Author: Joshua Carson Students are up in arms. "I received 10 comment cards last night at Proctor about bringing back large glasses," said Dining Services Associate Director Matthew Biette.But before you write another comment card, look around your room. How many Proctor Cups are sitting on your desk? ...
Author: Daniel Phillips It may come as a surprise that the latest innovation in thinking about materials and project design is being implemented in the field of architecture, and that these very ideas have already taken shape in Middlebury College's own backyard with the construction of Atwater Commons. ...
Author: Michael Ives Eat Good Food is an eccentric establishment. Nestled at 221 Main Street in Vergennes, an Andy Warhol-esque sign with a screaming woman beckons the hungry visitor to come inside. My friends and I bypassed the charming patio, as Vermont's short-lived outdoor dining season was decidedly ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston President Bush officially declared an end to the war in Iraq in May. Yet in the state of Vermont and around the nation, national sentiment against the United States' continuing presence in Iraq, as well as against Bush administration policies both at home and overseas, has only ...
Author: Kate Doorley Every year at Homecoming, the Middlebury College Alumni Association presents achievement awards to alumni who have reached milestones in their professional or personal lives. Last Friday, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas '72 was presented with this award before he addressed a sizeable audience ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Middlebury College's Volunteer Service Organization (VSO) held a cow-pie bingo event Saturday, Oct. 25 to raise money for Heifer International, a non-profit organization that works to alleviate world hunger.Participants of the cow-pie bingo bought a square on a large grid marked ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe John Sharpe '06, who lived on the fourth floor of Milliken as a first-year student, began his sophomore year living in a converted lounge on the same hall - a living arrangement he accepted in order to remain in Ross Commons.Sharpe was one of approximately 150 rising sophomores ...
Author: Andrea Gissing By the time Winter Term starts, 288 new mailboxes will fill the alcove across from the mailroom window in McCullough basement, thus restoring Middlebury to a one-student-one-mailbox campus. The remodeling of McCullough basement is in progress. "Originally construction was planned ...
Author: Devin Zatorski Vermont is one of six states without a governor's mansion, but that's fine by Gov. Jim Douglas '72. He's been commuting from Middlebury to Montpelier throughout his 29 years in elected office. "It's about an hour and five minutes," he estimated. "But 50 minutes without school ...
Author: Greg Duggan If you thought that Vermont's economy subsisted solely on dairy products and maple syrup, think again. Creativity consists of a large chunk of the state's economy, as a forum hosted by the Vermont Culture on Culture and Innovation (VCCI) last Thursday proved. Held at the Vergennes ...
Author: Daniel Phillips The results are in: reported forcible sex offenses at Middlebury College have risen over the past two years, while crime as a whole - robbery, burglary, arson and liquor law violations - has decreased, according to the Department of Public Safety's annual security report. The ...
Author: Kate Doorley Do you think marijuana should be legal? Recently, Vermont has been asking itself this very question, and members of the Vermont legislature are coming up with an answer - yes. The state government is currently in the process of drafting legislation which would legalize marijuana ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart "Stop the tire fire!" was the message of the Oct. 15 public forum aimed at preventing the International Paper Co. (IPC) of Ticonderoga, N.Y., from using tires as a fuel source in its mill boilers. "We are here tonight because we don't want to breathe the smoke of burning tires," ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe ZOO: Still on ProbationThe Community Council voted to keep Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO) social house on provisional status on Oct. 6 after members of ZOO went before the Council to ask that the house's probation be lifted. ZOO was placed on probation last spring largely as a result of ...
Author: Thomas Drescher The Student Government Association (SGA) will hold special elections this Thursday and Friday to fill five vacancies in the Senate. A shortage of candidates for the initial elections has left the SGA Senate without Senior, Inter-House Council (IHC), Senior Feb, Cook and Brainerd ...
Author: Taylor Johnston The Sexual Assault Policy Group brought a proposal before the Community Council on Tuesday, Oct. 14 to recommend changes in the judicial and reporting process for sexual assault crimes, including a means to report assaults anonymously and have assault cases tried in ways more ...
Author: Edward Pickering The words "wilderness" and "wasteland" are used interchangeably to describe any barren, imposing landscape. To say that the Western Highlands of Scotland are barren would be an understatement - a failure of description. The West Highland Way stretches from Glasgow north to Fort ...
Author: Andrea LaRocca "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united state of ... Vermont?" Yes, you may have to rethink the Pledge of Allegiance. And no, that's not a joke, at least not if the Second Vermont Republic (SVR) has anything to say about it. This newly formed democratic grassroots group ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones The constituents of the handbook-designated "Appointed Standing Committees" help govern facets of Middlebury College life ranging from athletics to study abroad. Many of these committees have space reserved for appointed student members. Today, four days after fall break, ...
Author: Andrea Gissing and Joshua Cannon NYU Mourns Second Student SuicideThe New York University community is struggling to accept and understand why two undergraduate students committed suicide from the top stories of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library within one month of each other. The most recent death ...