Author: Tim McCahill On Wednesday, Oct. 2, President McCardell spoke at the first of three College-wide town meetings. Two subsequent meetings are scheduled for Winter Term and the middle of the spring semester 2003.The almost two-hour meeting began with College administrators and students in roughly ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart On Wednesday, Vermont health officials began looking into the death of a Windham County woman who may have had the second Vermont case of West Nile virus in humans. The case was reported to health officials at the end of September, and the cause of her death is as yet undetermined.The ...
Author: Jon White "There is no ideal solution, just the right direction" concluded the "Guiding Principles" adopted in May 1999 by the Project Review Committee. The Committee, with special guidance from Nan Jenks-Jay, director of environmetal affairs, and Dave Ginevan, executive vice president of facilities, ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Students who enjoy the convenience of smoking in their own rooms or near the entrances of on- campus buildings may soon have to change their ways. Though few people know about it, Middlebury has recently introduced an initiative that seeks to ban tobacco use in residence halls ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart In a tight race for lieutenant governor, Progressive candidate Anthony Pollina of Middlesex County is a top contender looking to oust Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin. Pollina, a policymaker who has dealt with issues in Vermont for 20 years, ran the first-ever ...
Author: Liz Lathey As November approaches, Vermonters are starting to wonder about the names on front yard political signs. Among the names is Jim Douglas, the Republican candidate for governor. Douglas has had an extensive political career as a member of the state Legislature, executive assistant to ...
Author: Khairani Barokka Side by side on Sept. 29, two distinguished poets, one a Palestinian, the other an Israeli, brought the emotions and vivid imagery of war in the Middle East to a sizeable audience in the Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room. Taha Muhammad Ali and Aharon Shabtai each read from ...
Author: Dan Polifka Upon completion of Ross Commons this fall, work was well underway on the improvement of another commons, Atwater.This marks the second series of construction projects undertaken by the College to enhance residential life at Middlebury. The building of two new senior residence halls ...
Author: Tim McCahill The second week of October will be a refreshingly normal one for the Board of Trustees when they convene on campus for their annual fall meeting. Unlike previous years, discussion of new building projects will not be on the trustees' agenda; rather, the Board will deliberate on ...
Author: Deborah Jones "Get on board, the train has left the station!" Dean of Advising and Assistant Professor of American Literature Karl Lindholm doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to discussing one of the school's most controversial initiatives. "The College is committed to the commons."Lindholm's ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Proposed changes to the Middlebury College health insurance system will require employees to cover a portion of their health insurance costs. The amount an employee will have to pay will be based upon a percentage of his or her salary. Workers most affected by these proposed changes ...
Author: Leyla Kattan Shattered Windowby Leyla Kattan Last Thursday, at 10:45am, a window in one of the Twilight Hall classrooms fell from its frame and smashed into the room. Students who were taking philosophy in room 110 had just been dismissed, and consequentially no one was injured. Evidently, it ...
Author: [no author name found] Multiple problems arose during the 2002-2003 Student Government Association (SGA) senate elections. Only four out of the thirteen elections last Thursday and Friday were competitive. Six senators won uncontested and three positions remain unfilled.During the election an ...
Author: Emily Thaler "Modern, yet Middlebury" is an apt way to describe the architectural style of the new buildings going up around campus. The structures, which must be both functional and aesthetically pleasing, feature innovative design combined with traditional College building materials. Each ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The current economic recession in the United States is making it harder to fund a college education for many students and families. Middlebury College has seen an increase in financial aid requests, but the administration is still firmly committed to a need-blind admissions policy. ...
Author: Julie Shumway Middlebury alumnus and U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III spoke at the College on Monday evening to a mixed audience of faculty, students, town residents and local political candidates. Sessions joined a lecture/question-and-answer session sponsored by the Political ...
Author: Julie Shumway On Sept. 24, the Hon. William K. Sessions III, U.S. District Court Judge for Vermont, ruled that the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA) of 1994 was unconstitutional. Sessions' ruling has attracted a great deal of media attention in the last week, due largely to the acknowledgement ...
Author: [no author name found] Certain student issues and concerns emerged in multiple candidate platforms, spanning the different classes and commons. These platform features indicate the pivotal student concerns in the fall of 2002. Many senate candidates mentioned the current dining situation in ...
Author: Devin Zatorski Edinburgh — Call it Take Back Vermont, only Scottish style. Edinburgh may sit an ocean's distance from the polarizing civil unions bill, but the late nineties saw an equally charged debate unfold here. Three hundred years after Scottish Parliament was merged with Westminster, ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca During those two weeks of eternity at the end of the summer - you know, the weeks when everyone else has gone back to college and we Midd-kids are left still counting the days - my summer fling ended in a dramatized version of "Well, um, since we're both going to college in opposite ...