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, ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In a speech delivered before Vermont's General Assembly on Jan. 20, Governor James Douglas '72 presented the state budget plan that he hopes will save Vermont from what he calls "the worst budget crisis since World War II." Douglas began with a thorough look at Vermont's current ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Sounding Off Against SUVsA group of students from Stanford University is starting a campaign to raise awareness of the contributions made by sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to environmental and political problems. The campaign, named "SUV SOS," plans to educate faculty and students ...
Author: Pete Faroni Recent stirrings in the Vermont Statehouse have addressed the implementation of a multistate lottery game such as Powerball or Megamillions. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill 6-3, and will now send it to the House to be voted on. The bill would ...
Author: Bob Wainwright While I always try to keep this column from becoming overly personal, shying away from topics such as the exorbitant number of on-line hits last week's column received, I do, however, feel compelled to mention that I inherited 50 million dollars over break. Now I know what you're ...
Author: Claire Bourne The faculty's recent decision to figure all study abroad marks into student grade point averages (GPA) is one piece of a much larger puzzle that came together last fall when the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) drafted a comprehensive report addressing study abroad policy. The ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Since 1778, when Vermont's first legislature convened, lawmakers have been inundated with requests to have lotteries, since unauthorized gambling games were against the law. Legal games were initially viewed as charitable endeavors, opportunities for citizens to assist their ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer While the majority of the Middlebury College student body spent Winter Term in the sub-zero Vermont temperatures, a group of students spent the month studying in a tropical paradise. These students had enrolled in a course entitled: "Geologic Evolution of the Hawaiian Islands.""It ...
Author: Christopher Atwood Last week the Bush administration filed "friend of the court" briefs opposing the University of Michigan's use of racial preference in admissions. By doing so, the White House cautiously weighed in on the increasing unpopularity of considering race when determining college ...
Author: [no author name found] "All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. And many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way: They are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."President George W. Bush in his State of ...
Author: Dan Polifka On account of a high acceptance rate for the incoming class of 2006.5 and shifting housing trends for upperclassmen, there is an anticipated housing shortage for the spring semester of this year. In addition, because so many juniors were late in formulating their plans for the spring, ...
Author: Nicolas Emery On Jan. 18, 2003, 23 Middlebury College students joined approximately 200,000 activists for a peace rally in Washington, D.C. Wellington Lyons '04 organized the Middlebury trip to Washington and put up anti-war posters around campus advertising the rally. The crowd braved freezing ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Three thousand peace activists rallied in Montpelier on Saturday, Jan. 18 to voice their opposition to a possible war with Iraq. Despite single-digit temperatures and abundant snow, protestors chanted, spoke and sang enthusiastically for an hour on the Statehouse lawn. The Montpelier ...
Author: Jonathan White Anne Ginevan, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Employment and Training, lends additional Middlebury influence to Governor Jim Douglas '72's administration. Douglas appointed Ginevan after her work on the Workforce Investment Board at the Addison County Chamber of Commerce.Ginevan, ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief The Middlebury Campus has learned that local Driving Under the Influence (D.U.I) violations spiked in 2002, with arrests climbing to 80 from just 65 the year prior. The upward trend was driven by a particularly dramatic leap in the 18- to 24-year old category, which accounted ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones This week, the Student Government Association (SGA) advanced four different programs that are all intended to make the Middlebury College campus more socially attractive for students. These measures come as a reaction to a perceived increase since last year in the number ...
Author: Peter Faroni On Jan. 8, the Brady Campaign, a Washington-based advocacy group that works in conjunction with the Million Mom March for the prevention of gun violence, issued its annual "report card" scoring state laws for protecting children from guns. On its most recent report card Vermont ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Yale Loses Four Students in Car CrashFour Yale University undergraduates died and five others were injured as a result of a car crash that occurred early Friday morning, Jan. 17. The accident occurred when the sport utility vehicle they were driving collided with a tractortrailer ...