Author: Andrea Glaessner Though the move from home to Middlebury, Vt., may initially seem daunting to first-year student, this transition in comparison to those made by a record 300 refugees who have resettled in Vermont this past year seems trivial. Coping with a new language is hard enough, but picking ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel Hamilton's water remains pollutedAt Hamilton College, recent tests show that both the quarterly and annual levels of a disinfectant byproduct believed to contribute to pregnancy complications and cancer are still above the limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency.The ...
Author: Daniel L. J. Phillips With more spare time on your hands during J-Term, take advantage of your last three-day weekend and book a table at the Café Provence in Brandon. The restaurant offers an exciting change from the monotony of local Middlebury dining-out, but despite the quaint setting, ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer In response to issues raised last spring after a member of the United States Marine Corps was permitted to recruit on campus, the Dean of Student Affairs Office has organized a conference entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Solomon Amendment: Practices and Purposes" ...
Author: Laura Barrett "If we are a leader in environmental campaigns, this problem best be a local, dirty secret," said Matthew Biette, director of Dining Services, discussing the problem of dishes disappearing from the dining halls. This year he anticipates spending over $40,000 on replacing china. ...
Author: Thomas C. Drescher A chain of e-mails begun last week by Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) JS Woodward '06 and sent out to Student Government Association (SGA) members and select College administrators and Campus editors has prompted concerns regarding discord within the SGA's ranks.In ...
Author: Annie Onishi The Middlebury College Honor Code, the document obligating every student to uphold his or her academic integrity, is undergoing its triennial update this year. The Community Council approved the recommendations made by the Honor Code Review Committee (HCRC) at its last meeting, ...
Author: Tristan Hayes On Sunday, Jan. 15, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz met with the Student Government Association (SGA) to review with his December meeting with the Board of Trustees, and to answer questions and address concerns members of the SGA presented. At a meeting the following ...
Author: Liz Campbell With the release of the Strategic Planning Report on Jan. 4, Middlebury College is entering a significant new phase of development. Over the course of J-Term, the Planning Steering Committee has opened discussion to students, faculty, staff and town members to encourage greater ...
Author: Jason F. Siegel Since the beginning of the academic year, fewer and fewer students have set up their voicemail accounts and are increasingly depending on their cellular phones, a trend that is worrying many College departments who depend on voicemail to communicate important messages.According ...
Author: Rural Banter Certain stereotypes add flavor to the landscape of country living. Rural life is not always depicted with the same nostalgia that is sometimes used to try and resurrect a romantic way of life associated with small town living. Certain stereotypes taint the picturesque scenes of ...
Author: Jessica Clayton On weekend mornings, as many people stumble out of bed, frantically reaching for ibuprofen and a bottle of water, one group of students is already on its way home. Almost every Saturday the Middlebury College Habitat for Humanity volunteers can be found hiking out to the project's ...
Author: CAROLINE S. STAUFFER AND JEANINE BUZALI Student injured in on-campus auto accidentElizabeth DiCioccio '06 sustained injuries in the torso area after the rear tire of a box truck ran over her on the Atwater B West Sidewalk on Wednesday, Jan. 18, according to an incident report compiled by Public ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg In the second of two meetings scheduled for this month, Middlebury College administrators, faculty, staff and students joined community members in discussing the issue of alcohol on and off campus. The forum, designed to discuss the social life on campus in the context of College ...
Author: Haley Gilbert The results of a survey conducted this past fall by the Sunday Night Group, the environmental group on campus responsible for the Two Degrees Campaign, demonstrated that 72 percent of students surveyed support lowering the thermostat set point from 70 to 68 degrees throughout the ...
Author: Sean P. Breen The Black Sheep Bistro is certainly the most "European" of restaurants easily available to Middlebury students. As the former chef of the famed Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh, Michel Mahe opened Black Sheep Bistro in 2002 with the vision of a simple French bistro and an uncomplicated ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer The Middlebury College Faculty voted for the creation of a new department and major in English and American Literatures and a new program in American Studies during its December meeting on the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 12. The final count in paper ballots for the proposal ...
Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz joined over 100 other college presidents last week in Washington, D.C., for the Defense Department's Summit on International Education. During the two-day summit, President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to strengthen the foreign language skills of American ...
Author: ANNIE ONISHI At its Dec. 15 meeting the Board of Trustees granted tenure to four faculty members, promoting them to the rank of associate professor. Professor of Political Science Erik Bleich, Professor of Economics Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Professor of Economics Jonathan T. Isham Jr. and Professor ...
Author: Liz Campbell The Planning Steering Committee convened during the holidays to make final revisions to the planning process report, officially releasing its Strategic Plan Draft on Jan. 4. Relying on reports and recommendations from 15 task forces and committees, surveys of several groups in the ...