News In Brief: Grille Closings, Hallquist to Visit, Fatal Crash Near Proctor
By Nick Garber, Eric Kapner and Caroline Kapp | September 13, 2018The Grille is now closed on Monday and Tuesday nights, Christine Hallquist is coming to campus, and more.
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Power Outage Hits College Night Before Classes; Causes Flashlight Party
By Amelia Pollard | September 11, 2018A power outage struck the college and parts of town Monday, plunging students here into darkness the night before the first day of classes. The outage occurred just before 10 p.m., when a fallen branch struck utility equipment on the portion of Weybridge Street between Shannon Street and Murdock Court. ...
E-lot: College likely to restore some student parking; adds more spaces elsewhere
By Will Digravio | September 4, 2018Thirty-three student parking spaces will likely be added to E-lot once construction of the area is complete, a college official told The Campus. The college's announcement came two days after The Campus published an article detailing the elimination of all 115 student parking spaces in E-lot, the ...
E-lot Student Parking Eliminated
By Will Digravio | September 1, 2018Spaces will now be reserved for faculty and staff.
Pee Empowered: SheFly Brings Gender Equality to the Outdoors
By Snoadmin | August 15, 2018Peeing on an Alaskan glacier was so frustrating for Georgia Grace Edwards '18, she decided to start an outdoor clothing company. “I was spending anywhere from eight to 12 hours a day on the ice,” she said. “I found myself having to trek across the glacier for privacy, completely remove three ...
Destruction of E Lot, Construction of New Building Begins
By Will Digravio | July 30, 2018E Lot is no more, kind of. The college broke ground on a temporary office behind Wright Memorial Theater last week, demolishing the Atwater tennis courts and rendering much of the parking lost behind Wright and Allen Hall inaccessible. Some parking spaces are still available. As reported in The Campus ...
Harrison Ford Comes to Campus; Is as Cool as You Think
By Will Digravio | July 22, 2018*Insert cheesy Star Wars lede here* Harrison Ford visited Middlebury College last month! The actor best known for playing Han Solo in Star Wars and the titular role in the Indiana Jones series took a tour with his son, who is a prospective student. By all accounts, he was kind and gracious, pausing ...
Middlebury Will Offer Buyouts to Staff and Faculty to Reduce Deficit
By Nick Garber | July 13, 2018Middlebury administrators have begun implementing a program to reevaluate faculty and staff positions across the institution — a process that, once completed at the end of the next academic year, could result in significant cuts to the college’s workforce. The plan was announced to college employees ...
Doug Adams Resigns as Associate Dean of Students
By Elizabeth Sawyer
| June 27, 2018
He will become the dean of students at Franklin & Marshall College.
College Executives Make Up Elite of Addison County
By Amelia Pollard | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39002,39004,39003"] In recent months, executive pay has sparked controversy among faculty, staff and students as tax forms and op-eds have prompted a negative response to the salaries of the college’s top administrators. Executives at universities across the country earn high salaries ...
College Plans to Fundraise for Growing Financial Aid
By Elaine Velie | May 9, 2018Although Middlebury College has yet to set targets for its goal to increase the number of students receiving financial aid, the incoming first-year class will have more students on financial aid than this year’s first-year class. This unexpected increase is due to Middlebury’s need blind admissions ...
Patton Forms New Cabinet of Senior Administrators
By Bochu Ding | May 9, 2018President Laurie L. Patton announced changes this week within the senior leadership group, the 17-member advisory council. A nine-member cabinet will be formed out of that group to “improve the efficiency of decision making” in Old Chapel. The new cabinet represents some of Patton’s closest advisors. ...
Athletes of Color Form Group in Response to Lack of Diversity
By Nicole Pollack | May 9, 2018The percentage of students of color on sports teams is lower than Middlebury’s already low percentage of students of color on campus. Middlebury is 63 percent white, and of the college’s 2561 students, only 25 percent identify as domestic US students of color, according to the fall 2017 student ...
GSFS Game Night Explores Feminist and Queer Theories
By Emma Patch | May 9, 2018The Gender Sexuality and Feminist Studies Department (GSFS) hosted the first ever themed game night last Friday in the Chateau Grand Salon. Students and faculty came together to explore feminist and queer theory through games designed and created by students in two GSFS classes. Professor Carly Thomsen ...
Homecoming Parade Wins Tradition Contest
By Ethan Brady and Elaine Velie | May 9, 2018The college announced the winner of the new traditions contest this week. The winning entry, submitted by sophomores Emily Barnard, Ben Snow, Kate Zecca and Sophia Peluso, will be a “Panther Day” parade from downtown Middlebury to the Kirk Alumni Center. The pep band and the panther mascot will ...
College Recruits from Richer, Whiter High Schools than Peers
By Bochu Ding | May 2, 2018College recruitment data cited in a recent New York Times article reveals a trend of recruitment at whiter and richer high schools, with Middlebury’s recruitment strategy noticeably lacking in comparison to its peers that demonstrate a more diversity-conscious approach. The article, “Colleges ...
Students Took Koch Money to Fund On-Campus Lecture
By Caroline Kapp | May 2, 2018The college’s Open Campus Initiative (OCI) hosted a talk on free speech in large part through funding from the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), a libertarian think tank. Charles Koch, an astronomically wealthy champion of the right who has helped back the Tea Party among other Republican causes ...
Student-Led Zero Energy Team Wins National Prize for Elementary School Design
By Nicole Pollack | May 2, 2018The Middlebury Race to Zero team won the elementary schools contest in the U.S. Department of Energy’s annual Race to Zero Student Design competition held in Golden, Colorado from April 20-22. The college competed against 40 teams from 34 colleges and universities to design marketable, economically ...
Davis Library Says No to Collecting Data on Patrons
By Ethan Brady | May 2, 2018The debate about data privacy unfolding in national newspapers and the halls of Congress has finally reached the college on the hill. This time, privacy advocates have something to rejoice in. In a memo last week, the Davis Family Library announced it would not keep records on borrowing history for ...
24/7 Lib Here to Stay... for Now
By Elizabeth Sawyer | May 2, 2018Davis Family Library will remain open for 24 hours each day of finals week, according to Michael Roy, the dean of the library. Roy reached this decision after considering student survey data and deliberating with administrators and members of the Student Government Association. Roy does want to limit ...