This past summer has been marked by wild news cycles in the energy industry. From the unleashing of ISIS on the Middle East to the beginning of American crude oil exports, these past three months have witnessed a shakeup in the global energy market. However, throughout all of this, the only constant ...
On Tuesday, May 13, the faculty voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with K12, Inc., the corporation with which the College partnered to create Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL). The 95 to 16 vote — with three abstentions — was only symbolic, but sent a strong message to President of the College ...
Jenny Johnston ’14 will give the student commencement speech representing the class of 2014 at Commencement on May 25. Johnston was chosen from nearly 20 applicants by Editor-in-Chief Kyle Finck ’14, SGA president Rachel Liddell ’15, Alex Cort ’14.5, Jackie Breckenridge ’14 and Bry Kleber ...
On Tuesday, May 13 the faculty will vote on a motion to sever the College’s ties with K12, Inc., the corporation that the College has partnered with to create Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL), a foreign language education program for K-12 students. While the motion carries no weight — only ...
Sexual assault on college campuses made national news last week when Tufts University was found noncompliant with Title IX for mishandling complaints of sexual assault. In the wake of this finding, the Department of Education released a list of the 55 schools currently under investigation for such violations, ...
On May 10, the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will be holding a team triathlon open to the entire student body. The event aims to bring the athlete and non-athlete communities together around an interactive exercise. The SAAC aims to strengthen the bonds between the general student body ...
The current Student Government Association (SGA) administration has been faced with a great deal of scrutiny this year, due in part to the especially high voter turnout last year, which elected Rachel Liddell ’15 as SGA President with over 52 percent of the votes. Amid frustration with the apparent ...
On Tuesday, April 29, Twilight Auditorium was filled to capacity by 4:30, the start time for the Inaugural Lecture “The Case for Marx,” given by Christian A. Johnson Professor of Economics and Department Chair Peter Matthews. Jim Ralph, Dean of Faculty Development and Research, had to turn away ...
A ceremony was held this past Tuesday in Crossroads café to honor Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Dana Yeaton with the Marjorie Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award. The annual award was initiated by the SGA as an opportunity to recognize those faculty members who have made an impact on the ...
Two students, Rana Abdelhamid ’15 and Spencer Salibur ’15, were selected as winners of prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships which will provide them with financial support for two years of undergraduate and graduate study in preparation for work as a Foreign Service Officer. The ...
I hoped to close this dating column with a feel-good end, a second date. Instead, I have a more upstanding finish — complete rejection. Darlene* and I got along swimmingly, as you may have gathered from my last installment. We had a marvelous evening at Black Sheep and, though we’re from vastly ...
Last weekend, five members of the Middlebury Cycling Team traveled to Richmond, Virginia to the Cycling National Championships. Without a coach, Zack Isaacs ’15.5, Jake Barker ’16, Matt Gilbert ’16.5, Kai Wiggins ’16.5, and Sam O’Keefe ’16.5 reeled impressive results, including six top-twenty ...
Cindy Lee wakes up at 3:15 a.m. five days a week and drives 45 minutes to work at the laundry room in Freeman International Center (FIC). She starts off her day with emails and bookwork. Around 9:30 a.m. the truck arrives full with bags of dirty laundry from the three dining halls and any other catered ...
Renowned disability and gender activist Eli Clare came to campus on Wednesday, April 30th to host his talk, “Meditations on Disabled Bodies, Natural Worlds, and a Politics of Cure.” As the title suggests, Clare ventured to tackle the difficult and often cumbersome issue of “cure” and the politics ...
At intermission of the opening night of “In the Next Room” (or “The Vibrator Play”), the audience of the packed Seeler Studio Theater collectively sighed with relief upon realizing that despite it’s name, Sarah Ruhl’s Tony Award-nominated play was far from vulgar. Gathering from the chatter ...
What would have been our last week of training was instead spent recovering in bed and wallowing in Adam Levine’s new hair color. Reminders of the upcoming race proved to be overwhelming throughout the week. A walk into town meant passing a screaming neon sign announcing road closures on Sunday, May ...
Nail biting. Isolation. Tiredness. Irritability. Anxiety. These are all ways to tell when you’ve reached the boiling point. As most students have probably experienced, stress manifests in a variety of forms, intensities and lengths. According to the American Psychological Association, “stress can ...
Vermont guns are being used to purchase hard drugs from surrounding states, exacerbating both the drug epidemic in Vermont and gun violence in the broader New England area. Despite an historically democratic electorate, Vermont’s history and tradition of hunting and shooting sports has led the state ...
In 2014, both child abuse and neglect are on the rise in Vermont. Calls to Vermont’s child protection hotline, a part of the Department for Children and Families (DCF), have overwhelmed DCF social workers and staff. The death of Dezirae Sheldon in February and the death of a 15-month-old boy in April, ...
On May 5, the Vermont Senate passed a four-year, multi-tier plan to raise the minimum wage in Vermont to $10.50 per hour by 2018. In 2019, annual cost-of-living wage adjustments will resume. The bill is just one example of the flurry of legislative activity due to the Senate’s self-imposed May 10 ...