Author: Ronald Liebowitz In his memorandum in Nov. 2002, President McCardell reported on the financial challenges facing the College as a result of the current national economic downturn and the related decrease in the value of our endowment. He also outlined the general approach that the College administration ...
Author: Pete Faroni Environmental issues are of paramount importance to citizens of the Green Mountain State. The recent changes made by Republican Governor Jim Douglas '72 to environmental law and funding for state environmental departments has raised great concern among many Vermont-based environmental ...
Author: Tom Drescher With recent budget adjustments made to counteract the effects of a national economic downturn, Middlebury College is looking to boost income and limit gratuitous spending. As a result of the recent fiscal examination, other, somewhat odd financial issues have been appearing. In ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe A reception was held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. last Monday in the Johnson Memorial Building Gallery to mark the opening of the art show entitled, "Mary Smyth Duffy: Retrospective," honoring the artistic work of former Middlebury employee, Mary Duffy. If there is one word to describe ...
Author: Jonathan White President John McCardell made his annual presentation to the cabinet of the Student Government Association (SGA) Sunday evening, and recommended a $38,100 comprehensive fee for the 2003-2004 academic year. This fee represents a 6.1 percent increase in tuition over the current ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Vermonters, like citizens across the United States, are stocking up on duct tape, plastic sheeting, food and bottled water following a warning issued by federal officials on Feb. 10 that advised the public to collect supplies in case of a chemical, biological or radiological weapons ...
Author: Edward Pickering In "My Dog Skip," Willie Morris remembers the dog to whom he was attached as a boy in small-town Mississippi during the 1940s and 50s. Though thin in dimension, this book is boundless in the love it contains. The author's affection for Skip -- a fox-terrier of singular intelligence ...
Author: Claire Bourne D. E. Axinn Professor of Creative Writing Jay Parini and Writer-in-Residence Julia Alvarez joined forces with nine other poets Sunday at the Congregational Church in Manchester, Vt., to protest the proposed war against Iraq. "We honor tonight not merely the right, but the duty, ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Anyone who read the Jan. 29 edition of The Middlebury Campus may have noticed a trend. Of the articles in the issue, three of them dealt with peace rallies which were attended by Middlebury students, and two opinion pieces criticized a war on Iraq. However, there were ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg In the waning weeks of its season, the Middlebury women's hockey team secured its second-place New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) standing, battling Williams to a 1-1 tie and defeating Utica, 7-1. Against NESCAC rival Williams, Middlebury looked to exploit ...
Author: Robert Schine In its article "Graded Abroad," on the front page of the Jan. 29 issue, The Middlebury Campus reports, in error, that the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) decided "hours before the vote" to endorse the amendment by which all grades earned abroad will be calculated in a student's ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller On Friday, Feb. 14, Anne Bogart, one of the most influential directors in contemporary American theater, spoke to a packed audience in Wright Memorial Theater. She has become well-known through the work that she and Tadashi Suzuki have done with the SITI Company, which they ...
Author: Jocey Florence A documentary depicting the troubles as well as moral, religious and emotional challenges faced by abortion doctors was screened in Twilight Auditorium Sunday. The film, entitled "On Hostile Ground," portrayed the "civil war" between abortion clinic employees and pro-life activists ...
Author: Holly Haertel This past weekend the Middlebury women's squash team traveled to Yale University, along with 28 other collegiate teams, to compete in the 2003 national championships. The tournament was divided into four flights, with Trinity College, the defending national champion and fellow ...
Author: Laura Erickson-Schroth and Jena Siegel Is feminism dead? Certainly it has come a long way in the past few decades. However, one issue that is being heavily disputed in Washington these days -- and threatens to undo 30 years of progress -- is the right of a woman to maintain control over her ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Strong Support Sounds for U. MichiganOver 300 organizations announced that they would file briefs in support of the University of Michigan in response to the brief the Bush administration filed with the Supreme Court opposing affirmative action policies, (see The Middlebury Campus, ...
Author: Jonathan White When I walked through the door of the Imperial Theatre in New York two weekends ago to see "Les MisÈrables" one last time, I was disheartened to see that the role of Jean Valjean would be played by an understudy. After 16 years of performances on Broadway, "Les Miz" bids au revoir ...
Author: Matt Ross The weekend could not have been better for the Middlebury men's basketball team. The Panthers sent Tufts and Bates home crying, 89-83 and 85-72 respectively, in consecutive days, to improve their league record to 4-5. Their overall record of 15-9 is the best the team has had since ...
Author: Josh Axelrod Stories have been circulating amongst the Middlebury men's and women's Nordic ski team about the coldest days on which they have ever raced. This weekend, as the skiers traveled to Mt. Prospect, Vt., for the Williams carnival, nighttime lows bottomed out at near -20 degrees Fahrenheit. ...
Author: Alison Damick The names attached to the buildings on campus and marking the slopes of the Snow Bowl come from a broad range of sources. From reference to the College's natural surroundings, such as Adirondack House, to memorials of past leaders in the College community, much of the significance ...