Fifty Years of Green: 1961-1965

Campus Article: "Communist Revival Aimed at Colleges", April 26, 1962

A warning against the increased presence of Communist influence on college campuses in the United States during the 1960s.

Campus Article: "Discussion on Disarmament Draws 400 to Swarthmore", February 22, 1962.

A Middlebury Campus articling detailing the First Inter-Collegiate Conference on "Disarmament and Arms Control" at Swarthmore College, PA, which several Middlebury students attended.

Campus Article Announcing the New Environmental Studies Major

This article ran on the front page of The Campus on Thursday, May 27, 1965. It announced the new interdisciplinary Environmental Studies major, and laid out the three possible focuses of study in it: Earth Science, Ecology, and Human Ecology.

Campus Article: "Illick Presents His Case For Unilateral Disarmament", January 12, 1962.

An argument written by Associate Professor of Geography J. Rowland Illick advocating for unilateral disarmament as a first step towards world peace.

Campus Article: "Student Debate Centers On Disarmament Topic", March 8, 1962.

Middlebury Campus article detailing a student debate between The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and the Committee for a Realistic Nuclear Policy concerning nuclear disarmament.

Campus Article: "Five Speakers Are Now Planned For Conference", March 9, 1961.

Middlebury Campus article detailing speakers for the 1961 Middlebury Conference. The general conference topic was "Mass Media: Role and Responsibility," and specific arguments were made regarding how "[t]he power to mold the future of the Republic…

Interstate 89 and US-2 near Bolton Gorge, Waterbury

The first section of interstate highway reached southern Vermont in 1958. By the early sixties, this first section of I-89 had been built between Montpelier and Burlington. Vermont communities, previously isolated, were now within a day's drive of…

Middlebury Campus: "Mass Culture and Mass Media: Twin Patients of Diagnosticians", March 23, 1961.

Middlebury Campus article by Emery W. Flavin (cited as an "instructor") examining the effect mass media and mass culture on people psychologically,

Middlebury Campus: "Norman Thomas Calls For Restraint Of Nuclear Tests", May 3, 1962.

Middlebury Campus covers talk by Norman Thomas regarding nuclear testing.

Middlebury Campus: "Don't Read This", May 17, 1962.

Editorial in Middlebury Campus urging everyone to clean up their trash for the benefit of all.

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