News - The Middlebury Campus

Russian Journalist Tikhon Dzyadko to Speak

By Will Digravio | April 20, 2017

Tikhon Dzyadko, a Russian radio and television journalist, will deliver a lecture titled “The State of Democracy and Press Freedom in Russia: What Donald Trump Could (and Should Not) Learn from Vladimir Putin,” on Wednesday, April 26 in McCardell BiCentennial Hall 104 from 4:30-6 p.m. His lecture ...

Rises in Financial Aid Cause Deficits

By Will Digravio | April 20, 2017

Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series that will examine the current financial state of the College. In recent years, the College has run budget deficits and has been forced to rein in spending in order to ensure long term financial stability. These articles will aim to inform the Middlebury ...

College Poised To Create Education Studies Dual Major

By Amelia Pollard | April 20, 2017

The Education Studies (EDST) program has proposed a new double major, intended to compensate students’ work towards obtaining teaching licensures with academic validation. Currently, the Education Studies (EDST) program only offers a minor, which students can take in one of two directions: a focus ...

Student Government Association Update

By Kyle Naughton | April 20, 2017

The April 9 meeting began with a discussion pertaining to election reform within the senate bylaws. President Karina Toy ’17 proposed that the senate consider framing the election for Co-Chair of Community Council as a one-semester ticket where candidates would run for the spring and fall semesters ...

College Sponsors Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events, Keynote

By Elizabeth Sawyer | April 20, 2017

On April 11, sex and relationships educator Kate McCombs delivered the keynote address of the College’s programming for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM). McCombs spoke about the importance of enthusiastic consent. “Enthusiastic consent is more than just ‘can I touch you?’” ...

Faculty Debate Free Speech Handbook Policy

By Will Digravio | April 12, 2017

A group of faculty members presented a motion to add a “Freedom of Expression Policy” to the “General Information” section of the College handbook at the April 9 Faculty Plenary meeting. The following professors submitted the motion: Assistant Professor of Religion Ata Anzali, Assistant Professor ...

Snowden Talks Surveillance and Security in U.S.

By Elizabeth Sawyer | March 23, 2017

On Thursday, March 16, Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who leaked classified information in an effort to expose widespread government surveillance, spoke over videoconference to Middlebury College community members in Wilson Hall as the Middlebury College Activities ...

Charles Murray Protest, Talk Garner Media Attention

By Christian Jambora | March 9, 2017

National news and media outlets have been spotlighting the on-campus protests against Charles Murray, a libertarian columnist and sociologist who, due to student demonstrations, was prevented from delivering a guest lecture on Thursday, March 2. The events and their aftermath drew attention from major ...

SGA Proposes Appeals Process for Invited Speakers

By Will Digravio | March 9, 2017

Junior Senator Hannah Pustejovsky ’18 introduced a bill at the March 3 meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) that, if passed, would recommend that the College administration develop “an appeals process through which students can voice their dissent and disapproval of speakers, forums ...

Admin Addresses Student Concerns at Open Forum

By Elizabeth Sawyer | March 2, 2017

The College’s Senior Leadership Group (SLG) hosted an open forum in Dana Auditorium on Feb. 22. The administrators who attended included Vice President for Communications Bill Burger, Special Assistant to the President Dave Donahue, Vice President for College Advancement Colleen Fitzpatrick, Executive ...

Student Protests Prevent Charles Murray From Delivering Lecture

By Will Digravio | March 2, 2017

Student-led protests prevented Dr. Charles Murray, a W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), from delivering a lecture scheduled to take place at 4:30 PM at Wilson Hall in the McCullough Student Center. The college's AEI Club invited Murray to speak about his 2012 book "Coming ...

New Republic Editor Talks Trump, Upcoming Lecture

By Will Digravio | March 2, 2017

Eric Bates, editor-in-chief of the New Republic magazine, will speak as part of the College’s “Meet the Press” lecture series on Tuesday, March 7. His lecture, titled “Journalism vs. Trump: The Media as Opposition Party,” will take place in McCardell BiCentennial Hall 220 from 7:30 - 9 p.m. ...

College Administration Revokes MiddView Funding Request

By Nick Garber | February 23, 2017

On Feb. 19 at the Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, President Karina Toy ’17 revealed that President of Middlebury Laurie L. Patton had previously informed her that the administration would be capable of funding the $50,000 for MiddView orientation trips without help from the SGA. Toy’s ...

New IP Policy and Committee Unveiled

By Nick Garber | February 16, 2017

College Provost Susan Baldridge announced in an all-College email on Jan. 23 that in September, the Board of Trustees had unanimously approved an Intellectual Property (IP) policy that will address the legal ownership of all academic and creative work produced by members of the Middlebury community. ...

Professor Returns from Iran, Discusses Experience

By Nick Garber | February 16, 2017

On Jan. 29, a federal court in Boston issued a temporary stay on President Donald J. Trump’s executive order barring travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. For Professor of Religion Ata Anzali and his wife, who were spending his sabbatical in their native Iran, this ruling ...

Admin Turns to SGA for MiddView Funding

By Will Digravio and Nick Garber | January 19, 2017

Representatives from the College administration formally asked members of the Student Government Association (SGA) on Jan. 15 to assist in the funding of MiddView orientation trips for three years, beginning in fall 2017. MiddView trips in their current form — mandatory for all students and free ...

Jason Mittell Named to Inaugural Class of Peabody Fellow Scholars

By Will Digravio | January 18, 2017

Jason Mittell, professor of film and media culture, and american studies, has been named to the inaugural class of Peabody Fellow Scholars at the newly formed Media Center at Peabody, a research center and digital media production branch of the Peabody Awards located at the University of Georgia’s ...

Carbon Neutrality Reached

By Ethan Brady | December 8, 2016

Middlebury College announced today that it has met its goal of a net zero carbon emissions footprint by the end of 2016, fulfilling a commitment made in 2007 by then-president Ronald D. Liebowitz and making Middlebury the fourth college campus in the U.S. to declare itself carbon neutral. Nearly all ...

Students Petition for a 'Sanctuary Campus'

By Nick Garber | December 1, 2016

Middlebury College moved to increase its support of current and prospective students who are living in the country illegally, according to a statement released by Laurie L. Patton over Thanksgiving break, in an emphatic rebuke of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promises to end illegal immigration. The ...