Since the end of World War II, the global community has focused on deterring states and individuals from committing violent acts. With this aim it created both the International Court of Justice (ICJ, one of the six main branches of the United Nations) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). In ...
The past month has been an important one for the Solar Decathlon (SD). From being chosen as the lucky recipients of the Senior Class Gift, to a successful open house over Homecoming weekend, to the recently-updated blog and website, the team has made strides both large and small. The landscaping plan ...
by Peter Hirsch '12 When I am at home over the summer I always dread going to the grocery store. This is not because of some sort of phobia of produce, but rather a strong want not to run into any of my high school classmates that I have not seen since graduation. It is not that I do not like these ...
Six resolutions were successfully passed at last weekend’s board of trustees meeting. At their Oct. 23 board meeting, the trustees moved to accept the College’s financial statement for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010; approve a $1.5 million upgrade to Kohn Field, to begin June 1, 2011; ...
Students taking natural science and introductory language courses routinely spend twice the amount of time in class than students in other classes, prompting a possible resolution by the Student Government Association (SGA) to add a half credit to classes with extensive lab time. Junior Senator Connor ...
Despite the effects of the economic downturn in the past two years, the Middlebury Initiative has raised approximately $338 million and is well on its way to its goal of $500 million. The Initiative is a fundraising campaign that is designed to raise money for the priorities of the College. The money ...
On Nov. 1, the Senior Committee unveiled this year’s senior class gift. After deliberating between three possible candidates, the class voted to donate the $100,000 gift to the Solar Decathlon project. The other two potential recipients for this year’s class gift were the organic garden and student ...
Jean Thompson Fulton Professor Emerita of French Carol Rifelj recently passed away after spending 38 years as an esteemed member of the faculty at the College. Although Rifelj retired this past spring, many students, faculty and staff on campus have been affected by her passing. Dean of the Faculty ...
The wide array of events that happen on campus, compounded by a lack of communication between student groups and a limited number of venues, make coordinating the College’s events a challenge. The Event Management Office takes on that challenge and is responsible for organizing and coordinating every ...
Everything I know and am is utterly false. This is what the British students at Oxford tell me. I cannot speak or spell or tell time. I cannot drive. I cannot even drink my tea the way I would like it, that is, without milk. This is incorrect, if you didn’t know. Civilization asks for milk in its ...
This past week, Student Government Association (SGA) passed resolutions urging the Administration readopt the outdoor orientation program — a move this column previously examined in full — and another, formally authorizing payment for this fall’s Midnight Breakfast. Both form reasonable and predictable ...
This week, the nation of Brazil added itself to the increasingly long list of countries that have recently elected a female leader. Campaigning on the same platform as her incredibly popular predecessor, 62-year-old Dilma Rousseff beat out political rival José Serra by 12 percent of the vote to become ...
This week, the private company Kiplinger released its “11 Best-Value Private Universities,” with Princeton, Yale and California Institute of Technology topping the charts, respectively. Kiplinger evaluated more than 600 private universities, using data from the college evaluation resource Peterson’s. ...
The Middlebury Open Queer Alliance (MOQA) sponsored a week of identity exploration Oct. 20-28, replacing its traditional Coming Out Week, centered around National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, with a program of events called “(So) Over the Rainbow.” Coming Out Week has been a staple of MOQA’s yearly ...
The Communications Office has launched a new multimedia initiative to address the perennial problem of plates disappearing from the dining halls. Described as a “shame campaign” by Vice President for Administration Tim Spears, who oversees Dining Services and spearheaded the initiative, it has ...
The Staff Resources Committee (SRC) is continuing to grapple with the task of staff attrition and departmental streamlining as a result of the financial setbacks the College has suffered since the economic downturn in 2008. After the downturn began, the SRC recommended that the College decrease the ...
Recently the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) surveyed the student body in order to gather input on the status of social life at the College. Led by President Maria Perille ’10, MCAB released a questionnaire requesting input on the general quality of MCAB events for the first time in five ...
The Community Council, with its representative membership of students, faculty and staff, is an encompassing forum through which every member of the College community is represented on non-academic issues and aspects of the College and its community. “The Community Council is the only organization ...
At its Oct. 24 meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) introduced a resolution to encourage the College to establish an outdoor introduction program. This College-run program would be larger than the SGA funded Outdoor Orientation for New Kids (OINK) and would have an added variety of interest-based ...
Pirates, princesses, cowboys and witches alike gathered on the Middlebury town green on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 30 to celebrate the third annual Halloween Spooktacular. The Better Middlebury Partnership, an organization dedicated to maintaining Middlebury’s vibrant local community, sponsored ...