Author: Daniel Phillips What's different at Career Services Office (CSO) this fall? Students have turned out in record-setting numbers to the annual Senior Meetings on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18, 167 seniors have already been through the four steps required for participation in recruiting and the August ...
Author: Andrea Gissing "The College fosters connections between students and between students and faculty through a variety of cultural, academic and social events - some of which span from the classroom right into the residence hall," says the Middlebury College 2003-2004 Prospectus. Indeed, with a ...
Author: Taylor Johnston Members of Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) social house went before the Community Council this Monday to ask the Council to lift its probation, enacted last spring as a result of facilities damage and poor relations with the custodial staff.Several members of ZOO accompanied house President ...
Author: Edward Pickering September 11, 2003, marks the day I lost interest in the ongoing war. The previous evening I had stepped aboard a plane bound for Scotland. Somewhere above the Atlantic, in the stuffy confines of an IcelandAir jet, my awareness of world affairs quietly stole away. Before me ...
Author: Daniel Phillips and Joshua Carson Following Trot Nixon's walk-off homerun Saturday night, students at University of Massachusetts-Amherst began to riot in the southwest residential area on campus. The riot started shortly after the game ended and was not broken up by the UMass Police Department ...
Author: Greg Duggan Get ready to hold onto your wallets. Shopping in Middlebury and everywhere else in Vermont has just gotten a little more expensive. On Oct. 1, the sales tax in Vermont increased from five percent to six percent and the telecommunications tax escalated to six percent. These raises ...
Author: Crystal Belle It seems to be a phenomenon. Everywhere you turn, they stand out like stilettos trudging through Vermont grass - dreadlocks. Twisted, knotted, long, short, locks. Where, when and how did this hair trend begin? Although most people tend to think of Bob Marley, Rastafarianism and ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Student Government Association (SGA) online Senate elections, originally scheduled for Oct. 2 and Oct. 3, were postponed until Wednesday and Thursday of this week because of miscommunication between the SGA and Library and Information Services (LIS). The initial election dates, ...
Author: Virginia Harper Students at Middlebury College do not receive a thorough intake of news on a daily basis. Trapped in the "Middlebury Bubble," as it is so affectionately known, first-years and upperclassmen alike willingly acknowledge the lack of news outlets availabile on campus. It seems a ...
Author: Daniel Phillips and Joshua Carson The latest battle to lure prospective students to university campuses across the country is being fought not over claiming cutting edge educational or research facilities, but in a gaudy competition of pampering students with overly lavish amenities. Whether ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca A little bit of Germany came to Middlebury last Saturday night in the form of Otter Creek Brewery's eighth annual Oktoberfest. Nearly 300 people turned out for the Vermont version of this German tradition, and all enjoyed a pig roast dinner, a night of dancing and karaoke, and, ...
Author: Ben Salkowe As stated on the Web site of the Middlebury Student Employment Office (SEO), "All students are eligible for all on-campus jobs, regardless of their financial status." But in recent years, some say it has become increasingly difficult to secure an on-campus job. The vision of sitting ...
Author: Thomas Drescher Last Friday night, College trustees, alumni and other members of the Middlebury College community joined Hillel and President John McCardell for a ceremony and dinner to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Jewish Center at Freeman International Center (FIC).Arriving at the ...
Author: Megan Michelson "Just as the sunrise struck the soaring peaks of the Green Mountains, turning them as pink as one of my mother's sugar-glazed apples, I boarded the southbound mail." So begins the adventure of Ticonderoga and his race to the Pacific Ocean against renowned explorers Lewis and ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston It's easy to take Vermont's scenic beauty for granted, and it's just as easy to overlook the increasing impact of organization and development on the state's traditional landscape. With this in mind, students, faculty and community members gathered in the Robert A. Jones '59 ...
Author: Kate Doorley "Our polluted waters can't wait any longer for effective clean up plans to go forward." So cries the Web site for the Vermont Natural Resources Council, a group dedicated to promoting awareness of Vermont's environmental issues and actions citizens can take to protect and preserve ...
Author: Chelsea Coffin Middlebury College enjoyed a long-awaited term of positive returns on its endowment this year.In November 2002, President John McCardell addressed the decline of the endowment due to a recession in the economy. "For the next two years, we will be less able to rely on our endowment ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Freshly graduated from Harvard University, Andrew Heyward landed in a "macho, barebones newsroom" in New York City where the news director "got a kick out of hiring an elite liberal arts graduate to run up the stairs to get film from the lab." From such humble beginnings ...
Author: Ian Fleishman The Middlebury College Board of Trustees convened this weekend and attended a fall retreat at Bread Loaf campus to orient the newer trustees - explaining their function and position in the College - and to educate them about the role of the Board. According to Director of Public ...
Author: Megan Michelson At a time when young people are often criticized for being politically inactive and uniformed, it may come as a surprise that former Vermont governor Howard Dean's presidential campaign is based largely on the actions and contributions of college-age students. The Dean for America ...