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College Calls Off Music Tour to Greece

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 ...


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Vermont Legislature Approaches 'Death with Dignity' Issue

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 ...


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Women's and Gender Studies Awards Fraker Prize

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 ...


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Number of Tenure Applicants Rises

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, ...


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Middlebury Readies for Impact of War

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 ...


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Three Win Watson Fellowships to Spend Post-grad Year Overseas

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 ...


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Exploring the Marvels of Middlebury's Maple Syrup Tradition

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 ...


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PALANA, Public Safety Office Primed to Move

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 ...


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Lippert, Baker Trace Civil Union Debate

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 ...


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President McCardell Approves New Smoking Policy

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 ...


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College Shorts NYU, UTexas, and Houston Have Their Days in Court

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. ...


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Howard Dean and the Liberal Identity Addressing the Issues

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 ...


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Academic Interest Houses Receive Positive Reviews

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 ...


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College Mourns Passing of Bruce Young

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. ...


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Anti-War Petition Rejected by SGA

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. ...


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CSO Interviewees MIA

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 ...


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NESCAC Shools Cheer On Sportsmen

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 ...


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Rural Realities Brooklyn to Middlebury

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 ...




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