The Middlebury College Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducted ten seniors into the honors society on Saturday, Oct. 3 at a ceremony that coincided with Fall Family Weekend. A committee of faculty selects the students based on their academic transcripts in their first three years. One of the inductees, Kate ...
On Oct. 12, Community Council began to brainstorm specific issues to address during the academic year. When all was said and done, the Council generated 51 different topics which its members hoped to cover to some degree. Issues raised by College staff included increased awareness of the dangers of ...
On Thursday, Oct. 8, 12 students competed for the opportunity to be the student speaker selection for next month’s TEDxMiddlebury conference. Gathering in Dana Auditorium, students had four minutes to present a condensed version of their proposed TED talks to a panel of judges. Topics this year included ...
Last Friday Oct. 9, delegates from the Middlebury College Republicans travelled to the Hilton Hotel in Burlington to watch John Kasich speak at the Vermont GOP Fall Harvest Dinner. Among the many people in attendance, current Vermont Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott was present. Although regular attendees ...
On Oct. 1 the Department of Public Safety released its annual Security and Fire Safety Report, highlighting several variances in crime rates on property under the College’s jurisdiction over the past three years. The College is required to compile crime statistics in seven major categories to the ...
Director of Membership and Chair of Elections Council Zak Fisher ’16, opened the Oct. 4 meeting with a welcome to the four new senators, Atwater Senator Jigar Bhakta ’18, Feb Senator Millie von Platen ’18.5 and First-Year Senators Charles Rainey ’19 and Kieran Parikh ’19. Fisher said the turnout ...
On Sunday, Oct. 11, the College inaugurated Laurie L. Patton as its 17th president in a historic ceremony on McCullough Lawn to an audience of over 1,000. Patton is the first woman to hold the office of president in the College’s 215-year history and previously served at Duke University as the Dean ...
Four students were elected to the Student Government Association Senate last Thursday. This fall’s ballot was especially full. Not only were there the annual elections for the two first-year senators, but there were also two special elections to fill the Atwater Senator and Feb senator positions. ...
Dr. Julie Hotchkiss, a research economist and senior policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will attempt to separate unemployment fact from fiction in this semester’s D.K. Smith ’42 Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 15th. One of many campus speakers, Hotchkiss plans to discuss the truth ...
Community Council held its first meeting of the academic year on Monday, Oct. 5, in McCullough’s Crest Room. The council’s responsibilities include oversight of residential issues, making appointments to several judicial and academic boards and reviewing social and academic interest houses. In ...
On Sept. 23, the College filed to appeal U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha’s order to temporarily re-enroll John Doe, the student anonymously suing the College to reverse his expulsion following an alleged sexual misconduct charge against a non-Middlebury student. In a preliminary injunction ...
The week of Sep. 29 officially launched Green Dot, the College’s new program to prevent violence and promote student safety on campus. Director of Physical Education Noreen Pecsok, who helped implement the program, said the response from students has been overwhelmingly positive. “It’s very empowering ...
In this Sunday, October 4th 2015 broadcast, the editors of The Middlebury Campus join host Nathaniel Wiener to discuss their plans for the paper during the 2015-2016 academic year and discuss the week's editorial, "Disrupt the Finance Pipeline". [embed]https://soundcloud.com/campusvoice/the-campus-voice-october-4-2015[/embed] ...
The SGA senate meeting on Sept. 27 opened with a discussion and vote on the new schedule and location of Coffee Hour. It will now occur in Proctor Lounge on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Coffee Hour is intended to be an accessible forum for students to have casual conversation with SGA members about the state ...
Members of the Middlebury Board of Trustees arrived on campus this past weekend to attend the annual fall trustee meeting. The meeting marks the second year that the board’s new governance structure has been in effect. For some students, the role of the Board in daily campus life is nebulous. For ...
Hours after being hung in Proctor and Ross Dining Halls on Saturday, Sept. 26, the posters created by the Black Student Union (BSU) were vandalized by an unknown party. The first poster was discovered and brought to the attention of BSU Board Members that afternoon. A second was found that evening. ...
Building off of the past two decades of the Executive-in-Residence Program, this fall marked the introduction of the Professors of the Practice Program, created by President Emeritus Ronald D. Liebowitz and directed by Distinguished College Professor David Colander. This program offers an opportunity ...
The College’s plan to build a new residential complex on the western edge of campus has been approved by the Town of Middlebury’s Development Review Board (DRB). Workers began logging and clearing the site on Wednesday, Sept. 23. They plan to install foundations for all four buildings and have vertical ...
The College unveiled a memorial tree on Sept. 19 in honor of Nathan Alexander ’17, who passed away last spring. Students, faculty, staff and Alexander’s family members gathered on the plaza in front of Ross Dining Hall for the dedication service. The service began with Chaplain of the College Laurel ...
There was scarecely room to stand Friday, Sept. 18 during the Fourth Anunal International Politics and Economics (IPE) Program Symposium, where three guest professors presented different per- spectives on inequality at the Robert A. Jones ’59 House. According to IPE Program Director nd Frederick ...