Author: Liam Gluck Marked only by a small wooden plank with white stenciled letters, the Otter Creek Used Bookstore occupies 20 Main St. with some humility."Believe it or not, a lot of people know us by the sign," said Barbara Harding, who co-owns Addison County's one and only used bookstore with her ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe In his fourth inaugural speech, Vermont Governor Jim Douglas condemned the Equal Education Opportunity Act, calling the proposed school budget increases it allows "unsustainable in any season, and especially when our economy is facing such severe retrenchment." State legislature ...
Author: Aseem Mulji For what was likely to be his last Student Government Association (SGA) meeting as SGA President, Bobby Joe Smith III '09 set a jam-packed, comprehensive agenda. He hosted three guest speakers from the administration who presented reports and fielded questions on current hot-button ...
Author: Alyssa O'Gallagher If the name Peter Shaffer sounds at all familiar to you, you are probably one of three distinct types of people: an English major, a theater major or a rabid Harry Potter fan. Unfortunately for all of you Harry Potheads out there, a scantily-clad equiphilian Daniel Radcliffe ...
Author: Tom Brant PARIS - In September, standing with a friend on a pedestrian bridge in Paris called the Pont des Arts, I was almost persuaded to jump into the River Seine. As we were admiring the night view of the City of Lights, a group of about five French guys our own age sauntered up to us. Seeing ...
Author: Kelly Janis With 184 students signed up as of Monday, the College has registered more participants for the second annual Power Shift Youth Climate Conference than any other institution in the nation. "The organizers of the conference are really impressed with us, which is an amazing feeling," ...
Author: Adam Schaffer Students' spending on campus has proved resilient in the face of the College's financial woes and the national economic recession. However, overall changes in the spending habits of the College community have forced the managers of the Grille and Juice Bar to alter hours and menu ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When you venture to talk to Maggie LeMay, expect to be taken on a tangent."In Vermont, we've always been very lucky about having more gay rights than any other state in the country, with civil unions and different kinds of affirmative action," said LeMay, one of the four sisters ...
Author: Kelly Janis Library and Information Services (LIS) is considering instituting printing quotas and establishing a sound-proof cell phone room in the Main Library. The plans were announced on the "All Things LIS" blog that Dean of Library and Information Services Michael Roy created shortly after ...
Author: Grady Ross In an economic climate that many are comparing to the Great Depression, the state of Vermont is revamping its food stamp program - a program that found its start in that first major period of financial distress. Renamed 3SquaresVT, the new program is designed to reach out to more ...
Author: J.P. Allen Middlebury residents gathered on Feb. 13 to discuss U.S. values and politics with Anna-Marie Slaughter, a distinguished scholar and recently-appointed high official in the Obama administration. Held in the Town Hall Theater, the talk was sponsered by The Vermont Humanities Council, ...
Author: Nicole Lam At this week's meeting, the Student Government Assoication (SGA) discussed the recent financial decisions made by the College administration which were made with little opportunity for input from SGA senators and committees. "Although I understand that many concerns were sensitive ...
Author: Dana Walters KRISPY KREME CHALLENGE BOASTS SWEET REWARDSOn Feb. 7, North Carolina State University hosted the "Krispy Kreme Challenge" for the sixth time, and the smell of success wasn't so sweet. Duke University sophomore Zach Hing competed in the challenge, which asks people to run a four-mile ...
Author: Hillary Hall Last April in a tight election, College students elected Bobby Joe Smith '09 as the Student Government Association's (SGA) president for the 2008-2009 school year. Voters responded to the three platforms he called his most important: communication between the SGA and the community, ...
Author: Cloe Shasha Brooker House and Palmer House, Middlebury's two "super block" houses, will continue to be used to house students united by a common interest in the fall of 2009. This year Brooker is themed as an outdoor interest house and Palmer houses students interested in arts and architecture. ...
Author: Liz Scarcini The Middlebury Fire Department recently turned up the heat at one of their bi-weekly meetings by sampling eight different homemade chilis. Eight firefighters aim to compete with several other chefs in Middlebury's first annual chili contest. The Better Middlebury Partnership, formerly ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce Money concerns can strain even the healthiest of relationships and the relationship between the town and the College has never been tension-free. When the College opened 51 Main at the Bridge last year, it took an unprecedented step toward competing with local business and potentially ...
Author: [no author name found] It's a British comedy, dahlingFeb. 19, 20, 21, 8:00 p.m.and Feb. 22, 2:00 p.m. The Middlebury Community Players present "Lettice and Lovage" at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Hailed as "a deliciously offbeat comedy," "Lettice and Lovage" features a tour guide to ...
Author: Beth Connolly I spent thirteen hours aboard Trenitalia. In English, this is called learning things the hard way; in Italian one would say, essere una stupidona. It all started well enough. The train departed from the ancient Greek city of Siracusa and traveled up the Sicilian coast. Outside ...
Author: Amanda Cormier When Bristol farmer and activist Erin Buckwalter recently worked with a group of Winooski children at the town's community garden, she was surprised to find that many of them did not know carrots grew underground.Until August, Buckwalter ran the community and youth garden programs ...