1,700 Pounds of Dining Dishes Go Unreturned
By Sarah Asch | February 21, 2019Students leave dining hall dishes scattered across campus or throw them away, posing a challenge for college workers.
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Commons May Soon Undergo Major Changes
By Nicole Pollack | February 21, 2019The Residential Life System is poised to undergo major changes, which could include building renovations, a new student center, and the elimination of a commons dean. After a 10-month review, members of the How We Will Live Together Steering Committee charged with reimagining the system presented ...
MAlt Trip Brings Students to Southern Border to Assist Asylum Seekers
By Hannah Bensen | February 21, 2019“That’s going to be you in a couple years,” an asylum-seeking immigrant mother said to her daughter, pointing to Middlebury student Alondra Carmona ’21. Carmona was providing legal service to the mother and her daughter on a Middlebury Alternative Break trip (MAlt trip). The mother and daughter ...
Middlebury Moves to Divest as Part of New Energy2028 Plan
By Sabine Poux and James Finn | February 14, 2019The Middlebury Board of Trustees unanimously voted to divest last weekend, the culmination of a more than six-year effort by student-activists to rid the institution's endowment of investments in fossil fuels. Divestment is one of four components of the institution’s new 10-year Energy2028 plan, ...
Middlebury Memes Page Partners with Archives
By James Finn | February 14, 2019Davis Family Library’s Special Collections archive is about to get a whole lot crunchier. Beginning this semester, Special Collections will be saving the contents of a favorite student Facebook meme group, Middlebury Memes for Crunchy Teens, to its catalog of digital student life artifacts.
Nobel Winner Murad Sheds Light on Yazidi Genocide in Talk
By Caroline Kapp | February 14, 2019When Nadia Murad was taken captive as a sex slave by ISIS in August 2014, she was 19 years old — the same age as many of the students who packed Wilson Hall to hear her speak on Tuesday night.
Thibault Lannoy ’20 Dies at 21 Years Old
By Online Editor | February 14, 2019Thibault Lannoy, a member of the class of 2020 and resident of Atwater Commons, died on Jan. 31 at his parents’ home in Hong Kong. He was 21. Prior to his time at Middlebury, Thibault attended the French International School of Hong Kong and the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. He was a member ...
Record Number of Applicants Seek Admission to Class of 2023
By Gigi Hogan | February 14, 2019Middlebury received a record number of applications during the 2018-2019 admissions cycle, with 9,750 students vying for a spot in the Class of 2023. The applicant pool increased by 5.6 percent compared to last year’s 9,230. With an increase of 13.9 percent, the number of applicants who identify as ...
CFA Becomes the MAC, and Students Ask Why
By Caroline Kapp | February 14, 2019After being known for 27 years as the CFA, the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts is undergoing a name change. College officials have decided to rename the building the Mahaney Arts Center, or the MAC — a change that has provoked confused reactions from students, some of whom insist on continuing ...
Student-Run Conference Goes Beyond #MeToo
By Nicole Pollack | February 14, 2019The sixth annual student-organized global affairs conference, “Beyond #MeToo: Global Responses to Sexual Violence in an Age of Reckoning,” was held between Jan. 22 and Jan. 24.
New Master Plan Envisions Future of College Libraries
By Gigi Hogan | February 14, 2019The College has begun preparing a master plan for the restoration and improvement of Armstrong Science Library and Davis Family Library.
Student Activists Hold Fossil Free Fest Before Divestment Vote
By Kayla Lichtman | February 13, 2019In the days preceding the Trustees’ approval of Energy2028, the Sunday Night Environmental Group (SNEG) and the SGA Environmental Affairs Committee organized a series of events, called the Fossil Free Fest, designed to familiarize people with the proposed plan. The week of activism culminated in Sunday’s ...
Staff Cuts Loom as Workforce Planning Hits Critical Stage
By Sabine Poux and Nick Garber | January 24, 2019Middlebury's monthslong effort to shrink staff costs and reevaluate how the institution does work is entering its most critical stage, and staff members report varying levels of satisfaction with the process as they wait for buyout offers.
Internal Review Shows College Lags Behind Peers
By Bochu Ding | January 24, 2019Results from a 2017 faculty and staff survey reveal that Middlebury lags well behind its peers in almost all measures of employee satisfaction. Most notably, faculty and staff gave low marks to communication within and between departments as well as confidence in senior leadership. The consulting firm ...
Wake & Bake: A Morning With Proctor Baker Ashley LaDuke
By James Finn | January 24, 2019Stroll into a dining hall to grab a sweet treat anytime between November and February, and you’re likely to find an array of desserts meant to give a taste of wintertime in Vermont: maple mousse, maple-walnut brownies, maple cheesecake, and other treats featuring Vermonters’ favorite winter flavor. Using ...
Two ‘Meatless’ Days Added to Dining Schedule
By Porter Bowman | January 24, 2019There will be two additional meatless days per week in the college dining halls in an effort to reduce the college’s meat consumption by 30 percent, according to an all-school email sent by the Student Government Association (SGA) on Jan. 15.
Students Critique Proposed Protest Policy at Teach-in
By Nicole Pollack | January 24, 2019A mixture of frustration, optimism and anger characterized a student teach-in on the proposed changes to Middlebury’s protest policy last Friday. Held in the Hillcrest Orchard, the teach-in allowed students to share concerns about the proposed policy’s lack of transparency and potential ramifications. ...
SOAN Class Analyzes Exclusion on Campus
By Kayla Lichtman | January 24, 2019Students in the Sociology & Anthropology course Trust and Social Capital recently produced a paper analyzing causes and effects of exclusion on Middlebury’s campus.
Bruni Gets Frank About College Life
By Nicole Pollack | January 17, 2019New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni spoke to a packed Wilson Hall about identity politics and the meaning of a liberal education last week.
External Reviewers Assess Impact of Commons System
By Sabine Poux and James Finn | January 17, 2019An external review committee has released a report evaluating the commons system and delineating areas of potential improvement as a continuation of the college’s “How Will We Live Together” residential life assessment.