Whose parents do not remember the quadrupling of the price of gas, the stock market crash, the government’s request to ban Christmas lights and the mandated national maximum speed limit of 55 mph during the 1973 oil crisis? The OPEC countries’ oil embargo countered the prevailing perception of the ...
2009 was supposed to be the year of climate action. Last February, after the inspiring election of Barack Obama and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, I could taste success. I knew in my heart of hearts that this would be the year that we’d get lasting climate and clean energy legislation. This ...
Maryland College cuts carbon by 80 percent St. Mary’s College cut its carbon dioxide outputs by 80 percent last year thanks to a series of student initiatives. Students purchased Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to offset 100 percent of their carbon footprint due to electricity use. Several new ...
“We would often just sit on their porches, they would offer me cornbread and Coke, and we’d just talk for hours on end.” For Sierra Murdoch ’09.5, this year’s undergraduate Environmental Journalism Fellow, this routine was the key to excellent reporting during her time in southwest Virginia ...
DAKAR—Apart from figuring out every method possible to prepare a banana, learning the myriad ways one can eat a mango or a grapefruit, discovering the custard apple, and having a ten-minute game of circumlocution/charades with the man at my favorite fruit stand only to learn that clementine in French, ...
In May 2006, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees unanimously approved a strategic plan, entitled “Knowledge without Boundaries,” which strengthens the College’s mission as an institution of higher education. The report includes a lengthy list of recommendations that seek to improve certain ...
President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz has been recognized by Time Magazine as one the top ten college presidents in the country. In an article that appeared in last week’s issue of Time, Liebowitz was recognized for his commitment to achieving carbon neutrality at the College and also for ...
Since the successful opening of the College’s biomass gasification plant last January, community members raised questions about the plant’s impact on Vermont forests as well as the overall environmental integrity of the biomass initiative. The plant currently receives three truckloads of woodchips ...
Green group rallies support for climate summit Members of Middlebury’s Sunday Night Group (SNG), a student-run environmental advocacy organization, engaged in a campaign this week to encourage students to call President Obama and demand his attendance at the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen. Officials ...
In Justice Black’s dissent to the opinion of the Court in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) he wrote that it was outside the purview of schools to “broadcast political or any other views to educate and inform the public.” Subsequent Supreme Court cases have trended towards his dissent, and because ...
On Sunday, Nov. 8, Boy Scouts and their families gathered around a trebuchet at Weybridge Gardens to hurl leftover pumpkins from Halloween and the harvest several hundred feet. Middlebury Boy Scouts from Troop 536 held the event to raise money, reuse the trebuchet they built last spring and have fun ...
Student Government Association (SGA) President Michael Panzer ’10 has raised the bar. By passing legislation in recent weeks to restore Midnight Breakfast, launch ACTR shuttle routes on campus and extend 24-hour library access during exam time, this year’s SGA Senate has proven itself more aggressive ...
Long before Sophie Madeleine and her sweet ukulele serenades gained massive popularity on YouTube, Lil’ Rev brought his own brand of four-stringed storytelling to the nation. The Vermont Ukulele Society hosted the award winning multi-instrumentalist in Carol’s Hungry Mind Café on Nov. 8. Although ...
The Middlebury police cited 16 Middlebury students with underage drinking at a party that was taking place at 424 Quarry Road on Friday, Oct. 30. Four residents — all members of the Middlebury lacrosse team — of the off-campus house will appear in court on Dec. 14 under the charge of serving alcohol ...
Student jobs available on cam- pus remain steady this year, but many employers are offering fewer shifts due to budget considerations. “For the past three to four years, we’ve seen about the same number of jobs and the same number of students looking for jobs,” said Dee Gilbert, student employment ...
As I logged on to Segue today to check my Spanish homework for the week, I was momentarily taken aback by the startling revelation that it’s already Week 10 of the semester. Thanksgiving is two weeks away, the end of the semester is fast approaching, and somehow I’m still in a September mindset. ...
Due to some unfortunate circumstances (and my imperfect time management), I was unable to conduct any interviews for today’s article. However, I would like to share an experience of my own that is relevant to the purpose of this column — that is, to encourage interconnections between different types ...
After additional dialogue with the library, the Student Government Association (SGA) decided to fund extended library hours the week before finals week, beginning Nov. 29. Though the library will be covering the cost of extended opening hours during finals week itself, it has traditionally provided ...
As the number of students succumbing to H1N1 or other influenza-like illness continues to grow — with more than 247 students having been isolated since August — the shipments of the H1N1 vaccine received by Parton Health Center re- main steady yet small. Following the initial shipment and clinic ...
Last Sunday, I participated in a little discussion group/lecture type thing called “How You Livin’?” Apologies to you readers for including references to my exciting social life in this column for another week. You must be thinking, “First Quidditch, and now a discussion group/lecture-type thing? ...