Author: Megan Michelson When the U.S. Episcopal House of Bishops voted to appoint the first ever openly homosexual bishop on August 5, 2003, it spawned a conflict between religious establishments and their opinions of gay and lesbian communities worldwide. The House of Bishops voted 62-45 to select ...
Author: Ian Fleishman Kathy Foley-Giorgio, associate dean of student affairs and chair of the Sexual Assault Policy Working Group (SAPWG), emerged from Monday's Community Council meeting pleased. The Council had just approved substantial revisions to the wording of the College Handbook policy on sexual ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston Secretary of the College Eric Davis announced the recipients of the 2003 Staff Recognition Awards. This year's recipients included Head Baker Wayne (Pat) Broughton from Dining Services, Laboratory Supervisor from Science Technical Support Services Crispin Butler, Associate Dean ...
Author: Alexandra Hay "Kavej Hfiz okuby ryzal," was the refrain of the evening the cast of "The Memorandum" rattled off lines in a new, scientifically generated language designed to minimize miscommunication in the workplace. The Czech artist Vaclav Havel wrote the comedy in 1966, following a long tradition ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Walking around campus these days, students, faculty, staff and visitors are surrounded by monstrous dirt heaps and noisy bulldozers. Arching cranes and iron skeletons of buildings loom around us, posing as permanent fixtures of the Green Mountain skyline. We can't help but notice ...
Author: Zach Allen There is much to deal with here in the waning days of my tenure at The Middlebury Campus. I flat out missed my deadline last week, much to the chagrin of my editors, who were no doubt horribly upset at not having their 450 words of back-page gibberish. At any rate, this is a fantastic ...
Author: David Barker In the wake of a post-war era, as the United States taps Iraq's prized oil wells to please a nation of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs,) 13 Middlebury College students will be pulling out of the Ross parking lot on May 20 in a yellow school bus powered by little more than french fry ...
Author: Tom Drescher A declining endowment has prompted numerous cutbacks in the College's budget over the past few months. Underlying the cutback decisions is a desire to eliminate unnecessary expenses and a commitment to protect the most essential expenditures for students, faculty and staff.According ...
Author: Charlie Goulding "It's an industry, it's the norm, and I don't buy it," stated Robert Schine, dean of faculty and father of a high school student, in discussing the College Board and the way in which the Advanced Placement (AP) exam has permeated academia. Debate has surged in recent months ...
Author: Chrystalyn Radcliffe Cowboy boots, country music, lassoes, shotguns and an incestuous relationship between two half-siblings - sounds like a recipe for good, old, stereotypical "Southern" fun. While definitely ripe with humorous moments, the performance of Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" was anything ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer Last Saturday, the Middlebury College Branch of Habitat For Humanity (HFH) donated $2500 to the Addison County branch of HFH. About half of the money came from HFH fundraisers from previous years, and the other half from this year's fundraising efforts, such as the beans and ...
Author: Lucie Greene The range of talent at Middlebury College is often taken for granted or at least forgotten in our hectic day-to-day life. It's funny to hear people drop into conversations that they were the Olympic finalist for gymnastics a year before or the chief founder of an organization to ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein Last weekend, the Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) held its first adopt-a-thon, an event conducted annually by the National Humane Society to promote cat and dog adoption. The 24-year-old non-profit organization maintains a mission of being "dedicated to fostering the ...
Author: Zach Manganello The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be voting on the issue of further deregulation of the mass media on June 2. Most Americans don't know about this because, for obvious conflict-of-interest reasons, the mass media aren't reporting on it.The big media corporations ...
Author: Andreassano Niccoliano Zimmermannaliazzi Abe Streep is known in many of the little bubbles that make up the big "Middlebury Bubble". In the "sports bubble" he is the right fielder for Middlebury's baseball team. Among the quirky hobbyists throughout the school, he is known as a fly fisherman. ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe On Saturday, May 3, the Vermont Cannabis Coalition held a rally in Burlington's Battery Park to protest the prohibition of marijuana. The event, one of 200 similar protests held around the world on Saturday, was a part of Cure-not-Wars' annual Million Marijuana March. The Burlington ...
Author: Crystal Belle If you have any insight into my personality, you should know of my innate obsession with shoes. From Prada to Parade, from Nike to Nine West, I love shoes. I can't think of what life would be like without my 72 pairs of shoes. Yes, just say it: oxygen is to life as shoes are to ...
Author: Peter Faroni Representative Betty Nuovo (D-Middlebury) has proposed a bill to the State House of Representatives to increase the refund on cans and bottles from five to 10 cents. On a recent walk near her home, Nuovo was inspired to act. "The other day, just on a half-mile of the road I live ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed Middle Ground began publication last fall with the objective of providing a moderate and centrist commentary on U.S. domestic politics, economic policies and international affairs. During the course of the past year, however, we have observed the middle ground in politics shift, ...
Author: Bob Wainwright Well, they say all good things must come to an end. Now, if only that were the case with my column. The "good" part, I mean. Because this is the last one. I'm stopping on number 75, the diamond anniversary. And it's a good thing too, because I'm plumb out of ideas. I've been writing ...