American Poverty in Context, a fall symposium exploring issues of poverty and hunger in the U.S., will run from Oct. 21 to Oct. 29 and feature lecturers from the College community as well as nationally-recognized speakers. “We really hope that students will come away from the symposium with a more ...
Falling leaves, shorter days and chilly nights. Summer in Vermont, sadly, has definitely come to a close. But in the Harris Farmhouse, things are still heating up for the Solar Decathlon as we plan out the coming year. That’s right: one more year (11 months, to be more exact), and the Middlebury team ...
Aiming to influence elected officials for the midterm elections in less than a month, students, faculty and advocacy groups have begun demonstrating publicly to show their support for public higher education. As a result of the economic recession that has hit the country recently, states have been forced ...
KAMPALA — I had a chicken on my right, a baby on my lap and there was a lingering smell of rotting fish in the air. Every day I take a taxi (independently operated minibus) held together with duct tape and prayers two hours to my school’s main office and everyday is a new adventure. Traffic in ...
Few Americans seem to know about the Canadian government, people or history. While Americans may not know the name of our current prime minister, they are however becoming increasingly aware of the impact that Canada’s climate policies are having on the global community. In recent months pressure ...
Dining Services will expand the operating hours of the Grille to 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Sundays and until 12 a.m. on Mondays beginning this month. Old Chapel has been privy to many complaints from students about the lack of dining options on campus this semester, particularly on Sundays and Mondays. ...
In the upcoming weeks, senator Anne Runkel ’11 will present a resolution before SGA urging the administration to help promptly restore MiddView (OINK, MOO et al.) to our community and future peers. This initiative expects to receive full SGA support, and should garner our backing as well. Outdoor ...
The College is currently in the process of reaccreditation, a process that all institutions of higher learning must undergo every 10 years. The New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) performs the reaccreditation; a team from that organization will visit campus in the fall of 2011 ...
On Sept. 30, the College released its annual security report, including statistics of on-campus crime from the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. According to Associate Dean of the College and Director of Public Safety Lisa Boudah, the report is designed to “make sure students are familiar with safety procedures” ...
Despite the financial setbacks the College has faced during the economic downturn, the administration has continued to actively search for and hire new faculty members, including members who will occupy tenure-track positions. According to Dean of the Faculty Jim Ralph, the College most actively recruits ...
During its Oct. 3 meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed ways to decrease waiting time for students who need to print few pages, yet find themselves waiting for long periods of time to use the printer as other students release large printing jobs. One of the proposed solutions ...
As part of the College’s “Meet the Press” lecture series, acclaimed New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer will visit campus on Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m. to give a talk on civil liberties and torture. Though Mayer has an impressive resume, including a 12-year stint with The Wall Street Journal where she was ...
On Sept. 30 the citizens of the world’s only totalitarian state were able to view the individual who will likely succeed their current dictator. Through a low-resolution image fed to the state-run national newspaper, they saw a round-faced young man in between his father and a general, unsmiling and ...
The Saturday night of my first full weekend in Madrid, there was a huge festival in the center of the city called “La Noche en Blanco.” In the week leading up to this big night, I could not walk down any main street without seeing an advertisement for the event, yet no one seemed to know what it ...
Students wishing to relax and play online video games have been denied access to the college’s online network on three separate occasions during the first term, prompting outrage among the campus’s devoted online gamers. While the first two periods lasted only three days each (Aug. 8-11 and Sep. ...
US Senate examines for-profit college practices For-profit colleges have recently taken a huge hit in public perception after being exposed in U.S. Senate hearings as falsely inflating their post-college employment statistics. An employee at Education Management Corp.’s Art Institutes testified ...
Stocked with pies, crumbles, syrups and nearly every kind of apple you could ever want, the Champlain Orchards farm shop is as Vermont as Vermont gets. Go upstairs, though, and you’re in Jamaica. Bill Suhr, the owner of the Shoreham orchard, opened the door to the Jamaican immigrant workers’ second-story ...
Nathan LaBarba ’14 and Joanie Thompson ’14 were elected first-year senators to the Student Government Association (SGA), and Charlie Arnowitz ’13 won the Brainerd Commons senator position in last Friday’s election. LaBarba and Thompson were two of eight first-year candidates running for this ...
Though the new website launched in February 2010, one facet of Middlebury’s revamped online presence did not take off until May. MiddLab, a virtual compendium of student and faculty research at the College, is still in its infancy in September after a slow summer, but its link sits prominently on ...
Victor Zhikai Gao, a former interpreter for Deng Xiaoping and currently an influential figure in China’s economy, will speak on campus Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. He is the first prominent politically- and economically-involved figure from China to speak at the College about China’s ...