Middlebury’s annual town meeting was held in the Town Hall Theater on Monday evening at 7 p.m. In the absence of Governor Jim Douglas, who was away on state business, proceedings commenced on Monday night with the nomination and election of Thomas Beyer, chairman of the school board of Middlebury ...
Applications to the College have increased by 16 percent compared to last year, with 7,976 prospective students vying for entry into the Class of 2014, according to Dean of Admissions Bob Clagett. The increase in popularity could be attributed to the College’s gradual climb in The U.S. News and World ...
This past weekend the Middlebury women’s squash team traveled to Yale to compete in nationals. Ranked 13th in the country, the women were slotted into the B-flight, where they would compete for the Howe Cup. Like the men’s format, this meant that the 13th-ranked women would be competing against ...
With warmer weather just around the corner (hopefully!), nobody can escape the urge to do a little spring cleaning. WRMC is no exception to the rule, and the executive board kicked off the new semester by doing a little clean-up work of its own. This semester, the student-run radio station has made ...
“Find yourself your feet and stand on them,” said Lausanne Allen, the caller at the Haiti Benefit Dance at Middlebury Town Hall on Friday, Feb. 26. Middlebury community members partnered with Mercy Corps to organize the event. Atlantic Crossing and Gumbo Yah Yah, two local bands from Addison County, ...
As the sky opened up last week and unloaded every ounce of snow it had up and down the East Coast, it was apparent that the ski gods were looking favorably on the Middlebury ski teams. With the home Carnival weekend coming up and a relatively warm and dry winter up to that point, the Snow Bowl was ...
The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) has reinstated raffles for students over the age of 21 during Pub Night this semester, a decision praised by many seniors who remember longing to participate as underclassmen. The move came after MCAB received comments from various upperclassmen, nostalgic ...
All Middlebury students studying abroad in Chile are accounted for and doing well after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the region on Feb. 27. Saturday’s quake hit Chile at 3:28 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. By 4 a.m., the Schools Abroad program had alerted Dean of International Programs Jeff ...
The SGA voted to contribute $47,000 to fund an expanded Outdoor Introduction for New Kids (OINK) program for the fall of 2010 at its Feb. 28 meeting. After the administration withdrew financial support for the reinstatement of MiddView, the outdoor orientation program supported by the Middlebury Mountain ...
Maiden Vermont March 4, 7 – 8 p.m. Want to be a part of an all-female community a cappella group? Join Maiden Vermont at Cornwall Elementary School Thursday night! New music will be introduced at this rehearsal, and women of all ages who love to sing and can hold a harmony part are invited to check ...
The Vermont legislature just made the state’s, and the College’s, budget struggle even more difficult when it voted 26-4 Wednesday against the 20-year extension of the license of Vermont Yankee, Vermont’s only nuclear power plant. Vermont Yankee has been operating since 1966 and was scheduled ...
It has been two years since Middlebury College student Nick Garza went missing, since the College and the town joined together in search parties, since the surrounding community felt the first pangs of his absence, the uncertainty of his disappearance and eventually the news of his death. Garza’s ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz revealed that an Academy-Award winning filmmaker, a decorated Army Colonel and the President of the Juilliard School are among the seven Honorary Degree Recipients for the 2010 graduation ceremony, exclusively to The Campus. Members of the Honorary Degree ...
The Middlebury men’s hockey team extended its winning streak to seven games last Saturday with a 6-2 defeat over Tufts to advance to the semifinals in the NESCAC playoffs. The Panthers once again saw strong performances from veteran players as well as standout contributions from several rookies. The ...
Local Natives is a new band with a great idea: Borrow successful sounds from current artists and mix them in such a way that gives your band a unique identity. Their debut album, “Gorilla Manor,” released on Feb. 16, is so accessible because the elements of the collective sound are so familiar. Consider, ...
By the fall of 2010, the Middlebury College Summer Language Schools, in collaboration with an undisclosed online partner, will launch a language software program geared toward teaching Spanish and French to K-12 students across the United States. According to Michael Geisler, vice president of Language ...
DAKAR, Senegal — An African international student, studying abroad in Africa. Even I felt it was weird to go for study abroad to my home continent while I am actually already studying abroad in the U.S. My friends on campus kept asking, ‘why not France?’ and one of my relatives was suspicious ...
The competition was fierce and spicy at the Second Annual Middlebury Chili Festival, with over 40 entrants this year vying for the glory of having the best chili in Middlebury. Contestants competed in one of two arenas, Amateur or Professional, and they were then divided up into categories based on ...