Student Suspended for Removal of Sept. 11 Memorial Anna Shireman-Grabowski ‘14.5, the student accused of pulling nearly 3,000 American flags from the ground that had been placed on the lawn in front of Mead Chapel to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, was handed a one-year suspension ...
The Community Council met on Monday, Oct. 14 for its third meeting of the year to discuss a report written by the Honor Code Review Committee at the end of last year. A Community Council meeting the previous week consisted of a discussion on the hard alcohol policy at the College, a conversation that ...
On Oct. 5, the College held the Cultivating Food Literacy symposium, and McCullough Social Space filled with educators, students, and activists to discuss how to educate students on the growth, distribution, and consumption of food. “It was a great day of conversation,” said Tim Spears, vice president ...
Shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4 three Middlebury Police Officers exited McCullough Student Center carrying a package containing marijuana that had been shipped to a student. While there is no official version of exactly how the events of the confiscation unfolded, multiple accounts from student ...
On Sept. 30, the Department of Public Safety released the College’s annual security report with statistics detailing a more than five-fold increase in student liquor violations. Of the many crimes listed that occurred on campus, including certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by the college ...
The College biomass gasification plant, a key component of the College’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016, hit an important milestone today, beginning its 16th week of uninterrupted operation — the longest period of time for which the plant has been running. This record-setting accomplishment ...
Eleven students, two staff members, and one faculty member are in the midst of completing their 20 hours of training to become peer advocates in a pilot program within the College’s Sexual Advocacy Oversight Committee (SAOC). The advocacy program marks a great leap forward for the SAOC, which as been ...
While Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in August shocked the world and provoked outrage of various degrees from Western powers, an overlooked consequence of the 30-month long civil war has been the refugee crisis that has spilled over into Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and ...
Over the last three years, enrollment in Computer Science courses at the College has tripled. The growth is the largest in any department in recent history, and is in keeping with nationwide enrollment trends, spurred by job opportunities and the glamorization of start-ups, entrepreneurship and new ...
Fall is my favorite season. I love how the brightly colored trees pop against the blue skies. I love the sound of leaves rustling beneath my feet. I love the excitement of a new school year juxtaposed with the shortening days and the threat of winter. My favorite part of fall, however, is the apples. ...
In a detailed letter sent out to all students on Tuesday, Oct. 1, Dean of the College Shirley Collado and Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott outlined changes to both the written alcohol and party policies and the College’s education, prevention and response programs. While the changes may seem trivial, ...
Every other Tuesday evening during the the fall semester, students will find themselves handing their dinner plates to peers and watching as any unconsumed food is scraped from the plate and into a plastic bucket. Generally relegated to the room hidden behind the dish deposit conveyor belts, the new, ...
A reduction in parking ticket fees this year from $50 to $10 marked a concession of Public Safety to the demands of the Student Government Association (SGA). In February 2013, Public Safety raised the price of a parking ticket from $10, the cost that has been imposed for the past 10 years, to $50, ...
Armel Nibasumba ’16 and Rabeya Jawaid ’16 were invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York City from Sept. 25-27. Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to ...
Before the school year began, Dean of International Studies Professor Jeffrey Cason decided to close the College’s school abroad in Egypt based at the University of Alexandria due to the political turmoil that continues to rock the country. After the removal of President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt erupted ...
The Community Council met for their first meeting of the year on Monday, Oct. 30 to discuss its role at the College and to create a list of agenda topics for the upcoming academic year. In considering its role, the group emphasized looking at issues beyond those that are primarily student-related. ...
After 34 years of diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the presidents of the two countries made direct contact with one another last Friday for the first time since 1979. President Barack Obama placed a telephone call to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani as Rouhani was heading to Kennedy Airport ...
I have been in Brazil for a month now, but it feels like I’ve been here for almost a year. It’s uncanny how easily I adjusted to life in another country. I touched down in Rio de Janeiro, on Aug. 29, and even at the airport, I was already worried about so many things: fitting in, classes, culture ...
A group of nine faculty members hosted a series of seven forum discussions last week to encourage a community conversation about protest and civility on campus in light of the vandalism of the flag memorial on Sept. 11. The forum events, which took place from Monday, Sept. 16 to Thursday, Sept. 19, ...
Thirteen percent of students in the class of 2017 are the first in their family to go to college, according to data released by the College admissions office. This number is the highest percentage of first-generation students in a class on record and likely in the school’s history, said Dean of Admissions ...