The Student Government Association (SGA) announced the formation of the SGA Reform Working Group, which, according to an email sent out by SGA President Taylor Custer ’15, is designed to “examine the efficacy of student governance on campus.” It was created in part to examine the information ...
At the Community Council meeting on Oct. 27, Dean of Students and Community Council Co-Chair Katy Smith Abbott began the discussion by informing the council of a meeting that took place with Middlebury residents and college officials. The neighbors of various off-campus houses complained directly to ...
YouPower, Middlebury College’s student-run spin classes, prides itself on its unique method of energy production, but because of high costs and low returns, the program is being forced to re-examine its mission. YouPower was started two years ago as a way to make students more aware of their energy ...
Last weekend, students in Forest Hall got the first taste of Middlebury’s newest alternative dining option: pizza from the recently installed cob oven in the Organic Garden. The idea for the sustainable wood-fired oven came from students Caitlin Haedrich ’16.5 and Larson Lovdal ’16.5 last fall, ...
Each year Middlebury students apply for internships and jobs, and look to the College for support through the application process. The Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) aims to make this part of the Middlebury experience a little less stressful by creating a network of alums and providing ...
For two hours on Sunday, Nov. 2, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz, along with Dean of the College Shirley Collado, Dean of Students Katy Smith-Abbott, Director of Public Safety Lisa Burchard, Director of Health & Wellness Barbara McCall, and others held an open forum during which students ...
This past Wednesday, Oct. 22, led by the student organization WOC (Women of Color), a group of students and faculty members held a silent March on campus against police brutality. Wednesday marked the National Day to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. “Basically ...
Rana Abdelhamid ’15 was quoted in an article in USA Today on Oct. 10 in response to Bill Maher’s criticism of Islam on his talk show, Real Time with Bill Maher. Abdelhamid’s personal experience and her knowledge of this global issue inspired her to start the organization Women’s Initiative for ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) met Sunday Oct. 19 and Sunday Oct. 26. The meeting on Oct. 19 began with the Finance Committee’s Biweekly report, presented by Treasurer Ilana Gratch ’16.5. The Finance Committee received budget and grant requests from 25 student organizations and approved ...
When Megan Grassell ’18.5 went with her younger sister to shop for bras, she was disturbed by the limited and sexualized selection she found. She found polar opposites: either low quality, boring bras in beige or, more commonly, padded, wired push-up bras in cup sizes far too large for her 13-year-old ...
On Jan. 7, 2015, the College will roll out its new identity system. In late September the Board of Trustees approved the proposal put together by the Office of Communications and Marketing working with an outside consultant. All of the schools and programs that make up the Middlebury brand will adopt ...
On Wednesday, Oct. 22 an impromptu meeting was held between a group of Middlebury town residents and the administration after off-campus parties on Weybridge Street over Homecoming Weekend and throughout the semester left many neighbors frustrated. “We feel a commitment to responding to the concerns ...
Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland, will visit the College on Oct. 25 to deliver a lecture. Robinson, the seventh and first female President of Ireland, held the office from 1990 to 1997. After leaving office, she became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, traveling to ...
The Rohatyn Center Student Advisory Board (RSAB) is currently planning its second annual Global Affairs Conference, which is set to be held from Feb. 19-20 in the spring semester. This student-run conference is intended to garner more interest for international and global events and provide students ...
New to the College this fall, the Party Assistant program will engage students in the duty of regulating parties held by their peers. In late September of this year, students received an email from Barbara McCall, Director of Health and Wellness Education, inviting them to apply for the position of ...
On Monday Oct. 6, Community Council began a conversation around potentially expanding Middlebury’s honor code, specifically to implement a social honor code that would address academic integrity, and also social responsibility and behavior within the College community. The social honor code would ...
The Middlebury Campus sat down with College President Ronald D. Liebowitz to discuss his time at the College. The conversation ranged from when he first became President to some of the changes he has seen at the College in the past years. Liebowitz will depart the College at the conclusion of the school ...
Over the past few weeks, there was a flurry of construction along South Main Street where workers dug a trough and buried a natural gas distribution line leading to the College’s service building to provide the campus with a new source of energy. This is the local extension of Vermont Gas’s highly ...
On Oct. 17, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced several administrative changes in an all-campus email. Included was the news that Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Katy Smith Abbott will serve as interim Dean of the College beginning in ...
The Middlebury Language Schools, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of their founding, will launch the School of Korean for the summer of 2015. The school will run at Middlebury’s affiliate campus at Mills College in Oakland, California, where the Arabic and Italian Schools are already housed. Unlike ...