On Oct. 13, the 2015 First Generation Mentorship Program launched with a dinner in Atwater Dining Hall. Now in its third year, the program is designed to help first-generation students adjust to life at the College. This year the program consists of 49 first-years, the largest group to date. “[The ...
On Thursday, Oct. 15, guest speaker Dr. Julie Hotchkiss presented a talk in Twilight Auditorium titled “Can We Really Believe Everything We Read About the U.S. Labor Market?” Her presentation came as a part of the D.K. Smith ’42 Economics Lecture series. The David K. Smith ’42 lecture series ...
Despite understanding that using a phone while driving is dangerous, many people routinely give into the temptation to send a quick text while on the road. And despite state laws banning the use of phones while driving, the practice is still dangerously common. Middlebury students Terry Goguen ’16 ...
Starting in the fall of 2016, Arabic language learners will have an alternative destination to study abroad in the Arabic-speaking world: Morocco. Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad will add its 17th country when it opens a new School in Rabat, Morocco. Partnering with the Mohammed V University, this ...
The Middlebury College Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducted ten seniors into the honors society on Saturday, Oct. 3 at a ceremony that coincided with Fall Family Weekend. A committee of faculty selects the students based on their academic transcripts in their first three years. One of the inductees, Kate ...
On Oct. 12, Community Council began to brainstorm specific issues to address during the academic year. When all was said and done, the Council generated 51 different topics which its members hoped to cover to some degree. Issues raised by College staff included increased awareness of the dangers of ...
If you’ve passed through the Ridgeline area recently, you’ve noticed the rapid development occurring on the Ridgeline townhouses. Ridgeline “woods” now looks like a giant sandbox demarcated by bright orange netting. Last Thursday morning, sporting a fashionable yellow hard hat, I crossed over ...
The largest contribution to the College’s carbon emissions comes from heating and cooling buildings. When the Climate Action Plan (CAP) was implemented in 2008, heating and cooling constituted 89 percent of the College’s emissions. Most of the emissions came from the combustion of no. 6 fuel oil ...
It has been 285 days since the College unveiled its new logo. Each and every one of those days could have been just a tad bit better if the new logo never existed. That’s 6,840 hours with a logo that looks like the College proudly unified with DeVry University to create one comprehensive institution. ...
It’s a common belief that each of us is either left-brained or right-brained. That is, we are disposed better to either logic or creativity. Well. Neurologically, this is simply untrue. In 1961, Roger Sperry discovered that each hemisphere takes primary responsibility for certain functions; the left ...
Written in response to David Mnitsa’s “Ignorance is Bliss” Last week’s op-ed, titled, “Ignorance is Bliss,” accepts as a premise that life is meaningless. Writer David Mnitsa then claims that the best way to get around our fundamental state of despair will be through the distractions ...
Issues of environmentalism and racial justice are inextricably linked, proclaimed Van Jones at his keynote speech for the Environmental Studies 50th Anniversary last Thursday night. Jones, an acclaimed environmental and human rights activist, is best known for his efforts to provide opportunities for ...
It’s the here and now that’s important; the next life will sort itself out. This is the conclusion I’ve come to in my ponderings on mortality and the afterlife, ponderings on which I imagine nearly all people dwell throughout their lives. I also imagine that many individuals in my demographic ...
Written in response to Josh Berlowitz’s “Dear CCI: Cease and Desist” In last week’s addition of the Campus, Josh Berlowitz (’16) wrote an op-ed that was framed as a cease and desist letter to the Center for Careers and Internships (CCI). I was slightly perplexed that days after Josh’s op-ed ...
On Thursday, Oct. 8, 12 students competed for the opportunity to be the student speaker selection for next month’s TEDxMiddlebury conference. Gathering in Dana Auditorium, students had four minutes to present a condensed version of their proposed TED talks to a panel of judges. Topics this year included ...
The Middlebury football team ran into a brick wall in Amherst, Mass. on Saturday, Oct. 10. While both teams entered the match previously undefeated, only the Lord Jeffs maintained their sterling record after wearing down the Panthers over the course of four quarters. Amherst eventually capped the 24-7 ...
Both cross country teams competed in Franklin Park at the Open New England Championships this past Saturday, Oct. 10 in perfect weather for a cross country meet, sunny and in the mid-60s. The varsity men’s team finished 12th out of 38 Division I and Division III teams with a score of 343 points ...
The third-ranked women’s field hockey team extended their winning streak to six, picking up two big conference road wins over the weekend. The Panthers (10-1, 6-1) traveled to Tufts on Saturday, beating the Jumbos 3-0, before heading to Wesleyan on Sunday for another 3-0 victory. “I think we’ve ...
This past weekend, the Middlebury men’s and women’s tennis teams took to the court in the Wallach Invitational at Bates and the Middlebury Invitational, respectively. The men’s team had multiple victories as they advanced through the four-flight tournament at Bates. Both Jack Welch ’16 and ...
The Panthers managed to come away with a 1-1 split this weekend in their home matches against two of the top teams in the NESCAC. They decisively handled Amherst in four sets on Friday (25-20, 21-25, 25-17, 28-26), before succumbing to Williams in a nail-biter on Saturday that went the distance (21-25, ...