The Middlebury College Orchestra will not perform this semester due to an extreme decline in membership. This announcement is the latest development in a trend of declining interest in the program. Membership has fallen from 45 musicians three years ago to 16 in the fall term. In speaking with colleagues ...
On Sunday, March 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Chellis House will be holding the Red Tent event, an activity designed to help members of the Middlebury community that identify as female relax and pamper themselves for a day, in the McCullough Social Space. The Red Tent Foundation is helping to sponsor ...
Students Caitlin Haedrich ’16.5 and Larson Lovdal ’16.5 are imagining a whole new kind of dining for the College. The duo has submitted a project proposal for an outdoor wood-fired pizza oven, or “cob oven,” to be built at the Organic Garden this summer. “It’s an idea that’s been tossed ...
On Feb. 28, 12 Middlebury students travelled down to Washington D.C. for XL Dissent, a student-organized protest of the the Keystone XL Pipeline. They were joined by 1200 other protesters — primarily students — from across the country. The event culminated in an act of civil disobedience, during ...
Heartbeat — a collective of young Israeli and Palestinian musicians — performed in the McCullough Social Space on Feb. 27 as a part of their 2014 U.S. tour. Through music, the group shared with audience members a message of mutual peace and understanding. “I believe deeply that music holds incredible ...
A native Vermonter, Calvin McEathron ’16 grew up on a small farm 10 minutes from Montpelier, the state capital. In an interview, McEathron said he has been passionate about politics since his freshman year of high school, when controversial legislation on the operation of Vermont Yankee, the state’s ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, roughly 100 student athletes from 30 teams met in the McCullough Social Space to discuss homophobia and athletics as a follow-up to Wade Davis’ visit in January. The discussion, organized and facilitated by James Clifford ’15 and Katie Linder ’15 and co-hosted by Queers and ...
The International Students’ Organization (ISO) will be hosting Middlebury’s first ever Food and Globalization Week. Running Mar. 4-11, the event — dubbed “F&G Week” for short — will tie together global issues with the academic study of food. ISO Vice President Mika Tan ’15 has been ...
When the trustees were here last weekend, I shared a compelling article with them — “5 Ways Today’s Students Are Radically Changing Our Colleges” from AGB Trusteeship magazine. The article reviews the findings of a six-year national study involving 33 campuses and thousands of students and concludes ...
On Feb. 19, the Gamut Room presented a new music initiative, Wednesday Open Mic Performance (WOMP). Spearheaded by Eyal Levy ’14.5 and Mitchell Parrish ’14, WOMP is a weekly series that allows student musicians to perform in the hope of developing a more vibrant music scene on campus. Approximately ...
On Monday, Feb. 17, Community Council continued the ongoing discussion of hard alcohol policies with the Commons Deans. Dean of Brainerd Commons and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Natasha Chang, Dean of Wonnacott Commons Matt Longman and Dean of Cook Commons Ian Sutherland were ...
In order to study the influence and perceptions of the Middlebury brand, the College sought the advice of Baltimore-based consultant Mark Neustadt. After interviewing students, faculty, alumni and prospective students alike, he presented his observations and suggestions to the faculty last spring. “The ...
Middlebury College’s Office of Sustainability Integration declared the College to be on track towards its goal of carbon neutrality by 2016 in its most recent report citing the biomass plant, efforts by a variety of groups on campus, and the new biomethane initiative as critical to the progress. In ...
According to a press release from the Peace Corps, the College ranked 14 on a list of top volunteer-producing small colleges. There are currently 12 former students volunteering worldwide, serving in Botswana, China, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo and Uganda. Since the Peace ...
Prescott House, former home to Delta before its disbandment in 2013 and current home to 27 first-year students, will be offered as a social house or superblock for the 2014-2015 academic year. Applications and preliminary rosters for superblocks and social houses were due Tuesday, Feb. 18th. Immediately ...
Teddy Gold ’16 won the Middlebury Entrepreneurs Pitch Challenge during J-term with his local delivery project, Otter Delivery. Otter Delivery functions as an on-demand delivery service, allowing students to place pick-up requests at stores in town and have it delivered to their dorm room later that ...
In an effort to cut costs and reduce waste, the College will be reorganizing top-level management positions and introducing a one-card swipe system within Dining Services. The restructuring comes after discussions with consulting firm Sodexo in the fall. According to Vice President for Finance and ...
On Jan. 24, students and faculty gathered in Crossroads to celebrate the launch of MiddSafe, the College’s first 24/7 sexual assault hotline. MiddSafe has been in the works for several years and marks a critical development in the College’s programming to prevent sexual assault on campus. The long-awaited ...
In September 2015, the College will welcome 10 new Posse students from Los Angeles who have shown an interest in pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The Posse Foundation announced its decision in Jan. 2014 to double the number of Posse partner schools focused in the ...
The Middlebury School of the Environment will open its doors to students for the first time this summer. The intensive six-week program promises to give students not only a rigorous interdisciplinary training in environmental studies but also invaluable leadership and entrepreneurial skills necessary ...