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Edward Snowden champions 'right to a free mind' at college appearance

Posted on March 20, 2017 |
By Gaen Murphree



MIDDLEBURY — Edward Snowden, the onetime spy agency employee who leaked a trove of documents showing that the U.S. government watches American citizens, told a Middlebury College audience Thursday that his whistleblowing has resulted in changes to laws and policies for the good.

“This conversation made us stronger as a nation,” Snowden said in his address via a video hookup from Russia, where he lives in asylum. “It changed laws, and we live in a fairer and freer world because of it.”

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Police investigating assault at end of college protest

Posted on March 9, 2017 |
By Gaen Murphree and John S. McCright



MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Police Department have been brought into the investigation of the violence that ended last week’s protest at Middlebury College against controversial author Charles Murray.

Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger’s hair was pulled and neck was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she and College Vice President for Communications Bill Burger escorted Murray to a car after his appearance at McCullough Student Center. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.

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Middlebury College professor injured by protesters as she escorted controversial speaker

Posted on March 6, 2017 |
By Addison Independent



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.

Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him and booed when he got up to speak.

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Protesters shout down controversial speaker at Middlebury College

Posted on March 6, 2017 |
By Gaen Murphree



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College students shut down the scheduled late afternoon presentation by speaker Charles Murray, with boos, jeers, stomps and chants last Thursday.

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Middlebury College celebrates Irish dance and music for St. Paddy's day

Posted on March 6, 2017 |
By Addison Independent



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College Affiliate Artist Timothy Cummings (bagpipes, whistles) will join colleagues Pete Sutherland (fiddle, song) and Dominique Dodge (harp, song), along with special guests Jeremiah McLane (accordion, piano) and Mary Wesley (dance caller) in a free concert celebrating the traditional music and dance of Ireland and Vermont on March 12 at McCullough Student Center.

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A sad day on Middlebury College campus

Posted on March 3, 2017 |
By Ata Anzali



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Being Muslim in Middlebury: Community members tell what it's like for them in Trump's America

Posted on February 23, 2017 |
By Gaen Murphree



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MIDDLEBURY — Beau Scurich is an American; he grew up in California, like his parents and grandparents.

But as a Muslim — he is co-chaplain with his wife, Naila Baloch, at Middlebury College — Scurich was deeply wounded when President Donald Trump banned entry to the United States from seven Muslim countries and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely.

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Leading Artificial Intelligence expert to speak on 'intelligent machines'

Posted on February 23, 2017 |
By Addison Independent



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MIDDLEBURY—For centuries, people have imagined smart machines inhabiting the earth in fictional stories. As these “intelligent” machines cross over from the realm of fiction into reality, the impact of this technology on people, communities, and society at large takes on new urgency. 

Those thorny issues will be the focus of a public lecture, “Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenges,” by Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar Barbara Grosz on Monday, Feb. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, room 216.

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Foote to be honored in Vermont Sports Hall of Fame

Posted on February 20, 2017 |
By Addison Independent



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COLCHESTER — Former Middlebury College women’s lacrosse and field hockey coach Missy Foote will join Olympic medalists, other successful coaches, sports pioneers, a champion boxer, a standout football player, a star hockey player, and a chronicler of Vermont’s athletic scene in the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017.

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College and community challenge Trump ban: More than 500 back Muslim immigrants, refugees

Posted on February 6, 2017 |
By Gaen Murphree



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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College sophomore Mehek Naqvi challenged the more than 500 people who rallied on campus Thursday afternoon to protest President Trump’s recent executive order banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees.

A psychology and religion major from New Jersey, Naqvi denounced the ban as “an abhorrent practice based on religion” and asked what would happen if the 90-day ban extends to 90 months or 90 years? What would happen if the ban against citizens from seven countries expands to 14 or 28?

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