The Community Council met on Monday Oct. 22 to outline an ambitious list of tasks for the 2012-2013 academic year. Issues on the preliminary agenda for the council include: communication methods between faculty, students and staff; restricting first-year on-campus parking; access to health services ...
Welcome to the first edition of the Student Government Association’s (SGA) bi-weekly column, From the President’s Desk with SGA President Charlie Arnowitz ’13. In this column, we will be discussing issues of importance to the SGA and the student body. This week I am joined by SGA Treasurer and ...
Amherst Student Publishes Account of On-Campus Rape (The Amherst Student) A former Amherst College student detailed her experience of on-campus rape in an op-ed in the Amherst Student on Oct. 17. The 5,000-word piece, which was published with a “trigger-warning” due to its disturbing nature, was ...
I am addressing you from Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America, a gorgeous city where wine is cheaper than water, the dead get the best real estate and the national dance is sexy as hell. I could be speaking from anywhere, though. It does not matter where I am so much as that I am there. A few weeks ...
The 19-month-long conflict in Syria between President Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces seeking to topple his government continued to deepen this past week, with violence seeping into Damascus and tensions spilling into neighboring Lebanon as a high-level Sunni official was killed in a Beirut bombing ...
Middlebury Rowing participated in the Head of Charles Regatta in Boston, MA this weekend.
As the regular season winds down for all but one of the fall sports, Middlebury has maintained its dominance in the NESCAC making a strong push in the first trimester of its defense of the Directors’ Cup. The football team — 4-0 for the first time since 1992 — and the top-ranked, 12-0 field hockey ...
Since President of the United States Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010 — enacting comprehensive health insurance reforms in the United States — Vermont state officials have been working hard to adjust Green Mountain Care Medicaid to meet the requirements of a ...
Of all the smells I associate with autumn — crispy leaves, fresh apples, chilly air — one has been conspicuously absent. I will forever equate that smell — the distinct fragrance of pine sawdust — with weekly Habitat for Humanity builds during the fall of my freshman year. Unfortunately, building ...
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This past weekend, the 42nd annual Society for Neuroscience meeting took place in New Orleans, La. from Oct. 13 - 17. Over 30,000 neuroscientists from across the country and around the globe gathered in a massive conference center on the outskirts of the French Quarter for five days of poster sessions ...
On Thursday, Oct. 12, the second poetry slam of the year took place in the Abernethy Room at the Axinn Center at Starr Library. Poor Form Poetry — the College’s slam poetry group — hosted the event, which drew a large crowd of students, professors and community members to the small, cozy space. Presenters ...
On Friday, Oct. 5 in the Twilight Auditorium at 4:15 p.m., an audience of over 75 faculty, staff, administrators, students and parents watched the ceremony to award the Paul Ward Prize for Excellence in Writing. The winner of the prize was Catherine Costley '15 for her paper "Emily Dickinson and Sylvia ...
On Nov 5. Library Information Services (LIS) circulation will implement an overdue penalty points system in order to make sure that all reserves, equipment, and interlibrary loans are more available to students and staff. Dan Frostman, circulation services manager, explained that college sought to ...
On Saturday Oct. 13, His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke to the College community on the topic of “Finding Common Ground: Ethics for a Whole World”. The Dalai Lama spoke for nearly thirty minutes — on peace, cooperation and morality in the 21st century — before taking pre-composed written questions ...
Many students are familiar with Middkid.com as the go-to site for course evaluations, but what they may not know is the 13-year-old site underwent a redesign in late September. Middkid.com, founded by Ted Adler ’99.5, is a student-maintained site that provides course and professor evaluations and ...
On Saturday, Oct. 13, the Campus interviewed His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism before his morning lecture at the College. No other media outlets were granted access to the Dalai Lama during his visit to the College. A transcript of the interview in its entirety can ...
As noted above, the Campus' Kathryn DeSutter interviewed His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Saturday, Oct. 13 before his lecture to the general public. Upon analyzing His Holiness' responses in the interview, "think", "laughs", "community", "people", and "faith" were the most commonly used words; see the ...
On Friday, Oct. 12, His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a crowd of faculty, staff, students and community members at Nelson Arena in his lecture “Educating the Heart.” The spiritual leader touched on issues of education, faith, the corruption of money and the importance of affection. Friday’s ...