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"As part of a general campaign against over-population and pollution, Associate Professor of Biology David Van Vleck is leading an on-campus drive to collect signatures for a petition calling for the legalization of abortion in Vermont."
Petition:…

This photo from the 1969 Kaleidoscope shows Professor of Biology Howard E. Woodin, aged 45. Professor Woodin joined the Middlebury faculty in 1953 as an instructor in the Biology department and was promoted to full Professor in 1967.

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A newspaper report on Prof. Elder's 1996 Inaugural Lecture as Stewart Professor in English Department

An article in the Wall Street Journal where Presidential Candidates share their views on how both environmental protection and economic growth can co-exist.

A mention of a new course in Population Biology offered at Middlebury. In Campus newspaper, Jan 17, 1963

Many important books were published during this period, in particular Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, which many historians credit with initiating the environmental movement in the United States, but also Stewart Udell's Quiet Crisis. In…

A participant-observation study of two grass-roots environmental movements focusing specifically on the difficulties in multicultural settings.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act in 1964