Middlebury College News

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 8:12 p.m. Dr.

Bill McKibben , scholar in residence at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org , an advocacy Web site for solutions to the climate crisis, will be online Monday, Nov.

A local caf and Middlebury College venture will either sink or swim at the end of the year.

Age: 18 School: Essex High School Parents: Eve and Ed Duff Hometown: Essex Top 5 accomplishments: 97 GPA, placed among top 10 in class, nominated EHS representative to NYLC 2009, student government senator, attended Governor's Institute on the Arts In the community: Member of "Braincell" at EHS, 2008 campaign assistant for Student Government, ...

"The Wire" ended nearly two years ago, but conversation about the show set in Baltimore is still going strong - particularly on American college campuses.

It's been dubbed social isolation from the flu, seasonal or swine. Since late August, 275 students at Middlebury College have reported having influenza-like symptoms of at least a 100-degree fever, sore throat and cough.

The Burlington Free Press editorial board is asking readers to nominate a Vermont resident who deserves to be recognized as the 2009 Vermonter of the Year.

Middlebury College's president, Ron Liebowitz, has been named in a new "Top 10" list - and mercifully, it's not David Letterman's. It's Time Magazine's, and it was released today.

Here is some of what's going on in local campus dining halls, as reported by those in charge.

Want to see for yourself? Road , directed by Richard Romagnoli , produced by the Middlebury College Theatre Department.

Last fall, a Middlebury College political scientist gave a talk at UVM on the proliferation of private security contractors - with mention of their growing presence in Afghanistan.

Clean, accessible sources of energy could help solve two huge problems around the world: poverty and pollution.

Half the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq is made up not of soldiers, marines, and airmen but of private contractors.

If you think high school seniors are lazily waiting until after Christmas to apply to college, think again.

More than a dozen Middlebury College students were issued civil and in a handful of cases criminal citations in an underage drinking party raid on Quarry Road late last week.

The dynamic and youthful string sensation, Pavel Haas Quartet, will perform in the Concert Hall of the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts at Middlebury College on Friday, Nov.

With one Democrat saying he is 99.9 percent sure he will run for governor and four others already in the race, the behind-the-scenes political jockeying begins.

Vermonters have heard the advertisements. Republican Dede Scozzafava is a "typical Albany politician," one ad claims.

Clusters of plump, wine-red Empire apples hang from sagging boughs, yearning to be picked.

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