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Mentions of Middlebury College appeared in
the following media in 2000:
The Atlantic Monthly
The September 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly includes a short story by 1998 Middlebury graduate and Bread Loaf Writers' conference attendee Liza Ward, "Unraveled." In their monthly column, "77 North Washington St.," the editors say "The fact remains that once or twice a year a work of fiction in The Atlantic's pages represents a writer's breakthrough story. "Unraveled," by Liza Ward, in this issue, is such a story ... She graduated from Middlebury College in 1998 with a degree in English; her undergraduate thesis took the form of short stories. Ward came to her Atlantic internship a year later, after stints in the editorial department of J. Crew and at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (which she described in an autobiographical statement as "an extremely rewarding but very odd experience, like a two-week-long awkward dinner party")."
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Baltimore Sun
In today's edition of the Baltimore Sun, there is an article by Stephanie Shapiro of the class of '76 titled "Parable for Rooting Out Racism." The article discusses Rebecca Gilman's play "Spinning into Butter" in the context of current diversity issues on campus. Her play is inspired by an incident that occurred when she attended Middlebury in the early 1980s. In "Spinning into Butter," an African-American student receives a series of anonymous, racist messages and a rock is tossed through his dormitory window. Several members of Middlebury's faculty and staff are quoted. The article is on the paper's web site.
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Middlebury has been the subject of several recent newspaper articles. In the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday, October 3, an article by Stephanie Shapiro ''76 appeared titled "Bread poets society: When a tarnished image nearly ruined a highly influential writing conference, Baltimore poet Michael Collier stepped in and put it on track again."
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Boston Globe
In the Sunday, Dec. 3, 2000 edition of the Boston Sunday Globe, the Learning section has a feature titled "Views from Campus." On page L8 of the section, there is a half-page article in the form of a letter written to her parents by first-year student Lauren Bowe of Milton, Mass. The story is accompanied by a large photo of Lauren in front of Le Chateau. Lauren's "letter" is a glowing description of her first semester here, and mentions the supportive and friendly environment created by students, faculty and staff.
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On June 28, 2000 the Boston Globe ran a profile of Julia Alvarez, "Writing the Hand of High Grace." The article mentions Middlebury College several times and quotes Alvarez discussing the important role teaching has played in her life.
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Research by Assistant Professor of Psychology Susan Campbell is the focus of an article, "Love potion -- Forget objectivity, say psychologists: The happiest couples are those wearing rose-colored glasses," that appeared in the Sunday, Feb. 13, 2000 edition of The Boston Globe Magazine. The same article also appeared in the Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus' Vermont Sunday Magazine on Feb. 13, as the cover story.
According to the article, Campbell has found that, "Those who are willing to give their partners the benefit of the doubt do better in their married lives than people who can't or won't. We're more likely to be happy with our partners if we believe them to be good people who sometimes do bad (insensitive, callous, unenlightened) things."
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The January 19, 2000 edition of the Boston Globe has an article by higher education reporter Kate Zernike titled "A Term Between Terms," which focuses on January term, mentions Middlebury in the lead paragraph, and quotes Ron Liebowitz.
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The Jan. 12, 2000 edition of the Boston Globe has a paragraph in a feature called "Lesson Plan" titled "Captain has a cause," saying that "Captain Kangaroo ... will head to Middlebury College in Vermont next week to launch 'Page One' ..." Page One, the Middlebury College Bicentennial service project, is an initiative to collect new books for needy programs identified by alumni and other volunteer coordinators across the country.
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Burlington Free Press
The September 1, 2000 issue of the Burlington Free Press includes a glowing editorial on Middlebury's Bicentennial, encouraging readers to "join in a chorus of 'Happy Birthday.'"
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In the August 14, 2000 Burlington Free Press, an article titled "UVM may divest tobacco holdings" quotes Phil Benoit as saying that Middlebury College "does not have any tobacco investments."
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In the August 13, 2000 edition of the Burlington Free Press, there was a two-page article titled "Magic and manuscripts in the mountains: Writers gather at Bread Loaf to pen their dreams for 75 years" that began on page one of the lifestyle section. The story included many photos of literary luminaries who have attended Bread Loaf since the start of the conference.
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The Burlington Free Press ran a page-one story on Friday, August 11, 2000 on the language schools, "Language school adds international flavor to Middlebury's summers," that gives a sense of what it's like for a small New England town to have an annual influx of people speaking many languages.
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Christian Science Monitor
The College and the Language Schools are the subject of an article, "Englisch verboten!," in the January 11, 2000 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. The article quotes Michael Katz, Clara Yu, and Roman Graf. The text of the article can be found at: Christian Science Monitor website.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
In the August 18, 2000 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, there is a one-page article in the "Notes from Academe" column-- "Summertime in Vermont, and the Sound of Arabic Echoes in the Hills." The article includes a photo of Michael Katz and several others, including Nabil Abdelfattah, director of the Arabic School.
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In an opinion piece on early decision trends in admissions by Al Sanoff that appears in Jan. 21, 2000 Chronicle of Higher Education, a Middlebury anecdote leads the piece. Al is the former U.S. News editor who worked on the Best Colleges issue for many years. John Hanson is quoted. Sanoff uses Middlebury as an example of the kind of "prestigious" institution that parents believe gives a better shot to early decision candidates. He also includes mention of Wesleyan and Harvard in that vein.
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The New Yorker
The current edition of The New Yorker, a double issue dated Feb. 21 & 28, 2000 has a story, "Madame President," that mentions a future Middlebury College student, Crystal Belle, a senior at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan. The article states that she was "recently awarded a full scholarship to Middlebury College." A student in the Posse Program, she will be a member of the class of 2004. A photo of Crystal, who is vice-president of the student body, and two of her fellow students, including a friend who is the student body president and the main subject of the article, is on the first page of the story.
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New York Times
In The New York Times Education Life section dated Nov. 12, Middlebury College's Mozambique relief effort is mentioned in an article titled "Doing Good Deeds on College Break" on page 8. The photo that accompanies the article is of Middlebury students helping villagers repair a roof damaged in spring storms. Visit the paper's web site for the article.
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News of Mickey Heinecken's retirement ran on the Associated Press' wire. It appeared in today's edition of USA Today on page 18C and in the Nov. 12 edition of the Boston Globe. It is on The New York Times' web site as a Nov. 12 story as well as online.
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In the Sunday, July 23rd (2000) edition of The New York Times, there is an article on page five of the arts section, "Spotlighting Racism Brings Anxiety as Well as Success." The article is about Rebecca Gilman, who attended Middlebury for two years, and her play "Spinning into Butter." The story mentions that the play, which "traces the reaction of white administrators of a fictional New England College to the news that an African-American freshman has been receiving anonymous threatening letters," is the model for the school in the play.
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Another New York Times article in the June 24, 2000 edition, "A Growing High School Trend: Opting to Take an Extra Year," quotes Damien Chaviano regarding his positive experience doing a post-graduate year at Exeter and how it helped prepare him for Middlebury, which he'll be attending in the fall. The same article ran in the Chicago Tribune on June 25.
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An interview with Marilyn Horne, "A Champion of the Song Recital Wins It a Few More Verses," appeared in the Sunday, January 9, 2000 edition of The New York Times. The article devotes three paragraphs to quoting Political Science Professor and Concert Series Director Paul Nelson regarding the concert series' work with the Horne Foundation.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2000 about the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, "Updated chapter for a writers' conference," which is accessible via the paper's web site
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Rutland Herald/Times Argus
In the Sunday, October 8 edition of the Rutland Herald's Vermont Sunday Magazine, there is an article about Middlebury and its Posse Program, "A different diversity: Middlebury College tries a group approach to bring minorities to campus." The article is on the Herald's Web site at the Rutland Herald website.
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U.S. News & World Report
Middlebury College was included in the November 27 edition of U.S. News and World Report . It focuses on the reasons that U.S. colleges and universities have stepped up efforts to recruit international students. Middlebury student James Okomboli Ongonga '01 of Kenya is featured as an international student who was offered scholarships by seven colleges, but chose Middlebury because its financial aid package was need-based and therefore more generous than the others.
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U.S. News has a story in its Jan. 17, 2000 issue titled "A freeze is on at Williams: Will the college's halt to rising student costs prove contagious?" The article notes that "Williams's move packs a powerful PR punch," but leaves unanswered the question of whether or not other colleges "will jump on the bandwagon." Middlebury is listed along with only Swarthmore and Amherst as "close competitors" of William's. A Swarthmore spokesman says there are no plans there to freeze tuition, citing financial aid as the fairest method of ensuring access. If you want to see the article, click here.
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USA Today
In today's edition of USA Today on page 9D, there is an article titled "Foundation Elevates Poor Schools" about the Foundation for Excellent Schools (FES). The article mentions involvement by Middlebury College students in FES' programs and begins with a description of Jonathan Reiber '01 and one of the students he is helping as a mentor at Bridport Central School. There is also a photo of Jonathan at the top of the front page of the Life section and on page 9D. The article is on the paper's Web site.
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