Author: Katie Saunders Despite a contentious race for the Vermont governorship shaping up as November nears, last week's primary election boasted the lowest voter turnout in over a decade. According to current estimates by Vermont officials, it is believed only about 10 percent of Vermont's approximately ...
Author: Tim McCahill A group of College administrators and students traveled across campus yesterday evening on the annual lighting tour of Middlebury's physical plant. Yesterday's event, however, was attended by Nancy Clanton, a lighting consultant with the Boulder, Colo. firm Clanton Associates.Before ...
Author: Nicholas Emery Director of Dining Services Peter J. Napolitano was recently voted the 2002-2003 president-elect of the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). The NACUFS is an association of campus dining departments at institutions of higher education in the ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The Ross Commons dedication and the Septemberfest picnic were held on Friday, Sept. 13, outside the newly completed LaForce Hall and New Dorms. The events celebrated the Staff Recognition Awards, the completion of LaForce Hall and the Ross dining hall and Ross Commons as the first ...
Author: Tim McCahill The first Environmental Summit for student organizations at Middlebury was held at the Robert A Jones '59 conference room last Saturday. The summit, organized by Student Government Association (SGA) Director of Environmental Affairs Michael Silberman '02.5, brought together leaders ...
Author: Revathi Avarasala This year the Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) plans to focus on introspection and a thorough reevaluation of its programs. The SGA has historically focused attention on a wide variety of issues ranging from food to financial aid, social life to campus ...
Author: Gale Berninghausen Editor's note: Leah Koenig '04 contributed to this article.Dar Williams, smiling under the lights of the McCullough stage, enthralled her audience this past Saturday. Her performance marked a well-received return to campus, where she played first in 1992. Williams joked about ...
Author: Erika Mercer Coldplay's music is like floating several hundred feet above the earth through a bright but hazy morning sky, feeling close to weightless. You're gazing down at the landscape below, which ranges from downy green pastures and quiet, level squares of farmland filled with grass-munching ...
Author: [no author name found] Stepping Away from ScandalA number of highly-publicized episodes this summer revealed that throughout much of the 1990s the net of corporate malfeasance was cast far and wide. From GE's Jack Welch to Adelphia's John Rigas, chiefs of some of America's biggest businesses ...
Author: Jon White How is obesity determined?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine whether a person is fit, overweight or obese. BMI is the ratio of a person's weight to height, and therefore may be skewed in the case of extremely muscular individuals. ...
Author: Julie Shumway The Addison Eagle reported recently that Middlebury residents will soon be voting over whether to renovate the town's current municipal building, or rebuild the entire structure. At present, the municipal building is housed in the old Middlebury High School, located at the corner ...
Author: Julie Shumway Residents of Brandon are concerned that the town may suffer drastically from a proposed upgrade of Route 7.The upgrade would remove the bend in the middle of the downtown, which has one of the highest accident rates in the state. However, the upgrade would significantly reduce ...
Author: Daniel Wolf Roda This past Friday my friend and I forewent the fresh Middlebury derriere to witness the opening show of Asian Man Records' second annual Plea for Peace / Take Action Tour (PFP/TAT) in Worcester, Mass., featuring the return of modern punk legend Jesse Michaels to the public stage.Michaels ...
Author: Kate Prouty Alex Poe, a senior theater major from Denver, Colo., will probably never be a starving artist. Not because he's not hungry, but because he's so hungry. About to graduate from Middlebury College, Poe has more than taken advantage of the College theater department.Working the intolerable ...
Author: Liz Lathey This summer, I experienced a phenomenon that I did not realize is as prevalent in Vermont as it actually is: the bus tour. As a waitress at an inn in Killington, Vt., I was privy to the subculture of those people we waitstaff referred to affectionately as "the bus people."I'm sure ...
Author: [no author name found] Thursday, Sept. 19Keynote Address: Edward Albee: "The Playwright vs. The Theater," Introductory Remarks: President John M. McCardell, Jr., and Mel Gussow '55, New York Times critic and author. Mead Chapel, 8:00 p.m.Friday, Sept. 20Continental Breakfast, CFA, Lower Lobby, ...
Author: Josh Axelrod The Middlebury men's soccer team is off to a promising start after its unfortunate loss to Western New England College 3-2 on Sept. 7. Five days later at Castleton State, the Panthers turned on the heat by demolishing the Spartans 8-0. The scoring started early and it didn't slow ...
Author: [no author name found] "Middlebury prides itself on the quality of the food it serves … The food service staff stay abreast of current culinary trends, and as a result, students enjoy healthy, delicious fare such as grilled meats, freshly tossed pastas, and a constant, varied supply of vegetarian ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton Last Wednesday when the campus-wide power failure threatened to last more than a few minutes, I left the newspaper office and trudged back home to wait out the storm. But this year's home, I soon realized, did not facilitate the same peaceful wood fire and wool blanket gatherings ...
Author: Mike Mazzotta Last Saturday, the Middlebury cross country team hosted the annual Panther Invitational and kicked off their season with an impressive debut. Both Amherst and Connecticut College were among the many teams that traveled to compete against the Panthers. And, despite intense training ...