On March 26, 1970, Campus writer Micheline Fedyck reported on the first ‘significant’ protest in Middlebury College’s history. During this week some 46 years ago, students gathered outside of Proctor and marched into town protesting the U.S. draft lottery for the Vietnam War that called on men ...
By Grace Levin This week’s Good Ol’ Campus column reaches back into the college archives to March 1888 with the school publication The Undergraduate. The publication, founded in 1875, consisted of town bulletins, personal announcements, literature and poetry and op-eds. The paper begins with an ...
As campaign season rolls around, this column decided to look back at the talk on campus during the famous 1960 election between Kennedy and Nixon. Such issues of concern were Kennedy’s Catholicism, his plans for a welfare state and the newfound presidential television debate. The March 31, 1960 article ...
The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT), the nonprofit organization dedicated to the maintenance of open land around Middlebury, initiated a conversation with the College about the continual preservation of the Sabourin Farm property. The 108 acres of land currently owned by the College contains a half-mile ...
Spring thaw marks the start of maple syrup season in Vermont. Across the state, trees will be tapped, sap will be boiled, and pancakes will be doused in fresh syrup to mark the beginning of spring. Vermont is known as the maple capital of America with 1500 sugarhouses producing 40 percent of the nation’s ...
On February 9, a mobile app created by a collaboration of students at the College won third place in the (Em)Powering Grid Resilience Competition. The student-led initiative designed the app ReGrid to create a direct connection between utility companies and their customers as a way to diminish environmental ...