Election results are in, and Middlebury has chosen its new Student Government Association (SGA) President: Riley O’Rourke ’12. O’Rourke won the election by a wide margin, garnering 291 votes, while Sabrina Bektesevic ’11 followed with 170 votes and Ethan Schmertzler ’12 received 96 votes. ...
Members of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) named the College’s Solar Decathlon design one of 20 finalists that will compete in the 2011 national competition. With its selection, the College and its team of students became the first small, liberal arts college selected as a finalist. Since ...
As the NBA playoffs opened this past weekend, analysts took their turns predicting each series’ winner. Some dug through the numbers, while others followed their gut. If there was a constant thread, each analyst devoted serious attention to an individual star’s ability to come through when his ...
Exhibit reception April 22, 5 – 7 p.m. Get your weekly dose of culture at the reception for “Invisible Odysseys,” an art collaboration between Lincoln Community School fifth- and sixth-graders and migrant Mexican farm workers in Vermont at the Vermont Folklife Center. The exhibit closes April ...
A sense of wonder, a reverence for nature and an understanding of humanity have driven Professor John Elder in 37 years of devoted teaching and ravenous learning at Middlebury College. When a man that “has all the human qualities that you think of defining virtue” is leaving a professorship after ...
At Middlebury College, we are constantly aware of value: the value of an education (whether in thousands of dollars or in worthwhile experiences), the value of a course and curriculum, the value of friendship. Endowments, ranking and affiliated pride construct value placed on the College, but it also ...
PARIS — I set out on my year abroad with a lot of expectations, one of which was, of course, to become “multicultural.” Little did I know just how personal this multicultural experience would become for me. My abroad year has been a little out of the ordinary in that I spent my first semester ...
After a year of planning and negotiations, Middlebury College has publicly announced the details of its new language acquisition software. The new company, directed toward students in kindergarten through 12th grade, is called Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL). It will be produced in conjunction ...
Middlebury men’s tennis hosted Bowdoin and Colby this past weekend, earning a pair of unchallenged wins in NESCAC play. To date, it was undoubtedly the team’s most convincingly dominant weekend, as not one player or doubles pair lost a set. The Polar Bears, who were the first Panther opponents ...
Tomorrow evening, hundreds of people will descend on Middlebury for the town’s annual Relay for Life event. It’s a success by any measure, especially when you consider that our relay has raised more than $1 million for the American Cancer Society since a Middlebury student started it seven years ...
With 11,730 volumes, the Platt Memorial Library in Shoreham, Vt. serves a population of 1,299. Compare this to an establishment like Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vt., which maintains a collection almost ten times as large for a population of nearly 40,000, and the obvious conclusion leaves residents ...
The Student Government Association Finance Committee (SGAFC) has approved changes to its budgeting and allocation system, that are expected to cut bureaucracy in funding the College’s clubs and allow them more freedom to spend. The decision is a product of the committee’s year-long struggle to design ...
The first present Leonard Gibbs remembers getting from his father was Louis Untermeyer’s anthology of poetry. Born in Georgia, Gibbs moved to Great Valley, Va. at the age of five. The Blue Ridge Mountains inspired Gibbs, and when he and his wife settled in Panton, Vt. seven years ago, he was glad ...
When I heard from friends and teachers that John Elder would be retiring from Middlebury College, it was at the beginning of my junior year, late in 2008. It was not the first time I’d heard that it had come time for him to leave after some three decades, an amazingly long tenure. At the time, posters ...
On April 27 and May 6, the “Last Lecture” series will present Professor of Biology Tom Root and President Emeritus of the College John M. McCardell, with an opportunity to impart their wisdom to the College community. Evan Masseau ’11, who started the “Last Lecture Series” last year, is excited ...
Former Brown student sues alma mater A former student, William R. McCormick III, has sued Brown University for denying him the chance to defend himself after the daughter of an alumnus and major donor accused him of rape. According to the lawsuit, the accuser first alleged that McCormick was calling ...
A volcano erupted last Wednesday in Iceland, causing a massive cloud of ash to be released into the atmosphere. Prevailing winds have carried this natural force south and east over Western Europe, forcing thousands of flights to and from European Union nations to be canceled. When flights do resume, ...
After three illustrious semesters as a columnist for The Campus, one thing I still haven’t quite figured out is how many people actually read my writing on a regular basis. I hear my friends’ opinions every week, but often they read my column while sitting across from me at lunch on Thursday, so ...
The most emphatic recommendation for my column this week came from one of my editors: “a well-researched piece about the reasons for marijuana prohibition.” Why think so small? Let’s talk about the reasons for the prohibition of any drug. Danger is the most basic reason. Losing control of ourselves ...
Over 20 girls and boys aged 6-10 filled the Middlebury Community House on April 16 for the annual teddy bear tea party. Each child brought a favorite stuffed animal and had tea and sandwiches, crackers with teddy bear cheese cut-outs, Teddy Grahams and mini éclairs. After lunch, the children’s librarian ...