This past weekend, the College hosted over 14 global health professionals as part of the annual GlobeMed Hilltop conference during which students, healthcare professionals, professors and community members gathered to discuss global healthcare in the context of sustainability and connectivity, which ...
On Oct. 22 Dean of Students Katy Smith Abbott sent an all-student email inviting students to participate in the new Community Working Group. In her email, Smith Abbot explained that the decision to form this group — which will be comprised of students, faculty and staff — is a result of a recommendation ...
On Monday, Oct. 29 Library and Information Services (LIS) announced the launch of a new online discussion board. The online forum is intended to serve as a way for the campus to communicate through a less formal medium than all-school emails. The forum allows for members of the college community to ...
Candlelit dinners, which the College’s Campus Sustainability Coordinators (CSCs) began last year, are continuing to be held in Proctor or Ross every Wednesday night this semester. The dinners initially occurred once every other week. Last spring, in order to have a greater impact on the college community, ...
For as long as I can remember I have always loved taking public transportation. As a child I loved swiping my plastic fare card during family trips to the Big Apple. When in Washington, D.C., I worked to memorize the rainbow tangle of the metro system, as it granted me access to an exciting world of ...
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been in the news this year for its progress in democratization. Since 1989, the Southeast Asian nation of 60 million has been ruled by a military junta. The military crushed popular protests in 1988 and refused to honor the results of elections held two years later. Recognized ...
In response to the Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee’s (DLWC) email, in which students sent out a mock press release to hundreds of students, faculty and staff claiming the College decided to divest from arms and fossil fuels in light of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit, Community Council Co-Chair ...
Mock Press Release (Oct.12, 2012) Many students, staff and faculty receive an email from the “Office of Communications” with the subject line “Middlebury College Divests from War on Eve of Dalai Lama Visit.” MiddBlog Post (Oct. 12, 2012) MiddBlog, an alternative news source for students about ...
On Oct. 1, Public Safety released the Middlebury College Annual Security and Crime Report. This report, emailed to all students in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, was a compilation of statistics about crime at the College in the ...
Trustees of the College met on campus this past weekend to discuss and vote on various issues of governance, experiential learning and student life, among other topics. The board heard from several students during their time at the College. Student Government Association (SGA) President Charlie Arnowitz ...
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, Director of Student Fellowships and Health Professions Advising Arlinda Wickland sent an email to first and second year premedical students announcing that the College has established an Early Assurance Program with Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. “This new ...
On Thursday, Oct. 18, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs celebrated its ten year anniversary. In time with this celebration, the international studies major was changed to the international and global studies major (IGS). Students and professors commemorated the anniversary with two panels, ...
On Friday Oct. 12 and Saturday Oct. 13, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama addressed the College and members of the Middlebury community in two lectures in which he discussed themes of morality in education and the importance of faith, peace and cooperation on a global scale. The two-day event was the ...
The FUN. concert that was originally scheduled for Friday, Nov. 2, has been rescheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17. The band cannot perform at the College in November due to a scheduling conflict with a Saturday Night Live performance. Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) Concert Commitee Co-Chairs ...
On Oct. 19 the College charged five students with violations of College Handbook policies, related to their involvement in the co-authorship of a mock press release that was sent to hundreds of students, faculty and staff and a number of local media outlets on Oct. 12. The students, Molly Stuart ’15.5, ...
The Community Council met on Monday Oct. 22 to outline an ambitious list of tasks for the 2012-2013 academic year. Issues on the preliminary agenda for the council include: communication methods between faculty, students and staff; restricting first-year on-campus parking; access to health services ...
Welcome to the first edition of the Student Government Association’s (SGA) bi-weekly column, From the President’s Desk with SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13. In this column, we will be discussing issues of importance to the SGA and the student body. This week I am joined by SGA Treasurer and ...
Amherst Student Publishes Account of On-Campus Rape (The Amherst Student) A former Amherst College student detailed her experience of on-campus rape in an op-ed in the Amherst Student on Oct. 17. The 5,000-word piece, which was published with a “trigger-warning” due to its disturbing nature, was ...
I am addressing you from Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America, a gorgeous city where wine is cheaper than water, the dead get the best real estate and the national dance is sexy as hell. I could be speaking from anywhere, though. It does not matter where I am so much as that I am there. A few weeks ...
The 19-month-long conflict in Syria between President Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces seeking to topple his government continued to deepen this past week, with violence seeping into Damascus and tensions spilling into neighboring Lebanon as a high-level Sunni official was killed in a Beirut bombing ...