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SNG to Focus the Nation on climate change
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Samantha Michaels In an effort to expand the College's environmental initiatives, students met with a Vermont State Climate Panel on Jan. 21 in McCardell Bicentennial Hall to discuss new policies and opportunities for activism. The dialogue was part of Focus the Nation, a teach-in movement across ...
An unusual canvas
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Tamara Hilmes It is Valentine's Day and couples all over the world are looking for ways to express their love for one another. Some choose flowers, others candy, but some opt for matching tattoos. "Bald Bill" Henshaw, the owner of Yankee Tattoo at 198 Pearl Street in Burlington, says people ...
Forum sets global goals for education
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Michael Suen From Jan. 22 to 24, the Connect·Ed Conference on Global Education was held in Monterey, California. Co-hosted by Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), the conference saw more than 400 leaders - representing universities, governments, corporations, ...
Mystery caller threatens students
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Cloe Shasha The Department of Public Safety notified the College community about harassing phone calls to students on campus on Jan. 19, in an e-mail was sent out asking for victims to report detailed information about the received calls. The caller's voice was identified as male.Since Jan. ...
Letters to the editor
February 13, 2008Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:On behalf of our family and employees here at Two Brothers Tavern, I would like to address an article written by H.Kay Merriman in the Jan. 10 edition of The Middlebury Campus. The article, entitled "Risky Business … Is it Worth It? Students using fake ...
Ski team was top dog at Catamount carnival
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Anna Furney While the rest of Middlebury's student body was off tanning on beaches and by coastlines for the duration of Feb. Break, the Middlebury ski team stayed along the Eastern seaboard. Its two weekend trips to Stowe and to Dartmouth for the University of Vermont (UVM) and Dartmouth College ...
Women athletes 'Face Off' Against Cancer
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Kelly Janis When Liz Cronin was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, her teammates on the Middlebury Otters were not content to relegate the matter to the figurative sidelines. Members of the women's community hockey team decided to transfer their energy from the puck to a cause which now affected ...
for the record
February 13, 2008Author: Melissa Marshall Today is the 14th of February - a marked day designed to make the middle of the month as whimsical and just about as uplifting as dirty snow - those charming enough to corner the elusive on-campus relationship will bring dates to the retirement-inspired ambience of Proctor, ...
"St. Crispin's Day" features a feast of laughs
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Grace Duggan This Winter Term, Visiting Professor of Theatre Alex Draper '88 took a page from his own acting past - he chose to direct "St. Crispin's Day," a sharp and bitingly witty antiwar comedy in which he played Henry almost five years ago. On its most basic level, playwright Matt Pepper's ...
Coffee corp. rethinks Middlebury franchise
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Tamara Hilmes Middlebury residents craving Grande Mocha Frappacinos and gingerbread lattes will have to continue to make the trek to Burlington to get their fix. At the end of January, the Starbucks corporation announced that it would not, in fact, be placing one of its franchises in Middlebury. ...
Offsets figure into Carbon Neutrality Plan
By Middlebury Campus | February 13, 2008Author: Tess Russell For the past two years, incoming Middlebury first-years have received - among a myriad of other orientation materials - an offer from the College's Office of Environmental Affairs to purchase an "offset" for their individual carbon emissions. This year, 156 students participated ...
Cherry '08 on top Panthers whip Bowdoin, cream Colby Goalie improves record to 4-0 vs. the Polar Bears
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: Jeff Patterson 2007 was an odd year. Back-to-back losses to Colby and Bowdoin kept the Middlebury men's hockey team from keeping the NESCAC tournament site at home, where it had been six of the past seven years. In that year's regular season, the Panthers had been giving up too many odd-man ...
Pro turns organization into fun
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: Lea Calderon-Guthe In celebration of National Get Organized Month, the Ilsley Library played host to Porter Knight '89, a professional organizer and Middlebury alum, and her troupe of multi-talented performers for the town of Middlebury's first ever Organizing Variety Show. Armed with plate-spinners, ...
Struggling café pursues renewal
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: Tamara Hilmes John Melanson, owner of Carol's Hungry Mind Café, thought his days spent running a coffee shop were numbered. He began to tell his friends and patrons that Carol's would soon be closing its doors unless he managed to find an extra $70,000 a year. It seemed that only a miracle ...
Shenanigans Insights from intramural sports
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: Alex Garlick How does one define character? I have heard that it is what you do when no one else is looking. Since someone is always watching in the claustrophobic social environment that is Middlebury College, we should manipulate this mantra by considering intramural sports - call it the Garlick ...
Ski team places second twice
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: Anna Furney The Middlebury College Panthers have sunk their teeth into the 2007-2008 ski season with two solid second-place finishes at the Bates and St. Lawrence Carnivals. Both the Alpine and Nordic teams seem to have found some pure talent in their first-year classes, while the veterans have ...
SGA supports Queer House
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: Adam Dede The Student Government Association (SGA) Senate approved a proposal from the three executive board members of Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) to add a Queer Studies Academic Interest House to campus for the upcoming fall semester. Community Council, which has already met to discuss ...
CSO sees rise in underclassmen visits
By Middlebury Campus | January 23, 2008Author: H.Kay Merriman Winter Term is one of the busiest months for the Career Services Office, reported Executive Director of Career Services Jaye Roseborough, and this Winter Term has been the busiest in recent years. The increase in students to the office is not just upperclassmen as younger students ...