Author: Meghan Michelson "Did you know that the average Vermont driver puts 7.5 tons of greenhouse gas emissions in the air each year?" read an alarming sign posted prominently at a booth at the Alliance for Climate Action's 10% Challenge in Burlington on Monday. The event was a public announcement ...
Author: Paul Barnwell Plans to implement a permanent residential "access" system, discussion surrounding an African-American Studies major and Honor Code revisions are three policy issues that have dominated Community Council and Student Government Association (SGA) discourse this year and will continue ...
Author: Claire Bourne On Sunday, the Student Government Association (SGA) passed two bills designed to reduce the overall cost of course materials for Middlebury College students. The resolutions, authored and sponsored by Junior Senator Simon Isaacs, included recommendations to cap expenditures for ...
Author: Tim McCahill The space separating the tables was short, but the gulf could not have been any wider. As representatives of Middlebury College's Jewish student organization Hillel and the Islamic Society convened at an informational event yesterday evening in Proctor Woodstove Lounge, it quickly ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Departing for Princeton, West Compares Harvard President to SharonCornel West, a distinguished black studies professor at Harvard University, explained that his departure for Princeton University stemmed from a sour relationship with Harvard President Lawrence Summers.West ...
Author: Claire Bourne Leadership of Middlebury College's Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) and Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) social houses met with Community Council Monday to discuss the roles of their houses on campus and the challenges they face in addressing such issues as dormitory damage, compliance with College alcohol ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Ahmed Taps Into Experience while Promising Innovation"While running for a position on the Student Government Association (SGA) might have been the more natural choice considering my three years of experience there," explained Fahim Ahmed '03, at the electoral debates Tuesday night, ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Although this year's warmest recorded winter in the history of Vermont brought a relatively quick end to the winter sports season, it did allow maple sugar producers statewide to begin their harvests in mid-February. This early onset to the maple syrup season was two weeks ahead ...
Author: [no author name found] 25Years in prison which Vermont teenager, James Parker, was sentenced for last year's murder of two Dartmouth College professors, Half and Susanne Zantop. Parker's accomplice in the crime, Robert Tulloch, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after Parker's testimony ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Ahmed Stresses Strengths as Leader and Team Player "While there are many qualities that define what a leader is," said Fahim Ahmed '03, "to me there are two components which are essential. Firstly, a leader's primary role is to represent the views of his constituents. Secondly, ...
Author: Claire Bourne In March 1989 the faculty voted 113-13 to "abolish" Middlebury College's six fraternities by severing ties with their national affiliations and transforming themselves into "coeducational residential units," wrote David Stameshkin in "The Strength of the Hills: Middlebury College, ...
Author: Paul Barnwell The Middlebury College Office of Student Affairs Staff has outlined several revisions intended to improve next fall's first-year orientation week. These include a revised introduction to the Honor Code and a bumping back of the official student move-in day from Monday, Sept. 2 ...
Author: Karen Acheson Since colonial days, tea drinking has been a part of American culture. The town of Middlebury offers its own tea drinking custom with the help of the Middlebury Inn, a local landmark founded in 1827. This past Sunday I had tea at the Middlebury Inn, a custom that began about 50 ...
Author: Deborah Jones "Sexist," "heterosexist" and "racist" was how five student protesters described Michael Christian's (pen and stage name William Cane) "The Art of Kissing," which was performed to a packed McCullough Social Space on Saturday evening.The event, organized and sponsored by Middlebury ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Historic preservation and anti-sprawl groups recorded a victory last week when the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at concentrating commercial development in downtown districts. The measure, which is now pending before the Senate General Affairs Committee, ...
Author: Craig Szela Room Draw 2002 went off smoothly, but still received criticism from some students. According to Residential Systems Coordinator Mariah McKechnie '01, "Overall Room Draw went extremely well. I couldn't be more pleased with the reaction I've received from students to the new system." ...
Author: Claire Bourne Acting President Ronald Liebowitz accepted Community Council's recommendation to engage the services of Strategic Technology Group to design a "campus access system" at Middlebury College. Liebowitz also approved the establishment of a Campus Access Committee to work closely with ...
Author: Ashley Elpern As the graduation for the Class of 2002 approaches, Middlebury College has announced the final four honorary degree recipients who will receive degrees from the College at the May 26 graduation ceremony, along with graduation speaker and Doctor of Letters Dava Sobel. Sobel is the ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Pro-Palestinian College Movement Emerges in Middle East ViolenceWith the escalation of violence in West Bank and Gaza, many pro-Palestinian groups have grown more prominent on college campuses nationwide. The pro-Palestinian student groups have developed campaigns based ...
Author: Tim McCahill The College Handbook defines the Student Government Association (SGA) as "the vehicle through which students can participate in the formulation of institutional policy affecting academic and student affairs and collectively express their views on matters of general interest to the ...