On Friday, April 17, Middlebury College hosted its 19th Annual Spring Symposium, highlighting student research over the past academic year. McCardell Bicentennial Hall (BiHall) became the host to all majors and disciplines, as students led 12-minute oral presentations, poster presentations in the great ...
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Be honest. If you were looking at your wedding invitations and you saw the words “Don’t marry him” scrawled on the back, would you go through with it? Director Haley Z. Boston explores this question and many more surrounding family, relationships and the gravity of marital commitment in her new ...
On April 25, the Henry Sheldon Museum will host the final session of the Historic Addison County Traveling Book Club, featuring “Deep North,”, an edited collection of stories by Brad Kessler about Somali resettlement in Vermont.
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team breezed by Hamilton at home on Wednesday April 15. The dominant 17-3 win is proof of the Panthers’ top form as they enter the final stretch of the regular season, with just two remaining matchups before the NESCAC tournament.
At a small liberal arts college, “community” is more than just a buzzword we repeat on tours to prospective students — it is a promise we make to one another. Community is what draws students to campuses like Middlebury in the first place: the idea that learning extends beyond the classroom into ...
Middlebury men’s baseball struggled the past two weeks, losing series to both Amherst and Hamilton. Playoff hopes hung in the balance, and something had to be done. On the second floor of Proctor Dining Hall, the team’s small cohort of juniors and seniors met to inspire an end to the skid. Then ...
Crossword Solutions 04/23/26: Bookends
For the Middlebury community and all those who loved him, the name Jack Langerman is one held close to their hearts. Jack Langerman ’19.5 was a member of the Middlebury Baseball team and a beloved member of the community. Although Langerman passed away in 2021, his legacy at Middlebury and beyond ...
This spring, The Campus has seen numerous articles and editorials discussing grading, ranging from coverage of the Economics department’s new grading policies, to calls for addressing grade inflation with campus-wide grade quotas and caps. The draft of our new strategic plan explicitly calls for action ...
Last week, the International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) office hosted a reception marking 25 years of the Friends of International Students (FIS) Host Program — a quarter-century of fostering cross-cultural connections at Middlebury. The event brought together voices from across the program’s ...
With her dad playing professional hockey, Meg Simon ’26 moved over 50 times growing up. Between trade deals and being called up to the NHL, Simon’s mom made sure the family always followed along. “It was really important to my mom that we moved as a unit,” Simon explained— a luxury that many ...
Crossword 04/23/26: Bookends
"Brew unto others" is more than just a clever play on words for Middlebury’s Golden Rule Mead; it is a founding principle of respect for the land and the community. Golden Rule Mead, a meadery located at 8 Elm Street next to Fire & Ice, focuses on producing sustainable, thoughtfully curated meads ...
At SPECS, we talk a lot about sex — the importance of regular STI testing, the nuances of consent, birth control choices, pleasure and more — but not as much about attraction and how it manifests beyond sexual experiences. In celebration of Asexuality Awareness Day, which took place on April 6, ...
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In June 2024, the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) agreement — which set a fixed annual contribution from Middlebury College to the town — expired. Over the past two years, local town government and college financial managers have been negotiating a new agreement that accounts for the college’s ...
In a mirror maze of performativity, reality blends into fantasy until the two become nearly indistinguishable. This is on full display in Jean Genet’s absurdist play, “The Maids,” which was produced by the Middlebury Theatre Department this past weekend. It depicts two sister maids engaging in ...
Designers Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien like things soft — which is interesting because their work addresses hard issues: immigration, redlining, the climate crisis, flooding and injustice.
In an April 7 press release from the Peace Corps, Middlebury College was ranked No. 7 among small colleges nationwide on the agency’s 2026 list of top volunteer-producing institutions. Since its founding in 1961, the Peace Corps has sent nearly 250,000 Americans abroad to work on locally driven ...
Insurance companies have begun to pull out of entire states. Homeowners in Florida, Louisiana and California have found themselves uninsurable through no fault of their own. Climate-related disasters meant that the actuarial math no longer worked, and the people pricing this risk were not environmental ...
Marin Melchior wears the standard college dining services uniform, but beneath the regulation fabric, the markers of a creator remain: a streak of vibrant blue bleached into her hair, a pair of delicate earrings and a blue bow pinned neatly behind her work hat. As the dining servery supervisor at Middlebury ...
As the summer approaches and students continue to solidify summer employment plans, a number of concerns have been raised by international students who cannot return home. For students studying at the college from other countries, the vast majority of whom are holders of F-1 visas, options for ...
