Author: Claire Bourne PARIS — When the lead headline of Libération read, "C'est une tragédie!" ("What a tragedy!") on the morning of Sept. 11, I expected the article that followed to have some rapport with the lives lost and affected by the terrorist plot that had unfurled one year earlier. Instead, ...
Author: Julie Shumway Vermont Governor Howard Dean has declared that, were he elected president of the United States in 2004, he would recognize same-sex marriages.Dean spoke at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association annual meeting in Philadelphia last Saturday. He said that as president ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Welcome back everyone! Did you have a good summer? Good. Oh, thanks. Yup, mine was great, too. Well, it was good seeing you. I'm sure I'll see you around. Where are you living again? Oh, cool. Well, I'm living on the other side of campus this year, but I'm planning on being over ...
Author: Sarah Riddleberger On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Middlebury College campus and its surrounding area lost electric power for close to four hours. All electricity flickered off just before 9 p.m. and did not return until nearly 1 a.m. Middlebury Facilities Management reported that there was a fault ...
Author: Bob Wainwright For those of you who missed the Otter Nonsense show last Sunday night in McCullough, you missed what is undeniably the most refreshing, and some might say ingenious, student group currently on the Middlebury College campus. At a school where people are notorious for taking themselves ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Last Wednesday when the campus-wide power failure threatened to last more than a few minutes, I left the newspaper office and trudged back home to wait out the storm. But this year's home, I soon realized, did not facilitate the same peaceful wood fire and wool blanket gatherings ...
Author: Liz Lathey This summer, I experienced a phenomenon that I did not realize is as prevalent in Vermont as it actually is: the bus tour. As a waitress at an inn in Killington, Vt., I was privy to the subculture of those people we waitstaff referred to affectionately as "the bus people."I'm sure ...
Author: Julie Shumway Residents of Brandon are concerned that the town may suffer drastically from a proposed upgrade of Route 7.The upgrade would remove the bend in the middle of the downtown, which has one of the highest accident rates in the state. However, the upgrade would significantly reduce ...
Author: Julie Shumway The Addison Eagle reported recently that Middlebury residents will soon be voting over whether to renovate the town's current municipal building, or rebuild the entire structure. At present, the municipal building is housed in the old Middlebury High School, located at the corner ...
Author: Jon White How is obesity determined?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine whether a person is fit, overweight or obese. BMI is the ratio of a person's weight to height, and therefore may be skewed in the case of extremely muscular individuals. ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Editor's note: Leah Koenig '04 contributed to this article.Dar Williams, smiling under the lights of the McCullough stage, enthralled her audience this past Saturday. Her performance marked a well-received return to campus, where she played first in 1992. Williams joked about ...
Author: Revathi Avarasala This year the Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) plans to focus on introspection and a thorough reevaluation of its programs. The SGA has historically focused attention on a wide variety of issues ranging from food to financial aid, social life to campus ...
Author: Tim McCahill The first Environmental Summit for student organizations at Middlebury was held at the Robert A Jones '59 conference room last Saturday. The summit, organized by Student Government Association (SGA) Director of Environmental Affairs Michael Silberman '02.5, brought together leaders ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The Ross Commons dedication and the Septemberfest picnic were held on Friday, Sept. 13, outside the newly completed LaForce Hall and New Dorms. The events celebrated the Staff Recognition Awards, the completion of LaForce Hall and the Ross dining hall and Ross Commons as the first ...
Author: Nicholas Emery Director of Dining Services Peter J. Napolitano was recently voted the 2002-2003 president-elect of the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). The NACUFS is an association of campus dining departments at institutions of higher education in the ...
Author: Tim McCahill A group of College administrators and students traveled across campus yesterday evening on the annual lighting tour of Middlebury's physical plant. Yesterday's event, however, was attended by Nancy Clanton, a lighting consultant with the Boulder, Colo. firm Clanton Associates.Before ...
Author: Katie Saunders Despite a contentious race for the Vermont governorship shaping up as November nears, last week's primary election boasted the lowest voter turnout in over a decade. According to current estimates by Vermont officials, it is believed only about 10 percent of Vermont's approximately ...
Author: John Prescott Sure, Neil and Otto's Pizza Styx provides necessary late-night study and party sustenance (it's pretty bad stuff, let's be honest). Sure, Green Peppers, the Grille, Hamlin and Ross can all make a halfway reasonable pie from time to time.The bottom line, nonetheless, remains commonly ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Despite ongoing rain in the hours before Middlebury College Commencement 2002, 556 graduates were awarded diplomas on the lawn behind Forest Hall the morning of May 26. Dava Sobel, former New York Times science reporter and author of best-selling book "Longitude," gave the commencement ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton September 11, 2001 was the second day of Middlebury College's fall semester, with the same glorious Indian summer weather that graced the skies of New York and Washington, D.C. By 9 a.m., music drifted from open bedroom windows, most books still had their bindings unbroken and ...