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The Difference Bteween Being Overweight and Obese It's Only a Few Percentage Points, But a Wealth of Health ProblemsHow is obesity determined?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine whether a person is

September 17, 2002

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. ...

New Municipal Building Expected to Refresh Town AppearanceThe 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 m

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

Route 7 Shift Meets Resistance

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

Vermont Views Tourists Photograph Memories, and Leave in a Cloud of Exhaust

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

COLUMN Musings and Mishaps

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

New Generation of Otter Nonsense Players Proves to be Slightly More Tame

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

Midd Briefs Three-Hour Blackout Shuts Down Campus

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

COLUMN What About Bob?

September 17, 2002

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 ...

Dean Widens Civil Union Vision

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

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 ...

COLUMN Overseas Briefing

September 17, 2002

Author: Claire Bourne PARIS — When the lead headline of Libération read, "C'est une tragédie!" ("What a tragedy!") on the morning of Sept. 11, I expected the article that followed to have some rapport with the lives lost and affected by the terrorist plot that had unfurled one year earlier. Instead, ...

Vermont Launches Campaign Against Fat With Rising Obesity Rates in the United States, Vermont Legislature is Asking Health Experts to Guide Vermonters Towards a Leaner, Healthier Future

By Middlebury Campus | September 17, 2002

Author: Jon White Take it easy on the Ben & Jerry's and Cabot Cheese, Vermont. That's the message that state health officials in Montpelier relayed this summer when announcing that obesity in Vermont is at an all-time high.Currently, 18 percent of Vermonters are categorically "obese" — a term ...