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Spearheaded by Howard Woodin, the Environmental Studies Major first becomes available in the 1965-1966 course catalog. Choosing an focus in human ecology, ecology, or biology, students could now receive one of the first Environmental Studies major…

Prompted by a greater public concern for the environment, in addition to influential novels such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Stewart Udall's Quiet Crisis, the federal government signs several significant acts towards the conservation of…

Middlebury students were primarily concerned with issues of nuclear disarmament and the accompanying Cuban Missile Crisis, but also with individual impacts on the local environment. Disarmament sparked a shift in the minds of students towards a more…

Middlebury Campus article detailing a panel discussion held in Mead Memorial Chapter with various professors regarding the newly-developed Cuban Missile Crisis.

President Johnson signs into act the Highway Beautification Act, and "promised that 'as long as I am President, what has been divinely given by nature will not be recklessly taken away by man.'" Under this new law, states needed to "control…

Student examination of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty enacted on August 5, 1963 between the UK, US, and the Soviet Union. The Middlebury student examines the increasing danger of nuclear weapons.

Text of President Kennedy's Address regarding the next course of action in the upcoming "Cuban Missile Crisis". Kennedy ends his address calling for action in the United States' vested interest for "peace and freedom here in this hemisphere, and, we…

Middlebury College Newsletter informing of a recent novel by alumni Peter S. Jennison concerning the consequences of a fictional town in Vermont installing a prototype nuclear reactor.

Middlebury Campus article regarding the first mention of the newly-formed Environmental Studies Major.

Middlebury College Catalogue for offered courses during the 1965-55 academic year. Notably, the first appearance of an interdisciplinary major in Environmental Studies.