William Finnegan has spent his career writing and reporting for The New Yorker, but his auto-biography, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, exposes a life dedicated to surfing and the search for the perfect wave. This Tuesday, Feb. 23, Finnegan will present his new memoir to the College community and discuss ...
The annual off-campus housing lottery was conducted on Tuesday, Feb. 16 in Crossroads Café as a part of the 2016-17 Housing Process. The lottery brought the total number of students approved to live-off campus next fall to 75, marking a nearly 25 percent drop from last year’s 95 and the preceding ...
A new student petition, viewable at go/peeinpeace, urges the College to make all of its bathrooms in public spaces — such as libraries, dining halls and academic buildings — gender-neutral. Octavio Hingle-Webster ’17 and Matea Mills-Andruk ’18.5 are spearheading the campaign. Hingle-Webster’s ...
Last month, the College awarded tenure and the title of associate professor to three faculty members – Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Chong-suk Han, Associate Professor of Spanish Enrique Garcia and Associate Professor of German Natalie Eppelsheimer. Han and Garcia both expressed ...
The trustees who serve on the College Board of Overseers discussed diversity and inclusivity last week during one of three of the Board of Trustees’ annual conferences. The Board’s governance system is divided into three Boards of Overseers: one for the College, one for the Middlebury Institute ...
Middlebury students celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, Jan. 22 with the College’s annual MLK Day of Service. For more than 15 years, the event, organized by the Community Engagement Office and Anderson Freeman Resource Center, has provided students with the opportunity ...
The College announced on Jan. 14 that Colleen Fitzpatrick, a current administrator at Duke University, will succeed Jim Keyes as Middlebury’s next Vice President for Advancement. Fitzpatrick currently serves as an Assistant Vice President for Trinity College and the Graduate School and also previously ...
The SGA meeting on Jan. 17 began with announcements from Director of Membership Zak Fisher ’16 who proxied for SGA President Ilana Gratch ’16. Fisher welcomed Abbie Spector ’17 who is replacing Michael Brady ’17.5 as Chief of Staff, Junior Senator Karina Toy ’17, who returned to SGA from abroad ...
The third annual Student Global Affairs Conference, titled “Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy,” explored the multidimensional issue of nuclear proliferation and took place over the course of two days featuring five speakers. The student-designed topic was selected from a group ...
Recent graduate Rana Abdelhamid ’15, a current Truman Scholar and Pickering Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, was recently featured by the Associated Press, BBC News, and Elle Magazine for her organization, the Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment, or WISE. After being accosted ...
On Monday, Jan. 12, Community Council held its first meeting of the 2016 Winter Term. The Council welcomed Maddie Orcutt ’16, who discussed The Ribbon Project, an upcoming project centered around the prevention of sexual and relationship violence at the College. Orcutt told the Council that the project ...
The College notified 338 new students of their early admission to the Class of 2020 via an online portal on Dec. 5. Mailed letters were sent in the next week. The students were chosen from an overall application pool of 636 applicants. This is an increase from the 280 students offered early admission ...
Legal action in the John Doe v. Middlebury College case formally ended on Dec. 21. Doe, the student expelled over a charge of alleged sexual assault, dropped his lawsuit against the College after the two parties reached a settlement. “The lawsuit has been resolved by the parties and they have agreed ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA, filled Mead Chapel last Friday night as the keynote speaker for the grand opening of the Anderson Freeman Resource Center (AFC). Crenshaw’s speech was one of many events held over the weekend to celebrate the opening of the new ...
At the Jan. 15 Plenary Meeting the faculty passed resolutions that reinstated the Pass/D/Fail option, set to expire this year, and changed the cultures and civilizations set of distribution requirements. The last iteration of Pass/D/ Fail (P/D/F) expired on Dec. 31 after a six semester trial period. ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, in Wilson Hall, three administrators — Katy Smith Abbott, Andi Lloyd and Miguel Fernández — unveiled a plan they developed over the summer to remedy student stress. This was the first time that the plan, which they termed “The Grid,” was available to the student body. ...
On Dec. 6 the town of Middlebury’s adopted ordinance concerning rental houses, apartments and the control of public nuisances went into effect. Associate Dean of Students for Residential and Student Life Douglas Adams notified all off-campus residents in an email the following day. According to ...
On Thursday, Dec. 3, in an effort to raise awareness of HIV infection and the AIDS pandemic, GlobeMed in partnership with Chellis House held a panel discussion in honor of World AIDS Day. The panel of professors across different disciplines addressed this year’s central theme, “The Time to Act is ...
On Monday, Dec. 7, Community Council held its final meeting of the fall semester. Student Co-Chair Tiff Chang ’17.5 began by noting that the Student Government Association recently passed two recommendations – an extension of the add/drop deadline and an extension of the Pass/D/Fail option – ...
SGA President Ilana Gratch ’16 began the Nov. 15 meeting with the results of the Eat Real survey about dining options. Of the 800 students who responded, 92 percent were in support of reaching the goal of 50 percent “real food” served on campus by 2020. (“Real food” is defined as meeting at ...