Author: [no author name found] After winter threatened to begin in force with a sleet storm Nov. 30 that hindered students returning to campus, they were greeted with a clear, warm day that included the picturesque shadow of Old Chapel on the side of Painter Hall.
Author: Amanda Cormier At the first Community Supper at the Congregational Church of Middlebury in 2004, Dottie Neuberger and a few other volunteers served 22 meals to low-income, elderly and other members of the community. Four years later, on Nov. 21, 110 people ate a turkey dinner provided by the ...
Author: Jaime Fuller John M. McCardell, President Emeritus of the College and Director of Choose Responsibility, was the guest speaker at the inaugural run of "The Forum at 51 Main" on Nov. 18, giving a talk titled, "The 21 Year-Old Drinking Age: Mend It or End It?" The Forum seeks to improve town-gown ...
Author: James Kerrigan After fewer than two years of construction in the southern part of campus, the Biomass Plant project is nearing its end and will likely be operational by January 2009. Flanked by the recently completed Donald E. Axinn '51 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library ...
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Author: Jack Lysohir The Office of International Programs and Off-Campus Study, as well as the Sustainability Integration Office, have begun a yearlong effort to assess the environmental practices of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad. Director of Sustainability Integration Jack Byrne and Assistant ...
Author: Layout by Hannah Wilson, Photos by Andrew Ngeow and Angela Evancie From our earliest discussions of making this issue, we knew the most effective approach would be twofold - the week's content would focus on pressing environmental issues, of course, but we would also endeavor to change certain ...
Author: Stephanie Joyce, Ian Trombulak, Adam Schaffer, and Tess Russell COLLEGE KEEPS UP WITH CURRENT PRINTING TRENDSEven printing has a taken on a distinctly green hue in recent years as Middlebury has kept pace with the national trend, switching to 100 percent post-consumer waste paper in most publications, ...
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Author: Jaime Fuller John M. McCardell, President Emeritus of the College and Director of Choose Responsibility, was the guest speaker at the inaugural run of "The Forum at 51 Main" on Nov. 18, giving a talk titled, "The 21 Year-Old Drinking Age: Mend It or End It?" The Forum seeks to improve town-gown ...
Author: Cloe Shasha In the early 1900s, Middlebury College received over 34,000 acres of land from Joseph Battell.Many students recognize Battell's name from the first-year residence hall that bears the same title. Battell was a major benefactor of the College in the early 20th century, donating most ...
Author: Tess Russell On Nov. 17, the Community Council deliberated on two motions that could effectively determine the fate of Weybridge House, an academic interest house which receives substantial funding (approximately $25,000 annually) from the College to provide local, sustainable and organic food ...
Author: Ahn Wei Lee If local is the new organic, then Middlebury is well positioned to become one of the trendiest towns around. With a history steeped in agriculture and deeply influenced by the changing economic realities surrounding it, Vermonters have long understood the impacts of fluctuating market ...
Author: Kaity Potak Long before "eco-friendly" became the catchphrase of celebrity homeowners, Vermonters considered environmental consciousness a central tenet to responsible living. Groups such as the Vermont Green Building Network, Efficiency Vermont and Vermont Builds Greener, as well as a growing ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner "Conservation Congress" conjures up an image of a room full of Vermonters drawing up legislation and making decisions on local environmental issues. Against the backdrop of society's current fixation with climate change and national politics, "conservation" could only mean environmental ...
Author: James Kerrigan In mid-October, The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest became just the nation's seventh building to earn The United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum status, the system's highest level of certification. The announcement ...
Author: Jaime Fuller The birthplace of the Environmental Studies major and the home of the idyllic Bread Loaf School of English seems the perfect place to host an Environmental Journalism Fellowship. Under the stewardship of Scholar-in-Residence Bill McKibben and Visiting Lecturer Christopher Shaw, ...
Author: Emma Gardner As the College community has made strides to convert the campus into a more environmentally friendly place over the past few years, students have begun to promote energy-saving alternatives to using personal cars through the year-old Zipcar program. While the College has long permitted ...
Author: Jaime Fuller Though much has been done in the 18 months since the College announced its commitment to carbon neutrality in May 2007, new innovations will hold the key to upholding that promise by 2016 given current economic conditions, according to faculty and students already searching for ...