Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe Assistant Professor of Economics Caitlin Myers and five Middlebury students found surprising results when they traveled to Boston, Mass. last January as part of their Winter Term class, "Deconstructing Discrimination," to conduct a study on discrimination. The class, comprised ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes If you find yourself craving the catch of the day after a long day of shopping on Church Street, walk a couple blocks down to the Burlington Bay Market and CafÈ located on Battery St., near the ferry. This market and restaurant combo is located right on the edge of Lake Champlain ...
Author: Brian Fung President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz sought to deflect criticism for his stance on military recruitment practices at an open forum in McCullough Social Space on Nov. 26. During the hour-and-a-half discussion, Liebowitz defended the administration's decision to allow the U.S. ...
Author: Kelly Janis "I am a particularly stammering idiot right now, because my heart is pounding," said Elissa Campbell above the din of shoppers milling about the Emerald Room of the Sheraton Conference Center in South Burlington. "Like, I'm hot and sweating and completely hysterical and about to ...
Author: Mary Lane The Five Town Massive, produced by Nine37 Productions and located each year in Bristol, Vt. will be held Dec. 26-30 and feature "multi-media events throughout the week," as the festival's official Web site advertises. This self-titled interdisciplinary arts extravaganza is open to ...
Author: Tyler Lohman BERLIN - Living in East Berlin, my travel to school in the mornings is rather long and full of trains, buses and the transferring between the two≠ - about an hour combined. This ride occasionally becomes quite monotonous as I listen to my iPod, read or simply wait. However, on ...
Author: Hannah Wilson As students from the College were migrating to Proctor for their routine Sunday morning waffle bar on the bright, sunny and cold Nov. 18, members of the broader Middlebury community were stretching and warming up in preparation for the 26th annual Middlebury Turkey Trot. Both ...
Author: [no author name found] The southwest part of Vermont was racked with violence on Nov. 1-2, when a series of murders stunned the towns of Brandon, Rupert and Rutland. The violence began late Wednesday night in the small town of Rupert, Vt. when Benjamin Ploski, 32, engaged in an argument with ...
Author: Anthony Adragna As the sun rose on a crisp, fall day, students took to Battell Beach, otherwise named "the pitch," with the goal of leaving the Muggle world. On Nov. 11, college students from all over entered the world of "Harry Potter" during the first annual Intercollegiate Quidditch World ...
Author: Patrick Jobson In a short but heated 20-minute debate, the Community Council's weekly meeting on Nov. 12 revised the College's policy on student-faculty relationships to include a prohibition against the practice.The College has been discussing the possibility of updating the sexual relations ...
Author: Michael Suen Middlebury's initiative to install a campus-wide wireless network is underway, and most buildings will likely offer wireless service by the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year, according to College officials. Following the selection of the enterprise-driven Aruba Networks ...
Author: Kelly Janis American flags wafted over the leaf-strewn altar of the Middlebury United Methodist Church on Nov. 11 as the congregation held a special Veterans Day service to honor local residents who have served in the military. The gathering - which featured patriotic hymns, the recitation of ...
Author: Michelle Constant If the Early Decision I application pool for the Class of 2012 continues to resemble last year's pool, approximately 700 applications will have found their way to the Office of Admissions by today's application deadline. While Early Decision I applications are projected to ...
Author: Will Mallett The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) conducted a wild apple tree release workshop in the Murdock Woods on Nov. 10 as part of an ongoing series of workshops designed to benefit both the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) and the volunteers who participate. The afternoon event was both ...
Author: Mary Lane Dave, a large man covered in tattoos and his colleague, Chris, a skinny, black-haired man with a thick Boston accent, stood in front of a group of some 40 Middlebury College students at a Christian Fellowship meeting on Nov. 4. Both share testimonies regarding their transformations ...
Author: Thomas Brant & Cecelia Goldschmidt Note: the Focus layout is best viewed in Acrobat Reader with the "facing" option selected under View--Page LayoutIs the College finally becoming a global village?It turns out that the answer is yes. But we've only just started. On paper, Middlebury is admirably ...
Author: Chi Zhang Blogger responds to Midd relationship debateThe College's recent discussion regarding a student-faculty relationship policy has made an appearance in DankProfessor, a blog by Barry Dank, emeritus professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. With an academic specialization ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Wednesday, Nov. 21You wake up today and realize that you are completely alone. Quite possibly, you are the only student left on campus. To numb the pain, you eat one last meal at Proctor before all of the dining halls close for the rest of break. With no dining halls to cater to ...
Author: Theo May The College's off-campus housing program will likely accept a greater share of students seeking to live in and around town than usual this Winter and Spring Term due to a projected increase in the number of students returning or arriving for the first time to campus, according to administration ...
Author: Bryant Cobb GW student caught with swastikas in dorm room George Washington University first-year Sarah Marshak faces expulsion after being caught writing swastikas on her dorm door. University officials claim that Marshak was "dishonest" in statements she made to the University Police regarding ...