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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen What do a Junior National Champion kayaker, a pitcher-magician-pianist-composer, a best selling children's book author and wildlife preservationist from Kenya, a documentary film maker and volunteer at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, India and a Junior Olympic ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg Relying on a veteran and experienced attack, the Middlebury women's soccer team is looking to slip into the top ranks of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The Panthers graduated six players from the 2001 team, many of whom anchored the midfield and defense, ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton This week the Middlebury College community, along with the rest of the world, paused to commemorate the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A series of scheduled events and more informal moments for quiet reflection provided a chance to remember those who were ...
Author: Bob Wainwright A summer rarely passes by here at Middlebury College without some major changes being made in the absence of the students, and this year has been no different. Driving back to Middlebury along Route 30 after a long and restful summer, it was difficult to not notice the giant bubble ...
Author: Jon White On October 21, Ames, Middlebury's single department store, will close its doors as the Connecticut-based chain of retailers ceases operations nationwide. Middlebury's store joins 326 other Ames stores in 14 states and the District of Columbia that are going out of business.Students ...
Author: Tim McCahill With elections less than two months away, Vermont's three candidates for governor are in the full swing of campaigning and debate. The candidates, Democrat Doug Racine, Republican Jim Douglas and independent Cornelius "Con" Hogan, are traveling across the state to spread their views ...
Author: Julie Shumway The staff of Middlebury College's Parton Health Center has a new potential diagnosis to consider when students complain of headaches and fever: West Nile virus encephalitis.This relatively new disease, first documented in 1937 in Uganda, has over the last 65 years worked its way ...