In the days leading up to Jan. 15, the Library and Information Services (LIS) noticed an increase in the number of email phishing incidents within the college community. The compromised email accounts generated large amounts of spam. To reduce the number of compromised accounts, LIS required all students ...
On Sunday, Feb. 10, It Happens Here (IHH), a sexual assault awareness student organization, revealed the results of their Map Project, showing the student-submitted locations of over 100 incidents of sexual assault that have occurred on campus. The map, which is currently on display in the Davis Family ...
Technically speaking, I am not overseas. But every week, this section of the Campus features the exciting tales and fascinating challenges of our peers who are lucky enough to be abroad and it seems time to turn the tables on them and brief our traveling companions on our lives. For starters, it continues ...
After two consecutive losses in NESCAC games against Williams and Bowdoin, the women’s basketball team bounced back with wins against Colby and Lyndon State before winning a make-or-break game against Trinity on Sunday, Feb. 10, all but guaranteeing a spot in the NESCAC quarterfinals. The ...
On Jan. 25, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz, Dean of the College Shirley Collado and Vice President of Finance Patrick Norton agreed to resume funding several programs — including midnight breakfast and 24/7 open hours at the library during finals week — which the Student Government ...
Following student protests, an expert panel attended by hundreds, and countless letters from current students and alumni, seven students will present on the “moral imperative of divestment” to the Board of Trustees at Board’s tri-annual on-campus meeting on Saturday, Feb. 16. The students will ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, international freelance journalist and Middlebury alumnus Dimiter Kenarov ’03.5 spoke to students and community members in a lecture titled “Shale Gas: from Poland to Pennsylvania.” Recently, Kenarov spent six weeks traveling Eastern Europe and the United States researching ...
During the Feb. 11 Community Council meeting, tensions ran high as members discussed attendance issues, faculty and staff representation on the council and the overall role of the Community Council on campus. Student Government Association (SGA) President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 expressed his concern ...
“A health minister doesn’t need to be a medical doctor, but if he is one, then he can’t have committed malpractice. An education minister doesn’t need to have a Ph.D., but if he does, then his dissertation cannot be plagiarized,” Dr. Volker Rieble, professor of law at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian ...
Ohio University considers guaranteed tuition rate Ohio University is considering implementing a four-year fixed tuition rate for undergraduate students. Administrators at the university view fixed tuition as an incentive for students to graduate within four years, as tuition would be raised if a student ...
In the wake of the 2000 Olympic summer games Nike aired an ad featuring Olympic runner Suzy Hamilton. Like all patrons of athletics, Nike enjoys the lucrative window opened by the Olympic games that vaults athletes other than football, basketball and baseball players into the American mainstream. Suddenly ...
The Panther ski teams had a pivotal breakthrough as they landed on the podium in third place at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, after two fourth-place finishes at University of Vermont (UVM) and Colby. Junior men’s alpine standout Dave Donaldson ’14 won two more races and is still undefeated thus ...
Over the years, the Internet has become a source of alternative methods of education, making information readily available. InstaEDU, an online tutoring service launched publicly in May of last year, makes virtual education even more accessible by adding a human element. Launched by three Stanford ...
On Feb. 4, 2012, the then 7-8-3 Middlebury men’s hockey team defeated Wesleyan 3-2 on the road. Following that win, the team went on a 7-1-0 run to end the season, losing a closely fought NESCAC championship game to Amherst. While the 2013 season is far from over for the Panthers, Middlebury’s ...
Remember Valentine’s Day in elementary school? You’d come home off the bus beaming, with a shoebox full of cardboard rectangles sporting Disney characters, comic book heroes or cuddly cats, and — hopefully — a handful of Hershey’s kisses and heart-shaped lollipops. Everyone brought in a bumblebee ...
February recess was a successful week for the women’s ice hockey team, however the team fell to top-ranked Norwich on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The team went 3-1 in NESCAC games with two wins against Williams and a split against Connecticut College. The three out of league games, against Plattsburgh, St. ...
The Middlebury men’s and women’s squash teams continued their string of success to close out the regular season and NESCAC tournament as the year winds down. In its last regular season match, the Panthers women’s team triumphed over Columbia by winning 6-3. Charlotte Dewey ’15 led the win against ...
In their final meet before the NESCAC championships, the Panther swimming and diving teams hosted the Middlebury Invitational on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1 and 2. The men and women competed against swimmers from Williams, Amherst and Springfield, with several Panthers recording season-best times. Andy ...
Although the men’s and women’s latest meet at Tufts was cancelled due to complications from winter storm Nemo, the team had ample opportunities to improve in both the Terrier Classic at Boston University on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26 and at Dartmouth on Feb. 2. Middlebury traveled to Boston University ...
Today is Valentine’s Day. No matter how you feel about this “holiday” — whether you love it, hate it or try to forget about it — Feb. 14 usually makes us think about love. And, even though the two are not necessarily or always related, love often makes us think about sex. Most college students, ...