Author: WILLIAM ESTES The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is a company traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange whose CEO and President Elisabeth B. Robert '78 is a Trustee of Middlebury College. Rick Fritz '68, a director of the company, is the Chair of Middlebury's Board of Trustees.The corporate mission of ...
Author: THOMAS C. DRESCHER AND CAROLINE S. STAUFFER Scam e-mails plague community inboxes Library and Information Services (LIS) sent out a campus-wide e-mail alert last week regarding a recent spate of reported fraudulent e-mail receipts. The e-mails in question, which appear to be from "reputable ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I would like to send a letter of praise for the weekly music review column "Blowin' Indie Wind." It is consistently the most hilarious section of the entire paper. Never before have I seen such a brilliant lampoon of snobby, elitist, super-intellectual independent ...
Author: JASON SIEGEL PARIS - The Magical Mystery Tour has finally arrived in Paris, after stops in New York, London and Madrid (and a final stop in Moscow to go). No, it's not the Beatles (or what's left of them); no, it's someone Paris loves even more: the International Olympic Committee (IOC).On the ...
Author: Jeff Paterson My NCAA brackets are usually brackish, but nonetheless. Note Carefully Article's Argument. The University of the Pacific will go farther in the tournament than the 11,000 miles the Ocean is wide. Their only two losses this season came at Allen Field House to then #2-ranked Kansas ...
Author: Elspeth Pierson If you're like most Midd-kids, you've likely reached that point in the ski season where you have skied the Snow Bowl slopes to the point of collapse - but by no means are you ready for the season to end. This weekend, head to Stratton to enjoy the sparkle of some fresh slopes ...
Author: Katie Flagg Students in Ross Commons have transcended the proverbial "Life sucks and then you die" with a new optimism - "Life is mediocre and then LaForce!""[Ross] is clean and functional," said Taylor Long '07, a resident of Hadley. "It is [also] a lifeless, overbearing, claustrophobic, prison-like, ...
Author: Andrea M. LaRocca As the most recently completed commons, Atwater is where it is all at this year for room draw. Those who live there now plan to stay for the new senior suites and the new dining hall, and those who do not live there are daydreaming about the same things. Even though the remote ...
Author: Noelle Bullion Children entered a new world filled with underwater excitement upon entering the McCullough social space in the afternoon of Saturday, March 5. The "Dive Into Reading" Carnival 2005, which was co-hosted by Page 1 Literacy and MIX, let kids explore books with 12 stations of crafts ...
Author: MATT KUNZWEILER As much as I try to avoid falling into the typical college student stereotype (a.k.a. yuppie-in-the-works), I recently came to the realization that this shameful label might just fit me better than I would like to think. I write fiction, talk on my cell phone while driving my ...
Author: Bryan Goldberg '05 I am writing this opinion piece from Israel, where I have recently completed a two-week tour of the country as part of a semester off campus. During this time I have had the chance to talk with countless locals, including a dozen members of the Israeli Defense Forces. It is ...
Author: Megan O'Keefe Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will speak at the graduation of the Middlebury College class of 2005 on May 22. Giuliani will also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The prominent Republican, who was honored as Time magazine's 2001 Person of the Year, is best ...
Author: ELSPETH PIERSON I was reminded on Friday evening over a delicious meal at Dolci just how easy it is to forget about all the amazing student-run activities available to us at the College.A few friends of mine had braved the Dolci ticket line Thursday night in McCullough and succeeded in securing ...
Author: Meg Young I went into room draw bright-eyed, bushy tailed, and convinced that there were maybe 550 other first-years - tops - against whom I needed to fight for a room. I learned quickly that there were at least 647 (189 of them in my commons). Yes: I was the last number in room draw. (OK, maybe ...
Author: [no author name found] Once upon a time, in a shining city called New York, there lived a handsome man named Alex Hitchinson. Alex, or Hitch, as he was known, helped other men get the women of their dreams, but had yet to find love himself. Also in this city, there lived a beautiful gossip ...
Author: Alex R. Garlick Housing in Brainerd Commons is just that, pretty common. There really are not any coveted features or signature rooms that draw students to the commons. If anything, Brainerd is notorious for having its commoners emigrate with visions of better housing on their minds. Most Brainerd ...
Author: Scott Greene '08.5 Our campus has numerous clubs and organizations for its students. They pertain to certain activities and draw students together, and all provide an outlet for students to expand on their non-scholastic interests. As a Feb, I have noticed this mobilization during my first month ...
Author: Polly Johnson If you've ever wanted to meet someone who is the General Manager of a soap store and a beekeeper in his spare time, look no further than Ross Conrad of Middlebury, the acting general manager of Vermont Soap, a company located in town on Exchange St. The company specializes in the ...
Author: Katie Flagg At approximately 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a female student was accosted near the northeast entrance of Stewart Hall. An unidentified male grabbed her shoulder bag and dragged her a few feet in the snow while she resisted his attack before fleeing on foot toward Old Chapel Road. ...
Author: Katie Flagg Bush proposes Perkins loan cut Students may soon have to dig even deeper into their pockets for tuition payments if President Bush has his way. The president's new education budget proposal calls for the termination of the Perkins Loan Program to make up for funding shortages in ...