A faculty meeting was held on Tuesday, April 28 to address heightened student stress as the semester comes to a close. Out of what some have called an “emergency meeting” emerged a community-wide conversation on short-term methods to mitigate anxiety and the acknowledgement that long-term goals ...
The Classics department received a significant donation that will endow a lecture series, professorship, and summer programming. The department will be renamed the Eve Adler Department of Classics. Donations such as this are normally named in honor of the donor, as with the Albert A. Mead Professorship ...
This year, two Middlebury College students, Maddie Orcutt ’16 and Kate Hamilton ’15.5, were selected to receive the prestigious Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship is a $30,000 grant awarded to a select number of college juniors interested in government and public policy with the purpose ...
On Tuesday, April 21, students, faculty and members of the community gathered in Mead Chapel to hear Middlebury College Activities Board’s (MCAB) spring speaker, veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile, in her talk titled “Political Outlook: A Comprehensive Picture of What’s Going ...
The SGA meeting on April 19 opened with an announcement from President Taylor Custer ’15 that the recently passed proposal Coffee Hour would take place at 8:30 p.m. every remaining Tuesday of this school year, in either Davis Family Library or Bicentennial Hall. Next, Director of Membership Nick Warren ...
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Community Council voted on Monday against a proposal to install security cameras in the hallways where bags are left outside of dining halls, with the intention of deterring and monitoring theft.Graffiti protesting the installation of cameras appeared Monday morning at a number of locations on campus. ...
On Tuesday, April 14, Kelly Boe, manager of the central biomass heating plant, died in a bicycling accident that took place along Hamilton Road in Weybridge. Boe was riding with his wife, Kathy, when he was struck by a car. His passing was announced in an email sent by Vice President for Finance and ...
On April 13, Executive Director of Food Services and Operations Dan Detora attended Community Council in order to discuss council member Anna Jacobsen ’16’s proposal to substitute community service work for fines and fees when students violate student life policies. As the former Director of Dining ...
This upcoming summer, Naina Qayyum ’15 will spend her break in Islamabad, Pakistan, the capital of her home country. A recipient of a $10,000 Project for Peace Grant through the Davis United World Scholars Program, Qayyum will run a program called Creative Youth for Community Leadership Enhancement. ...
The College’s Board of Trustees has approved a tuition increase of 3.9 percent, or $2,293, to $47,418 for the 2015-2016 academic year. The full comprehensive fee for the College, including the increased cost of room and board to a total of $13,628, is now set at $61,046. For the past five years, ...
On Saturday, April 11, two students from the College were fishing approximately 15 minutes away from Middlebury along the New Haven River and discovered a clearing with 15 to 20 mutilated, dismembered dogs. The students, Matt and Michael, who requested their full names not be disclosed, immediately ...
Duke University Dean of Arts & Sciences Laurie L. Patton was in the middle of creating an ambitious new outreach forum, the Duke Forum for Scholars and Publics, when her idea hit a roadblock. The world-renowned historian she had appointed the director of the forum wanted a premier space on campus. ...
Umoja, Middlebury’s African Student Organization, is preparing to host a conference that will take place on Saturday, April 25. The conference, “Education in Africa,” will begin at 10 a.m. in Wilson Hall with a presentation by esteemed guest speaker Fred Swaniker. Following the keynote presentation, ...
On Monday, March 4, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz was interviewed by former correspondent, anchor, and Washington bureau chief for CNN Frank Sesno ’77. Preparing for his departure in June, Liebowitz reflected on his thirty-one years at the College. The interview was streamed over a ...
MiddChallenge, a competition for Middlebury students to receive funding to support anything from an art project to a business model just announced the winners of the 2015 competition. The competition is divided into four categories: Business; Social Entrepreneurship; Arts and Education; and Outreach ...
Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile will be speaking at Middlebury on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. in Mead Chapel. The event, titled “Political Outlook: Comprehensive Picture of What’s Going on in Washington,” will be free to attend and open to the public. Brazile ...
The College held its ninth annual Spring Student Symposium last weekend from Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 10, with over three hundred students presenting on their academic and creative endeavors. Many students gave oral or poster presentations on their independent work in Bicentennial Hall, while ...
Early this year, HBO released “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” a six-part documentary examining Robert Alan Durst, an alleged serial killer and person of interest in over four missing person cases. Recently it has been discovered that Durst is also connected to the College. Durst ...
Next fall, Sandra Carletti, professor of Italian at the College, will assume the position of Head of Atwater Commons. The previous Co-Heads, Peter and Michelle Nelson, are resigning after a long and successful run. Although terms for Commons Heads generally last five years, the Nelsons were given a ...