This upcoming summer, Naina Qayyum ’15 will spend her break in Islamabad, Pakistan, the capital of her home country. A recipient of a $10,000 Project for Peace Grant through the Davis United World Scholars Program, Qayyum will run a program called Creative Youth for Community Leadership Enhancement. ...
The College’s Board of Trustees has approved a tuition increase of 3.9 percent, or $2,293, to $47,418 for the 2015-2016 academic year. The full comprehensive fee for the College, including the increased cost of room and board to a total of $13,628, is now set at $61,046. For the past five years, ...
On Saturday, April 11, two students from the College were fishing approximately 15 minutes away from Middlebury along the New Haven River and discovered a clearing with 15 to 20 mutilated, dismembered dogs. The students, Matt and Michael, who requested their full names not be disclosed, immediately ...
Duke University Dean of Arts & Sciences Laurie L. Patton was in the middle of creating an ambitious new outreach forum, the Duke Forum for Scholars and Publics, when her idea hit a roadblock. The world-renowned historian she had appointed the director of the forum wanted a premier space on campus. ...
This June, Peter Jensen, the Foundations of Engineering and Architecture Instructor at the Hannaford Career Center, will be retiring. After working eight years in his current position at the center, and forty years overall in the Middlebury education system, Jensen and his career of dedicated work deserve ...
This June, Peter Jensen, the Foundations of Engineering and Architecture Instructor at the Hannaford Career Center, will be retiring. After working eight years in his current position at the center, and forty years overall in the Middlebury education system, Jensen and his career of dedicated work deserve ...
Before we officially commence our column, we want to let you all know that we are aware that many of our NARP activities involve self-defense, and this week is no different. We are unsure what this means, but we are rollin’ with it. Seeing that it is the 21st century and we go to school in an incredibly ...
I had met him at the beginning of the summer and could tell very quickly that he was different. Since then, we’d worked alongside one another, hiked together and browsed western art galleries together, discovering our mutual love of the great Rocky Mountains and being in the moment. So one night a ...
Most of us have been on the Athletic department website at one time or another, maybe to check on your favorite team’s progress, or maybe to not-so-subtly roster stalk your Proctor crush. This website (along with many other sources of information and publicity for athletics) is led by two people, ...
“The more we understand the world, the more voice we have in shaping it.” These were the words of a young student of Kevin Murungi ’01, Director of Human Rights and Foreign Policy Programs at Global Kids, who returned to the College on April 9 to deliver the Spring Symposium’s annual keynote ...
After putting up an exhibit called Queer Faces of Middlebury in the McCullough Center Gallery, I noticed that the word “queer” turned some people off the project. I personally don’t mind identifying as queer and using it as a personal and political tool to talk about identities and ideas, but ...
Students in the Davis United World College Program, representing as many as 60 countries, will gather in Wilson Hall today to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Program. It will only be the second time this year – and also the last – that this group has come together under the banner which had ...
I am exhausted. We are all exhausted. The unrelenting surge of assignments and job applications saps our reserves like a tap into a maple tree. Though some may contend the role of God, I think we can all agree our souls are in need of refreshment. What we need this weekend is a nice B&B. Not a bed ...
It takes a certain kind of vulnerability to create powerful theatre. From April 9-11, the stars of the student-produced version of David Ives’ 2010 play Venus in Fur put their acting skills on fearless, intimate display in a 90-minute showing at the Hepburn Zoo. Featuring actors Caitlin Duffy ’15.5 ...
Umoja, Middlebury’s African Student Organization, is preparing to host a conference that will take place on Saturday, April 25. The conference, “Education in Africa,” will begin at 10 a.m. in Wilson Hall with a presentation by esteemed guest speaker Fred Swaniker. Following the keynote presentation, ...
On Monday, March 4, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz was interviewed by former correspondent, anchor, and Washington bureau chief for CNN Frank Sesno ’77. Preparing for his departure in June, Liebowitz reflected on his thirty-one years at the College. The interview was streamed over a ...
MiddChallenge, a competition for Middlebury students to receive funding to support anything from an art project to a business model just announced the winners of the 2015 competition. The competition is divided into four categories: Business; Social Entrepreneurship; Arts and Education; and Outreach ...
Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile will be speaking at Middlebury on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. in Mead Chapel. The event, titled “Political Outlook: Comprehensive Picture of What’s Going on in Washington,” will be free to attend and open to the public. Brazile ...
The College held its ninth annual Spring Student Symposium last weekend from Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 10, with over three hundred students presenting on their academic and creative endeavors. Many students gave oral or poster presentations on their independent work in Bicentennial Hall, while ...
Early this year, HBO released “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” a six-part documentary examining Robert Alan Durst, an alleged serial killer and person of interest in over four missing person cases. Recently it has been discovered that Durst is also connected to the College. Durst ...