In early February the Student Government Association (SGA) conducted a survey about the dining services at the College. Carried out independent of the Department of Dining Services, the survey was designed to be a barometer of student feelings towards dining at the College. The SGA Food Committee, ...
In early February the Student Government Association (SGA) conducted a survey about the dining services at the College. Carried out independent of the Department of Dining Services, the survey was designed to be a barometer of student feelings towards dining at the College. The SGA Food Committee, ...
The Center for Teaching, Learning and Research (CTLR) has recently created a new resource for academic advisers that brings necessary information together into a single website, accessible by both faculty and students. Conversations regarding its development began in fall 2008 at meetings held before ...
At the Feb. 27 meeting, Dean of the College Gus Jordan took comments and questions from the SGA about the first draft of the Student Life Chapter of the College’s self-study for reaccreditation. The SGA also continued to discuss the proposed new gym in Ross Commons and suggested changes to the College’s ...
While popular revolutionary movements have occurred in many states in North Africa and the Middle East since January, in no country have they proved as violent as in Libya. Over the past week, Libyan anti-government protestors have been met by force in several major cities, resulting in the deaths of ...
For years the National Mall in Washington, D.C. has served as a place where the citizens of this country can gather to show what matters to them, what is most significant in their lives. Not only has it hosted protests, rallies and celebrations, but for the past eight years it has also been host to ...
Guns may be allowed in Texas Universities Texas state legislators have drafted a bill to allow licensed handgun owners to carry their guns on university campuses. Fourteen state senators joined the bill’s author, Republican state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, in support of students’ ability to be able to ...
Every February, Middlebury gets as New England as it can possibly get — we eat sugar on snow while watching ski races, build ice sculptures, and can watch our peers compete in snowshoe races. But the carnival is never exactly the same year to year, and it’s changed a lot over the years. This year, ...
1. Things MCAB did try this year to, “recreate a Winter Carnival that they might have had in the 50s or 60s,” according to Liz Gay ’11, MCAB Traditions Chair: -Old-fashioned dance cards -King and Queen -Klondike Rush -Retro style advertising posters 2. Ice sculpture competition used to be incredibly ...
Most Middlebury students have experienced the feeling: it is late at night, there is no food in the dorm, both MiddExpress and The Grille are closed and it is way too cold and entirely too far a walk to get food at Shaw’s or Hannaford — that is if they are still open at all. Recognizing this problem, ...
The Middlebury women’s hockey team took two of three games this week to finish the regular season with a record of 18-4-1, and the first seed in the NESCAC playoffs. After falling to third-ranked Norwich earlier in the week, the Panthers responded with two victories over Bowdoin and Colby this past ...
Where are you from? How did you get to Middlebury, and what did you do before taking on the Great Dish War? My parents came to this country from Sparta, in the Greek Peloponnese. You know Sparta? How 300 Spartan men in their underpants held off the entire Persian army of Xerxes? Anyway, I was raised ...
In 1970, Middlebury’s admissions office had a challenge on its hands: fill the space left behind by an extraordinarily high number of juniors abroad. The administration proposed that the College fill these beds each spring by increasing the number of admitted transfer students. Fred Neuberger, dean ...
After a brief introduction, Rick Bass walked up to the podium and turned to his audience, taking a long look at the white board. Disconnected words, circles inside circles, arrows, lines and a quote had been scribbled all over the board from the previous class. “Gosh,” he said in his coarse southern ...
I am in the process of learning an important lesson, and at the risk of embarrassing my boyfriend, it’s a lesson I would like to share with you. Since we are college students, I think it’s fair to say that dining hall conversations pretty frequently revolve around sex and alcohol, but as one of ...
While most students were dancing or carving ice over the weekend, the Middlebury men’s basketball team was making history for the second time this season. With a 61-41 win over Connecticut College on Saturday, the team advances to the NESCAC semifinals for the fourth consecutive year. Meanwhile, a ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team’s 2010-2011 season has certainly been an up and down affair, with this last weekend’s set of ECAC East home games against Skidmore and Castleton State leaving the team with much to improve upon before the NESCAC tournament begins this coming weekend. With conference ...
With his signature thick-rimmed glasses, grandpa-inspired sweaters, well-loved three-year-old J. Crew messenger bag and effervescent smile, Leo Moses ’14 isn’t one to blend in with a crowd. Towering above most of his peers at 6’5”, this first-year has caught the eyes of students for being someone ...
Do not be fooled by the result sheet, however; the Panthers skied better than they have all year, and they will certainly be out for revenge at the Eastern Championships next weekend. The weekend of racing began at Rikert Ski Center at the Breadloaf campus in Ripton, Vt. With temperatures in the 50s, ...
After watching “Race to Nowhere” — a film in the documentary series put on by the Education Studies Department, (apart from critiquing what invisible layers were missing from the film in terms of race, gender and socioeconomic inequities and the larger, more dominating pressures and problems with ...