Author: Gale Berninghausen What do a Junior National Champion kayaker, a pitcher-magician-pianist-composer, a best selling children's book author and wildlife preservationist from Kenya, a documentary film maker and volunteer at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, India and a Junior Olympic ...
Author: Chesley Thurber Before a fiery and often critical crowd yesterday evening at Mead Chapel, former ambassador to the Middle East Dennis Ross gave the keynote address at the fifth annual Silberman Symposium. His topic was "Any Hope Left for Peace In the Middle East?"Ross served under both presidents ...
Author: Tim McCahill Representing a major improvement from the older facility inside the Services Building, the new Materials Recycling Facility opened for business on Monday last week. The structure, inspired by the architecture of barns surrounding the College, was designed to include a work yard ...
Author: Karen Acheson The A&W Family Restaurant on Route 7 South in Middlebury serves up more than just the best burgers and fries in town. The classic drive-up restaurant's opening also signals the arrival of spring. With the onset of warm weather, the restaurant opened April 25 to offer customers ...
Author: Claire Bourne As Middlebury College breaks ground for the construction of its new state of the art, $40 million Library and Technology Center (LATC), Starr Library loyalists are feeling a tinge of premature nostalgia. In an opinions piece published in last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus, ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Three options are currently available for students wishing to pursue studies in African-American Studies. First, they can minor in African-American Studies. Second, they can pursue a major in African-American Studies through the Independent Scholars program. Last, they can make ...
Author: Claire Bourne Media Mogul Geffen Donates $200 Million to UCLAHollywood tycoon David Geffen has announced that he will donate $200 million to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) medical school. This is the largest single donation ever given to a U.S. medical school. Geffen has not ...
Author: Alison Hertel Heroin was identified by the National Drug Intelligence Center's January 2002 Vermont Drug Threat Assessment as Vermont's primary drug threat. In 1995, 132 Vermonters were admitted to treatment programs for heroin use. In 2001, that number grew to 590. According to the 1999 Vermont ...
Author: Liz Lathey Vermonters really have a definitive musical taste. I didn't realize this until I got to Middlebury and found out that the whole world doesn't listen to Phish. In fact (gasp) some people don't even know who Phish is.Before I moved to Vermont in the sixth grade, I listened to whatever ...
Author: Deborah Jones The staff of Middlebury Magazine learned last week that it had been awarded the Gold Medal for Best College Magazine of the Year. The publication had won the second place prize for several of the past seven years, but this was the first time it came out on top.The Council for the ...
Author: Paul Barnwell The Career Services Office (CSO) recently awarded student stipends for 2002 unpaid summer internships. Jona Repishti '04, Matthew Riemer '04 and Devin Zatorski '04 were the recipients of $2,000 Felton Family scholarships, while 22 Middlebury College juniors from the classes of ...
Author: Chesley Thurber Student Government Association (SGA) President-elect Ginny Hunt '03 received unanimous approval Sunday for the implementation of two new cabinet positions: Director of Commons and Social House Affairs and Director of Environmental Affairs. The first was originally named solely ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Masons arrived at the Christian A. Johnson Art Building last Monday, a few days after a locksmith reported to the Office of Facilities Management that stones appeared to be pulling away from the south wall of the building facing the Sunderland Language Center.Despite some ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief The Spanish Department has announced plans to offer Portuguese language coursework in the coming academic year. This broadening of the language curriculum is in step with the establishment of Portuguese as the Summer Language School's ninth program, slated to begin in ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Although residence hall doors will remain locked from 1 to 6 a.m. when students return next fall, the Campus Access Committee (CAC) plans to install an automated security system by Winter Term of 2003, according to the chair of CAC, Assistant Treasurer and Director of Business ...
Author: Meghan Michelson With an already threatened state economy and the most recent announcement to cut additional jobs and shut down manufacturing at two prominent Ethan Allen Interior Inc. furniture plants, the outlook does not look promising for unemployed Vermont residents. Last week, the Danbury, ...
Author: Chesley Thurber Repercussions from last month's Student Government Association (SGA) polling-station controversy continued to rattle the SGA Senate last Sunday as the group addressed three new constitutional amendments designed to prevent similar problems in the future. The first, written by ...
Author: Claire Bourne Community Council concluded a lengthy review of Middlebury College's six social houses Monday. After six weeks of closed-door deliberations, the Council voted to continue Omega Alpha (Tavern), The Mill, Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) and Xenia. Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) and Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) ...
Author: Tim McCahill A portion of land on a leased plot west of Bicentennial Hall has been designated by a group of Middlebury College students as a potential site for an organic garden. The land, which is roughly seven acres in size, lies adjacent to Route 125 and, say the students, represents an ideal ...
Author: Emily Thaler Catherine Samson '02.5 was chosen by a panel of students and faculty as the student speaker for this spring's graduation. She was one of several students to compose and deliver a speech before the selection panel. Competition for the role of student speaker was tight. Dean of Student ...