MONDAY EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 28 No. 43
Middlebury, Vermont
Monday, February 6, 2017
32 Pages
$1.00
Protest song going strong • Some local women are hoping to teach the anthem that inspired many at marches on the day after the Inauguration. See Page 6.
Ballots to feature few election tilts • Most Middlebury-area candidates will run unopposed for local offices on Town Meeting Day. See Page 3.
Girls’ hockey faces challenge • Fellow Division I contender Rutland visited the Memorial Sports Center on Saturday. See Sports, Page 18.
A CROWD OF about 500 students, faculty, staff and community members assembled outside Middlebury College’s McCullough Student Center last Thursday afternoon for a rally supporting refugees and denouncing the recent travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
College community challenges Trump ban More than 500 back Muslim immigrants, refugees By GAEN MURPHREE 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
‘Good People’ comes to THT • A ‘tough and tender’ dramedy plays this Thursday through Sunday in Middlebury. See Arts Beat, Page 10.
Estimated tax update shows mostly lower ANWSD rates By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — A revised set of residential school tax estimates released by Addison Northwest School District officials for Town Meeting Day reports late in January show lower rates in four of the five ANWSD towns than originally projected earlier last month. According to the estimates, (See ANWSD, Page 30)
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? “I fear that one day I may go to Pakistan to visit my grandmother and not be allowed back into the country I have known to call home my entire life,” she said. Naqvi, a rally organizer and Muslim Student (See Protest, Page 2)
Nuovo helps un-‘Locke’ philosopher’s writings By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Victor Nuovo withdrew from his professorial duties at Middlebury College 23 years ago, but he has packed enough educational and intellectual activity in his golden years to fill a second résumé. At an age when a lot of retirees would be happy to make it onto the golf course every once in a while, Nuovo, 85, has been playing his “back nine” in the storied halls of Oxford University, researching, compiling and editing books on the great 17th-century philosopher John
Locke. Nuovo is the college’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus — a title that recognizes his many contributions to the institution, though he is no longer an active teacher. He taught at Middlebury from 1962 to 1994, first as a professor of religion, then in the philosophy department. As he approached his 62nd birthday, he was reminded of a popular definition of what it is to be a professor: a scholar who teaches. “I wanted to do the scholarly (See John Locke, Page 14)
JOHN LOCKE