2008 Woodie Awards
Residents and business owners in downtown Middlebury were evacuated this afternoon after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed while traveling through town. The accident, which included up to 14 railway cars according to State Trooper Steve Coote, occurred around 2 p.
"Welcome to World Headquarters, the nerve center." John M. McCardell, Jr. - professor of History and president emeritus of Middlebury College - is a familiar fixture on the College's campus. But this jovial pronouncement was offered in a high-ceilinged, one-room office just off of Main Street, where McCardell is hard at work as director of Choose Responsibility, a nonprofit organization that he launched last February.
The 2007-2008 academic year will see more than 350 Middlebury students study abroad in more than 40 countries at more than 90 different programs and universities, including 30 current locations for the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad, which have been in operation for over a half-century.
The identity of the social space formerly belonging to Eat Good Food (EGF) is starting to gather definition as planning continues into the fall semester. This past summer, Dean of the College Tim Spears and a committee of students who were on campus at the time began brainstorming when the lease was first signed.
Middlebury College, through its involvement in the College Sports Project, is now undertaking a five-year long data collection and analysis project to determine if there is a negative correlation between athletics and academic performance. John Emerson, dean of Planning, is the principal investigator for the project, which will collect information concerning gender, ethnicity, SAT scores, GPA, high school ranking and all athletic-related information.
Members of the new Task Force on the Status of Women at the College discussed increased access to childcare for faculty members, increasing faculty diversity and protecting female students during social situations at the group's first open meeting on Oct. 11.
Members of the Community Council convened on Oct. 15 to review the College's sexual harassment policy, which, according to Council officials, will be updated to help protect the privacy of individuals filing a harassment complaint. Gus Jordan, associate dean of the College, led the discussion and spoke of new methods for creating an overarching policy with a single judicial process for sexual harassment and assault.
New languages offered through student classes Midd on the Globe, a student-led initiative to teach languages not offered by the College, announced it will offer classes in Korean, Swahili and Serbo-Croatian this semester. The languages offered were determined by expressed student interest at the Student Activities Fair last month.
Stanford protests new Rumsfeld appointment Students and faculty at Stanford University have protested the appointment of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to a university think tank, the Hoover Institution. Professor Pamela Lee began an online petition after Rumsfeld's appointment this fall.
HANGZHOU, P.R.C - In Leonardo DiCaprio's latest movie, "Blood Diamond," Leo's character, Danny Archer, explains the insanity that is the African diamond trade by simply stating, "T.I.A. This is Africa." Here in Hangzhou, China, a few of my classmates have adopted this saying and applied it to their experiences here in China.
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