan Phillips The New Left, the College Progressives, Middlebury United for Peace, Environmental Quality and Amnesty International presented an anti-war petition to the Sudent Government Association on March 3 in hopes of gaining the body's approval for a resolution opposing a pre-emptive U.S. ...
Author: Ian Fleishman Since the end of the last school year, the Career Services Offices (CSO) has experienced a marked decline in student interest in certain services offered, particularly on-campus interview opportunities. The CSO has been forced to turn away firms and businesses interested in interviewing ...
Author: Thomas McCann Middlebury celebrated its first National Sportsman Day March 4 in collaboration with several other New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) schools. It was decided at a NESCAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) meeting consisting of two representatives from ...
Author: Crystal Belle Have you ever twisted your legs and arms melodically to a pulsating hip-hop beat? If so, you are participating in the phenomenon known as break dancing. The art form dates back to the 1970s, when dancers in the South Bronx mixed martial arts, disco dancing and aerobatics to form ...
Author: Andrea Gissing U. Penn Pegged for Pirating MoviesThe University of Pennsylvania received many complaints from Universal Studios in the past week regarding the illegal sharing of movie files between students. U. Penn's Office of Information Security apparently received 100 allegations of copyright ...
Author: Mallika Rao Thursday night's forum on the potential war with Iraq filled the Robert A. Jones House conference room with republicans, democrats, progressives, representatives from numerous other organizations and, most notably, open conversation. Spearheaded by Wellington Lyons '04.5, president ...
Author: Leyla Kattan Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies Christopher McGrory Klyza is set to receive the Robert and Helen Stafford Professorship in Public Policy in recognition of his work in environmental studies and public policy. Klyza was officially informed of his appointment ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart After announcing in May 2002 that he would run for president after an 11-year stint as Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean has elevated his campaign, visiting voters all over the country and gaining the attention of the national media as he continues on the campaign trail. Dean ...
Author: Peter Faroni Amidst a flurry of media excitement, Gov. James Douglas '72 ran the Middlebury Town Meeting on Monday, March 3, making this his 17th consecutive year as moderator. The back of the town's municipal gym was transformed into a press gallery complete with two television cameras, two ...
Author: Greg Duggan With the growing possibility of U.S. action in Iraq, debate over a possible war has been intensifying around the world. Last Wednesday, hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country staged a protest called "Books, Not Bombs" to express opposition to military action against ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston Middlebury College is enjoying its largest applicant pool ever this year, receiving approximately 5,470 applications -- which represents a three percent increase from last year's applicant pool -- for admittance into the Class of 2007. Director of Admissions John Hanson did not ...
Author: Josh Carson The unveiling of rainbow flags across campus on Monday marked the beginning of Visibility Week, sponsored by the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa). Events throughout the week aim to raise awareness of the oft-silenced voice of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart From Feb. 28 to March 2, thousands of flower fans flocked to the Sheraton Conference Center in Burlington for the annual Vermont Flower Show. The Vermont Association of Professional Horticulturists and the University of Vermont (UVM) sponsored the show, which was rated one of ...