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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...