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- Collection: Fifty Years of Green: 1961-1965
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Photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1964 Wilderness Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act in 1964
Four-plane defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand
The United States military used the defoliant known as Agent Orange to destroy large swathes of Vietnam's jungle, depriving the Vietcong of cover, but both fighters and non-combatants of food. The chemical caused chronic illnesses for both the…
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.
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: "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,
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…
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…
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: "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 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.