After an article in the Campus last week revealed that students could view their admissions files under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the College Admissions Office has been flooded with student requests to view their files. On Wednesday, the first students to request access ...
Middlebury College launched its first fully online class, “Years of Upheaval: Diplomacy, War & Social Change, 1919–1945,” on February 13. The class, which is taught by James Jermain Professor Emeritus of Political Economy and International Law Russ Leng, is the latest in a series of technology-based ...
On February 16, 2015, Cate Costley ’15 and Alison Maxwell ’15 of the SGA Honor Code Committee attended this week’s Community Council meeting. They presented a drafted amendment to the constitution of Middlebury’s Honor Code and received feedback from Community Council members. Maxwell said, ...
Last week, the College announced the inauguration of its Summer Study program for this coming summer. The program was approved by faculty last year and is designed to provide students with opportunities to participate in experiential, field-based courses that would otherwise be difficult to accommodate ...
Due to the deficit of available professors and the overwhelming popularity of the major, the Economics Department has been unable to accommodate many students trying to register for classes at all levels at the beginning of this spring term. While limited capacity has always been an issue for this department, ...
As of the start of the 2014-2015 school year, Munford has become an Intentional Living interest house. Over the past few years, students have consistently applied to live in Munford as an intentional living Superblock. The sustained commitment to this theme in Munford caused the College to transition ...
The off-campus housing lottery, which took place on Tuesday, Feb. 17, approved 58 rising seniors to live off campus for the 2015-16 school year. Including senior Febs who have been granted approval, the number of students permitted to live off campus next year amounts to 95—a slight decrease from ...
In the world of architecture, three alumni of the College see things differently. “When most people think about virtual reality goggles, they imagine the technology from the ’90s. Back then if you put those on you’d be immobile, dizzy, and eventually start puking. IrisVR is ten thousand steps ...
The inception of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affair’s Student-Led Conference was only a little over a year ago, and yet this year’s “Apathy and Action: Exploring Youth-Driven Movements” conference had the appearance of being a long established event on campus. Last year’s conference, entitled ...
Last week, I was on my way to town, when a man poked his head out of a navy blue truck and called me a faggot. Mind you, my first reaction to the event was confused: I thought I’d be targeted for the color of my skin and called the n-word, but instead I was called a faggot. Thus, part of me was thrown ...
Give it To Me Straight is a new column in the Campus where I, Frank, will be answering questions from students about life at Middlebury, inside and out of the classroom. Quick disclaimer: I have no official qualifications, so you’re well within your rights to consider my advice with the same suspicion ...
Last year, the College’s geology department unveiled a new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), a high performance machine capable of advanced imaging and analysis at very fine levels. The machine boasts an impressive array of features that include three-dimensional imaging as well as the chemical ...
While the Middlebury girls’ soccer team makes it to Nationals and our football team wins NESCACs, Middlebury’s Debate Society has been quietly forging its own path of success. Coming up on its 100-year anniversary, the team has seen an unprecedented level of achievement, competing in tournaments ...
It’s hard to shake the nagging paradox that seems to be spray-painted all over the upstairs gallery space at the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s Street Art Exhibit. Even if your experience with street art as a form of socio-political discourse is minimal, it is likely you have either heard of ...
There is a consistent stream of people exiting and entering Wilson Café, but the one constant amongst all the hubbub is Elliot Gowen’s cheerful presence. Wilson is a sort of safe haven; a place where the weary can come to wind down after a grueling day of work. Gowen, a Middlebury native, has worked ...
What exactly do professors do when they teach? Are they communicating some aspect of their experience — sharing some of their knowledge or perspective with students? Or are they laying bare their personal investigative process and human experience for all to see? The dance department this week presents ...
To quote my close friend and role model, Morgan Freeman: “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” Black History Month is coming to a close, but the sentiment echos. You see, March is Women’s History Month. While I feel obligated to divulge that I am not necessarily a woman, you get ...
The two primary characters of Ida, the most recent Polish language film from director Paweł Pawlikowski, appear to perfectly contradict each other. “The slut and the saint,” says one of the two. On the eve of pledging her life to a Catholic monastery, Ida, an orphan approaching adulthood, is told ...
Impressive archery is a frequent “wow” factor for the big screen. From Robin Hood to Legolas to Hawkeye, masters of this highly specialized weapon intrigue and entertain us, providing the opportunity for diverse and pretty badass fight choreography. In Bernard Cornwell’s book The Archer’s Tale, ...
The Middlebury women’s basketball team’s season ended this weekend with a 80-52 loss to the 16th-ranked Bowdoin College Polar Bears (22-3, 9-1) in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC tournament. After having lost to the Polar Bears just two weeks prior to this matchup at Pepin Gymnasium on Sunday, ...