On the eve of Commencement 1985, a student crept into the meadow where McCardell Bicentennial Hall stands today, took a blowtorch to a tall, boxy sculpture and burned it. The sculpture, a four-sided closet-sized metal building with panels of six playing cards on one side and an entrance door painted ...
During Winter Term, the dining halls welcomed a new brew at the beverage station: coffee by local roaster Vermont Coffee Company. Based in Middlebury Vermont, coffee from the Vermont Coffee Company is fair-trade and certified organic. The move to serve it in the dining halls has allowed the College ...
For local Vermont farmers Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack, cheesemaking has been a way of life since 1982. The proud owners and primary operators of Orb Weaver Farm in New Haven, Vt., Susman and Pollack produce two artisan cheeses sold exclusively in Vermont, including at local businesses 51 Main, ...
On Dec. 21, 2015, Associate Chaplain Naila Blaloch at the College’s Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life was awarded the Vermont Women in Higher Education Carol A. Moore Scholarship. The scholarship celebrates women who are working in higher education, show dedication to women’s leadership ...
In a meeting on December 1, the fate of a 145-year-old historical document was decided: the College’s yearbook. The first edition of the Kaleidoscope was produced in 1873. Since that time, the yearbook has undergone a variety of changes as print and digital technology have evolved and student interest ...
According to the 2015 Annual Security & Fire Safety Report due to release this week, nine rapes were reported last year, one incident of forced fondling and three incidents of dating violence occurred on the College’s campus in 2014. These statistics are hard to understand without some context. ...
The advent of 10 o’clock Ross raises more questions than just cake or cereal. The Student Government Association initiative, which began last week, is a new addition to the already tight SGA budget. The SGA will now pay a student monitor $50 a week to ensure students are generally peaceable and neat ...
Bernie Sanders, well known for his “democratic socialist” platform and veteran affairs activism, has found another way to distinguish himself from the other presidential candidates. He’s the leader of an all-star Kazoo band. “It sounds like a swarm of patriotic bumblebees,” describes Josh ...
Less than five miles from the College, one company is working to transport the benefits of Vermont agriculture to urban millennials across the United States. A few years ago, Cam MacKugler ’09 was housesitting at a dairy farm in Middlebury when he had an epiphany. As he pulled weeds from the fertile ...
Highly-educated. Self-motivated. Hard-working. Unpaid. These adjectives describe a growing proportion of the current national work force: the undergraduate intern. The US Department of Labor defines an internship as “a formal program providing practical learning experience for beginners in an occupation ...