Author: Julia McKinnon Remember Afghanistan?! The organizers of last week's "Dialogues for Peace" symposium thought carefully about the title they gave the series of lectures, discussions and films. The question mark, Haseeb Humayoon '09 explained, inquires about the lack of press interest in Afghanistan ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler Driving while dirtyRussia has initiated a spring cleaning effort of sorts, denying dirty cars entrance to Moscow and levying a 50 ruble (~$1.80) fine on cars whose license plates are unwashed. Cars are required to be washed at designated car-washing stations, and violators are ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER An article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone mentions how several universities and colleges around the country have disciplined or expelled students for incriminating Facebook profiles (i.e. ones which show photographic evidence of underage drinking). In one case, two students ...
Author: Dina Magaril Though GAYpril festivities at Middlebury may have started off on shaky ground - members of the community allegedly tore down and vandalized posters last week - the events hosted thus far by members of moqa have been resoundingly successful. Last Thursday's Gay Sex Panel Discussion ...
Author: Bobby Joe Smith Humankind since the dawn of excellence has glorified its heroes. We honor and envy those with superior strength, intelligence, courage, selflessness and perseverance, placing them upon a pedestal from which to imitate us and inspire our talents. Stories get cast into legend, ...
Author: Ashley Bell The weeks after Hurricane Katrina saw food, clothing and medicine rushed to the Gulf States. Yet another aspect of New Orleans life left in ruins were the dozens of public libraries destroyed this past hurricane season and which local volunteers are struggling to rebuild. After facing ...
Author: Mike Murali At 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Charles A. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Corporation of Middlebury will present a lecture by Patrick Bellew entitled "Ant Hills to Labyrinths: Engineering Sustainable Architecture." The talk - the second in the "Architecture & ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER MCAB, we delegated to you an important responsibility - and you shamelessly went ahead and organized a spring concert that will utterly fail to celebrate the values that characterize Middlebury College.We students demand a performance that will salute our time-honored principles: ...
Author: Ian Schmertzler BIRD FLU SPREADSThe World Health Organization confirmed four cases of Avian flu (H5N1) on April 3, of which two were fatal. Though the other two confirmed cases have fully recovered, a fifth patient remains hospitalized awaiting tests. Two additional persons, a 6-year-old girl ...
Author: James Dolan, Focus Editor As Middlebury ushers in a new era of preparing for the future, the need to take into account all aspects of the College becomes all the more acute. One oft-overlooked element of the College's operations that has received renewed interest thanks to the Strategic Planning ...
Author: Philip Aroneanu Over 150 students and other individuals walked into Montpelier High School muddy and dripping last Saturday afternoon. Their hands were cold, their bike shorts soaked, and they were hungry. Despite the lack of warm showers and a cozy woodstove to sit by, they joined an auditorium ...
Author: Gretchen Schrafft Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and author of a recently published book on global warming, lectured before an audience of students, faculty and community members in McCardell Bicentennial Hall last Monday. Kolbert is touring to publicize her book, ...
Author: Erin Lackey A group of 20 Middlebury students participated in a Habitat for Humanity trip this past spring break to Exmore, Va., traveling to two of the poorest counties on the state's Atlantic coastline. The group's volunteer work focused on the rebuilding of local homes, with their work ranging ...
Author: Caroline Stauffer A bond exists between Middlebury College and the Dominican Republic - and it's not merely the dozens of students who flock to the island nation's beaches each vacation period. Travelers who take the time to explore the island outside of the usual tourist destinations may notice ...
Author: Julia McKinnon Over spring break, a number of energetic Middlebury volunteer groups headed to New Orleans to see the damage incurred by Hurricane Katrina and join the thousands of college students who chose to spend their vacations rebuilding towns in the Gulf Coast.Many curious and concerned ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen FRENCH JOB PROTESTSMore than a million protesters - mostly students - participated yesterday in sometimes violent protests against new youth employment laws across France. The laws in question would allow employers incorporated in France to terminate employees under the age ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER I ended up in the Bahamas for spring break. And it was everything I could've hoped for: more high-fiving than an ADP party, more sunburns than the early days of British colonialism. Everybody (and I know I'm prone to hyperbole, but seriously - everybody on Spring Break) was ...
Author: Lynne Zummo Historically, Middlebury's weeklong vacations have given me the chance to pack up my climbing gear and fly west or drive south on the quest for adventure. One year it was Kentucky for a few precious days of dry weather salvation; another it was southern California. This past week ...
Author: Trista McGetrick Global warming is more than just the concern of a few antisocial environmentalists. It is essentially a humanitarian concern. Environmental justice initiatives seek to address the social, political and economic aspects of climate change. In addition, they hope to remedy the ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER I wake up dizzy in my single apartment. I live above a hair salon in town, and some mornings, when business downstairs is good, I can smell nothing but the toxic perm fumes rising from the floor beneath. Those old-school heated perm helmets that curiously resemble electric chair ...