On Dec. 29, the Burlington Free Press named Bill McKibben, Schumann distinguished scholar at the College and Ripton resident, Vermonter of the Year for 2012. “This was the year of growing recognition that a string of weather events, from violent storms to record-breaking droughts, was having a profound ...
Last Wednesday, Jan. 9 the 2013 Vermont legislation session began in Montpelier. The Speaker of the House, Shap Smith (D), opened the session with an address outlining several challenges that he would like to tackle in 2013. These include: education reform, universal health care, coping with climate ...
About one year ago, the College launched a new site — ‘go/portal’ — in order to aggregate information about events and activities on campus. The initiative aimed to provide a single, comprehensive resource for students, many of who were tired of their inboxes being inundated daily with all-student ...
The recent movie Zero Dark Thirty showed extremely clear visuals of Pakistan and I felt awkward sitting in a theatre in Boston watching my own country on screen. It has been two years since I have been to Pakistan. There is a longing to go back; it is as if the smell of rain, pakoras and chai beckon ...
In an article published on the front page of the Dec. 6, 2012 edition of the Campus (Panel Discusses Racial Diversity), my position on affirmative action was described this way: “Dry, an opponent of affirmative action, suggested that affirmative action does not have a place in college admissions and ...
Being a Feb has, for better or for worse, defined much of my time at Middlebury thus far. I am now preparing to work as one of the leaders for Feb orientation after the end of winter term. I look forward to meeting the new class and re-experiencing some of the orientation activities alongside them, ...
Superstorm Sandy may be a bit of an afterthought now that both J-Term and winter in Vermont are well under way, but remnants of the catastrophic storm are still very much visible back home in New Jersey. Thankfully, my home and neighborhood managed to remain reasonably unscathed in the wake of the storm ...
I could not focus as I clicked through the questions. While I was supposed to select answers, it did not seem there could possibly be any. Twenty beautiful elementary school students were brutally massacred on the day I sat for my examination to be certified to teach elementary school. When I awoke ...
I believe in a strong correlation between rules and the game of sweet or sour. If you have ever played the game — and with a mom who rolled around the carpool circles in a station wagon, I have played my fair share of sweet or sour — you know that in theory it’s very simple: wave equals sweet, ...
On Friday, Jan. 11 jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut returned to Middlebury with bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Billy Williams as the Cyrus Chestnut Trio. They performed for a nearly sold-out audience at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall at 8 PM. "Virtuosic and playful, pianist Cyrus Chestnut's ...
On Thursday, Dec. 20 the News Room announced the promotion of seven faculty members to associate professor, as well as three faculty members to professor: Seven members of the Middlebury College faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor without limit of tenure. The board of trustees, ...
In the wake of a high-profile student protest and amid a growing university movement to combat climate change, Middlebury College announced in early December that it would initiate steps to address the feasibility of divesting its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. In a campus-wide email, ...
President Ronald D. Liebowitz and Dean Shirley Collado with Williams' Michael Reed at LADO's Presidents Forum in September 2012. (Courtesy/Lee Wexler) The Middlebury College News Room posted the following press release earlier today: Three liberal arts colleges ― Middlebury, Williams and Connecticut ...
On Sunday, Dec. 9 Alpenglow played for a large crowd at the Gamut Room and Performance Space. Alpenglow consists of students Graeme Daubert '12.5 and Elori Kramer '13.5, joined by Peter Coccoma, Kenneth Root and Colin Weeks. Their sound has been likened to that of the Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and the ...
On Saturday, Dec. 8 RIDDIM World Dance Troupe presented two performances of "Once upon a RIDDIM" to sold-out crowds at the McCullough Social Space. Co-Directors Julianna Mauriello '13 and Kelsanah Wade '13 prepared their 28-member troupe for the biannual production. Large crowds were treated to sixteen ...
Middlebury's International Students Organization recently published its inaugural issue of Translingual, a biannual journal featuring photographs from around the world and writings in nine different languages (in addition to the English translations). Editor-in-chief Winnie Yeung '15 explains, "[O]utside ...
Middlebury College employs several in-residence professionals. Whether it’s a scholar-in-residence or an artist-in-residence, these people function as resources for the students and other faculty. Writer-in-Residence Julia Alvarez, described these professionals as people with their feet in two worlds, ...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Tara Affolter addressed the entangled issues of race and education in her lecture on Thursday, Dec. 6 entitled “Tell Them You Saw Me: Invisibility, Race and Racism in the Liberal Arts Classroom.” Affolter is applying for a tenure-track position in ...
On Wednesday, Dec. 4 artist Marie Rim engaged students in her latest project, "Burka Fittings Across America." With a mirror and billboard set up outside of Ross Dining Hall, Rim asked passersby if they wanted to try on and look at themselves in a burka. "Through sensory means, the project explores ...
Following the Old Stone Mill's end-of-the-semester showcase at the Crossroads Cafe, Middlebury Magazine's Stephen Diehl and Blair Kloman produced a video about the event. They write: It may boast a stoic and traditional exterior, but behind the doors of Old Stone Mill, all kinds of crazy things are ...