Author: Amy McCowan School is back in session for the students at the C.V. Starr Middlebury Schools in Paris after three to six weeks of student protests against France's new First Employment Contract (CPE) disrupted classes at the Paris 1, Paris 3, Paris 4 and Poitiers campuses. On April 10, French ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus Officers from the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) were invited to participate in last week's Social Life Student Task Force meeting. Patrol officers George Merkel and Kevin Emilio, along with Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley, were asked to partake in the ongoing discussion ...
Author: LISIE MEHLMAN, POLLY JOHNSON AND KATHRYN FLAGG At their annual May meeting this weekend, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees granted tenure to eight current assistant professors: Tim Huang of the Computer Science department, Pete Nelson of Geography, William Pyle and Thierry Warin of Economics, ...
Author: ROBERT LEVINE '08 Over the last few weeks, the issue of climate change has been attracting lots of attention on campus. Andrew Revkin, a reporter for The New York Times who spoke this past Thursday, was just the most recent of the many authors and experts who have come to Middlebury to discuss ...
Author: Roger Perreault The name Nick Janson never fails to conjure up images of a seven-foot-tall, pony-riding hero. Messages and graffiti along the lines of "Nick Janson is the current president" and "Nick Janson invented numbers" bespeckle desks and walls across Middlebury. The Campus managed to ...
Author: Christine Fisher Currently, there seems to be a game of political musical chairs going on in the Green Mountain State. James Jeffords' (I-VT) decision to resign from his position as U.S. senator has initiated a domino effect, as the popular Bernie Sanders (I-VT) vacates Vermont's lone seat ...
Author: Liz Cambell The Middlebury College Board of Trustees convened over the weekend for its annual May meeting. The main item on the agenda was the Strategic Plan and its financial feasibility, while other topics of discussion included the election of new trustees, the approval of the College's budget, ...
Author: Geoff Homer In what may have been the most exciting and action-packed weekend of Middlebury lacrosse ever, the men's lacrosse team captured the 2006 NESCAC Championship when Gabe Wood '06 scored the game winner as time expired to give the Panthers their sixth straight championship. The Panthers ...
Author: ARIELLE WEISMAN SPAIN - "Viejos verdes" is the Spanish way of saying dirty old men, of which there are many here in Spain. I have always marveled at the abundance of elderly people out and about on the city streets. You just don't see quite as many of them on the T in Boston or in university ...
Author: Mike Murali Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to President Bush Monday discussing ways in which their two nations could ease tensions. The government of Iran has become bolder in developing its nuclear program since achieving low-level uranium enrichment just last month. Iran ...
Author: Caroline S. Stauffer and Thomas C. Drescher As our final production cycle draws to a close in the glorious fluorescent dungeon that is Hepburn Basement, we realize wistfully that it will soon be time to pack up the PCs, stash the red pens and strip the walls and bulletin boards of an amusing ...
Author: [no author name found] College-Police relations: a two-way streetThe relationship between College students and the Middlebury Police Department (MPD) seems to have gone drastically downhill this year. The College-MPD relationship is an important one, and all efforts should be made to maintain ...
Author: Dina Magaril After Stevie Starr's impressive regurgitating antics two weekends ago Middlebury students thought they had seen it all. This was until last Friday . when Tom DeLuca, reenowned hypnotist extraordinaire hypnotized a group of students in front of an amazed crowd in McCullough Social ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen and Ben Salkowe President Ronald D. Liebowitz placed Delta social house on an immediate one-year suspension and denied the organization residential status for the 2006-2007 academic year, members were informed earlier this month. The President's decision came in the wake of ...
Author: TREVOR SHOLLY '05 '06 A wise friend once told me that leaving college in four years was like leaving the party at 10 - it's just getting started. I spent this past year testing his hypothesis as a 5-year senior here at Middlebury College. I am what the Administration labels a "special student" ...
Author: Joyce Man "Most kids are cartoonists by nature and later abandon it," said Ed Koren on Tuesday in a phone interview from his home and studio in Brookfield, Vt., "But I just didn't. I continued." Now, over 900 cartoons for the New Yorker later, Koren continues to draw smiles from the magazine's ...
Author: Justin Golenbock Do you like cocker spaniels? I do. They're very cute. They're little, and they've got these big, floppy ears, and they're very popular in Canada [editor's note: he has no idea if that's true]. So I wasn't really all that surprised when Steve Nash won his second consecutive MVP ...
Author: Polly Johnson Bowdoin unveils innovative online multimedia mapOnline virtual tours? So last year. In a major feat of technology, Bowdoin College has just unveiled their newest strategy to entice future Bowdoin Polar Bears. The College's Information Technology division recently launched a multimedia ...
Author: AUSTEN LEVIHN-COON '07 I was disappointed to hear the condemnation of the abstention votes in last week's Campus [Applause for Transparency 5/4/06]. While the necessity for abstentions is disappointing, these votes are not counterproductive. There is much that can be learned from the large ...
Author: Joshua Carson Vermont's own Green Mountain Coffee topped Business Ethics magazine's list of the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" this year, joining other conscientious enterprises such as Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard and the Timberland Company. Each year, the magazine compiles the list ...