Author: Samuel Wilson As a part of the Middlebury College Board of Trustees' meetings this past weekend, an original documentary about the United World Colleges (UWC) was screened for the Trustees on Thursday night. The UWCs are ten boarding schools located on five continents in locations stretching ...
Author: Pete Faroni Environmental issues are of paramount importance to citizens of the Green Mountain State. The recent changes made by Republican Governor Jim Douglas '72 to environmental law and funding for state environmental departments has raised great concern among many Vermont-based environmental ...
Author: Tom Drescher With recent budget adjustments made to counteract the effects of a national economic downturn, Middlebury College is looking to boost income and limit gratuitous spending. As a result of the recent fiscal examination, other, somewhat odd financial issues have been appearing. In ...
Author: Jonathan White President John McCardell made his annual presentation to the cabinet of the Student Government Association (SGA) Sunday evening, and recommended a $38,100 comprehensive fee for the 2003-2004 academic year. This fee represents a 6.1 percent increase in tuition over the current ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Vermonters, like citizens across the United States, are stocking up on duct tape, plastic sheeting, food and bottled water following a warning issued by federal officials on Feb. 10 that advised the public to collect supplies in case of a chemical, biological or radiological weapons ...
Author: Claire Bourne D. E. Axinn Professor of Creative Writing Jay Parini and Writer-in-Residence Julia Alvarez joined forces with nine other poets Sunday at the Congregational Church in Manchester, Vt., to protest the proposed war against Iraq. "We honor tonight not merely the right, but the duty, ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Strong Support Sounds for U. MichiganOver 300 organizations announced that they would file briefs in support of the University of Michigan in response to the brief the Bush administration filed with the Supreme Court opposing affirmative action policies, (see The Middlebury Campus, ...
Author: Edward Pickering An Addison County jury acquitted former Middlebury College student Chigozie Ogwuegbu '03 of a sexual assault charge brought against him by a female student who claimed he date-raped her on the night of Feb. 21, 2002. The trial, which concluded on Feb. 7, 2003, lasted three days.Initially ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Putting away their skis and snow shovels, Vermonters across the state have opted to stay inside and sit by the fire, away from the biting chill of a record-breaking cold snap that has enveloped the region for days on end. The cold prevented hundreds from enjoying the outdoor ...
Author: Edward Pickering First Lady Laura Bush has indefinitely postponed a poetry symposium originally to be held at the White House Feb. 12 after learning several of the poets invited were planning to speak out against the impending war with Iraq. Middlebury College's D. E. Axinn Professor of Creative ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Ted Perry, Fletcher Professor of the Arts at Middlebury College, served as one of 13 members of the motion pictures jury for the third annual American Film Institute (AFI) awards program. The AFI selects the year's most outstanding achievements in film and television, as well ...
Author: Nicolas Emery The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) ranked Middlebury College 20th out of the nation's top 24 academically rated liberal arts colleges with regards to its comparative success in integrating African-Americans into its faculty and student body.The JBHE used data compiled ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart In September 2001, the Hegarty family of Middlebury filed a lawsuit against the Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) when Paka, Suzanne Hegarty's daughter's older horse, was seized by the organization due to the animal's extremely low weight. The horse was taken without prior ...
Author: [no author name found] A determined Katie Sampson '02.5 skis at her February Graduation Ceremony.
Author: Caroline Stauffer Over Winter Term, 13 students participated in a unique service-learning project in Romania. Biology 270, "Early Experience and Brain Development," was the result of a year of organizational work by Assistant Professor of Biology David Parfitt. According to Parfitt, who is ...
Author: Tom Drescher Rob Chisholm '03 was recently awarded the grand prize in the Ohio State University National Undergraduate Essay Contest in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics for his paper on the resource management system of a lobster-fishing community in Nova Scotia, his native ...
After living and studying in Madrid for one month, I found myself experiencing the first so-called feelings of rechazo, Spanish refusal -- a sentiment that the directors of our program had so delicately warned us we would feel toward our sudden immersion in a foreign culture, and for some, such as myself, ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief A proposal from the Student Government Association's Taskforce on Smoking Policy stalled in Community Council discussions Monday when the body split over how to govern smoking in residence halls. The stalemate came after the Taskforce surveyed 631 students about their ...
Author: Jonathan White In a letter released to the Middlebury College community today, the Executive Council detailed its recommendations for cut-backs in College programs to correct the gap between endowment revenues and expenditures. The document slices $11 million off the College's operating budget ...
Author: Christopher Atwood Concerned about an increase in local D.U.I violations, the Student Government Association (SGA) recently devised an initiative aimed at enticing students of age to stay on campus. To counter the draw of off-campus social events, which could raise the likelihood of drunk driving, ...