The Dec. 25 edition of The New York Times ran an article titled "One Division III Conference Finds That Playing the Slots System Pays Off" that quoted President Ron Liebowitz twice.
In the Dec. 22 edition of the New York Times, an article titled "Miss America as She Used to Be" quotes Paul Villadolid '80, who is described as "an MTV alumnus who is vice president of programming and development at CMT. Like the country channel itself, Mr. Villadolid would seem to be an unlikely suitor for Miss America: the son of Filipino immigrants, he was raised on Long Island and educated at two of the Northeast's better-known educational institutions, Hotchkiss, a prep school in northwestern Connecticut, and Middlebury College in Vermont."
Middlebury was mentioned in The New York Times in the Sunday sports section on Dec. 4. The mention appeared in an article titled "Haverford Debates Impact of Athletics," which is part of a series of articles titled "The Athlete's Edge." See text of full story here.
The New York Times, "On Austrian Slopes, Alpine Skiing Meets Spring Break," Nov. 13, Gabriel Sherman '01 Writes about the Hahnenkamm downhill, "a perilous schuss down the ice-glazed slopes of Kitzbühel, Austria," and mentions that he went there "with two companions from my days at Middlebury College, in prime ski country in central Vermont."
In the Nov. 6 issue of The New York Times, "The Lax Track," Lacrosse Coach Erin Quinn is quoted.
The Oct. 10 issue of The New York Times includes an article about Lake Champlain's fabled Champ monster titled "A Serpent, or at Least Its Tale, Resurfaces." In the second to last paragraph, there is a reference to Middlebury College researchers. Click here for full story.
The lead article in the Aug. 24 issue of the Dining In section of The New York Times, "Fresh Gets Invited to the Cool Table," discusses the fact that many schools and colleges now serve locally grown food. Several paragraphs about Middlebury open the story and Middlebury is mentioned again later in the article. Director of Environmental Affairs Nan Jenks-Jay is also quoted. Three of the six accompanying photos were taken at Middlebury and are on page D4. They are photos of Commons Chef Ian Martin; tomatoes, mozzarella and basil prepared by Ian for students; and students eating in Atwater Dining Hall. Click here for story.
The May 5 issue of The New York Times, includes an article titled "Lacrosse is crossing into new territory." Jim Davis '66 is quoted in the article, which mentions that he played lacrosse for a year at Middlebury.
The May 25 edition of The New York Times includes an article on page A23 titled "Hoping to Make Policy Waves, and Graduate, Too," that mentions Middlebury. The article is about the Roosevelt Institution, "the nation's first student-run policy research group" founded by undergraduates at Stanford. The article states, "The institution has already attracted hundreds of members at Stanford and is expanding nationally. Membership is free and does not require submission of a paper. New branches are popping up at 30 other universities across the country, and students at Yale, Columbia and Middlebury are among the first to organize their own Roosevelt Institution chapters based on the Stanford model." The text of the article is on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/education/25stanford.html.
Sue Halpern wrote a review that was published in The New York Times Book Review on May 15. She was identified as a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. The text is on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/review/15HALPERN.html.
Middlebury was mentioned in the May 8 edition of The New York Times' Fashion and Style section, which included an article, "My Fake Retirement," about Rodney Rothman '95, and his new book, "Early Bird," an account of what it was like to try out retirement in Florida for six months at the age of 28. According to the article, there is "a television pilot under development with NBC Universal; the book was published this week, and Mr. Rothman will find out this month whether NBC is going to pick up the TV show." The text of the article is on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/fashion/sundaystyles/08Rodney.html.
Middlebury College was mentioned and Jim Andrews of the biology department was quoted several times in an article in the May 6 edition of The New York Times titled "The Sweet Song of Spring: 'Ribbit.'" The text of the article, which is in the Escapes column of the Travel section, is on the paper's Web site at http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/travel/escapes/06frogs.html?n=Top%2FFeatures%2FTravel%2FDestinations%2FUnited+States%2FRegions%2FNew+England.
New York Times theatre critic Mel Gussow's '55 obituary ran in The New York Times on May 1. The text is available on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/arts/01gussow.html.
Middlebury's 2005 commencement speaker, Rudolph Giuliani, is the subject of an article titled "College Editor Stands Pat on Giuliani-Hitler Likeness" that appears in the May 3 edition of The New York Times in the New York region section. The text of the article is below and on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/nyregion/03rudy.html.
The New York Times reviewed Professor Jay Parini's book "The Art of Teaching" on April 24 in its Education Life section (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/education/edlife/grimes.html?ex=1115265600&en=1fd25d74fc384008&ei=5070).
Middlebury College is mentioned several times in an article, "Vermont Considers Lowering Drinking Age to 18," in the April 13 edition of The New York Times. The article quotes President Ron Liebowitz as well as a newspaper opinion piece by President Emeritus and College Professor John McCardell. The text of the article is below and on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/national/13drink.html.
The Mar. 3 edition of The New York Times hard copy edition included an article in the front section titled "Harvard at Top of List of Donations to Colleges" that mentioned, in the second to last paragraph, that Middlebury, with $37 million, was fourth among the top five recipients of donations among all liberal arts colleges. The March 3 electronic edition of The Times did not include the last two paragraphs of the article as it appeared in the hard copy and so it did not mention Middlebury or other liberal arts colleges--just universities.
On Feb. 17, a letter to the editor of The Times by Jameson (Jamie) Henn '07 was published. The letter is a response to a piece written by Thomas L. Friedman, in which Friedman asked where were the college students who would push for energy independence. Jamie stated that this spring, students from Middlebury and elsewhere "will be pressing their campuses and communities to declare independence from dirty energy."
The Feb. 16 edition of The New York Times includes an op-ed piece, "Tilting at Windmills," by Bill McKibben, who is identified as a visiting scholar at Middlebury College and the author of the forthcoming "Wandering Home: A Long Walk Through America's Most Hopeful Region, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks." The text of the piece is on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/opinion/16mckibben.html.
The New York Times published a page-one article on Sunday, Feb. 6, "Paper Sets Off a Debate on Environmentalism's Future," which was written by a reporter who attended the recent conference at Middlebury on climate change, "What Works? New Strategies for a Melting Planet." The article mentions the conference three times, describing it the second time as a "student-dominated conference." The story also mentions Middlebury College, and quotes Bill McKibben, who is identified as a scholar in residence at Middlebury. The text is available on the paper's Web site at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/national/06enviro.html.
On Jan. 30, The New York Times ran an article titled "Still Immortal, Still Beloved, Still Heard Everywhere" about the enduring popularity of Beethoven. The article states, "Richard Miller, a 27-year-old medical student, took a course on Beethoven in 1998 at Middlebury College in Vermont and later heard the Takacs Quartet, then in residence at the college, play the quartets chronologically. The class aroused his interest so much that he subscribed to the Chamber Music Society three years ago, after moving to the New York area, and subscribed to the Takacs series this month." The text of the article is on the paper's Web site at <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/music/30shat.html>.