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Expelled student suing Middlebury College By Lou Varricchio MIDDLEBURY Ñ An anonoymous, former Middlebury College student is suing the college, according to several statewide news reports following a U.S. Federal Court in Vermont filing brief Aug. 28. The court record outlines a case made by an expelled former Middlebury student suing the college for both discrimination and Ò breach of contractÓ . The law firm of Langrock Sperry and Wool is representing the expelled student, a court spokesperson said. Apparently, the anonymous litigant was named in a sexual assault complaint which took place outside of the Middlebury campus. Middlebury College investigated an unnamed womanÕ s complaint about an incident which allegedly took place outside of its purview, however, a student handbook about overseas travel might provide Middlebury some legal wiggle room. The School for International Training, based in Brattleboro, was first to investigate the unnamed womanÕ s claim of alleged sexual assault, but it found the former student innocent. The former student litigantÕ s alleged involvement took place during a 2014 study aboard session conducted through the Brattleboro school, not Middlebury College. In addition to the investigation conducted by administrators of the School CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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Vermont’s Daisy Turner focus of new book By Lou Varricchio lou@addison-eagle.com FERRISBURGH Ñ Author Jane Beck will be at Rokeby Museum on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 3 p.m., to share her new book, Ò Daisy TurnerÕ s KinÓ . Jane Beck and Daisy Turner first met in 1983. Beck was canvassing the state as folklorist for the Vermont Arts Council; Turner was the centenarian daughter and granddaughter of slaves, living on her own in Daisy Turner during Grafton, Vt. the 1920s. It was a fortuitous event for both women. Jane Beck discovered a folkloristÕ s dream, and Daisy Turner had her family story recorded and preserved. It was a lucky day for all of us, too, as CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
AT THE FAIR — While touring the Vermont Forest Products pavilion at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland, Sept. 12, Heather Hesch has her hands full with one child in a papoose and another, little Alex, in a stroller. She’s accompanied by her brother, the children’s uncle, Daniel Hurd. Photo by Lou Varricchio
On Middlebury fields: Straight lines, Tiger stripes By Lou Varricchio lou@addison-eagle.com
Monte Many of Middlebury skillfully applies environmentally safe white field paint at Tiger Field, along Creek Road, Sept. 1.
MIDDLEBURY Ñ Middlebury Union High SchoolÕ s grounds keeping team is keeping busy this month by carefully maintaining the football, field hockey and soccer playing fields located at the high school and along Creek Road. The team of two menÑ Monte Many and Bill RafmanÑ work hard at keeping a total of 10 athletic fields well groomed and spiffy with their frequent low-slung mower trimmings and fresh applications of field paint. Many and Rafman are just like athletes themselves. They maintain their physical trim by exerting a brisk level of daily hustle as they shuttle between the various Middlebury high school and middle school playing fields with a collection of mowers and paint sprayers. Gone are the “Doc Collins” days of field-line chalk and unprocessed lime; instead, welcome to a new era of environmentally safe, field paint. Many Tiger fans still remember Dr. Ray Collins who was a powerful force in building the high school’s current football athletic field, including personally hand-picking stones off the newly seeded field. MUHS’s football field was named in honor of Collins in 1980. The respected Middlebury educator, who advocated for both classroom and CONTINUED ON PAGE 15