Author: Tim McCahill The College Handbook defines the Student Government Association (SGA) as "the vehicle through which students can participate in the formulation of institutional policy affecting academic and student affairs and collectively express their views on matters of general interest to the ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee Pro-Palestinian College Movement Emerges in Middle East ViolenceWith the escalation of violence in West Bank and Gaza, many pro-Palestinian groups have grown more prominent on college campuses nationwide. The pro-Palestinian student groups have developed campaigns based ...
Author: Ashley Elpern As the graduation for the Class of 2002 approaches, Middlebury College has announced the final four honorary degree recipients who will receive degrees from the College at the May 26 graduation ceremony, along with graduation speaker and Doctor of Letters Dava Sobel. Sobel is the ...
Author: Claire Bourne Acting President Ronald Liebowitz accepted Community Council's recommendation to engage the services of Strategic Technology Group to design a "campus access system" at Middlebury College. Liebowitz also approved the establishment of a Campus Access Committee to work closely with ...
Author: Craig Szela Room Draw 2002 went off smoothly, but still received criticism from some students. According to Residential Systems Coordinator Mariah McKechnie '01, "Overall Room Draw went extremely well. I couldn't be more pleased with the reaction I've received from students to the new system." ...
Author: Campus Editor in Chief Historic preservation and anti-sprawl groups recorded a victory last week when the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at concentrating commercial development in downtown districts. The measure, which is now pending before the Senate General Affairs Committee, ...
Author: Deborah Jones "Sexist," "heterosexist" and "racist" was how five student protesters described Michael Christian's (pen and stage name William Cane) "The Art of Kissing," which was performed to a packed McCullough Social Space on Saturday evening.The event, organized and sponsored by Middlebury ...
Author: Karen Acheson Since colonial days, tea drinking has been a part of American culture. The town of Middlebury offers its own tea drinking custom with the help of the Middlebury Inn, a local landmark founded in 1827. This past Sunday I had tea at the Middlebury Inn, a custom that began about 50 ...
Author: Paul Barnwell The Middlebury College Office of Student Affairs Staff has outlined several revisions intended to improve next fall's first-year orientation week. These include a revised introduction to the Honor Code and a bumping back of the official student move-in day from Monday, Sept. 2 ...
Author: Claire Bourne In March 1989 the faculty voted 113-13 to "abolish" Middlebury College's six fraternities by severing ties with their national affiliations and transforming themselves into "coeducational residential units," wrote David Stameshkin in "The Strength of the Hills: Middlebury College, ...
Author: Andrea Gissing Ahmed Stresses Strengths as Leader and Team Player "While there are many qualities that define what a leader is," said Fahim Ahmed '03, "to me there are two components which are essential. Firstly, a leader's primary role is to represent the views of his constituents. Secondly, ...
Author: [no author name found] 25Years in prison which Vermont teenager, James Parker, was sentenced for last year's murder of two Dartmouth College professors, Half and Susanne Zantop. Parker's accomplice in the crime, Robert Tulloch, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after Parker's testimony ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson The Japanese House flag was ripped off its pole on March 17 while the Chinese House flag and its pole disappeared only a week prior, according to house residents and related Middlebury College community members, who still have no information regarding the motive or perpetrator ...
Author: Chesley Thurber After nearly two hours of intense and bitter debate, the Middlebury Town Planning Commission postponed deliberations over Middlebury College's newest parking proposal at its meeting on March 20. The immediate plans to expand parking at the Center for the Arts (CFA) and South ...
Author: Meghan Michelson Michele Forman,a social studies and history teacher at Middlebury Union High School for 16 years, was rewarded with the title of 2001 National Teacher of the Year last April. She was the first Vermont educator ever to receive this award, which is joint-sponsored by the Council ...
Forty-eight cases of conjunctivitis, commonly known as "pink eye," affected many members of the Middlebury College community in March. Although contraction of the ocular disease is not new to the College and the scale of its spread is minor compared to recent outbreaks at Dartmouth College and Princeton ...
Author: [no author name found] $12.7 millionAmount the state of Vermont spent on clearing roads and highways of snow and ice during the winter season this year, which is less than last winter's total of $17.8 million. The savings, which is attributed to fewer heavy winter storms, offers little help ...
Author: Claire Bourne A Community Council member leaked confidential information concerning the future of the Alpha Delta Phi (ADP) social house to house members following the Council's March 18 closed executive session, during which the Community Council subcommittee on social and academic interest ...
Author: Nicha Rakpanichmanee The Middlebury College Center for International Affairs (CFIA) recently received a $1 million endowment from the Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn Foundation, a delayed yet successful result of efforts made during the Bicentennial Campaign, which ended in June 2001. The endowment ...
Author: Ashley Elpern As applicants for Middlebury College's Class of 2006 hear this week whether they will have the choice of matriculating at Middlebury this fall, the admissions office is in the midst of studying the demographic shifts that occurred in this applicant pool. Overall, 120 less students ...