On Nov. 7 students and faculty gathered in Crossroads Café for the first monthly Campus Open Forum event. This month’s forum, organized by Dean of Students Shirley Collado, Student Government Association (SGA) President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 and Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCOCC) Barrett ...
It Happens Here (IHH), a student-organized sexual assault awareness and prevention group at the College, has launched its Map Project, an initiative which seeks to compile on-campus locations where students have experienced some form of sexual assault. The student organization, co-founded last year ...
Eleven contestants, four judges and approximately 80 audience members gathered in Crossroads Café on the night of Nov. 8 for auditions to be the student speaker at the College’s TEDx event in March. TEDx is an offshoot of TED, a worldwide initiative in which speakers have 18 minutes to share “Ideas ...
SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 is leading an initiative to create a survey on student life at the College. The survey will examine a number of issues, including, but not limited to, distribution requirements, interaction between students and professors, the dining hall, the endowment, student ...
On Oct. 29, Jennifer Herrera, the senior advisor for diversity initiatives, announced the launch of a new online classifieds service for the College, go/classifieds. The initiative, a WordPress site launched last winter, will enable anyone with a Middlebury NetID to list an item for sale, restricting ...
«Tu viens ici chaque semaine, oui?» (Translation: You come here every week, right?) People thrive in environments where they feel comfortable. It’s certainly not a groundbreaking revelation, but I like to think that we’re all at our best when we know our way around and genuinely feel at ease. ...
Before the dust had even settled on the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the Communist Party of China began its own once-in-a-decade leadership transition last week. Since the People’s Republic of China is a one-party state, a new generation of communist leaders automatically equates to a new generation ...
Green Mountain College Slaughters Beloved Ox (Vermont Public Radio) Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt. euthanized its retired farm ox Lou on Sunday, explaining that the 11-year-old ox’s hind leg injury was worsening and was expected to continue to deteriorate during the harsh winter. The school ...
The Otter Nonsense Players recently released a second College Quickie on mtvU, following an initial posting to the site in early September. In addition to profiling the improvisational group, the Campus' Jess Berry interviewed Adam Benay ’13.5, Greg Dorris ’13 and Ben Orbison ’12.5, as mtvU ...
For six hours, the members of the Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee (DLWC) sat on the stage of Dana Auditorium facing charges of handbook violations and defending their highly visible call for divestment from arms and fossil fuels. For the first time in recent memory, the inner-workings of the Community ...
On Monday, Oct. 1, Associate Professor of Mathematics John Schmitt objected to the quorum that was called during the monthly faculty meetings. When the moderator deemed the quorum was in fact not met, the meeting was adjourned until the following month. The quorum for the monthly faculty meetings requires ...
Just past 1 a.m. on Thursday morning, the five students that stood before the Community Judicial Board (CJB) were found guilty of two violations to the College Handbook, and sanctioned with an unofficial reprimand. The hearing — the first open CJB proceeding in over five years — drew a capacity ...
On Nov. 29 Professor of Economics and Director of the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship Jon Isham will teach an hour-and-a-half long online course for alumni called “What is Social Entrepreneurship?” Isham was approached by the Alumni Office in September to lead a course on social entrepreneurship. ...
LOCALmotive, a new shift in the Gamut Room on Monday nights from 7 – 9 p.m., aims to bring local food to campus in an affordable and fun way. Annalise Carington ’15 and Jordan Collins ’15.5 started this initiative and are the main cooks. They coordinated with the Middlebury College Organic Farm ...
Just two days ago, hundreds of millions of Americans exercised their right to vote — they cared enough about the issues at stake to take the time to make their voices heard. As SGA president this year, I’ve dealt with campus issues that run the gamut — including student programming, funding, ...
On Monday Nov. 5 the Community Council met to finalize the creation of the Residential Life Committee and speak with representatives of the Honor Code Review regarding its plans for this year. The constitution of the Honor Code mandates that a committee be created every four years with the purpose ...
On Oct. 20 the Bahrain government issued a temporary ban on all public rallies and gatherings, citing recent episodes of violence in the West Asian country. Bahrain, which has been trying to control mass protests since the Arab uprisings in spring 2011, has come under criticism from the international ...
The mackerel pike is a long skinny fish that is quite common to Japanese cuisine. Arriving in Tokyo in early fall, I was presented with the opportunity to eat this delicacy, often burned black, at what seemed to be every other meal. Breakfast, lunch or dinner — it made no difference — Sanma, as ...
The Office of the Dean of the College, Community Council and the Student Government Association (SGA) will hold the first Community Open Forum on Wednesday, November 7th at 7:30 in Crossroads Café. The Community Open Forums will take place once a month and are designed to be an additional open space ...
During his lecture “Who Will Win the 2012 Election?” on Oct. 31, Professor of Political Science Matt Dickinson tentatively predicted that Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election. However, Obama’s lead in the polls falls within the margin of error, pointing to a presidential race that ...