Author: Gale Berninghausen Editor's note: Leah Koenig '04 contributed to this article.Dar Williams, smiling under the lights of the McCullough stage, enthralled her audience this past Saturday. Her performance marked a well-received return to campus, where she played first in 1992. Williams joked about ...
Author: Revathi Avarasala This year the Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) plans to focus on introspection and a thorough reevaluation of its programs. The SGA has historically focused attention on a wide variety of issues ranging from food to financial aid, social life to campus ...
Author: Tim McCahill The first Environmental Summit for student organizations at Middlebury was held at the Robert A Jones '59 conference room last Saturday. The summit, organized by Student Government Association (SGA) Director of Environmental Affairs Michael Silberman '02.5, brought together leaders ...
Author: Samuel Wilson The Ross Commons dedication and the Septemberfest picnic were held on Friday, Sept. 13, outside the newly completed LaForce Hall and New Dorms. The events celebrated the Staff Recognition Awards, the completion of LaForce Hall and the Ross dining hall and Ross Commons as the first ...
Author: Nicholas Emery Director of Dining Services Peter J. Napolitano was recently voted the 2002-2003 president-elect of the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). The NACUFS is an association of campus dining departments at institutions of higher education in the ...
Author: Tim McCahill A group of College administrators and students traveled across campus yesterday evening on the annual lighting tour of Middlebury's physical plant. Yesterday's event, however, was attended by Nancy Clanton, a lighting consultant with the Boulder, Colo. firm Clanton Associates.Before ...
Author: Katie Saunders Despite a contentious race for the Vermont governorship shaping up as November nears, last week's primary election boasted the lowest voter turnout in over a decade. According to current estimates by Vermont officials, it is believed only about 10 percent of Vermont's approximately ...
Author: John Prescott Sure, Neil and Otto's Pizza Styx provides necessary late-night study and party sustenance (it's pretty bad stuff, let's be honest). Sure, Green Peppers, the Grille, Hamlin and Ross can all make a halfway reasonable pie from time to time.The bottom line, nonetheless, remains commonly ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Despite ongoing rain in the hours before Middlebury College Commencement 2002, 556 graduates were awarded diplomas on the lawn behind Forest Hall the morning of May 26. Dava Sobel, former New York Times science reporter and author of best-selling book "Longitude," gave the commencement ...
Author: Lindsey Whitton September 11, 2001 was the second day of Middlebury College's fall semester, with the same glorious Indian summer weather that graced the skies of New York and Washington, D.C. By 9 a.m., music drifted from open bedroom windows, most books still had their bindings unbroken and ...
Author: Deborah Jones Conversations were strained and tempers flared when approximately 25 summer workers huddled in The Grille August 12 to discuss their increasingly tense relationship with Language School students and faculty with Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad Michael Katz.At the center ...
Author: [no author name found] John McCardell, President of the CollegeI believe that the events of Sep. 11 reminded us on the Middlebury campus of a great many things. Though the attack occurred on American soil, its victims came from many nations; this, then, was not simply an attack on America, ...
Author: Nicholas Emery Director of Dining Services Peter J. Napolitano was recently voted the 2002-2003 president-elect of the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS). The NACUFS is an association of campus dining departments at institutions of higher education in the ...
Author: Matthew Christ "How does one memorialize and remember Sept. 11?" inquired Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel from the podium of Mead Chapel. "Remember the names, no speeches — just remember the names." For the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Middlebury College was fortunate to ...
Author: Andrea Gissing College Criticized for Inviting Palestinian to SpeakAn invitation extended to Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known spokeswoman for Palestinian causes, to speak at Colorado College has angered Jewish groups both at the college and throughout the state.The groups have accused the college ...
Author: Andrea Gissing The Enhanced Access System, proposed and adopted last year, is on its way to being a reality at Middlebury. Installation has already begun and will occur in residential halls with 10 or more beds. The system is scheduled to be completed by the final week of Winter Term 2003. The ...
Author: Pierce Graham-Jones Dennis Kozlowski, a trustee of Middlebury College and former chief executive of Tyco International Ltd., remains untarnished in the eyes of the school administration. "Mr. Kozlowski hasn't deviated from the expectations we have of our trustees," stated Phil Benoit, director ...
Author: Julie Shumway The staff of Middlebury College's Parton Health Center has a new potential diagnosis to consider when students complain of headaches and fever: West Nile virus encephalitis.This relatively new disease, first documented in 1937 in Uganda, has over the last 65 years worked its way ...
Author: Tim McCahill With elections less than two months away, Vermont's three candidates for governor are in the full swing of campaigning and debate. The candidates, Democrat Doug Racine, Republican Jim Douglas and independent Cornelius "Con" Hogan, are traveling across the state to spread their views ...
Author: Jon White On October 21, Ames, Middlebury's single department store, will close its doors as the Connecticut-based chain of retailers ceases operations nationwide. Middlebury's store joins 326 other Ames stores in 14 states and the District of Columbia that are going out of business.Students ...