On Tuesday, Feb. 26, Be Bright, the College’s energy literacy campaign, held a kick-off dinner event to launch its initiative. The dinner was held in Atwater Dining Hall and featured Professor of Environmental Studies and Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben. The dinner was the first ...
Mackenzie Stewart ’13 returned from a semester abroad in Valparaiso, Chile disappointed and looking for answers. Student strikes, communication issues among staff and a lackluster program director led her to try to change the program for future students. “The girls who went to Chile and I took ...
After the Community Council approved two proposals introduced by the Inter-House Council in December, social houses will change their admittance policies. Starting in the fall of 2013, second-semester first-years will be able to pledge social houses and first-semester sophomores will be able to live ...
The Educational Affairs Committee (EAC) recently convened a working group to discuss the possibility of integrating internships, fieldwork and other types of experiential education formally into the curriculum, possibly for academic credit. The working group, made up of faculty from a variety of disciplines, ...
Textbook sales at the College Store have been declining in recent years, with only approximately 55 percent of stocked textbooks sold in the fall 2012 semester, down over 20 percentage points from the previous semester. While the College has yet to identify a particular reason for the decline in sales, ...
On Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1, the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) will host its annual symposium. The theme for this year’s event is “No Place Like Home? Imagining Race, Ethnicity and Migration.” The symposium will kick off at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday with ...
After just 15 days in Cameroon’s chaotic capital city, I am still in the process of starting anew. I still haven’t braved the outdoor marché without the reassuring presence of my host mother by my side, and many of my days are governed by the overwhelming desire to find a good Wi-Fi connection ...
Pope Benedict XVI, formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, officially leaves his post as the Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church at 2 p.m. EST today, beginning a tumultuous transition in the Vatican during a period of scandal, factionalism and religious decline ...
Is it cheating to falsely claim to have completed an assignment on time? What about falsely claiming to have attended a class? Students at Middlebury aren’t always reading notes off the bottom of their shoes or copying test answers: cheating goes beyond that. Passing on problem sets, falsifying lab ...
On Monday Feb. 25 at their weekly meeting, the Community Council discussed the honor code review process, judicial board membership and the social house review process. The Council has been asked to nominate two members from its group to sit on the committee that reviews student applications for the ...
Trustees descended upon the College over the weekend for one of their four annual meetings. President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz said that two committees produced resolutions for action. The Audit Committee approved the fall audit and the Budget and Finance Committee approved the comprehensive ...
On Friday, April 12, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) will host hip-hop duo Timeflies in Pepin Gymnasium for the annual spring concert. Tickets for the show will go on sale Feb. 25, and will be $14 for students. After two weeks, tickets will be released to the public at $25. Timeflies’s ...
On Sunday Feb. 17, over 50 students and Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben attended the “Forward On Climate” rally in Washington, D.C. The rally, sponsored by 350.org, the Sierra Club and the Hip-Hop Caucus, was the largest climate rally in American history, with approximately ...
The College received a total of 699 Early Decision I applications this past fall, representing an eight percent increase from last year. Forty-two percent of applicants, or 295 students, were admitted. Of those admitted, 274 will arrive on campus in September as members of the class of 2017, and 21 ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 26 the Sustainability Integration Office is launching Be Bright, a pilot program to raise awareness and educate students about energy consumption on campus in a semester-long energy literacy campaign. The Sustainability Integration Office hopes the project will inform students and push ...
On Feb. 10 Public Safety announced an increase in parking ticket fines from $10 to $50, a change that has been applied to weekday and night winter ban and faculty and staff lot parking violations. To decrease the number of tows required and increase compliance with the parking regulations, the fines ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) announced at their meeting on Jan. 27 that they had received 1,295 student responses on their survey dealing with campus life, sent out in an all-student email during the second week of winter term. SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 was pleased with the response ...
It’s the stuff you read about in sci fi novels and watch in thriller alien movies, but for the million residents in the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia last Friday, it was all too real. Just after sunrise on Feb. 15, the peace of the Ural Mountains was shattered by a once-in-a-century meteor explosion ...
“Guiri” is a colloquial term used in Spain to describe what is considered to be the stereotypical tourist or foreigner, and it is associated primarily with people from Northern Europe, the U.K. or the U.S. While I’ve heard it used in an endearing or light-hearted manner — “Of course you two ...
Student at University of Maryland is stabbed to death (The Baltimore Sun) University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) junior biology major Edmond St. Clair was stabbed to death on the University’s campus during a fight last weekend. St. Clair was driving with his brother and friend when they came ...