Last week, the Director of the Office of Health and Wellness Jyoti Daniere co-sponsored an abysmally one-sided and thankfully ill-attended “debate” on the 21-year-old legal drinking age. The event largely consisted of two “scholars” (Dr. David Jernigan and Dr. John Searles) harping upon Daniere’s ...
Correction Appended After a year and a half of chopping the low-hanging fruit from the College’s budgetary tree, President Liebowitz, through his speech on the budget crisis, offered a welcome demonstration of commitment, confidence and cautious optimism. Exhibiting the transparency that is quickly ...
Which of the following does not belong? Basketball, track, swimming and violin; shooting hoops, sprinting meters, treading water and plucking the E string. If you chose violin — ding, ding! — by most standards, you were right. Music isn’t generally associated with physical activity of any sort. David ...
The influx of new white plates and little bowls of varied sizes in Ross and Proctor dining halls have no significant purpose except to replace the more colorful china students have taken from the dining halls but not returned. These white plates, which were replaced with the colored ceramic dishware ...
Seeing as Valentine’s Day was just this past weekend, I thought it fitting to use this space to write about those large, intangible constructs we know as love, romance, lust and, of course, anatomically incorrect vital organs and chocolate. And that’s about as far as I got. So, stumped, I did what ...
The Middlebury Dance Company swept down to the Dominican Republic at the end of January to teach, perform and collaborate with professional dancers and children alike in the city of Puerto Plata. The 2009-10 company — consisting of Elizabeth Boles ’10, Philippe Bronchtein ’10, Sarah Chapin ’12, ...
Beginning in Fall 2010, Residential Life will offer significantly more options for super block housing, allowing an unspecified number of rising juniors and seniors to be housed in groups of 5, 10, 15, 20, 24 or 30. The new group sizes represent a substantial change from options offered in the past. ...
St. Michael’s gets Third Eye Blind for concert On April 16, popular ’90s band Third Eye Blind will play at St. Michael’s College in Burlington. A survey released last year showed that the campus preferred a spring concert that featured a rock band. “The top genre was rock, overwhelmingly ...
The College plans to increase the student body by 50 students, lower the annual increase of the comprehensive fee and retain the current financial aid structure, according to an address given by President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz on Feb. 12. If the Board of Trustees approves Liebowitz’s ...
To the Editor: Mori Rothman’s Feb. 11 cartoon depicting a U.S. soldier cavalierly walking away from an imploring Haitian reflects a gross ignorance that prohibits me from calling it a “political cartoon” at best, and forces me to call it a pathetic display of ignorance at worst. According to ...
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court made a five-four decision that corporations were entitled under the Constitution of the United States to freedom of speech and press and therefore had the right to turn profits into ads for and against political candidates. This, they said, is an important right because ...
Mardi Gras party Feb. 19, 8 – 9 p.m. Come eat gumbo and red beans and rice at the Art House in the Marble Works. Dance to Gumbo Ya Ya, playing second line, funk and world beat music. There will be beads, masks and hats galore! Donations will be requested at door. For more information, please call (802) ...
Though the rumble of construction vehicles has stopped for the winter, the success and implications of the Cross Street Bridge continue to grow. What began as a standard and necessary improvement to town infrastructure has turned Middlebury into a model of action and efficiency for other small municipalities. The ...
I was lucky enough to catch Surfer Blood — the hyped Floridian indie pop band that admittedly does not surf — this past New Year’s Eve. Actually, the band took the stage when the new year began, counting down the remaining seconds of 2009 in a disappointingly unaffected manner. Fortunately, as ...
When Patty Dunn’s parents divorced and she and her sister moved away with her mother, Dunn lost all connection with her father. This loss at four years old fueled Dunn’s interest in helping others cope with death and bereavement, and she began volunteering 20 years ago with a hospice in Burlington. Dunn ...
The Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with the Middlebury Police Department (MPD), is conducting an ongoing investigation into a series of thefts, mostly targeting laptop computers and cell phones, from residence halls and public spaces on campus over the past three weeks. Though no one ...
From the somber opening tones of the cello singing out a C minor arpeggio, it was clear that a spectacular concert was in store. Sophie Shao, making a return appearance in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall, flawlessly sustained her reputation as a master cellist. Bringing ...
POITIERS — “The immigration office really doesn’t appreciate it when people are late. It is absolutely essential that you don’t miss your appointment.” The coordinator for the Middlebury schools in France offered us this advice the week we arrived. In order to get your visa validated, you ...