Author: Scott Greene Members of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) demonstrated peacefully outside the Ross Dining Hall in conjunction with an information table sponsored by the United States Marine Corps on Nov. 13. The students protested against the College's allowance of such recruiting and ...
Author: Nicholas Spenger VALPARAISO - I returned to ValparaÌso just in time to enjoy week two of my vacation from the university. Sept. 18th is Chilean Independence Day, exactly one week after the anniversary of the golpe. It's oddly appropriate that, after a week of protests and, for many, dark memories, ...
Author: [no author name found] Ten Thousand Villages Craft SaleOn Nov. 16 and 17, the Memorial Baptist Church, located at 97 S. Pleasant Street, will hold a craft sale featuring fair trade products from around the world. "At Ten Thousand Villages, we work with over 100 artisan groups in more than 30 ...
Author: Anthony Adragna Members of the College faculty gathered at the Kirk Alumni Center on Nov. 5 to discuss work load for professors at the College, proposed changes to the Judicial Board and consensual student-faculty relationships.Associate Professor of German Roman Graf presented a report from ...
Author: Adam Dede Next week will be the first Middlebury Privilege Week. Sponsored by the SGA Institutional Diversity Committee (IDC), the week will focus on issues of socioeconomic diversity and the attainability of the American Dream, culminating in an open conference on Nov. 17."Were focusing on ...
Author: Thomas Brant and Joeseph Bergan College has been represented in films, television shows and a certain Tom Wolfe book as a place of ridiculous revelry where you will not be held accountable for your actions. Our society tells us that drinking is fine as long as you do it before you enter the ...
Author: Anthony Adragna After being refused entrance to a private Tavern party on Nov. 3, a group of male students were heard stating a homophobic epithet in response, according to witnesses. The event is currently under investigation by the Department of Pubilc Safety. President of Tavern Tim Reed ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe "Hi, Walter, this is happenin'! Come on in. Did you bring your wallet? We're having a sale!" This was Kathy Clarke's jubilant greeting to Walter Salzman of Brandon, Vt. as he walked into the Frog Hollow Craft School's Seconds Sale on Saturday, Nov. 3. Clarke, the studio manager ...
Author: Scott Greene LeRoy Graham named new College registrarThe College announced the appointment of LeRoy Graham to the position of College registrar on Nov. 4. Graham, the former senior associate registrar at Dartmouth College, will be guide the operations of an office responsible for registration ...
Author: Kelly Janis On Nov. 3, local residents equipped themselves with hats, gloves, hiking boots, cameras and the odd Robert Frost poem to join forces for the Town of Middlebury's effort as part of Step It Up's National Day of Climate Action.Step It Up is a nationwide campaign spearheaded by Bill ...
Author: Theo May Nearly 80 Middlebury students, of 6,000 in total attendance, travelled to Washington, D.C. last weekend for the Power Shift 2007 conference, marking a significant milestone in the growth of the climate movement. Most of the Middlebury students drove down to Washington in a bio-bus sponsored ...
Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe The Emergency Planning Steering Committee sent a student-wide e-mail on Oct. 12 informing that all students must enter personal evacuation plans on BannerWeb prior to registration for spring courses, in an effort by the College to improve its pandemic readiness. The e-mail ...
Author: Kelly Janis For all those looking to merge your sweet tooth with your penchant for frilly papers and rubber stamping, Blanca Jenne has got you covered. In the two months since Jenne busted open the doors of Scrapbook & Rubber Stamp Paradise and Sweet Surprises Down Candy Lane, customers ...
Author: Tamara Hilmes Members of both the town and the College communities met at the site of the Town Hall Theater (THT) on Oct. 31, for the groundbreaking of a new wing. This new wing is to be funded by a $1 million agreement made between the College and THT that was announced on Oct. 22. This long-term ...
Author: Dina Magaril BUENOS AIRES - In the past 24 hours I have been told that I have wonderful breasts by a man with two children, applauded while walking to the supermarket and followed by a car filled with horny drunk men who didn't look a day over 50. Though the applause was uncalled for (my breasts, ...
Author: Adam Dede Student Government Association (SGA) President Max Nardini '08 and Sophomore Senator Nicolas Sohl '10 are leading a Senate committee to reinstate the tradition of a Friday off from Winter Carnival weekend. Beginning in the 2008-09 school year, Winter Carnival will not include a day ...
Author: [no author name found] Wild Apple Tree Release WorkshopRound up your "work gloves, loppers, bow saws and heavy duty snippers." And your heavy duty footwear. Meet in the Murdock Woods at 1 p.m. on Nov. 10. Rain or shine. Don't ask any questions. That's all we can tell you ... just kidding. (We ...
Author: Brian Fung Study reveals political views among academiaThere are marginally more moderates than liberals among college academics, according to a recent study of the political beliefs of college professors presented at a Harvard University symposium on Oct. 6. The survey was conducted by Neil ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman The preliminary groundwork on the new $11 million biomass facility on Old Chapel Road behind the Service Building has begun, according to project manager Tom McGinn. The biomass facility's construction has redirected both pedestrian and vehicular traffic patterns, yet many students ...
Author: Brian Fung National editor for The Washington Post Rajiv Chandrasekaran criticized the Bush administration for mismanaging the Iraq war in a lecture on Oct. 30 about his experiences as the Post's Baghdad bureau chief before and after the U.S. invasion in 2003. Seats at the talk were in short ...