Author: Kathryn Flagg In a letter mailed yesterday to parents of Middlebury College students, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced a 2006-2007 comprehensive fee of $44,330. This fee, which was approved by the Board of Trustees at their February meeting, represents a 5.25 percent increase ...
Author: Polly Johnson In an effort to reduce campus energy usage, Bobby Levine '08, with the support of the Sunday Night Group and a large number of volunteers, has created ICICLE, the Inter-Commons Initiative to Consume Less Energy. As stated in the all-student e-mail that was sent out, ICICLE is a ...
Author: Emily Thompson Six lucky students will move into the newly located and improved German House and Max Kade Center at the start of next semester. The German House, the first academic house to have been established on campus, will also be the first language house to possess a permanent residence. ...
Author: Katie Flagg Orange Grove Gospel to perform SaturdayThe Orange Grove Gospel Choir of Durham, N.C., will return to Middlebury College on Saturday to perform in Mead Chapel at 4 p.m. The choir's performance, the third at the College, will celebrate the conclusion of this week's Religious Life Awareness ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman In response to student vocalization of discontent with social life on campus, the administration has developed the Social Life Task Force. An amalgamation of students with different interests selected to represent the diverse College community, the Task Force held its first meeting ...
Author: ERICA GOODMAN Less than two weeks ago, a friend of mine from home hopped on a plane headed for Iraq. Matt is not journeying abroad to improve his Arabic skills through an academic program. Nor has he enlisted in the Peace Corps as a post-graduation experience. Matt is enlisted in the U.S. ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus The social house Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) no longer exists at Middlebury College. "The Delta House," the social organization that has taken its place, includes the same members, the same house and many of the same principles. But there is one major difference: The Delta House, ...
Author: NIRVANA BHATIA PARIS - A man actually smiled at me out of his own volition this morning on the train, a sign that spring has finally arrived here in Paris, and the women have switched from their cashmere-lined fur coats into their long merino-wool pea coats. What else but spring fever could ...
Author: Annie Onishi The Student Government Association (SGA) held its weekly meeting on Sunday in the Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room. Agenda topics included a discussion about a possible change in school policy regarding smoking, a report from two representatives from the Service Council, ...
Author: Caitlyn Olson Washington has its apples, Wisconsin has its cheese and Vermont has, of course, its maple syrup. This state is the biggest source of maple syrup in the United States, home to approximately 2000 producers, all of whom have been hard at work during these first few weeks of warm weather.Sugaring ...
Author: Katherine N. Doorley Despite continued criticism from opponents arguing that the plan is unsafe, officials at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant have once again increased the plant's power output, this time to 110 percent of the plants capacity, which represents half of a planned production ...
Author: Scott Greene Protests in Paris have presented a literal roadblock for Middlebury students abroad, as strikes by major universities have prevented them from attending classes.Numerous universities, including Sciences-Po and Sorbonne Nouvelle, have gone on strike against France's new First Employment ...
Author: Lisie Mehlman Top-tier colleges increase aid for incoming studentsThere now exists a veritable competition among Ivy League colleges to attract low- and middle- income students by offering the most appealing and comprehensive financial aid packages. President of Harvard University, Lawrence ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner Sadly, Middlebury may well be one of the few college towns where the best cheap burger to be found is from McDonalds. Perhaps the demand is just not there - after all, we are known as one of America's fittest colleges. But just because we do not have a beloved cheap burger joint ...
Author: Kelsey Smith PARIS - The French are revolutionary. Their model of democracy did not come about little by little, as was the case for their non-continental neighbors to the north, but in one fell swoop. In one fell swoop, mind you, that was the result of a serious, violent struggle. And as I ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg The Middlebury College Activity Board's (MCAB) annual spring concert will present a record three bands this year as hip hop giants Naughty by Nature and vocal percussionist Razhel join Jurassic 5 as supporting acts in the upcoming April show. The show, according to MCAB President ...
Author: KATHRYN FLAGG AND DANIEL L. J. PHILLIPS VCC honors College community membersThree members of the Middlebury College community received 2006 Vermont Campus Compact (VCC) awards today at the VCC's third annual award ceremony. The ceremony, conducted at the Vermont State House in Montpelier, recognized ...
Author: Dan Stevens Ali Shapiro, a senior English major, has been awarded the prestigious Watson Fellowship by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. At the conclusion of her senior year, Shapiro will embark on a year long tour studying the role tattooing plays in the lives of women in diverse cultures around ...
Author: Michael Stefanik A recent survey based on data from a 1999 North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) that questioned 1,643 teachers at 183 four-year higher-education institutions nationwide seems to shed light on a political bias toward progressivism on college campuses across the country. ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel The College Republicans and the College Democrats have many things in common: they believe that the political scene is unquestionably liberal, they view themselves as havens for like-minded students, and they suffer from the political apathy that pervades the campus.Zach Elmore ...