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Faculty Update Quorum Number

On Monday, Nov. 12, the College hosted its monthly faculty meeting in McCullough Social Space. Prior to the meeting concerns were high regarding attendance after last month’s quorum of over 50 percent of faculty was challenged. The quorum was met, however, and the meeting proceeded as scheduled, with ...


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SRI Challenges College on TD Bank

Recently, the College decided to reduce the amount of money it keeps in its Toronto Dominion (TD) bank account overnight on a day-to-day basis. While the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing (ACSRI) has touted this as a “win,” the College contends that this change is a result of ...


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First Open Community Forum Discusses Sexual Assault

On Nov. 7 students and faculty gathered in Crossroads Café for the first monthly Campus Open Forum event. This month’s forum, organized by Dean of Students Shirley Collado, Student Government Association (SGA) President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 and Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCOCC) Barrett ...


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Map Project Highlights Sexual Assault

It Happens Here (IHH), a student-organized sexual assault awareness and prevention group at the College, has launched its Map Project, an initiative which seeks to compile on-campus locations where students have experienced some form of sexual assault. The student organization, co-founded last year ...


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Contest Decides Student Speaker

Eleven contestants, four judges and approximately 80 audience members gathered in Crossroads Café on the night of Nov. 8 for auditions to be the student speaker at the College’s TEDx event in March. TEDx is an offshoot of TED, a worldwide initiative in which speakers have 18 minutes to share “Ideas ...


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SGA Update

SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13 is leading an initiative to create a survey on student life at the College. The survey will examine a number of issues, including, but not limited to, distribution requirements, interaction between students and professors, the dining hall, the endowment, student ...


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New Site Lets Community Buy and Sell

On Oct. 29, Jennifer Herrera, the senior advisor for diversity initiatives, announced the launch of a new online classifieds service for the College, go/classifieds. The initiative, a WordPress site launched last winter, will enable anyone with a Middlebury NetID to list an item for sale, restricting ...


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Overseas Briefing

«Tu viens ici chaque semaine, oui?» (Translation: You come here every week, right?) People thrive in environments where they feel comfortable. It’s certainly not a groundbreaking revelation, but I like to think that we’re all at our best when we know our way around and genuinely feel at ease. ...


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Beyond the Bubble

Before the dust had even settled on the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the Communist Party of China began its own once-in-a-decade leadership transition last week. Since the People’s Republic of China is a one-party state, a new generation of communist leaders automatically equates to a new generation ...


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College Shorts

Green Mountain College Slaughters Beloved Ox (Vermont Public Radio) Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt. euthanized its retired farm ox Lou on Sunday, explaining that the 11-year-old ox’s hind leg injury was worsening and was expected to continue to deteriorate during the harsh winter. The school ...


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Looking Towards 2016

After last Tuesday’s election, the media immediately began its post-presidential election process of savaging the losing campaign for reasons explaining their defeat. While it is true that Romney’s campaign could have made many small, yet beneficial changes to improve its positioning against President ...


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Loveliness

For many students of the liberal arts elite, undergraduate existence is an era of unchecked decadence. You can eat a packet of peanut M&M’s and a cigarette for lunch and get nothing worse than a few judge-y looks from the girl headed towards the gym in Lululemon. You can saturate your bloodstream ...


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Women and Last Week's Election

Perhaps one of the most exciting results of last week’s election — for women, at least — is that the United States now has the highest number of women in Congress than ever before. Unfortunately, that only means 20 women in the Senate out of 100 seats, and 78 out of 435 seats in the House (although ...


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Connecting With Community: Dance Marathons

This winter term, Middlebury College will once again join a national organization that hosts Dance Marathons on college campuses across the country to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals by hosting the second annual Middlebury College Dance Marathon! Our 12-hour event directly supports ...


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VTGas Plans to Construct Pipeline

Vermont Gas Systems (VTGas) and International Paper, a company whose mill sits on the banks of Lake Champlain, have come to an agreement this month and plans are being presented to legislators regarding the construction of a pipeline across the lake. The proposed pipeline will run from Addison County ...


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Lt. Governor Rides to Second Term

View Phil Scott's Bike Tour in a Larger Map. How do Vermont politicians campaign? In addition to the typical flyers, television commercials, Facebook fan pages and websites, Vermont politicians find engaging ways to infuse their campaigns with “green mountain flavor” to appeal to the sensibilities ...


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Polls Spell Re-Election for Vermont Politicians

As millions of projection-hungry Americans eagerly gathered around their television and computer screens on election night to monitor the imminent electoral flood, Vermont became the first  state to break the silence when analysts tallied the state’s three electoral votes in President of the United ...