Author: Claire Bourne PARIS – The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, known simply as Paris III, is not an attractive edifice. It is a stark, colorless monstrosity stuck awkwardly in the middle of an older — and prettier — neighborhood. It quite frankly resembles a sanatorium. Inside, graffiti ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Last weekend's Islamic Society Symposium "Shattering the Myth: Islam, the Media and Orientalist Stereotypes in the American Consciousness," thoughtfully addressed the representation of Muslims and negative stereotypes of the Islamic world. The symposium was organized by students ...
Author: [no author name found] Allison Barker '04Hometown: Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec and Baltimore, Md.Major: Environmental Studies-Geography major, Spanish minor.Activities: Co-president (with Naomi Andrews '03) of the Middlebury Progressives, and a student recycling center worker.My Beliefs: In ...
Author: Ben Gore "Protest" gets talked about a lot in the Opinions section of this paper. Unlike in normal venues, the issue is often not the issues but the tactic itself. These columns are written by self-satisfied members of the actively apathetic who think they've seen it all before, that activism ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Ball State U. Students Take Shelter as Tornado HitsStudents at Ball State University sought shelter in lower levels of residence halls and departmental buildings Sunday afternoon as violent winds rushed through east-central Indiana. The tornado touched down in Blackford County ...
Author: Philip Spielberg On Nov. 6, Dr. Laurie Mylroie presented a speech advocating war against Iraq to a crowd of approximately 120 students, professors and townspeople in the Robert A. Jones '59 House. Mylroie, the publisher of Iraq News, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton In the early hours of Wednesday mornings I have come to cherish my short drive home. It is a chance to unwind after hours of frantic work, and it is the first step towards my coveted few hours of sleep. Tuesday nights in the Hepburn basement are spent producing The Campus, and ...
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Author: Nicholas Emery The Dana Foundation recently announced this year's recipients of the Charles A. Dana Scholarships in the Class of 2005. The recipients this year are: Kathryn Boateng, Ignas Brazauskas, Oana Dan, Dixie Dillon, Diana Johnson, Alexis Kearney, Tae Kim, Edward Lester, Felix Muchomba, ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart As class after class enters and eventually leaves Middlebury College, hundreds of prospective students, new Middlebury parents, as well as veteran moms, dads and relatives attending graduation flood the town each year. Local hotel managers and hosts of bed and breakfasts break ...
Author: Jonathan White Judging from the media, one might argue that America is headed toward a revitalized protest movement. Sit-ins have occurred on college campuses like the University of California at Berkeley to protest a potential war with Iraq, while Washington, D.C. and San Francisco have witnessed ...
Author: Revathi Avasarala In last Friday's Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, the topics of discussion were Finance Committee guidelines and further developments concerning the shuttle service. The SGA Student Senate plans to revamp the guidelines for the SGA Finance Committee in hopes to ...
Author: Edward Pickering Malicious postings made by anonymous third-party users on the online forums of Middkid.com and The Daily Jolt Web site have prompted administrators of both Web sites to change their forum policies. Ted Adler '99.5, founder and president of CollegeXTRA, the company that runs ...
Author: Dan Polifka In last Tuesday's national elections, which marked a historic return to Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, under 28 percent of Middlebury students exercised their constitutional right to vote, according to a Middlebury Campus poll. This figure is lower than the national average ...
Author: Deborah Jones Middlebury College has never been considered a hotbed of political activity. Its own students regularly describe the atmosphere as "sleepy," "detached," and "bubbled-in." Those who dare to shatter the quiet are a minority that is sometimes scorned for disrupting this remote paradise. ...
Author: Bob Wainwright This morning at breakfast my good friend explained to me that the future of old people will be a much quieter one. "Scientists are now making tremendous advances in the realm of health care," he explained. "And with regards to weather, meterologists will soon have technology that ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Adnan Duracak, 20, fled Bosnia in 1990 with his parents and older brother as violence and war escalated in the region.Employed by Middlebury Dining Services in the kitchen at Freeman International Center, Duracak is a part of what Matthew Biette, associate director of Dining Services, ...
Author: Andrea La Rocca "What is your favorite word in the English language?" The question, posed to a group of Middlebury students, causes a moment of contemplation, possibly of confusion, and then ..."SEX!"Surprise, surprise — or not. Would you really expect anything less from Middlebury students? ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Woodrow Wilson once said, "If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation; if 15 minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now." I came across this quotation the other day, and found myself immediately intrigued. I wondered if this meant ...
Author: Julie Shumway In the wake of increasing concern over the state's drug problems, Vermont opened its first heroin treatment clinic on Oct. 28. The Chittenden Center – An Addictions Treatment Program, is directed by Dr. Warren Bickel of the University of Vermont (UVM) Psychiatry Department. It ...