Last Wednesday, Anne Knowles, professor of geography, received the Award for American Ingenuity from the Smithsonian. Currently the chair of the geography department at the College, Knowles teaches courses in historical geography, cultural geography and the history of cartography. Knowles and eight ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 28 students gathered in the McCullough Social Space to attend a discussion on socioeconomic diversity, race and higher education, led by Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation Richard Kahlenberg. The event was organized by Money at Midd, a group of students that works to address ...
An on-going discussion of Feb student over-representation among SGA Senators came to a head at the meeting last Sunday, Dec. 2, in which the Senate passed a bill limiting Feb students from running and voting for class senate seats in a vote of 8-5-3. SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 and others pushed ...
A video titled “I Feel So Close To You” created by Will Gibbons ’13 and Melake Getabecha ’13 was posted on YouTube on Nov. 4th and has already received over 20,000 views. In this video, Gibbons, dressed as the College’s panther mascot, hides in portable toilets at a cross country meet at Williams ...
Congratulations on finishing another semester at Midd! The end of the year is a time for reflection. I am proud of the hard work that all the members of the Student Government Association have done this year — their hard work gives me confidence that none of them will get coal in their stockings and/or ...
The College has been identified as one of 15 Colleges Fighting World Hunger by Best College Online, a website that ranks colleges and universities in various categories. The ranking highlights Bumu, or Bug Munch, a company founded by Alex Bea ’12 that produces energy bars made from crickets. Since ...
The verb "to love" is expressed in Hindi as "pyar karna" – directly translated, it means "to do love," rather than "to love." In the three months and change that I've spent in India, the distinction between these two expressions has grown increasingly clear to me. New Delhi is not a place that you ...
University of Virginia Student Dies During Semester at Sea (The Huffington Post) Casey Schulman, 22, of the University of Virginia (UVA), died tragically on Saturday, Dec. 1 in a tragic boating accident while studying with the “Semester at Sea” program. Schulman and some friends were snorkeling ...
Almost a year after Great Leader Kim Jong-Il’s death, North Korea is getting ready for a second attempt to launch a satellite via a long-range rocket. Government spokesmen revealed last Saturday, Dec. 1, that the Korean Committee for Space Technology is preparing for a launch date between Dec. 10 ...
After many adaptations to first-year orientation trips ranging from MOO to OINK, the College has arrived at a new, expanded program titled MiddView. The name is recycled from the original version of MiddView, temporarily shelved because of the recession after its first year in 2008. The main difference ...
J Street U Midd held a student-led discussion on the recent Gaza-Israel violence on Monday, Nov. 19. J Street U Midd is the Middlebury chapter of J Street U, a student organization for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans. Sam Kaufman ’13, president of J Street U Midd, moderated the discussion for approximately ...
On Nov. 6, the College announced its decision to suspend its school abroad in Xalapa, Mexico. The program, which was based at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, will not accept students from next semester onward, unless the decision to suspend the school is reversed. The suspension of the Mexico ...
On Monday Nov. 12, Community Council met with Administrative Programs Coordinator Ellen McKay and Mark Stefani, assistant professor of psychology, about stress on campus. Both McKay and Stefani spearheaded the Stress Committee. Since its 2007 creation, the committee has focused on examining causes ...
As I sat at the local café, sipping a glass of wine and staring up at the cathedral, I couldn’t help shake that despite the fact that I was doing all the same things as the French people around me, I still felt like I stood out as an American tourist. I have always considered myself partly European; ...
Student Opinion Split on Homecoming Shirts (The Amherst Student) A provocative t-shirt distributed at Amherst’s homecoming weekend last week has reignited controversy surrounding sexual assault on its campus, coming in the wake of an open letter written by a sexual assault victim, Angie Epifano, ...
Over the past three years, the world has become familiar with the financial woes of the European Union. Countries previously associated with vacational paradise, such as Greece, Spain and Italy, have seen their borrowing costs soar and even faced the possibility of default. In exchange for emergency ...
Amidst a growing conversation about ethical investing at the College, several students demonstrated at a talk given by Olav Ljosne, senior manager for international operations for Shell Oil, at an event co-sponsored by the Vermont Council on World Affairs (VCWA) and the Rohatyn Center of Global Affairs on ...
In a show of support for race-conscious admissions and as a defense of its current admissions policies, the College has put its name on a brief in a case under consideration by the United States Supreme Court that could potentially put an end to so-called “affirmative action.” The case at hand, ...
On Monday, Nov. 12, the College hosted its monthly faculty meeting in McCullough Social Space. Prior to the meeting concerns were high regarding attendance after last month’s quorum of over 50 percent of faculty was challenged. The quorum was met, however, and the meeting proceeded as scheduled, with ...
Recently, the College decided to reduce the amount of money it keeps in its Toronto Dominion (TD) bank account overnight on a day-to-day basis. While the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing (ACSRI) has touted this as a “win,” the College contends that this change is a result of ...