Author: Kerry Kraus One of the main perks of fall in Vermont is the apples. We all enjoy the crisp, juicy apples, whether in the dining halls, at the farmers' market in town or freshly picked at a local orchard. For these delicious apples, Vermonters have to thank the many local growers, some of whom ...
Author: Eleanor Parker On Thursday, Sept. 11, members of the Middlebury College community remembered and acknowledged the events of two years ago in their own way. For those who wanted to come together in a quiet setting to remember the day, there was a memorial service held in Mead Memorial Chapel ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Atwater and Davis Halls, commonly called the A-frames, will be closed for student residential use before the start of the 2004-2005 academic year as part of an agreement between Middlebury College and the town of Middlebury aimed at reducing negative student impact on local residents. ...
Author: Katherine Doorley After the frenzy of gathering information on Dolci, Weybridge House and the Otters at the activities fair, students may have found in their possession a slip of neon green paper announcing "Bands for Dean" at Higher Ground in Winooski. Middlebury students, however, were not ...
Author: Daniel Phillips No longer will Middlebury College students have to wait two to three weeks to find out if they have secured placement in a class. The College will switch registration programs from the Middlebury Automated Registration System (MARS) to BannerWeb beginning with November registration ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Winter Term. To people outside of the Middlebury College community, it is a phrase that has little or no meaning. However, to those affiliated with the College it contains a host of associations ranging from "relaxing" and "skiing" to "academically rigorous" and "eventful." Now ...
Author: Megan Michelson When the U.S. Episcopal House of Bishops voted to appoint the first ever openly homosexual bishop on August 5, 2003, it spawned a conflict between religious establishments and their opinions of gay and lesbian communities worldwide. The House of Bishops voted 62-45 to select ...
Author: Ian Fleishman Kathy Foley-Giorgio, associate dean of student affairs and chair of the Sexual Assault Policy Working Group (SAPWG), emerged from Monday's Community Council meeting pleased. The Council had just approved substantial revisions to the wording of the College Handbook policy on sexual ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston Secretary of the College Eric Davis announced the recipients of the 2003 Staff Recognition Awards. This year's recipients included Head Baker Wayne (Pat) Broughton from Dining Services, Laboratory Supervisor from Science Technical Support Services Crispin Butler, Associate Dean ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Walking around campus these days, students, faculty, staff and visitors are surrounded by monstrous dirt heaps and noisy bulldozers. Arching cranes and iron skeletons of buildings loom around us, posing as permanent fixtures of the Green Mountain skyline. We can't help but notice ...
Author: Tom Drescher A declining endowment has prompted numerous cutbacks in the College's budget over the past few months. Underlying the cutback decisions is a desire to eliminate unnecessary expenses and a commitment to protect the most essential expenditures for students, faculty and staff.According ...
Author: Charlie Goulding "It's an industry, it's the norm, and I don't buy it," stated Robert Schine, dean of faculty and father of a high school student, in discussing the College Board and the way in which the Advanced Placement (AP) exam has permeated academia. Debate has surged in recent months ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein Last weekend, the Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) held its first adopt-a-thon, an event conducted annually by the National Humane Society to promote cat and dog adoption. The 24-year-old non-profit organization maintains a mission of being "dedicated to fostering the ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe On Saturday, May 3, the Vermont Cannabis Coalition held a rally in Burlington's Battery Park to protest the prohibition of marijuana. The event, one of 200 similar protests held around the world on Saturday, was a part of Cure-not-Wars' annual Million Marijuana March. The Burlington ...
Author: Crystal Belle If you have any insight into my personality, you should know of my innate obsession with shoes. From Prada to Parade, from Nike to Nine West, I love shoes. I can't think of what life would be like without my 72 pairs of shoes. Yes, just say it: oxygen is to life as shoes are to ...
Author: Peter Faroni Representative Betty Nuovo (D-Middlebury) has proposed a bill to the State House of Representatives to increase the refund on cans and bottles from five to 10 cents. On a recent walk near her home, Nuovo was inspired to act. "The other day, just on a half-mile of the road I live ...
Author: Edward Pickering and Andrea Gissing Yale Graduate Students Vote Down UnionIn a vote Wednesday, Yale University graduate students rejected a move to unionize. The pro-union group that led the move, Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), suffered a sound defeat with 694 voting against ...
Author: Edward Pickering Natalie Howley '03 and Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science and Co-Faculty Head of Ross Commons Steve Abbott have been announced as the student and faculty speakers for the Senior Awards Ceremony. 313 seniors voted in the final election, selecting Abbott ...
Author: Greg Duggan Anyone spending time at the mountains or beaches of Vermont this summer may happen upon a newly formed group based out of Burlington: the Burlington Nudists. A handful of founding members have been meeting at houses and waiting indoors until warmer weather will allow them to bare ...
Author: Dan Polifka One of the more intriguing environmental initiatives undertaken by the Green Mountain State, Green Up Vermont sent tens of thousands of volunteers out to their local roads last Saturday to remove trash, debris and large items such as tires and sheet metal."Volunteers are given, through ...