Author: Angelica Towne Six months ago, six diverse students came together with some questions - Why is there poverty? What is being done to eliminate poverty? How can one get involved in the fight against poverty? Perplexed, intrigued and enthused by these inquiries, Olivia Kenna '07, Sarah Lauing ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner For the second time in the past year, the popular ski town of Killington has voted to secede from Vermont and join their eastern neighbor, New Hampshire, in protest of the high property tax caused by Act 60. At a town meeting in March 2004, Killington first voted to the pursue ...
Author: Margaret Ray Students entered the expanse of the new Atwater dining hall in a slow trickle on a Thursday night. Some appeared apprehensive while they took a seat, others made straight for the bagels and coffee in the rear. The lights were dim, and there was a man seated in the front plucking ...
Author: Katie Flagg They do not have a dining hall. They do not have shiny new senior suites, nor do they have oh-so-funky architecture or state-of-the-art dorms. But despite Middlebury's craving for "quality senior housing," students in Cook Commons - affectionately, Cookers - are largely happy with ...
Author: Addason McCaslin "Sometimes I cannot imagine how much we can take as human beings," said Aftaba Mezetovic, former Bosnian refugee, current representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and author of "Refugee: The Ugliest World," describing the horrors inflicted ...
Author: WILLIAM ESTES The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is a company traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange whose CEO and President Elisabeth B. Robert '78 is a Trustee of Middlebury College. Rick Fritz '68, a director of the company, is the Chair of Middlebury's Board of Trustees.The corporate mission of ...
Author: THOMAS C. DRESCHER AND CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Scam e-mails plague community inboxes Library and Information Services (LIS) sent out a campus-wide e-mail alert last week regarding a recent spate of reported fraudulent e-mail receipts. The e-mails in question, which appear to be from "reputable ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I would like to send a letter of praise for the weekly music review column "Blowin' Indie Wind." It is consistently the most hilarious section of the entire paper. Never before have I seen such a brilliant lampoon of snobby, elitist, super-intellectual independent ...
Author: JASON SIEGEL PARIS - The Magical Mystery Tour has finally arrived in Paris, after stops in New York, London and Madrid (and a final stop in Moscow to go). No, it's not the Beatles (or what's left of them); no, it's someone Paris loves even more: the International Olympic Committee (IOC).On the ...
Author: Jeff Paterson My NCAA brackets are usually brackish, but nonetheless. Note Carefully Article's Argument. The University of the Pacific will go farther in the tournament than the 11,000 miles the Ocean is wide. Their only two losses this season came at Allen Field House to then #2-ranked Kansas ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson If you're like most Midd-kids, you've likely reached that point in the ski season where you have skied the Snow Bowl slopes to the point of collapse - but by no means are you ready for the season to end. This weekend, head to Stratton to enjoy the sparkle of some fresh slopes ...
Author: Katie Flagg Students in Ross Commons have transcended the proverbial "Life sucks and then you die" with a new optimism - "Life is mediocre and then LaForce!""[Ross] is clean and functional," said Taylor Long '07, a resident of Hadley. "It is [also] a lifeless, overbearing, claustrophobic, prison-like, ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca As the most recently completed commons, Atwater is where it is all at this year for room draw. Those who live there now plan to stay for the new senior suites and the new dining hall, and those who do not live there are daydreaming about the same things. Even though the remote ...
Author: Noelle Bullion Children entered a new world filled with underwater excitement upon entering the McCullough social space in the afternoon of Saturday, March 5. The "Dive Into Reading" Carnival 2005, which was co-hosted by Page 1 Literacy and MIX, let kids explore books with 12 stations of crafts ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER As much as I try to avoid falling into the typical college student stereotype (a.k.a. yuppie-in-the-works), I recently came to the realization that this shameful label might just fit me better than I would like to think. I write fiction, talk on my cell phone while driving my ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg '05 I am writing this opinion piece from Israel, where I have recently completed a two-week tour of the country as part of a semester off campus. During this time I have had the chance to talk with countless locals, including a dozen members of the Israeli Defense Forces. It is ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will speak at the graduation of the Middlebury College class of 2005 on May 22. Giuliani will also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The prominent Republican, who was honored as Time magazine's 2001 Person of the Year, is best ...
Author: ELSPETH PIERSON I was reminded on Friday evening over a delicious meal at Dolci just how easy it is to forget about all the amazing student-run activities available to us at the College.A few friends of mine had braved the Dolci ticket line Thursday night in McCullough and succeeded in securing ...
Author: Meg Young I went into room draw bright-eyed, bushy tailed, and convinced that there were maybe 550 other first-years - tops - against whom I needed to fight for a room. I learned quickly that there were at least 647 (189 of them in my commons). Yes: I was the last number in room draw. (OK, maybe ...
Author: [no author name found] Once upon a time, in a shining city called New York, there lived a handsome man named Alex Hitchinson. Alex, or Hitch, as he was known, helped other men get the women of their dreams, but had yet to find love himself. Also in this city, there lived a beautiful gossip ...