On Friday, Oct. 12, His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a crowd of faculty, staff, students and community members at Nelson Arena in his lecture “Educating the Heart.” The spiritual leader touched on issues of education, faith, the corruption of money and the importance of affection. Friday’s ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced in an email last week the formation of the Threat Assessment and Management (TAM) team, a committee of college experts in fields ranging from mental health to technology, assembled to provide a transparent process for compiling and addressing threats ...
Project Green Challenge, a month-long competition run by the environmental group Teens Turning Green, is beginning its second year, and for the first time the College will join a group of over 500 other colleges participating in the project. The challenge was created and put together by mother and ...
This year the College will reconsider a proposal for a Food and Agricultural Studies minor that was first discussed in the fall of 2011. The proposal for the minor was submitted to the Educational Affairs Committee by a sub-group of the Environmental Council consisting of Pier LaFarge ’11, David ...
This fall, residents of the Weybridge Environmental House altered the frequency with which they serve meals to the campus population, veering away from a three-year long tradition of providing meals four nights per week. Starting this year, dinners will be held two nights a week, in addition to Saturday ...
The Sept. 30 meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) opened with a discussion led by President of the SGA Charlie Arnowitz ’13 on his proposed reformation of the SGA by-laws. Discussion and voting on the formation of a court and changes in the term lengths of junior senators was ultimately ...
Easter Island, located approximately 2,200 miles off the west coast of Chile, is famous for its massive Moai statues, erected by the native Rapanui people of the island some seven centuries ago. The first European explorers landed on Easter Island throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and recorded ...
“Bleach Bombs” Target Minorities University of Texas (Huffington Post) University of Texas students gathered on Oct. 2 to draw attention to violence that has targeted minority groups, showing evidence of lingering racism, according to some. Community members gathered under a campus statue of Martin ...
I’ll admit, when I arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, a little over a month ago, I had big expectations. Visions of an eco promised land where everyone used shopping bags made of recycled water bottles, biked to work and picked out produce at Middlebury Co-op-inspired grocery stores danced through my head ...
“It started with one student having a crazy idea, one professor trusting it could happen and the administration putting a ton of trust in an idea that two years later got us fourth place in this competition,” said Cordelia Newbury ’13, one of the project managers of the Middlebury Solar Decathlon ...
Forty-three percent of the class of 2012 found employment by the time of graduation, according to the recently released findings of the Plans at Graduation Survey issued to seniors by the Center for Education in Action (EIA) in May. The 43 percent of students who reported employment at graduation represents ...
In a blog post on Sept. 25 Dean of the College Shirley Collado announced the establishment of the College’s anti-stalking policy as well as an enhanced sexual misconduct policy, which notably expands the definitions of consent and substantial impairment. College officials hope that the changes will ...
This fall, the College implemented changes to the disciplinary actions outlined in the student handbook, including a new process for disciplinary action taken against students that adds a sanction which puts students on probation without having this status added to their personal record. The new sanction, ...
On October 27th, WRMC, the College’s student-run radio station, is hosting its annual fall concert in the McCullough Social Space. Starting at 8 p.m., students, encouraged to wear costumes, can kick off their Halloween weekend with the music of YAWN, opening for the rising electro-beat band, Vacationer. YAWN ...
This weekend the Middlebury College Alumni Association (MCAA) hosted the 36th Alumni Leadership Conference at the Bread Loaf Inn, an event that provided alumni volunteers with an opportunity to reconnect with the college community and to learn about recent campus changes. In an interview with the Campus, ...
In a nation-wide study evaluating the dining programs of every four-year college in the U.S., Fox News has ranked the College 11th on its “52 Best Colleges for Food in America” list. Fox cited the College’s emphasis on the origins of its food and its efforts to incorporate local ingredients into ...
World leaders descended on New York City last week for the 67th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. Dozens of the world’s most recognizable political figures and their diplomatic delegations gathered for a perennial discussion of the world’s current pressing challenges. This year, ...
In between classes and exploring the city, I often stop at the View Himalayan Restaurant and Terrace, one of ten or more rooftop cafes overlooking the Stupa in Boudha, Nepal — one of the holiest sites in all of Kathmandu. In the distance to my right I can make out the green hills of Kathmandu valley ...
College Debt Increases to Record Numbers (Huffington Post) Nearly one out of five households in the U.S. suffers from student debt, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. Student debt most severely affects households with incomes of less than $21,044 a year, the poorest 20 percent of American ...
The College is seeking to diversify its traditional revenue sources in the wake of a drop in the endowment growth rate during the 2012 fiscal year. The return on the College’s endowment for fiscal year 2012 was only 2.7 percent, falling short of the five percent target rate and dramatically lower ...