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Ben Wessel ’11 writes on the “It’s Getting Hot in Here” blog:

Students at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT wasted no time using their new found energy post-Powershift 2009 and hosted a “Freeze on Coal” action earlier this afternoon. The students at Middlebury, a school that earned an “A” on the 2009 “College Sustainability Report Card” in every category but “endowment transparency,” planned the action to launch a campaign compelling the administration to green the endowment. At 12:30pm, close to fifty students froze in place while getting lunch in the campus’s busiest dining hall. Each held a piece of charcoal in his or her hand and, when two minutes had passed, they continued on with their meal, explaining to their befuddled peers what had just happened.

Update 3/12: Blair Kloman writes in to tell us about a mention of this in HuffPo.