Author: Nicolas Emery The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) ranked Middlebury College 20th out of the nation's top 24 academically rated liberal arts colleges with regards to its comparative success in integrating African-Americans into its faculty and student body.The JBHE used data compiled ...
Author: Charlie Goulding Ted Perry, Fletcher Professor of the Arts at Middlebury College, served as one of 13 members of the motion pictures jury for the third annual American Film Institute (AFI) awards program. The AFI selects the year's most outstanding achievements in film and television, as well ...
Author: Edward Pickering First Lady Laura Bush has indefinitely postponed a poetry symposium originally to be held at the White House Feb. 12 after learning several of the poets invited were planning to speak out against the impending war with Iraq. Middlebury College's D. E. Axinn Professor of Creative ...
Author: Mary Mendoza On Jan. 25 and 26, Middlebury College hosted the "Digital Bridges 2003" conference. This conference focused on the effects and accessibility of the Internet and consisted of several different panels exhibiting how the Internet affects both businesses and the individual. Both Middlebury ...
Author: Lindsay Whitton On Monday, Dec. 9, the Middlebury College faculty voted to include all grades received while studying abroad in student grade point averages (GPA). The Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) had planned on proposing that abroad grades and course titles be listed on students' permanent ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Dorothy Douglas, Vermont's new first lady, has lived in Middlebury all of her life. One of six children, Douglas' relatives own Foster Brothers Farm Inc. and Foster Motors, which are both located in town.In 1975, Dorothy Foster became Dorothy Douglas. Her husband, now Governor ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Yale Loses Four Students in Car CrashFour Yale University undergraduates died and five others were injured as a result of a car crash that occurred early Friday morning, Jan. 17. The accident occurred when the sport utility vehicle they were driving collided with a tractortrailer ...
Author: Peter Faroni On Jan. 8, the Brady Campaign, a Washington-based advocacy group that works in conjunction with the Million Mom March for the prevention of gun violence, issued its annual "report card" scoring state laws for protecting children from guns. On its most recent report card Vermont ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones This week, the Student Government Association (SGA) advanced four different programs that are all intended to make the Middlebury College campus more socially attractive for students. These measures come as a reaction to a perceived increase since last year in the number ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief The Middlebury Campus has learned that local Driving Under the Influence (D.U.I) violations spiked in 2002, with arrests climbing to 80 from just 65 the year prior. The upward trend was driven by a particularly dramatic leap in the 18- to 24-year old category, which accounted ...
Author: Jonathan White Anne Ginevan, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Employment and Training, lends additional Middlebury influence to Governor Jim Douglas '72's administration. Douglas appointed Ginevan after her work on the Workforce Investment Board at the Addison County Chamber of Commerce.Ginevan, ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Three thousand peace activists rallied in Montpelier on Saturday, Jan. 18 to voice their opposition to a possible war with Iraq. Despite single-digit temperatures and abundant snow, protestors chanted, spoke and sang enthusiastically for an hour on the Statehouse lawn. The Montpelier ...
Author: Nicolas Emery On Jan. 18, 2003, 23 Middlebury College students joined approximately 200,000 activists for a peace rally in Washington, D.C. Wellington Lyons '04 organized the Middlebury trip to Washington and put up anti-war posters around campus advertising the rally. The crowd braved freezing ...
Author: Dan Polifka On account of a high acceptance rate for the incoming class of 2006.5 and shifting housing trends for upperclassmen, there is an anticipated housing shortage for the spring semester of this year. In addition, because so many juniors were late in formulating their plans for the spring, ...
Author: [no author name found] "All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. And many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way: They are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."President George W. Bush in his State of ...
Author: Christopher Atwood Last week the Bush administration filed "friend of the court" briefs opposing the University of Michigan's use of racial preference in admissions. By doing so, the White House cautiously weighed in on the increasing unpopularity of considering race when determining college ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones In what is believed to be an unprecedented number, three Middlebury College faculty members received prestigious Fulbright Scholar grants this year. With these grants, Assistant Professor of Russian Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Assistant Professor of History Ian Barrow and Professor ...
Author: Nicolas Emery Middlebury College recently signed a $509,000 contract with Island Pond Woodworkers, a Vermont employee-owned co-operative that will provide custom-built items for the College's new library. The woodworkers will provide the new study carrels, book stack end panels and media stations, ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe In a report released on Jan. 7, the American Lung Association praised Vermont policy-makers for discouraging smoking, especially in youth. The report cited stringent laws against public smoking, excellent funding for tobacco control, programs designed to deter youth smoking and ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Despite national concerns about the declining economy, ski enthusiasts are returning to the slopes in greater numbers this season. Abundant snow and prime skiing conditions have boosted sales of both season passes and daily lift tickets at ski resorts across Vermont. Throughout ...