Violent Imagery Drawn on Classroom Chalkboard
By Ethan Brady | November 1, 2017A racially charged image depicting college spokesman Bill Burger plowing into Addis Fouche-Channer ’17 with his car was found on a chalkboard in Munroe Hall.
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Pulitzer Winner Walter Mears ’56 Discusses Career, Journalism in Trump Era
By Nick Garber | November 1, 2017News media in the United States has changed dramatically over the past few decades, and few have a better perspective on that evolution than Walter Mears ’56. Mears served as editor-in-chief of The Campus in his senior year at Middlebury, and began reporting for the Associated Press (AP) immediately ...
SGA, Patton Develop Common Agenda
By Kyle Naughton | November 1, 2017The Student Government Association (SGA) has recently formulated a common agenda in collaboration with the administration and President of Middlebury Laurie L. Patton. The agenda lists nine specific points that the administration and the SGA will collectively work to address in the coming years. Patton ...
Allison Stanger Opines on Protests in Hearing, on C-SPAN
By Elaine Velie | November 1, 2017Political science professor Allison Stanger, who was injured following the March 2 protests of Charles Murray, spoke out last week in an interview and a congressional hearing, blaming Middlebury faculty for the acrimony of the protests and requesting an apology from students involved. The hearing, held ...
SGA Calls for Changes to Open Disciplinary Hearings
By Elizabeth Sawyer | November 1, 2017The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a bill on Oct. 29 calling for changes to the college’s disciplinary hearing procedures, including a request that the handbook explicitly declare open hearings accessible to all college community members. The bill comes in response to dissatisfaction ...
Activists Renew Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment
By Ben Dohan | November 1, 2017As Middlebury’s board of trustees convened inside Old Chapel on Thursday, Oct. 19, members of the college community rallied outside to renew a years-long call for the college to divest from fossil fuels. The event, described as a teach-in, was organized by the student group Divest Middlebury. Scheduled ...
Barney Frank and John Sununu Discuss Campus Free Speech, Political Climate
By Will Digravio and Nick Garber | October 18, 2017Last week, former Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and former Governor John Sununu (R-NH) and chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, came to campus for a conversation entitled, “Finding Common Ground for Economic Opportunity in the Trump Era.” (For coverage of the event, click here). Following ...
Faculty Present Research at First Annual Forum
By Bochu Ding | October 18, 2017As hundreds journeyed to campus last Friday for Fall Family Weekend, among the new arrivals was the first-annual Fall Faculty Forum. The event, held on Oct. 13 at the Axinn Center, featured presentations from 39 faculty members on a wide range of research topics. The forum was primarily conceptualized ...
Community, Speaker Discuss Grade-Free First Semester
By Elizabeth Sawyer | October 18, 2017Amidst ongoing conversations regarding grading at Middlebury, the Student Government Association’s (SGA) Student Educational Affairs Committee (SEAC) hosted Lee Cuba, a sociology professor at Wellesley College, for a talk on shadow grading on Oct. 11. Cuba spearheaded a shadow grading pilot program ...
Campus Is Vandalized, With College Labeled ‘Racist’
By Will Digravio | October 18, 2017The Middlebury community woke up to widespread vandalism last Saturday, Oct. 14, after an unknown individual(s) spray-painted condemnations of the college at eight locations on campus. One of the more notable examples occurred at Mead Chapel, where the word “racist” was spelled out across the six ...
IT Services VP Jim Stuart Dies
By Elaine Velie | October 18, 2017Jim Stuart, associate vice president for information technology, passed away unexpectedly at his home last weekend. Stuart first came to Middlebury in 1993, after he received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Colby College. Stuart left the college in 1999 but returned in 2010, and had held his ...
SGA Passes “Midd Day” Proposal
By Kyle Naughton | October 18, 2017The Middlebury Student Government Association (SGA) recently passed a proposal to incorporate a new “Midd Day” event into the school calendar. This proposal will enable the President of Middlebury to select one day every academic year to cancel all classes so that students may enjoy the Vermont ...
College Mourns Passing of Juana Gamero de Coca
By Will Digravio | October 11, 2017Juana Gamero de Coca, an associate professor of Spanish, died unexpectedly last Friday, Oct. 6. A native of Alburquerque (Badajoz), Spain, Gamero de Coca joined the Middlebury faculty in 2004. She was appointed to a tenure track position in 2006 and received tenure in 2012. She is survived by two daughters, ...
Bookstore Announces Move to Online Delivery
By Kyle Naughton | October 11, 2017The Middlebury bookstore has recently announced plans to switch its textbook distribution platform to a purely online system by the spring semester of 2018. This online platform will be run by the international textbook company MBS Direct, a change that the administration hopes will reduce students’ ...
SGA, Admin Collaborate on New Dining Options
By Elizabeth Sawyer | October 11, 2017The Student Government Association (SGA) and Director of Food Services Dan Detora have continued to collaborate on changes to the dining halls in response to student feedback to the SGA’s dining survey. Though the survey left them sifting through widespread criticism of the new swipe system, SGA senators ...
Patton to Attend Free Speech Conference
By Ethan Brady | October 11, 2017President Laurie L. Patton will travel to the University of Chicago this weekend to be a panelist at a “free expression” conference, forgoing the annual president’s address that traditionally occurs on Fall Family Weekend. Susan Baldridge, the college provost, will address families on Saturday ...
First-Year Senators Elected
By Ben Dohan | October 11, 2017First-year students John Schurer and David Vargas won the Student Government Association (SGA) election for first-year senator. Over half of the Class of 2021 voted, with 322 ballots cast. Ten students competed for the two spots. Schurer finished first with twenty percent of the vote (130 ballots total), ...
Annual Security Report Shows Increases in Crime: Liquor & Burglary
By Nicole Pollack | October 11, 2017The Department of Public Safety’s latest Security and Fire Safety Report reveals marked differences in on-campus criminal activity since 2014, including a drastic increase in student violations of liquor law and a smaller increase in burglaries. The report is compiled using data from Public Safety, ...
Discussing Campus Free Speech, Attorney General Implicates Middlebury
By Nick Garber | October 4, 2017Attorney General Jeff Sessions dove into the debate over free speech on college campuses, delivering an address last week that denounced “political correctness” and directly referenced the protests that occurred here last March. “Freedom of thought and speech on the American campus are under attack,” ...
Students, Admin Confer at Forum
By Nick Garber and Dominick Tanoh | October 4, 2017Senior administrators held an open forum with students Tuesday evening, discussing the results of recent student surveys and fielding questions about institutional transparency and student life. Student attendance at the event was relatively sparse, with the number of students roughly equaling the two ...