Author: Liz Lathey As September slips by, we all enjoy the last of the warm weather before it gets cold again. For most students here, the weather now is the nicest it gets before we have to bundle up for the below-zero wind chills of the winter that we all know and love. However, Vermont actually got ...
Author: Kathleen Fleury This November, Vermonters will head to the polls to cast their vote for a new governor, replacing Democrat Howard Dean, who has held the position since 1991. Douglas Racine, the Democratic candidate, brings to his campaign a great deal of experience in state politics, as well ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones Dennis Kozlowski resigned from Middlebury College's Board of Trustees last Friday, just two days before his involvement with the school was highlighted in the business section of The New York Times. These events arrive amidst a wave of scandalous publicity, which has grown ...
Author: Bob Wainwright It appears as though the Middlebury student body has gone wireless. In the first few weeks of the new school year, one of the noticeable changes around campus has been the increase in number of Middlebury students talking on cell phones during the class day. And what had previously ...
Author: Katie Saunders Despite a contentious race for the Vermont governorship shaping up as November nears, last week's primary election boasted the lowest voter turnout in over a decade. According to current estimates by Vermont officials, it is believed only about 10 percent of Vermont's approximately ...
Author: Tim McCahill A group of College administrators and students traveled across campus yesterday evening on the annual lighting tour of Middlebury's physical plant. Yesterday's event, however, was attended by Nancy Clanton, a lighting consultant with the Boulder, Colo. firm Clanton Associates.Before ...
Author: Nicholas Emery Director of Dining Services Peter J. Napolitano was recently voted the 2002-2003 president-elect of the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). The NACUFS is an association of campus dining departments at institutions of higher education in the ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The Ross Commons dedication and the Septemberfest picnic were held on Friday, Sept. 13, outside the newly completed LaForce Hall and New Dorms. The events celebrated the Staff Recognition Awards, the completion of LaForce Hall and the Ross dining hall and Ross Commons as the first ...
Author: Tim McCahill The first Environmental Summit for student organizations at Middlebury was held at the Robert A Jones '59 conference room last Saturday. The summit, organized by Student Government Association (SGA) Director of Environmental Affairs Michael Silberman '02.5, brought together leaders ...
Author: Revathi Avarasala This year the Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) plans to focus on introspection and a thorough reevaluation of its programs. The SGA has historically focused attention on a wide variety of issues ranging from food to financial aid, social life to campus ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Editor's note: Leah Koenig '04 contributed to this article.Dar Williams, smiling under the lights of the McCullough stage, enthralled her audience this past Saturday. Her performance marked a well-received return to campus, where she played first in 1992. Williams joked about ...
Author: Jon White How is obesity determined?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine whether a person is fit, overweight or obese. BMI is the ratio of a person's weight to height, and therefore may be skewed in the case of extremely muscular individuals. ...
Author: Julie Shumway The Addison Eagle reported recently that Middlebury residents will soon be voting over whether to renovate the town's current municipal building, or rebuild the entire structure. At present, the municipal building is housed in the old Middlebury High School, located at the corner ...
Author: Julie Shumway Residents of Brandon are concerned that the town may suffer drastically from a proposed upgrade of Route 7.The upgrade would remove the bend in the middle of the downtown, which has one of the highest accident rates in the state. However, the upgrade would significantly reduce ...
Author: Liz Lathey This summer, I experienced a phenomenon that I did not realize is as prevalent in Vermont as it actually is: the bus tour. As a waitress at an inn in Killington, Vt., I was privy to the subculture of those people we waitstaff referred to affectionately as "the bus people."I'm sure ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Last Wednesday when the campus-wide power failure threatened to last more than a few minutes, I left the newspaper office and trudged back home to wait out the storm. But this year's home, I soon realized, did not facilitate the same peaceful wood fire and wool blanket gatherings ...
Author: Bob Wainwright For those of you who missed the Otter Nonsense show last Sunday night in McCullough, you missed what is undeniably the most refreshing, and some might say ingenious, student group currently on the Middlebury College campus. At a school where people are notorious for taking themselves ...
Author: Sarah Riddleberger On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Middlebury College campus and its surrounding area lost electric power for close to four hours. All electricity flickered off just before 9 p.m. and did not return until nearly 1 a.m. Middlebury Facilities Management reported that there was a fault ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Welcome back everyone! Did you have a good summer? Good. Oh, thanks. Yup, mine was great, too. Well, it was good seeing you. I'm sure I'll see you around. Where are you living again? Oh, cool. Well, I'm living on the other side of campus this year, but I'm planning on being over ...
Author: Julie Shumway Vermont Governor Howard Dean has declared that, were he elected president of the United States in 2004, he would recognize same-sex marriages.Dean spoke at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association annual meeting in Philadelphia last Saturday. He said that as president ...