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 ...
Author: Andrea Gissing U. Pittsburgh Receives Embryonic Stem CellsUniversity of Pittsburgh researchers recently received human embryonic stem cell lines, one of the few universities to do so after President Bush said in August 2001 that only 78 already existing embryonic stem cell lines would be approved ...
Author: Tom Drescher Middlebury College annually hires a host of visiting instructors to teach Winter Term courses. This year, the College will be implementing a mini-orientation program to acquaint visiting faculty with the school's policies as a means of limiting adminstrative problems and possible ...
Author: Nicholas Emery Last week, the Community Council unanimously approved the Carbon Reduction Initiative (CRI), a plan proposed by the Environmental Council (EC) to significantly reduce Middlebury College's carbon emissions. The approval of this proposal authorizes the creation of a working group ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Middlebury College is bursting with interesting publications that represent the many voices of the College community. Each of these fulfills a specific purpose: To provide news, arts, analyses, humor or a forum to express opinion. Four of these publications are: Epilogue, the ...
Author: Leah Koenig Saturday night provided a lively musical treat for the large crowd gathered around the McCullough stage. An impressive line up of Middlebury's talented students performed music and dance in the Global Rhythms show, organized by Wonnacott Commons. The entertainment, lasting a full ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Green Mountain Power (GMP) Corp., Vermont's second largest power company, gave unauthorized rate reductions totaling more than $545,000 to Sugarbush ski resort for 14 months in 1999 and 2000.This violation, reported in documents filed by Vermont's Public Service Board on Oct. 31, ...
Author: Julie Shumway Vermonters concerned over the state's economy received more bad news last week with the announcement of SCA Tissue North America's decision to close its Brattleboro factory.SCA Tissue North America, a Swedish-owned paper company, announced that it would close the factory in March ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart On Tuesday night, for the 21st time since 1777, no candidate in the governor or lieutenant governor's race acquired a majority of the vote. In accordance with the Vermont constitution, the Legislature will elect the governor and lieutenant governor by secret ballot at its first ...