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ED Admits Comprise 48 Percent of Class of 2017

The College received a total of 699 Early Decision I applications this past fall, representing an eight percent increase from last year. Forty-two percent of applicants, or 295 students, were admitted. Of those admitted, 274 will arrive on campus in September as members of the class of 2017, and 21 ...


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Be Bright Launches Energy Campaign

On Tuesday, Feb. 26 the Sustainability Integration Office is launching Be Bright, a pilot program to raise awareness and educate students about energy consumption on campus in a semester-long energy literacy campaign. The Sustainability Integration Office hopes the project will inform students and push ...


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Parking Fines Increase to $50

On Feb. 10 Public Safety announced an increase in parking ticket fines from $10 to $50, a change that has been applied to weekday and night winter ban and faculty and staff lot parking violations. To decrease the number of tows required and increase compliance with the parking regulations, the fines ...


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SGA Update

The Student Government Association (SGA) announced at their meeting on Jan. 27 that they had received 1,295 student responses on their survey dealing with campus life, sent out in an all-student email during the second week of winter term. SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 was pleased with the response ...


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Beyond the Bubble

It’s the stuff you read about in sci fi novels and watch in thriller alien movies, but for the million residents in the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia last Friday, it was all too real. Just after sunrise on Feb. 15, the peace of the Ural Mountains was shattered by a once-in-a-century meteor explosion ...


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Overseas Briefing

“Guiri” is a colloquial term used in Spain to describe what is considered to be the stereotypical tourist or foreigner, and it is associated primarily with people from Northern Europe, the U.K. or the U.S. While I’ve heard it used in an endearing or light-hearted manner — “Of course you two ...


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College Shorts

Student at University of Maryland is stabbed to death (The Baltimore Sun) University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES) junior biology major Edmond St. Clair was stabbed to death on the University’s campus during a fight last weekend. St. Clair was driving with his brother and friend when they came ...


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Housing Shortage Prompts Change

Facing a spring housing shortage, lounges in Gifford Hall, Hadley Hall and Milliken Hall were converted into to dorm rooms in order to provide an additional 14 beds for students, a change that permitted students to have greater flexibility in their late-January decisions about whether to return to campus, ...


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Vermont Police Investigate Local Break-Ins

On Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Department of Public Safety received two separate reports of burglaries to college faculty houses, one in Middlebury and one in Cornwall, which are currently under investigation by the Middlebury Police and the Vermont State Police. In a campus-wide email on Feb. 13, Associate ...


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Phishing Scam Targets Students

In the days leading up to Jan. 15, the Library and Information Services (LIS) noticed an increase in the number of email phishing incidents within the college community. The compromised email accounts generated large amounts of spam. To reduce the number of compromised accounts, LIS required all students ...


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IHH Map Displays On-Campus Assaults

On Sunday, Feb. 10, It Happens Here (IHH), a sexual assault awareness student organization, revealed the results of their Map Project, showing the student-submitted locations of over 100 incidents of sexual assault that have occurred on campus. The map, which is currently on display in the Davis Family ...


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Overseas Briefing

Technically speaking, I am not overseas. But every week, this section of the Campus features the exciting tales and fascinating challenges of our peers who are lucky enough to be abroad and it seems time to turn the tables on them and brief our traveling companions on our lives. For starters, it continues ...


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College Agrees To Absorb A Portion of SGA Budget

On Jan. 25, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz, Dean of the College Shirley Collado and Vice President of Finance Patrick Norton agreed to resume funding several programs — including midnight breakfast and 24/7 open hours at the library during finals week — which the Student Government ...


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Students Prepare To Speak On Divestment

Following student protests, an expert panel attended by hundreds, and countless letters from current students and alumni, seven students will present on the “moral imperative of divestment” to the Board of Trustees at Board’s tri-annual on-campus meeting on Saturday, Feb. 16. The students will ...


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Alum Speaks On Global Fracking

On Tuesday, Feb. 12, international freelance journalist and Middlebury alumnus Dimiter Kenarov ’03.5 spoke to students and community members in a lecture titled “Shale Gas: from Poland to Pennsylvania.” Recently, Kenarov spent six weeks traveling Eastern Europe and the United States researching ...


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Community Council Update

During the Feb. 11 Community Council meeting, tensions ran high as members discussed attendance issues, faculty and staff representation on the council and the overall role of the Community Council on campus. Student Government Association (SGA) President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 expressed his concern ...


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Beyond The Bubble

“A health minister doesn’t need to be a medical doctor, but if he is one, then he can’t have committed malpractice. An education minister doesn’t need to have a Ph.D., but if he does, then his dissertation cannot be plagiarized,” Dr. Volker Rieble, professor of law at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian ...


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College Shorts

Ohio University considers guaranteed tuition rate Ohio University is considering implementing a four-year fixed tuition rate for undergraduate students. Administrators at the university view fixed tuition as an incentive for students to graduate within four years, as tuition would be raised if a student ...


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Beloved Spanish Professor Passes

Last week the College and the surrounding community mourned the passing of esteemed Professor Emeritus Ana Martínez-Lage who died after battling cancer for many years. Although Martínez-Lage retired last fall to spend more time with her family, her death has deeply affected members of the college ...


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Highlights from the Endowment Panel

Although the panel on the endowment is now available in its entirety online, the Campus has compiled some highlights from last Tuesday's event in the video above. For additional coverage, please see "Divestment Debate Continues" or the Campus Current's liveblog coverage. In a new collaboration between ...