Author: Lindsey Whitton This fall, Middlebury College is stressed out. Faculty and staff members discuss the problem at meetings, students complain during late- night study breaks and almost everyone seems a little more tired, a little more rushed.Mary Hurlie, senior adviser for Organizational Effectiveness, ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Brian Bauer has lived with his family in Middlebury since 1969. He taught in Middlebury from 1969 to 2001, and his oldest son, Brian, graduated from Middlebury College in 1992. Bauer, now running as the Republican candidate for the Vermont House of Representatives, stopped ...
Author: [no author name found] Lighting Evaluatedby Layla kattanA professional analysis revealed many opportunities for Middlebury College to improve exterior lighting around campus. Recommendations included the relighting of social houses, the Center for the Arts (CFA) parking lot and Graveyard Road.Nancy ...
Author: Liz Lathey Claire Ayer is the Democratic candidate for Addison County representative in the Vermont State Senate.How do you feel you can improve the state, if elected, with your Democratic platform?The Democratic platform, to me, is one that's more holistic than the Republican platform, for ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., the Vermont-based premium ice cream maker, announced plans to lay off 52 people at their company headquarters in South Burlington, the Associated Press reported on Oct. 24. Currently Ben & Jerry's employs 841 people, 199 of which work at the ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Middlebury's externally-funded community service programs face an uncertain future with a nationwide economic slump severely jeopardizing their financial situation. Currently, the three service progams most threatened are the Page One Literacy Project, the Community Friends ...
Author: Peter Viola Administrators and student leaders of Ross Commons continue to debate responses to recent acts of vandalism in Ross Dining Hall. Late Sept. 29, vandals entered the dining hall, damaged yogurt and soda machines, smashed a card-swiper and littered the floors with cereal. Vandals struck ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Rutgers, Bates Name New PresidentsRichard L. McCormick was named the 19th president of Rutgers University and Elaine Tuttle Hansen was inaugurated as the seventh president of Bates College. Hansen is Bates' first female president.Hansen earned a bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke ...
Author: Tom Drescher A symbolic closet built by members and associates of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa) was destroyed during the evening of Friday, Oct. 18 by perpetrators yet to be found by the College's Department of Public Safety. The closet was the first to be built since 1996, when ...
Author: Caire Bourne PARIS — News of a terrorist attack targeting Western vacationers on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, plastered the international news networks this past weekend. The death toll stands at 188, but is expected to rise as the injured are flown to hospitals in Australia. The ...
Author: Julie Shumway Incumbent Republican Dean George and Democrat Steve Maier, candidates for Middlebury representative to the Legislature, talk with Local News editor Julie Shumway about the issues Vermonters are discussing in this election.George on his background:I'm a native Vermonter. I grew ...
Author: Revathi Avasarala During the Student Government Association's (SGA) second meeting of the year, held last Friday, the senators passed their first bill, a Public Transport Resolution. The bill, passed with twelve voting members in favor, two against and two abstaining, calls for an extension ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Gardner-Webb U. Rocked by Grade ScandalGardner-Webb University, a small Baptist school in North Carolina, has been shaken by a cheating scandal involving the school's president and trustees that has resulted in protests and faculty resignations. President Christopher White admitted ...
Author: Tim McCahill Words possess power, yet action often boasts more clout. In constructing "the closet," members of MOQA, its allies and other assorted students, staff and faculty sought to create an unmistakable symbol of the fear, harassment and societal unease that indoctrinate so many gay, lesbian, ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer On Saturday, Oct. 12, Middlebury's Center for International Affairs was renamed the Felix Rohatyn Center of International Affairs in honor of distinguished Middlebury graduate and the center's benefactor, Felix Rohatyn '49. The alum spoke in a dedication lecture in Mead Chapel ...
Author: Liz Lathey In light of the protests at Ari Fleischer's talk at Mead Chapel, the prospect of a war with Iraq is on everyone's mind. The state of Vermont, with its typically liberal attitude, seems to have a definitively anti-war stance, as proven by the fact that all three of its representatives ...
Author: Jon White The Middlebury College Alumni Association presented White House Press Secretary L. Ari Fleischer '82 with an Alumni Achievement Award Sunday in Mead Chapel. After accepting the award, Fleischer delivered a speech entitled "The Presidency and the Press," which was followed by a question ...
Author: Amin Bouchentouf The Campus: The United States economy, as you mentioned last night in your speech, is not doing too well. Consumer spending is low, the national deficit is high and corporate scandals have revealed faulty accounting practices and incompetent management. With war on Iraq looking ...
Author: Edward Pickering As White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer '82 spoke in Mead Chapel Sunday evening, almost 900 protesters rallied against a unilateral war on Iraq.Carrying signs, holding candles, and singing songs, the protestors voiced strong opposition to a possible invasion of Iraq. Footage ...
Author: Thomas Drescher Coming Out Week began on Sunday afternoon outside of the McCullough Student Center, where members of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa), Gay and Lesbian Employees at Middlebury (GLEAM) and the Middlebury College Ally Group gathered to assemble a symbolic "closet" on the ...