Information About Missing Student, Nicholas Garza ‘11: “Nicholas Garza ‘11, a first-year student at Middlebury College has been missing since Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Visit this site for updates on the search and investigation into Nick’s disappearance.”
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College to join rating system based on sustainability: The Campus: “Middlebury College will be participating in a nationwide effort to develop and provide feedback on a proposed comprehensive rating system that colleges can use to evaluate their sustainability and compare their environmental practices to those of other schools. Although ratings themselves will not be given to participants in the pilot program, Middlebury will have a role in shaping the final assessment system.”
Burlington Free Press.com Search for Middlebury College student expands: “Middlebury College freshman Nick Garza isn’t the kind of kid to up and disappear. Of that his mother said she’s certain. Yet no one has seen Garza, a 19-year-old from Albuquerque, N.M., in more than a week. As the search expanded [on February 12], relatives and the campus grew increasingly worried and increasingly restive. “
Middlebury seeks help in locating missing student: The last 24 hours has been a difficult time for the Middlebury College community as we have searched unsuccessfully for information regarding the whereabouts of Nicholas Garza ‘11. Nick was last seen the night of Tuesday, February 5, when he left Stewart Hall, presumably to return to his room in Allen.
Ski clubs receive safety grants from Kelly Brush Foundation: Burlington Free Press.com: “The Kelly Brush Foundation announced the launch of its national campaign to improve ski racing safety and prevent spinal cord injury (SCI) with a $35,000 round of grants to ski clubs across the country. The program is the first of its kind both in scope and in targeting safety in the sport of ski racing.”
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Just call him Professor TiVo: Rutland Herald Online: “While their peers in nearby classrooms study advanced subjects like linear algebra, molecular biology and international relations, one group of Middlebury College students has watched scenes from ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Miami Vice.’
“Yup, that’s stuff from the boob tube – mindless entertainment. It’s hard to imagine that television is taken seriously at this highly selective liberal arts college. After all, isn’t TV a vast wasteland of reality shows, soap operas and other dreck, watched by couch potatoes who should be reading a good book, enjoying friends or skiing?
“Not according to Jason Mittell. A newly tenured professor at Middlebury, Mittell believes television can be a serious art form, to be analyzed and evaluated just as rigorously as fine literature.”