Author: Abby Willman 08.5 For $5,940 you can purchase 18,000 "Support Our Troops Car Ribbon Magnets" at www.flagsoncars.com. This vendor is charging you $0.33 per magnet and tells you that the magnets retail for $5 each. If you follow their price guideline you would be making $4.67 from the sale of ...
Author: THOMAS C. DReSCHER The Marijuana Policy Project Foundation (MPP) recently launched a fundraising campaign targeted at fraternities and sororities in an effort to battle what many could be considered to be excessively harsh weed legislation - legislation which, asserts the MPP, is especially ...
Author: Mallika Rao On July 7, 2005, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz joined Middlebury College researchers at the John McCardell Jr. Bicentennial Hall as they unveiled the result of a decade's worth of research - a new eight-foot bathymetric map reproducing ...
Author: Jason Siegel On Aug. 26, just four days before he was slated to come to campus, Tim Foley '06 and his suitemates received an e-mail from their dean with an unusual message: They had been moved from their suite with a kitchenette to one without, due to errors in the floor plan during Room Draw.The ...
Author: Dina Magaril GRACE CHO Assistant Professor of Psychology Assistant Professor of Psychology Grace Cho, known simply to students as Grace - she prefers that they address her informally - is one of Middlebury's newest professors. A Los Angeles native and former Bay Area resident, ...
Author: Heather Wright The Middlebury College women's tennis team opened the 2005 season with two decisive wins over Skidmore and Bates. The Panthers anticipate a very successful season with the help of four new first-years: Clare Burke, Elizabeth Emery, Chandra Kurien and Elizabeth Stone. Captain ...
Author: Jason Siegel This fall, in an effort to get students accommodated to the availability of medical appointments outside Middlebury College, the Parton Health Center has shifted its schedule around to fit what Associate Director of the Parton Health Center Terry Jenny calls a "business model."The ...
Author: Joyce Man When Will Power took time out for an interview with The Middlebury Campus for his upcoming "Flow" tour to the College, he was busy juggling travel plans to many more destinations in the following months: to Atlanta, then Vermont, New Jersey, Michigan, California, Minneapolis and Miami, ...
Author: Matt Kunzweiler Returning to college, I was anticipating the usual first-week struggles: forgetting my mailbox combo, my handwriting - unpracticed for four months, resembling a small child's - my inability to tell which sentences in my textbooks should be highlighted...and my eventual decision ...
Author: Jeff Patterson At one point on Friday night, Weather.com's hour-by hour forecast predicted a 90 percent chance of rain for every hour of Saturday and Sunday. When the weekend came, putts dropped instead of rain, and the fairly high (for mid-September in Vermont) temperatures came pretty close ...
Author: Ian Fleishman On Friday, Sept. 16, the inaugural exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art opened in the newly redesigned gallery on the second floor of the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Robert Youngman '64, who discovered his passion for Asian art more than 40 years ago in ...
Author: David Murphy Hagland Last week, as I joined my peers in the semiannual rush to the College bookstore, I was unusually flabbergasted at what I saw. For three courses I was being asked to purchase 35 books - at a total cost just shy of $600. Were it not for the dubious reprieve offered by my thesis, ...
Author: Tom McCann After opening their season with a scrappy 3-1 win against Connecticut College, the Panthers looked to find more of a rhythm against Castleton, a team against which Middlebury has historically found considerable success. Quickly following on the heels of Castleton's visit and Middlebury's ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL As I embarked on my venture to explore the niches of the creative-writing network at Middlebury College, the renowned Breadloaf School of English seemed the logical starting point. Benjamin Dimiero '06, an English major awarded a scholarship to Breadloaf for poetry, gave me ...
Author: Zach hecht-Leavitt Ask Dean of Advising and Assistant Professor of American Literature Karl Lindholm to impersonate Bob Dylan, and chances are he'll comply. The "entertaining," "down to earth," and "approachable" new acting faculty head of Brainerd Commons is equally at home advising students ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner To many students' dismay, the Middlebury Bubble has just lost a major escape route. The rumors are true: the Vermont Transit-sponsored Middlebury bus service has been terminated. Now it sadly seems the only way out of our "academic island in the mountains" is by foot or car. ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen Middlebury College's response to liquor inspector Michael G. Davidson's re-interpretation of the Vermont law regarding alcohol at open parties was put to the test last weekend with events hosted by Omega Alpha (Tavern) and Kappa Delta Rho (KDR). In addition to registering ...
Author: Eri Nosaka A spectacle that every student at Middlebury must witness is the pre-game ritual of the Middlebury Men's Rugby Team. The Haka, a war dance that originated in the Pacific Islands, has aided the team in focusing their energy and intensity on the game. This ritual, which scares every ...
Author: Ben Salkowe According to attorneys and Middlebury College officials involved in a lawsuit filed by O'Neil Walker alleging racial discrimination by the College a ruling in the case is imminent. The College suspended Walker last spring after two campus judicial boards found him guilty both of ...
Author: Joshua Carson Craig Strachan was one of the lucky ones. Heeding the warnings of the local government, he and his girlfriend Valerie Leous collected a few personal belongings - important documents, light clothing, pictures - and evacuated from the city of New Orleans. Within days, everything ...