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In January 2022, eight young women from Afghanistan arrived to begin their Middlebury College educations over the frigid winter break. The quiet mountain landscape and gray limestone buildings displaced the skyscrapers and big screens they had imagined when they thought of the U.S. Other students had not yet returned to campus, and the dining halls and dorms felt eerily empty.
Changes to Middlebury’s Student Access and Support (SAS) grant program this fall sparked frustration among some students who rely on the funding, raising questions about accessibility, financial stigma and how the college supports students with demonstrated financial need.
On Jan. 14, faculty, administrators and students gathered in Middlebury College’s Wilson Hall for the first student-only open meeting designed to shape President Ian B. Baucom’s 10-year strategic plan — the college’s first comprehensive planning initiative in more than a decade.
In the fall 2025 semester, MiddCORE announced its partnership with OpenAI for its 2026 J-Term session. The plan to work with the $500 billion company led to a 50% increase in applications to the program from last year, according to Robert Moeller, associate professor of psychology and director of MiddCORE. He received 133 applicants for only 44 spots.
The “For Every Future” campaign, now in its third year of public fundraising, is close to completion, having raised 83% of its fundraising goal of $600 million and garnering 81% undergraduate alumni engagement, just 4% shy of its goal of 85%, according to the campaign’s website. With less than $38 million to raise, the campaign is the largest of its kind in Middlebury history and is anticipated to finish in June, two years ahead of the schedule it set when it launched in October 2023.
“Oh my god. It was the most awesomest thing, ’cause leading up to it, you’re like ‘I can’t do it! I can’t. I can’t! And then, bam, I can!’” said Tonya Harding in the fictionalized account of her life –– “I, Tonya,” after completing a triple axel. The triple axel involves 3.5 rotations, and is so difficult that fewer than 30 female skaters have executed it in competition.
The Middlebury women’s squash team maintained their top form, extending their winning streak to eight in last weekend’s testing triple-header. The Panthers routed the visitors from Maine, beating #18 Bowdoin 8–1, #24 Bates 9–0 and #17 Colby 8–1.
I came to Middlebury as a figure skater with five years on Team USA, trying to figure out how to balance training in college and exploring other interests. As an Aaron Sorkin devotee, I'd romanticized the fast-paced world of journalism through “Sports Night” and “The Newsroom.” I loved writing. I wanted to try telling other athletes' stories. Little did I know that the sports section would launch me to the Olympics — just not as a competitor.
It looks like a test for the Navy SEALs or, when done with your hands out of the water, a curious form of medieval torture. Head bobbing and body inching forward as you choke on chlorinated water, athletes who have aqua jogged attest that it can certainly feel like both.
To become a professional DJ requires a comprehensive musical knowledge, mastery of the turntable technology and the ability to read the dancefloor. In the highly sought-after J-Term Class “Craft & Culture of DJing”, my peers and I have spent our month honing our DJ skills.
Even before I booked my plane ticket to San Francisco, Calif. (on a whim), I had wanted to go to City Lights Bookstore — the old gathering place of the Beats, where Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was first published in 1954, and where generations of Beatniks continued to pay homage.
Co-General Manager’s pick - Neel Shah ’26
Crossword 01/22/2025 Solutions: Skittles!
Crossword 01/22/2025: Skittles!
Middlebury College Democrats have recently emphasized their bipartisanship. They have consistently invited College Republicans to partake in joint meetings. This has been discussed in a Jan. 15 Campus article co-written by the leadership of Middlebury Democrats and Middlebury Republicans. This development has even caught the attention and praise of President Baucom on Instagram. Those who care for liberal values should not respond with praise. This development is illogical, cowardly and unprincipled.
My first assignment for The Campus almost four years ago took me to the basement of the Ilsley Public Library, where I remained for a superfluous three hours, asking visitors about the household cleaning products they were making for an Earth Day event. While not inherently a thrilling task, the article obliged me, a shy first year Feb, to approach and talk with locals.
On Jan. 3, the second-to-last day of the winter holiday that I may fully cherish, I saw the news that the U.S. forces had captured the paramount leader of Venezuela at the time, Nicolás Maduro. It all happened at such speed that when I read the news, the secret operations had already succeeded: Maduro and his family were on their way, heading to New York and awaiting trial, specifically on charges of committing narco-terrorism and importing cocaine. However, I believe the impact of this mission will be much more extensive. Now, two weeks have passed, and questions still linger in my mind: What will the long-term implications be for the Venezuelan opposition and the Venezuelan people? What does this mean for democracy in general?
Editor's note: This letter is in response to a Jan. 15 op-ed responding to a now-deleted Jan. 7 news article, which reported on the circumstances surrounding the death of Lia Smith ’26. The paper’s executive team decided to make a one-time exception to its strict editorial policy and remove the article after a long discussion and vote by Campus staff. The Campus remains proud of its 120-year history of student-run reporting and of serving as a forum for free and fair speech.
Tackling wealth inequality requires the buy-in of people coming from all different socioeconomic backgrounds, not just those who suffer from it. By the same token, collective buy-in requires discussion. So what does this mean for Middlebury?
There has been a marked increase in vandalism and overall disrespect for campus resources over the past few years. Students, rushing between commitments or simply preferring to eat in the shelter of their rooms rather than a crowded dining hall, are taking dishes home without returning them for extended periods. They languish in dirty piles in dorm kitchens, adopted by student suite kitchenettes, broken and forgotten, or even thrown in the trash. We recently reported that the college spends between $35,000 and $45,000 each year to replace disappearing dishes.