Liebowitz Yearly Pay Exceeds $500,000

President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz continues to maintain a salary and benefits package comparable to that of peer institutions despite increases over the last decade. Liebowitz and Chief Financial Officer Patrick Norton note that direct comparisons of total compensation can be misleading, ...

SGA Update: 12/03/09

At the Nov. 22 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, Dean of the Students Gus Jordan spoke about the College’s controversial “sober friend” program, clarifying that sober friends were not legally liable for their intoxicated friends. However, when questioned about the unpopularity of the ...

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Maryland College cuts carbon by 80 percent St. Mary’s College cut its carbon dioxide outputs by 80 percent last year thanks to a series of student initiatives.  Students purchased Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to offset 100 percent of their carbon footprint due to electricity use. Several new ...

Murdoch uses words to fight coal

“We would often just sit on their porches, they would offer me cornbread and Coke, and we’d just talk for hours on end.” For Sierra Murdoch ’09.5, this year’s undergraduate Environmental Journalism Fellow, this routine was the key to excellent reporting during her time in southwest Virginia ...

Overseas Briefing: Kaity Potak '11

DAKAR—Apart from figuring out every method possible to prepare a banana, learning the myriad ways one can eat a mango or a grapefruit, discovering the custard apple, and having a ten-minute game of circumlocution/charades with the man at my favorite fruit stand only to learn that clementine in French, ...

Strategic Plan aims remain unchanged

In May 2006, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees unanimously approved a strategic plan, entitled “Knowledge without Boundaries,” which strengthens the College’s mission as an institution of higher education. The report includes a lengthy list of recommendations that seek to improve certain ...

Liebowitz honored in Time Magazine top 10

President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz has been recognized by Time Magazine as one the top ten college presidents in the country. In an article that appeared in last week’s issue of Time, Liebowitz was recognized for his commitment to achieving carbon neutrality at the College and also for ...

College unsure of biofuel's origins

Since the successful opening of the College’s biomass gasification plant last January, community members raised questions about the plant’s impact on Vermont forests as well as the overall environmental integrity of the biomass initiative. The plant currently receives three truckloads of woodchips ...

SNG lobbies for Copenhagen

Green group rallies support for climate summit Members of Middlebury’s Sunday Night Group (SNG), a student-run environmental advocacy organization, engaged in a campaign this week to encourage students to call President Obama and demand his attendance at the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen. Officials ...

MPD adopts bold policy on partying

The Middlebury police cited 16 Middlebury students with underage drinking at a party that was taking place at 424 Quarry Road on Friday, Oct. 30. Four residents — all members of the Middlebury lacrosse team — of the off-campus house will appear in court on Dec. 14 under the charge of serving alcohol ...

Shifts reduced in recession crunch

Student jobs available on cam- pus remain steady this year, but many employers are offering fewer shifts due to budget considerations. “For the past three to four years, we’ve seen about the same number of jobs and the same number of students looking for jobs,” said Dee Gilbert, student employment ...

SGA brings 3 weeks of big changes

After additional dialogue with the library, the Student Government Association (SGA) decided to fund extended library hours the week before finals week, beginning Nov. 29. Though the library will be covering the cost of extended opening hours during finals week itself, it has traditionally provided ...

College hits 250th isolation case

As the number of students succumbing to H1N1 or other influenza-like illness continues to grow — with more than 247 students having been isolated since August — the shipments of the H1N1 vaccine received by Parton Health Center re- main steady yet small. Following the initial shipment and clinic ...

Overseas Briefing- Rachael Jennings

NORWICH — “It was so hard to find an open computer in the library after dinner!” is not a far-fetched snatch of conversation to overhear at Middlebury. Here, it is more like, “The pub was so packed after dinner, it was hard to find a booth!” The library at University of East Anglia is a ghost ...

Sober friends take place of duty office

Fewer students have used the new components of the alcohol policy, namely the sober friend and the duty office, than the services offered by Parton Health Center in previous years. Sober friends have been required in 30 instances this semester, compared to the 37 students who went to Parton Health Center ...

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