Author: Claire Bourne Dean of Ross Commons Janine Clookey gazes at the nine drawings that adorn her office wall. She looks at them for a long time, contemplating each one by one. Eight depict faces - some drawn with colorful magic markers, some sticking to a simple blue pen - while one illustrates a ...
Author: Jonathan White Speaking Friday evening in Dana Auditorium, Vermont's Independent Representative, Congressman Bernie Sanders, helped launch the Middlebury Global AIDS Forum. Sanders told the audience, "The AIDS crisis...is one of the most important concerns facing humanity as we move into the ...
Author: Nicolas Emery The Executive Council of Middlebury College has decided to discontinue use of the current MiddCard charging system in favor of a debit system which will go into effect in the fall of 2004. The basic difference between the current credit-based system and a debit account system lies ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe This weekend, Middlebury residents and College students cast aside their sandals and laced up their sneakers for a good cause. Teaming up to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), participants in Saturday's Multiple ...
Author: Joshua Carson The Community Council has completed its annual social house review and sent its recommendations to President John McCardell. The Council recommended that all social houses continue this year without stipulations, except for Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO). "Most of the houses had very good ...
Author: Daniel Phillips The Pan-African-Latino-Asian-Native American (PALANA) Center held its annual program of recognition last Thursday, May 1, at the Fletcher House to honor seniors, faculty, staff and campus organizations that have enriched and supported PALANA and its program over the past year. ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart May Days in Middlebury Local businesses join together for the third annual promotion from May 15-18. Storeowners will hang beautiful baskets of blossoms to celebrate the arrival or spring. Participating businesses will hold drawings for prizes, offering customers the chance to ...
Author: Mallika Rao As some Middlebury students desperately hunt the job market and contemplate a coffee- or copy-making summer, 26 winners of the Ron H. Brown '62 and Felton Family Internship Grants are left to enjoy the prospect of a productive and partially or completely funded three months. These ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Harvard Professor to Lead First War Crimes TribunalVisiting Professor at Harvard Law School Luis Moreno Ocampo was unanimously chosen to be the chief prosecutor of the newly established International Criminal Court (ICC), the first permanent international war crimes tribunal.The ...
Author: Tom Drescher In light of the financial belt-tightening that Middlebury has been forced to undergo, the College has decided to discontinue the position of student center manager in the Center for Campus Activities and Leadership (CCAL). Doug Adams, director of CCAL, explained the College's decision ...
Author: [no author name found] As winter melts into spring, bright sunny days carve turns at the Snow Bowl and midnight snowshoe romps on the cross country trail fade behind Middlebury residents. When buds blossom, the Green Mountain Club (GMC) of Waterbury urges people all over Vermont to get outside. ...
Author: Claire Bourne Dining Services welcomed back over 800 plastic tumblers with open arms on Earth Day (April 22) thanks to an initiative spearheaded by Carl Larson '03, Caitlin Prentice '05 and Charles Mahal '03. The three students enlisted the help of "a couple dozen" environmentally conscious ...
Author: Lindsay Whitton Representatives of Middlebury College accepted an Environmental Merit Award on behalf of the College during an Earth Day celebration held in Boston on April 22. Recipients of the annual award are selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The New England ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein On Tuesday, April 22, Gov. Jim Douglas '72 of Vermont and Gov. George Pataki of New York signed a joint agreement updating a protection plan for Lake Champlain, the sixth largest lake in the United States. The agreement, entitled "The Lake Champlain Management Plan, Opportunities ...
Author: Thomas McCann For college students across the nation, downloading music and videos is an everyday occurrence. Now, however, the music industry is fighting back and the ripples of that reaction have reached Middlebury College. Downloading media through programs like Imesh, Kazaa and Morpheus ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Sam Rodriguez '04 clinched the Student Government Association (SGA) presidency in a tight election last week, while Erin Sullivan '04.5 was elected Student Co-chair of Community Council (SCCOCC). The campus learned of the election results through an e-mail sent on Friday afternoon. ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Associate Professor of English Robert Cohen was one of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists who were awarded a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation this year. Cohen is a an award-winning novelist who teaches courses in creative ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart According to Sen. Gerry Gossens (D-Addison) and his fellow lawmakers, when it comes to the permit process, compared to residents of many other states, Vermonters have it pretty good. "I've talked to folks in other states, and all they do is complain about their permit process," ...
Author: Edward Pickering The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Middlebury College and eight other schools a $2.5 million grant to support faculty career enhancement. According to a College press release, the four-year grant will be used to "address concerns about time, intellectual growth and ...
Author: Ryan Gamble The Vermont State Legislature recently passed a bill that authorizes the distribution of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to the state police. AEDs are a new generation of defibrillators that were designed to allow lay persons to deliver defibrillation. They are small, easy-to-use, ...