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(05/09/24 4:56pm)
Whether or not you support the divestment measures outlined in the Student Government Association (SGA) referendum that was sent out on Monday, we should all be concerned about the process by which the case for this referendum is being carried out. I appreciate that the SGA addressed the concern about anonymity stemming from the collecting of email addresses that was part of the original survey on Google Forms. However, we should all reflect, as a campus, about why some students fear having their names attached to their opinions.
(05/09/24 9:59am)
Crossword 05/09/2024: Solution!
(05/09/24 9:58am)
Crossword 05/09/2024!
(05/09/24 10:03am)
This past weekend, the Middlebury men’s tennis team competed in the NESCAC championship as the top seed and two-time defending champions. After handily defeating Trinity College 5–0 in the first round, the Panthers narrowly lost to eventual winners Bowdoin College 4–5 in the semifinals.
(05/09/24 10:01am)
A lot can happen in 732 days. Two senior classes have graduated from Middlebury. Two new classes have joined it. But in all of those days, Middlebury Women’s Lacrosse has not lost a single game.
(05/09/24 10:00am)
The Middlebury Women’s Track and Field team wrapped up their season recently by triumphing at the NESCAC Championship, their third title in a row. The team had a number of standout performers, but arguably no one left a bigger impression than Audrey MacLean ’27, who crossed the finish line first in both the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 5,000-meter race.
(05/09/24 10:05am)
If you’ve tuned into the college’s radio station (WRMC), on a Monday at 3 p.m. this semester, you’ll have caught me chatting away about my favorite country, Americana and classic American rock music during “The Americana Hour.” You’ll have heard about the history of California country, the alternative politics and sound of Americana music, the new artists coming out of Nashville, Tenn. that we should be celebrating, and almost certainly, my love for Bruce Springsteen. The only thing that’s unusual for this kind of show is that you’ll have heard it all in a British accent.
(05/09/24 10:04am)
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are ready to put their Barbenheimer rivalry behind them. In “The Fall Guy,” stuntman-turned-director David Leitch’s latest action-comedy extravaganza, the supporting stars of last summer’s two biggest hits join forces to trade in feminist satire and apocalyptic angst for an unabashedly giddy kickoff to Hollywood’s favorite time of the year.
(05/09/24 10:03am)
In its concluding event of the semester, the Hirschfield Thursdays series presented “Mambar Pierrette,” the newest film from Cameroonian director Rosine Mbakam. The film, shown at Middlebury on May 2, follows the life of the titular seamstress, tracing her struggles with economic and gender-based challenges in modern-day Cameroon. Throughout the ups and downs of Mambar’s story, what truly captures and moves the audience is how she overcomes these adversities by connecting with others — particularly other women. That is the heart of “Mambar Pierrette” and the heart of Mbakam’s work.
(05/09/24 10:02am)
If you flip past news, past local and past opinions (a more time-consuming feat than ever this week), you’ll arrive at the ever-evolving Arts & Culture section (A&C). If news is the responsible eldest, local the well-adjusted middle child and opinions the loud, jaded teen , A&C is the baby, the bright young thing that still has a sparkle in its eye. Once titled Arts & Academics, today’s A&C is known by some as the fun section, always ready with a review or a crossword to distract you from the work that brought you to a Proc booth in the first place.
(05/09/24 10:01am)
Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small- and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel! Check back often for recommendations, reviews and discussions.
(05/09/24 10:00am)
In her 1929 essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf writes, “It is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple. One must be woman-manly, or man-womanly.” Indeed, Woolf’s genderbending reveries came alive this past weekend in Wright Theater.
(05/09/24 10:09am)
To date, more than 1000 Middlebury alumni have signed the Open Letter to Middlebury College pledging to withhold donations until student demands at the Middlebury Gaza Solidarity Encampment are met. We are immensely proud of the students who are embodying Middlebury’s mission statement principles of leading “engaged, consequential, and creative lives.”
(05/09/24 10:08am)
Throughout our meetings this year, we have often wondered whether Middlebury students still have the resolve to agitate for political change on campus. From the pushback to Charles Murray to the fight for Energy2028 and divestment from fossil fuels, Middlebury students of the past have shown their ability to be activists, but we hadn’t seen such unified, large-scale movement for change on campus since before the Covid-19 pandemic. That is, until the Gaza Solidarity Encampment last week.
(05/09/24 10:07am)
My name is Cole Siefer and I am the co-director of the Student Government Association Finance Committee (SGAFC). While I agree with the general sentiment on campus that there are issues with the current system of student organization administration, I think that instead of criticizing it from the sidelines, Middlebury students should step up to take a more active role in creating change to the system. Student engagement is a critical piece of the Middlebury experience, and the challenges student organizations face should be reframed as opportunities to demonstrate our commitment to our peers. Recent student-led efforts have made improvements to bureaucratic processes, highlighting the opportunity we have to shape the student organization experience on campus.
(05/09/24 10:06am)
On May 6, our Student Government Association (SGA) released a referendum giving the student body the opportunity to vote on divesting our endowment from any company that is involved in arms, arms manufacturing, war profiteering more generally, or is funding Israel’s current “war” effort in any capacity. Students and the SGA put an immense amount of time and energy into drafting this referendum and making it available as a means for us to make our voices heard. The goal of this piece is to encourage the student body to vote, drawing from your own beliefs and learnings, and to communicate your opinions to the college’s administration and Board of Trustees in a meaningful way. It is absolutely critical that each and every Middlebury student votes by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, May 9. Our intention is not to tell you how to vote. We recognize the myriad of relationships that Middlebury students have with Palestine and Israel. In the spirit of open and free expression, we would like to share why we will be voting “yes” on every divestment request.
(05/09/24 10:05am)
This past summer, our basement flooded. We had rented a house with five friends here in Middlebury, and were looking forward to Vermont’s sunny days, swimming holes, cookouts and hikes in the woods. Instead, we were met with wildfire smoke, monthslong rainfall and flooding. Carrying wet, moldy furniture up and out of the swamped basement to a nearby dumpster, we wondered — “Is this what it means to live in a climate crisis?”
(05/09/24 10:04am)
As Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities have spread across the country, major media outlets have directed their attention to covering free speech rights, encampments as a valid form of protest and the history of student movements. While the violence towards and silencing of students deserve coverage, this narrative de-centers those at the heart of the conflict — Palestinians and Israelis. Politicians have used the encampments as a springboard to demonize the progressive movement, and to advance their agenda against their opposing party. Our western outlets love to center America, and although America is heavily involved, the victims and the perpetrators remain thousands of miles from Middlebury’s campus. The New York Times, The Guardian and my home newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, have focused both daily coverage and op-eds on student and faculty activism at elite higher-education institutions.
(05/09/24 10:03am)
I broke my foot in Davis Library at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2023. The moment I realized, I began to cry — not because of the pain, but out of frustration. I immediately knew that my life was about to get a lot more inconvenient and exhausting.
(05/09/24 10:02am)
For the past three years, I’ve been hoarding issues of The Campus in my closet. I’ve passed dozens of issues, some with faded ink, from my tiny Gifford room with a slanted ceiling to summer storage units to different corners of Forest Hall. With graduation approaching and limited space in my suitcase, I leafed through dozens of issues and clipped out my stories, carefully tucking them into a manila envelope for a future scrapbook.