Author: Caroline Stauffer Middlebury's externally-funded community service programs face an uncertain future with a nationwide economic slump severely jeopardizing their financial situation. Currently, the three service progams most threatened are the Page One Literacy Project, the Community Friends ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., the Vermont-based premium ice cream maker, announced plans to lay off 52 people at their company headquarters in South Burlington, the Associated Press reported on Oct. 24. Currently Ben & Jerry's employs 841 people, 199 of which work at the ...
Author: Liz Lathey Claire Ayer is the Democratic candidate for Addison County representative in the Vermont State Senate.How do you feel you can improve the state, if elected, with your Democratic platform?The Democratic platform, to me, is one that's more holistic than the Republican platform, for ...
Author: [no author name found] Lighting Evaluatedby Layla kattanA professional analysis revealed many opportunities for Middlebury College to improve exterior lighting around campus. Recommendations included the relighting of social houses, the Center for the Arts (CFA) parking lot and Graveyard Road.Nancy ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart Brian Bauer has lived with his family in Middlebury since 1969. He taught in Middlebury from 1969 to 2001, and his oldest son, Brian, graduated from Middlebury College in 1992. Bauer, now running as the Republican candidate for the Vermont House of Representatives, stopped ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton This fall, Middlebury College is stressed out. Faculty and staff members discuss the problem at meetings, students complain during late- night study breaks and almost everyone seems a little more tired, a little more rushed.Mary Hurlie, senior adviser for Organizational Effectiveness, ...
Author: Kathleen Fleury No longer do drugs and alcohol just present a problem in metropolitan areas. Here, in rural Vermont, teens and adults consume alcohol, smoke marijuana and partake in other illegal drug activities. Statistics compiled over the last few years indicate an alarming percentage of ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief EDINBURGH — When Robert Mugabe took leadership of Zimbabwe in 1980, he trumpeted a policy of peace and co-operation. Only that, he said, would allow the country to nurse the wounds of civil war and overcome the trauma of colonial rule. His early reforms proved so effective ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones Since the beginning of the academic year, Middlebury College students living on campus have eaten about 40 percent of the breakfasts to which they are entitled. Overall, students have missed more than one-third of the total meals offered to them, according to statistics compiled ...
Author: Jonathan White Going into its fifth year of business, the Middlebury Mountaineer on Mill Street in Frog Hollow continues to be a haven for outdoor enthusiasts. For those looking for the newest and best set of telemark boots or a Patagonia windbreaker to buffer this fall's rapid descent into ...
Author: Mary Mendoza After much consideration, it has been decided that the language tables will remain in the Cook Dining Facilities and will not reopen in Le Château as previously expected."Times are hard," said Bethany Ladimer, professor of French. Apparently, it would just cost too much money to ...
Author: Nicole Maddox Following changes enacted on Monday, Middlebury College will undergo a variety of revisions to the schedule and location of its campus dining. Among the major changes, Proctor Hall will be reopened for weekend brunch and dinner, Ross Dining Hall will close 30 minutes earlier for ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Since Oct. 13, the Department of Public Safety, in conjunction with the Middlebury Police Department (MPD), have been investigating a series of unlawful entries made by an unidentified male into the rooms of several Gifford Hall females. Public Safety received the first report ...
Author: Chris Richards Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney gave a down-to-earth and unpretentious reading to a warm Mead Chapel audience on Monday afternoon. Heaney, who is widely regarded as the greatest living poet writing in the English language, read from poems spanning his four-decade long career ...
Author: [no author name found] Smoking Ban?by Andrea GissingStudents for a Smoke-Free Middlebury (SFASFM) held its first open discussion forum Monday night in the lounge in Pearsons Hall. The new organization, which was formed on Sept. 26, is working with Mariah McKechnie, residential systems coordinator, ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The Middlebury College endowment suffered losses as a result of the current recession, but it is doing well in comparison with the rest of the economy. As of Sept. 30, the endowment stands at $550 million.The total endowment is a pool of different, individual endowment funds. These ...
Author: Kelsey Rinehart On Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of Ethan Allen Inc. M. Farooq Kathwari proposed a lowering of Vermont's lofty electricity costs, workers' compensation rates, property taxes and corporate tax rates. He hopes that modifications will better the business ...
Author: Thomas Drescher Coming Out Week began on Sunday afternoon outside of the McCullough Student Center, where members of the Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (moqa), Gay and Lesbian Employees at Middlebury (GLEAM) and the Middlebury College Ally Group gathered to assemble a symbolic "closet" on the ...
Author: Edward Pickering As White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer '82 spoke in Mead Chapel Sunday evening, almost 900 protesters rallied against a unilateral war on Iraq.Carrying signs, holding candles, and singing songs, the protestors voiced strong opposition to a possible invasion of Iraq. Footage ...
Author: Amin Bouchentouf The Campus: The United States economy, as you mentioned last night in your speech, is not doing too well. Consumer spending is low, the national deficit is high and corporate scandals have revealed faulty accounting practices and incompetent management. With war on Iraq looking ...