The Student Government Association (SGA) held their first full meeting of the academic year on Sept. 23. SGA meetings are held in the Crest Room of the McCullough Student Center and are open to the student body. The Campus will provide bi-monthly updates on their proceedings. SGA Launches Website During ...
Students study abroad for myriad reasons: to travel, cement friendships and experience things otherwise unable to be had in Middlebury, Vt. As many students will find in Europe, the consumption and attitudes toward alcohol are much different than those of Middlebury students. Instead of a tool for weekend ...
Fraud Schemes Obtain $700,000 From Student Aid (Huffington Post) 21 people in California have been charged with fraud for attempting to steal federal college funding for nonexistent students. U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California Benjamin B. Wagner and Inspector General of the U.S. Department ...
Over the past two weeks, anti-Western protests have engulfed the Middle East following the circulation of a highly controversial video that mocked the Prophet Mohammed and the religion of Islam. The video was produced and posted on YouTube under the alias “Sam Bacile” July of this year. It did ...
On Sept. 8, the Student Government Association (SGA) passed the Election Bylaws Reform Act, which updated regulations for students running for SGA offices. The act includes a change allowing candidates to campaign through the voting period – a technicality that caused disqualifications in past ...
The Alumni Factor, a new college ranking publication, unveiled its first college and university ranking earlier this month, slotting Middlebury College in 7th place. Unlike other ranking lists, the Alumni Factor uses quantifiable financial data gleaned from alumni surveys. By using alternative criteria, ...
Two seniors – Kathryn Benson '13 and Barrett Smith '13 – will run for Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCOCC) in the wake of the resignation of Luke Carroll-Brown '13.5 from the position in late August. The elections, which will take place on Sept. 24, will determine the student who will ...
The Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) has announced that FUN. will perform as the fall concert on Friday, Nov. 2. FUN. will be visiting the College as part of its Campus Consciousness Tour, a tour originally started by Guster in 2006 that seeks to combine entertainment with education on important ...
Symposiums organized by the International Politics and Economics (IPE) Department and the Juntos Migrant Outreach student group open this week. The IPE department symposium, held Friday, Sept. 21, will address the transformation of China over the past 30 years and the implications and challenges of ...
Over the summer, the Library and Information Services (LIS) launched Middlebury History Online, a digital archive of documents specifically related to the history of the College. The online archive has been over six years in the making. The project originated in 2005 as a proposal by Judith Tichenor ...
MiddFarmstand, an online farmer's market offering produce from local farms, opened for faculty and staff this past summer. The coordinators are now looking into expanding the service to students. The program is a branch of yourfarmstand.com, which originated in Charlotte, Vt. in 2010 and has now expanded ...
My bags imprudently overstuffed and my back frequently overburdened, I spent a 13-hour travel experience wondering whether carrying-on my raincoat was truly necessary. I allude to the rather awkward task of confronting a reality that you've only ever conceived of as a casual collection of stereotypes: ...
During the last two weeks, curious netizens and concerned citizens in China speculated about the fate of that country's presumptive president-in-waiting, as he failed to make a public appearance for 14 straight days. Xi Jinping, aged 59, is currently China's Vice President. He is set to take the reins ...
Penn State Task Force To Allocate $60 Million Fine (Huffington Post) A 10-member task forced has been appointed to come up with guidelines for how to distribute the record $60 million fine that Penn State will pay in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, reported the NCAA on Tuesday. Penn State ...
"The Green Poodle," a website created this summer, seeks to improve coordination amongst green-focused student organizations on campus. The site contains a running blog with current events, a page with contact information for each organization and a calendar that will sync to the organizations' individual ...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit the College in October and will give two speeches on Friday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 13, as part of his tour of several U.S. colleges and universities. His speech on Friday, Oct. 12, "Educating the Heart," will be open only to students, faculty and staff, ...
Eight members of the College faculty were granted tenure by the Board of Trustees at its meeting in July, following the recommendations made by President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz and the board's Educational Affairs Committee. The newly promoted professors are Associate Professor of Music ...
Renovations are underway to convert two formerly single-gender, multi-stall restrooms in the McCullough Student Center into gender-neutral facilities. The McCullough pilot project, an initiative designed to create more universally accessible facilities for all members of the college community, will ...
This past May, administrators approved a new policy that offers professors the opportunity to teach courses in which student evaluations are not given to administrators for review. The policy, effective this fall, allows professors to teach one course every two years with this option at their disposal. Traditionally, ...
On Thursday, Sept. 5, a video produced by students from the improv comedy group Otter Nonsense debuted on mtvU, an online offshoot of MTV that focuses on college life and interests. The video is part of a series mtvU calls "College Quickies," which features a different comedy sketch produced by college ...