The Middlebury Campus sat down with College President Ronald D. Liebowitz to discuss his time at the College. The conversation ranged from when he first became President to some of the changes he has seen at the College in the past years. Liebowitz will depart the College at the conclusion of the school ...
We are writing in response to the article Oct. 8 Campus article “Report Shows that Sexual Assault Numbers Tripled.” While we think it is important that the topic of sexual assault is covered in the Campus, we were disappointed by the ways that the article misrepresented the issue. First of all, ...
Everyone is anxious on the first day of school. You walk into a new classroom, you scan the room in the hopes you know some people, you pray the syllabus is reasonable, then your professor walks in, starts to take roll and you settle into the swing of it. But for gender nonconforming students, this ...
Over the past few weeks, there was a flurry of construction along South Main Street where workers dug a trough and buried a natural gas distribution line leading to the College’s service building to provide the campus with a new source of energy. This is the local extension of Vermont Gas’s highly ...
On Oct. 17, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz announced several administrative changes in an all-campus email. Included was the news that Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Katy Smith Abbott will serve as interim Dean of the College beginning in ...
This week on The Campus Voice, Campus editors and writers debate the ethics of the popular app, Yik Yak. Later in the hour, Jess looks around the library and asks students what were doing when they should have been studying? Plus, Jess and Michelle tell you how to use Yik Yak to provoke happiness. Hosts: Jessica ...
Riverside Natural Health Center had its grand opening at the Star Mill Building in downtown Middlebury last Friday. The Center houses the offices of four health practitioners dedicated to using only natural remedies to help patients. Services include acupuncture, massage therapy, naturopathic medicine, ...
The Middlebury Language Schools, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of their founding, will launch the School of Korean for the summer of 2015. The school will run at Middlebury’s affiliate campus at Mills College in Oakland, California, where the Arabic and Italian Schools are already housed. Unlike ...
A petition to ban drone-assisted hunting in Vermont is making its way through the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. The state of Vermont could become the latest state to ban hunting with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles following Montana, Alaska, Colorado and New Mexico. Early this year, ...
With the newly installed squash center green roof, the second one at the College after the 2004 installation at Atwater Dining Hall, the nine-court, 18,000-square-foot Squash Center has been awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) its highest level of certification, LEED (Leadership in Energy ...
The Student Government Association held its latest weekly meetings on Sunday, Sept. 28 and Oct. 5 in the Crest Room of the McCullough Student Center. The meeting on Sept. 28 opened with an introduction of the new Director of Publicity Committee, Robin Loewald ’16. Confirmed the week prior, Loewald’s ...
Comedy icon Jerry Seinfield reportedly receives over 200,000 dollars per graduation speech – a ludicrous sum by most standards. Last Sunday, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s commencement speech at Goddard College of Vermont drew criticism for a different reason: Abu-Jamal is currently serving a life sentence for ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz updated the College on the development of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) progress outlined in a mass email sent Sept. 23. The development of stronger ESG principles for the investment portfolio, the creation of ESG guidelines to help monitor operations ...
Middlebury is on track to become carbon neutral by 2016, although it will have to rely heavily on the controversial Addison-Rutland natural gas pipeline to do so. According to Director of Sustainability Integration Jack Byrne, the College has reduced its carbon footprint by 55 percent since 2008. Most ...
Public Safety released its annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Wednesday, Oct. 1st, which indicated several variances from the 2013 report, most notably, an increase in the number of forcible sexual offenses from five in 2012 to seventeen in 2013. The report defines forcible sexual offenses ...
In a letter written in 1819 by Romantic poet John Keats to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana, Keats said that “nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life hast illustrated it.’ The College’s community of poet-performers, ...
use of gay dating apps such as Grindr and Scruff has changed how people interact and form romantic relationships in the technological world. While many make the argument that the use of these apps helps connect and strengthen the gay community, the insidious effects of commoditizing sex and labeling ...
Imagine you’re driving through the quaint little town of East Middlebury, fairly lost, but telling yourself that you’re totally going the right way. It doesn’t matter though, because you’re the only person in the car, “Beverly Hills” is on the radio, you’re singing along and are crushing ...
Having depression can add to an already-stressful life, especially for college students. Oftentimes people experiencing depression feel exhausted and cannot bring themselves to do much at all. Most students at the College barely have enough time to get all their work done when they are at their most ...
The Umbrella Revolution is a grassroots movement of Hong Kong people in protest of increasing control by the Chinese government. It began as a class boycott organized by the Student Federation of Hong Kong and was meant to last as long as the chief executive would assent to demands to talks about Hong ...