Author: Kelsey Rinehart May Days in Middlebury Local businesses join together for the third annual promotion from May 15-18. Storeowners will hang beautiful baskets of blossoms to celebrate the arrival or spring. Participating businesses will hold drawings for prizes, offering customers the chance to ...
Author: Daniel Phillips The Pan-African-Latino-Asian-Native American (PALANA) Center held its annual program of recognition last Thursday, May 1, at the Fletcher House to honor seniors, faculty, staff and campus organizations that have enriched and supported PALANA and its program over the past year. ...
Author: Joshua Carson The Community Council has completed its annual social house review and sent its recommendations to President John McCardell. The Council recommended that all social houses continue this year without stipulations, except for Zeta Theta Phi (ZOO). "Most of the houses had very good ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe This weekend, Middlebury residents and College students cast aside their sandals and laced up their sneakers for a good cause. Teaming up to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), participants in Saturday's Multiple ...
Author: Nicolas Emery The Executive Council of Middlebury College has decided to discontinue use of the current MiddCard charging system in favor of a debit system which will go into effect in the fall of 2004. The basic difference between the current credit-based system and a debit account system lies ...
Author: Jonathan White Speaking Friday evening in Dana Auditorium, Vermont's Independent Representative, Congressman Bernie Sanders, helped launch the Middlebury Global AIDS Forum. Sanders told the audience, "The AIDS crisis...is one of the most important concerns facing humanity as we move into the ...
Author: Claire Bourne Dean of Ross Commons Janine Clookey gazes at the nine drawings that adorn her office wall. She looks at them for a long time, contemplating each one by one. Eight depict faces - some drawn with colorful magic markers, some sticking to a simple blue pen - while one illustrates a ...
Author: Dan Polifka One of the more intriguing environmental initiatives undertaken by the Green Mountain State, Green Up Vermont sent tens of thousands of volunteers out to their local roads last Saturday to remove trash, debris and large items such as tires and sheet metal."Volunteers are given, through ...
Author: Greg Duggan Anyone spending time at the mountains or beaches of Vermont this summer may happen upon a newly formed group based out of Burlington: the Burlington Nudists. A handful of founding members have been meeting at houses and waiting indoors until warmer weather will allow them to bare ...
Author: Edward Pickering Natalie Howley '03 and Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science and Co-Faculty Head of Ross Commons Steve Abbott have been announced as the student and faculty speakers for the Senior Awards Ceremony. 313 seniors voted in the final election, selecting Abbott ...
Author: Edward Pickering and Andrea Gissing Yale Graduate Students Vote Down UnionIn a vote Wednesday, Yale University graduate students rejected a move to unionize. The pro-union group that led the move, Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), suffered a sound defeat with 694 voting against ...
Author: Peter Faroni Representative Betty Nuovo (D-Middlebury) has proposed a bill to the State House of Representatives to increase the refund on cans and bottles from five to 10 cents. On a recent walk near her home, Nuovo was inspired to act. "The other day, just on a half-mile of the road I live ...
Author: Crystal Belle If you have any insight into my personality, you should know of my innate obsession with shoes. From Prada to Parade, from Nike to Nine West, I love shoes. I can't think of what life would be like without my 72 pairs of shoes. Yes, just say it: oxygen is to life as shoes are to ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe On Saturday, May 3, the Vermont Cannabis Coalition held a rally in Burlington's Battery Park to protest the prohibition of marijuana. The event, one of 200 similar protests held around the world on Saturday, was a part of Cure-not-Wars' annual Million Marijuana March. The Burlington ...
Author: Elizabeth Braunstein Last weekend, the Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) held its first adopt-a-thon, an event conducted annually by the National Humane Society to promote cat and dog adoption. The 24-year-old non-profit organization maintains a mission of being "dedicated to fostering the ...
Author: Charlie Goulding "It's an industry, it's the norm, and I don't buy it," stated Robert Schine, dean of faculty and father of a high school student, in discussing the College Board and the way in which the Advanced Placement (AP) exam has permeated academia. Debate has surged in recent months ...
Author: Tom Drescher A declining endowment has prompted numerous cutbacks in the College's budget over the past few months. Underlying the cutback decisions is a desire to eliminate unnecessary expenses and a commitment to protect the most essential expenditures for students, faculty and staff.According ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Walking around campus these days, students, faculty, staff and visitors are surrounded by monstrous dirt heaps and noisy bulldozers. Arching cranes and iron skeletons of buildings loom around us, posing as permanent fixtures of the Green Mountain skyline. We can't help but notice ...
Author: Alyssa Thurston Secretary of the College Eric Davis announced the recipients of the 2003 Staff Recognition Awards. This year's recipients included Head Baker Wayne (Pat) Broughton from Dining Services, Laboratory Supervisor from Science Technical Support Services Crispin Butler, Associate Dean ...
Author: Ian Fleishman Kathy Foley-Giorgio, associate dean of student affairs and chair of the Sexual Assault Policy Working Group (SAPWG), emerged from Monday's Community Council meeting pleased. The Council had just approved substantial revisions to the wording of the College Handbook policy on sexual ...