Author: Caroline Stauffer Over Winter Term, 13 students participated in a unique service-learning project in Romania. Biology 270, "Early Experience and Brain Development," was the result of a year of organizational work by Assistant Professor of Biology David Parfitt. According to Parfitt, who is ...
Author: Holly Haertel Going into the last tournament of the season, the Middlebury women's squash team was boasting a record of 8-3 having only lost to Colby, Bowdoin and Amherst in the regular season. However, after traveling to Smith this past weekend, they have added three wins to their record. Having ...
Author: Emily Berlanstein A vital league victory last weekend against Connecticut College has put the Panther women's basketball team back on the winning track. Coming off a five-game losing streak, Middlebury pounded Connecticut, 73-53, behind 18 points from Kristin Hanley '03. The attack was well-rounded ...
Author: Tom Drescher Rob Chisholm '03 was recently awarded the grand prize in the Ohio State University National Undergraduate Essay Contest in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics for his paper on the resource management system of a lobster-fishing community in Nova Scotia, his native ...
Author: Jonathan White The Case For a Review of Abroad Grades and AdvisingIn its Dec. 9 meeting, the College faculty voted to include grades from overseas institutions and programs in students' cumulative GPA.The Student Government Association (SGA) has voiced concern that students were not present ...
Author: Edward Pickering Few professions are impervious to the satirist's pen, least of all the academic one. Students and professors live and work in a more or less enclosed society, peacefully sequestered in green quadrangles where the buildings face inward. The academic world has its own peculiar ...
After living and studying in Madrid for one month, I found myself experiencing the first so-called feelings of rechazo, Spanish refusal -- a sentiment that the directors of our program had so delicately warned us we would feel toward our sudden immersion in a foreign culture, and for some, such as myself, ...
Author: Fahim Ahmed Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech last week to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) may have succeeded in convincing some domestic critics of the Bush administration's war against Iraq, but proved unsuccessful in winning over key allies across the globe. Powell's case ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief A proposal from the Student Government Association's Taskforce on Smoking Policy stalled in Community Council discussions Monday when the body split over how to govern smoking in residence halls. The stalemate came after the Taskforce surveyed 631 students about their ...
Author: David Freedman With the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships coming in the next few weeks, the Middlebury men's and women's swimming and diving teams took advantage of their last breaths of free time before spring classes begin to relax and take pride in what ...
Author: Jonathan White In a letter released to the Middlebury College community today, the Executive Council detailed its recommendations for cut-backs in College programs to correct the gap between endowment revenues and expenditures. The document slices $11 million off the College's operating budget ...
Author: Christopher Atwood Concerned about an increase in local D.U.I violations, the Student Government Association (SGA) recently devised an initiative aimed at enticing students of age to stay on campus. To counter the draw of off-campus social events, which could raise the likelihood of drunk driving, ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In a speech delivered before Vermont's General Assembly on Jan. 20, Governor James Douglas '72 presented the state budget plan that he hopes will save Vermont from what he calls "the worst budget crisis since World War II." Douglas began with a thorough look at Vermont's current ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Sounding Off Against SUVsA group of students from Stanford University is starting a campaign to raise awareness of the contributions made by sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to environmental and political problems. The campaign, named "SUV SOS," plans to educate faculty and students ...
Author: Pete Faroni Recent stirrings in the Vermont Statehouse have addressed the implementation of a multistate lottery game such as Powerball or Megamillions. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill 6-3, and will now send it to the House to be voted on. The bill would ...
Author: Bob Wainwright While I always try to keep this column from becoming overly personal, shying away from topics such as the exorbitant number of on-line hits last week's column received, I do, however, feel compelled to mention that I inherited 50 million dollars over break. Now I know what you're ...
Author: Claire Bourne The faculty's recent decision to figure all study abroad marks into student grade point averages (GPA) is one piece of a much larger puzzle that came together last fall when the Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) drafted a comprehensive report addressing study abroad policy. The ...
Author: Peter Yordan After running off seven straight games without a loss in January, the Middlebury women's hockey team hit a rough patch of ice last week, surrendering a loss to non-conference rival Manhattanville before defeating Gustavus Adolphus and Trinity and tying lowly Wesleyan. With three ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos While many Middlebury students enjoyed the weeklong February recess, the Middlebury men's hockey team was hard at work continuing its winning ways. The Panthers played three games during the week of Feb. 1-8 and triumphed over Babson and Hamilton and tied Amherst. The Panthers ...
Author: Ginny Hunt The foundation of our community stands equally on respect, trust and communication. At the December faculty meeting, the faculty Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) and the faculty body as a whole abandoned each of these principles during the discussion of study abroad grades. Prior ...