Author: Nicole Maddox Last weekend, the Middlebury Debate Society hosted the annual Edwin R. Lawrence Debate Tournament, which began on Friday afternoon and ran late into Saturday evening. Almost 50 teams gathered in Bicentennial Hall, including representatives from Amherst, Vassar, Trinity, Wesleyan, ...
Author: Alex Castillo-Kesper How does the modern artist engage tradition in his or her realm of personal expression? The term "individual artist" was a foreign expression to India during British colonialism, and still remains an ambiguous phrase in modern Indian painting. As India tried to break away ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Middlebury College students and parents arriving in September or reuniting on Fall Family Weekends know that finding a place to eat in town is a daunting task. Those who forget to make reservations or rely on luck to find a table are often left to scrounge around the dining halls ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Edwin Colodny, interim chief executive officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care, announced on Nov. 8 that the hospital had overspent on its Renaissance Project construction budget by $81.3 million.State regulators had approved $228.4 million in spending for the construction of new ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Protests Arise Over NYU Guard's SuspensionResidents of Alumni Hall, a New York University (NYU) residence hall, are protesting the university's decision to suspend the security officer on duty the night before a student was found dead in his dorm room last week.The university ...
Author: Bob Wainwright I was sitting down, obeying my thirst with a nice refreshing Sprite yesterday, when I began to wonder if advertisements actually hold power over consumers. The only example I could think of was when I drank a gallon of Gatorade and then ran 10 miles in order to see if my sweat ...
Author: [no author name found] Helping the Homeless and Hungryby Andrea GissingOver fall break, five members of Middlebury's Volunteer Service Organization (VSO) attended the 15th Annual Conference of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness held this year at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton It is 1 p.m., and senior Katie Samson has a class in a half an hour. She hasn't eaten any lunch, and she knows that she won't be able to make it through the afternoon without sustenance. She takes a minute to consider how she can grab some food and still make it to class on time.She ...
Author: Liz Lathey Green Mountain Coffee recently signed a 10-year agreement to sell its Fair Trade coffee under the label of Newman's Own Organic Fair Trade Certified coffees.The harvest of Fair Trade coffee is based on a partnership between North American coffee consumers and coffee producers in Asia, ...
Author: Kathleen Fleury On Nov. 5, Middlebury voters narrowly rejected a $5.99 million bond to build a new municipal building in town as well as a new municipal police headquarters. The bond proposal was rejected by a slim margin of 109 votes, 1,443 to 1,334.The proposed buildings, which have been in ...
Author: Amine Bouchentouf It was not very long ago that a senior could graduate from college with four or five offers from companies and employers promising impressive benefits such as profit sharing stock options, paid vacations, free health club memberships and outrageous salaries. According to the ...
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, ...