Author: Claire Bourne It seemed like business as usual yesterday in the Career Services Office as staff members gathered around the common room table for a morning meeting. For Associate Director for Career Development and Counseling Krista Siringo, however, yesterday was anything but normal. Just hours ...
Author: [no author name found] Mark Peluso, M.D. Health Center PhysicianI know little about the politics of war, but I do know about human suffering. Any war will cause much suffering.People will be physically hurt. I have treated children with severed limbs, and felt buckshot in wounded hearts as ...
Author: Peter Faroni On Tuesday, March 18, the Green Mountain State's capital city of Montpelier was host to the 28th annual Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest.Though it may sound unappealing at first, don't be too quick to turn your nose up at the Rotten Sneaker Contest. What started back in 1975 as ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart As bombs fall on Baghdad and coalition forces attack in Iraq, Middlebury residents continue to voice their opposition to the war. The actuality of armed conflict in Iraq has awakened the anti-war sentiments of even more citizens, who join together on the Middlebury Town Green ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Air Force General Apologizes to StudentsLt. Gen. John R. Dallager, the departing superintendent of the Air Force Academy, met with the cadet corps in Colorado Springs on Monday, March 31, to apologize for the effects the recent scandal involving the sexual assault of female cadets ...
Author: Greg Duggan As American and British troops fight against Iraq in "Gulf War II," the nation watches various news channels and reads the newspapers to follow the progress of the coalition forces. Despite the in-depth reporting, perhaps only war veterans can understand the experiences of troops ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein As the new library and Atwater Commons projects are taking shape on the Middlebury College campus, so too sprout the Courtyard by Marriott hotel and the Hannaford supermarket in downtown Middlebury. The new additions to the Middlebury economy aim to alleviate effects caused ...
Author: Thomas McCann Middlebury College's spring rush for social houses drew to a close in early March. According to the regulations set up by the Inter-House Council (IHC), which set the framework for the Rush process, each house organized at least five events with each applicant required to attend ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe A sudden thaw has drawn bears out of hibernation and into Vermonters' backyards. Between 4,000 and 5,000 black bears live in Vermont, and experts say they are now all awake. According to Forrest Hammond, a district wildlife biologist based in Springfield, the bears are currently ...
Author: Leyla Kattan Essays written by two Middlebury College students were presented at the Seventh Annual Women's Studies Symposium, held in Castleton on March 22. Rebecca Adams '03 and Jena Siegel '04 were chosen along with 10 other students from Vermont to present their papers to a panel at this ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief The Student Government Association (SGA) at Middlebury was forced to re-write a social life survey which they initially distributed to students before spring break. The SGA did not receive the 80 percent quota of student responses they had hoped for and hope to distribute ...
Author: Andrea Gissing As the chill of winter retreats before the advance of spring sunshine, the thoughts of most Middlebury students turn to one thing: Spring Break. Even as early as January, students pause from their studies to search online for the best travel deals to Baja for surfing or Miami ...
Author: Greg Duggan Last month, two bills were introduced into the Vermont House of Representatives: one seeking to allow doctor-assisted suicide, the other to make the practice illegal. Oregon legalized euthanasia in 1997 with the passage of the so-called Death With Dignity law, the only state to ...
Author: Peter Faroni The Middlebury Campus: Since your graduation from Middlebury in 2000, what has been your experience with the transition from the "Middlebury bubble" to the "real world"?Golnik: Obviously, it's quite a change going from a small, private liberal arts college in rural Vermont to the ...
Author: Tom Drescher On March 7, the Women's and Gender Studies Department awarded the Alison Fraker Prize to Margot Simpson '03 for her paper "Sex and the City: A Cultural Forum on Gender Dynamics."The Fraker prize is presented annually to a Middlebury student for the best work, excluding theses and ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The Board of Trustees is considering an unusually large number of professors for tenure this year. The term tenure is short for "Associate Professor without limit of tenure," which means the professor's appointment at Middlebury College is permanent. The College will not, however, ...
Author: Claire Bourne As the United States stands on the threshold of war, effects of the escalating tension between Washington and Baghdad have already manifested themselves on Middlebury College's campus. Cancelled overseas travel plans, postponed classes and a blueprint for streamlined emergency ...
Author: Ian Fleishman The office for the American Disabilities Act (ADA) will move to Forest Hall this summer. It will move from its current location in Hathaway House, which will be taken by the Financial Aid office. This change is one of numerous other office relocations set to take place at the College ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones This year, three Middlebury College students received highly competitive Thomas J. Watson Fellowships. Of the 50 prestigious colleges that participate in the program, Middlebury was the only institution with three students chosen. The College has seen three Watson Fellows ...
Author: Ryan Gamble Warmer temperatures mean sap is flowing in Vermont's trees and the maple syrup season, which will last well into April, is underway. "You never know how good the season will be," said Sheila Masterson of the Addison County Maple Sugarmakers' Association, "As long as there are warm ...