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The women’s basketball team (12–3) emerged victorious this weekend with wins against NESCAC rivals Trinity College (11–4) and Wesleyan University (5–9).
From Carlisle, Pa. to Annapolis, Md. and back north to Lancaster, Pa., the Middlebury squash teams emerged from an intense three-match weekend with momentum-building victories.
Christmas comes twice a year for the Middlebury arts and culture scene when Johnson opens its doors at the end of each semester for its biannual student showcase. In the midst of the stress of finals, student work, especially theses, offer a welcome dose of inspiration during an otherwise hectic time of year.
Following several years of imbalanced enrollment for its popular study abroad programs, Middlebury has adopted a new system that will assign students who wish to study away for one semester to either the fall or spring semester. The college will give some weight to student preferences and academic needs, but the change is intended to correct uneven enrollment numbers after an increasing number of students have been choosing to go abroad during the spring.
It’s time to rethink how we organize our social life. For decades, Middlebury’s social fabric was held together by structured environments — first by fraternities, until 1991, and then by the commons system, until 2019. Much of the fragmentation within the student body can be traced back to the evolution — or, more accurately, the erosion — of residential life and social houses.
Anyone paying attention to higher education can clearly see that institutions have a cheating problem. Cheating first exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic and has only continued to rise with the dawn of generative artificial intelligence. This has led to a moment of reckoning for many institutions: How do we reconcile our traditional honor codes with the modern reality of widespread cheating?
Ever been walking to class on a Wednesday morning and wondered who those students in Army fatigues on campus are? They are Middlebury’s very own cadets — and likely part of the next generation of Army officers.
On Nov. 14, noise rock band Chat Pile brought the live sound of their new LP, “Cool World” to Higher Ground in Burlington. The band’s nihilistic lyrics, downtempo cuts, and punk influences have also led to widespread characterizations of their music as sludge metal. Released on Oct. 11, the band’s second LP displays a continuing, intense focus on the present political moment: chock full of horrors with severities reaching the surreal.
With an eye on the horizon after announcing her departure last May, Middlebury College President Laurie Patton has since led her final Commencement ceremony, conducted her final Board of Trustees meeting in October, and, now, sat for her final interview with The Campus.
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, the Board of Trustees met on campus from Oct. 24–26 to discuss a variety of issues affecting the college and to name Laurie Patton President Emerita prior to her departure in January. The trustees also reviewed new fundraising by the “For Every Future” campaign, learned about the college’s finances and projected budget deficit for the 2025 fiscal year, and heard student presentations, according to a press release from the college.
In 2017, American tennis star Serena Williams experienced life-threatening complications from childbirth. Her cover story profile for Vogue discussed her experience of having to convince medical professionals of the severity of her complications — what she described as undoubtedly a pulmonary embolism — and the delay in proper treatment. Her story sparked public outcry against existing inequalities in the American healthcare system that significantly favor white patients over Black patients. What people found especially shocking was that a person as famous as Serena Williams could also be the victim of racialized medical negligence. It uncovered a disturbing truth: Race intersects with, and can even trump, socioeconomic class as a health determinant.
Middlebury is now the latest contributor to Green Mountain Club’s (GMC) efforts to protect the Long Trail. Last month, the college donated a 1.5-mile segment of land — stretching from the summit of Worth Mountain to Vermont Route 125 — to GMC, leaving just two percent of the land on the Long Trail unprotected.
In an unexpected twist in the race for the Vermont State Senate, Republican challenger Steve Heffernan defeated democratic incumbent Christopher Bray for one of Addison County’s two senate seats. Heffernan’s election was part of a larger victory for Republicans in the state legislature, picking up enough seats to effectively end the 20-year democratic supermajority.
As a Jewish-Israeli journalist embedded in the long-term historical conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, Amira Hass lives between worlds.
Mark McGoey ’26.5’s visual art exhibit “Far Out” opened on the evening of Oct. 25 to a warm crowd of friends and faculty. The collection is modest, and each individual work is made all the more memorable for it.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the college hosted its third annual Día de los Muertos (DDM) celebration. The procession began in front of the Anderson Freeman Center (AFC), where a group of about 30 Middlebury students, faculty and residents from the town gathered to learn about and celebrate the holiday. Programming for the celebration included a Catholic Mass at St. Mary’s Church, a trio of songs by the college choir and a number of small art projects and performances located throughout campus.
For me and many other students, this past year has been a journey through a grief that feels endless. There are moments when sadness resurfaces unexpectedly, bringing the painful reminder that one of my closest friends is no longer here. Nov. 7 marks a year since the passing of my good friend Ivan Valerio ’26, and I’ve found myself reflecting deeply on what it means to carry this loss.
“A patriotic society can, and must, co-exist with a liberal and forward-thinking population.” I was surprised to find such a statement on Thursday after my IGST 101 lecture where I can conveniently grab an issue of The Campus leaving the auditorium. To me, such an op-ed provided an overgeneralizing description of the leftist perspective on national identity. Quite on the contrary, I believe that the recent usage of patriotism as compromising propaganda for left-wing parties is what manifested its frictions with left-wing ideologies.
It was finally Oct. 12, and I was walking towards the town green for the third annual MiddPride, hearing cheers of children and live music getting louder, and seeing flashes of rainbow shine under the autumn sunshine. Having recently attended a Pride parade in Hollywood, overrun with corporations such as Disney and Citibank and law enforcement groups like the Los Angeles Police Department, the authenticity of this tight knit community boasting queerness was palpable.
The 2024 lieutenant governor race in Vermont is shaping up to be a noteworthy clash between two experienced politicians: incumbent David Zuckerman, representing the Vermont Progressive and Democratic Parties, and Republican candidate John Rodgers.