Author: Livingston Burgess
The agenda for Middlebury's Community Council's autumn was set Sept. 29 in the body's first meeting of the year. New members were brought up to speed and the council fielded proposals for upcoming topics of discussion, as well as reviving issues tabled from the spring.
Talking points raised were as far-flung as prior posting of book lists and town-gown relationships, but the dominant ones centered on aspects of the College's social phenomena and their attendant problems.
The council decided to invite groups in future weeks to present information on the presence of alcohol in social life, the policies of the Middlebury College Bookstore and sexual assault, a social honor code and the completeness and effectiveness of the blue light program. SGA President Bobby Joe Smith III '09 recounted an incident of assault at Colby College that was resolved safely through blue lights.
"It just goes to show that, even at a small college in the middle of nowhere, these things can happen," said Smith.
Student Co-Chair Antoinette Rangel '09 concluded by briefing members on the status of Community Council within the College's administrative hierarchy.
"It's kind of like a bottleneck," she said. "All the different interest groups are in the bottle, then Community Council is the neck and President [of the College Ronald D.] Liebowitz is the cap."
Community Council Beat
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