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Vermont Green Football Club, a pre-professional soccer team founded in 2022 by Matthew Wolff and Patrick Infurna, will open its 2026 season this May following a landmark year for the organization.
The Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) has long struggled with growing student apathy. Most students view it as a performative body utilized by ambitious students to puff up their resumes rather than a vital community organ. This past year, very few students followed public SGA meetings, let alone held elected students accountable for their election promises. Senate and General Assembly meetings went uncovered by The Campus; Senate candidates ran unopposed; committees struggled to fill seats, if they formed at all, and sometimes even committee directors and senators quit SGA obligations mid-semester. This year, disengagement has reached a new low, which begs the question: What is SGA even for?
After a barnstorming start to the season, Middlebury men’s baseball dropped a three-game series to conference rival Amherst over the weekend, bringing their record to 12–7. On Friday, Middlebury walked it off in a thriller, but Amherst sailed to two wins over the next day’s doubleheader.
On Wednesday, March 11, students entering and exiting Davis Family Library had the chance to pick up Student Government Association (SGA)-produced ‘Know Your Rights’ cards, ask questions and have conversations about student rights and safety on campus. The drop-in table lasted from one to nine p.m. in the Davis foyer and was part of Know Your Rights Day, an event hosted by the SGA and Firewall, a Middlebury student group dedicated to protecting student rights.
In “Shoresy”, a TV series that follows the fictional Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs hockey team, the players often remind viewers that “goalies are always weird.” Sophia Will ’26, the starting goalie for Middlebury women’s hockey, admits that being a hockey goalie does require a certain weirdness.
On Tuesday, March 24th, The Moth, a non-profit organization based in New York City, will host an open storytelling competition at the Town Hall Theater, as part of their StorySLAM series. The event itself will be recorded and potentially broadcast on “The Moth Radio Hour”, offering audiences the chance to have their stories heard by a national audience.
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During its virtual Feb. 6–7 winter meeting, the Middlebury Board of Trustees approved a comprehensive fee of $94,386 for the 2026–2027 academic year, a 4% increase over the fees for this current academic year. In addition, the Board accepted a $20 million gift for the construction of a new arts museum scheduled to open in fall 2028, and trustees learned that as of Dec. 31, the projected budget deficit had been reduced to $4.49 million from $8.61 million in October, a savings of $4.12 million.
The Spencer Prize Speech Competition is an annual event hosted by Oratory Now that showcases the public speaking abilities of the First Year class. Participants progress through a nomination process in their First Year seminar, followed by two rounds of speech competitions, culminating in a final showcase on Jan. 27th.
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.
The Charter House Coalition operates a shelter and food kitchen for the greater Middlebury area, providing Addison County with a relief center for homelessness. Opened in June of 2006, the Coalition has grown to offer an array of services, including case management for residents and referrals to external social programs. Over time, the organization has assumed an increasingly important role in the community, becoming integral to the well-being of Addison County.
Nestled behind the hustle and bustle of Porter Hospital in Middlebury is a small white trailer, home to the Open Door Clinic. Located at 100 Porter Drive in Middlebury, the Open Door Clinic is a free health clinic for uninsured and underinsured Vermonters. Although the clinic primarily serves Addison County’s migrant farmworker population, it also serves locals who may otherwise struggle to afford care. The clinic provides care and services to all those who meet the eligibility criterion: having an income at or below 400% of the Federal Poverty Line.
Middlebury’s winter term, or J-Term, brings a wide range of visiting instructors to campus each January, from career academics and graduate students to professionals working in the field. While the month offers a unique opportunity to teach an intensive course in Vermont, visiting faculty — particularly those without prior ties to the college — face significant challenges in finding temporary, affordable housing and meeting other costs.
Two Sundays ago, a long, hard-fought season for men’s soccer ended with a 1–0 loss to Wheaton College. A goal in the 20th minute proved enough to push the Lyons into the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament, but not without a moment of controversy and a hotly debated goal-line photo.
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Last week, PhotoPlace Gallery hosted its opening reception for “Monochrome,” the gallery’s newest exhibit. On Friday, Nov. 7, the gallery in the yellow house at 3 Park St. was warmly lit, beckoning visitors in from the chilly evening from 4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. People were welcome to view the gallery for free, drink mead and snack on charcuterie boards.
Between 2019 and 2025, Middlebury’s undergraduate population rose from 2,580 to 2,653 students, according to data from the college’s Office of Assessment and Institutional Research. Enrollment saw large surges after students took time off during the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions in 2020 and then returned to campus in 2021 and 2022, causing a record peak of 2,858 on campus students in the fall of 2021.
On Oct. 3 in the Grille, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted a Gaza Teach-In. Speakers emphasized Middlebury’s connection to the Israeli Genocide of Gaza personally, intellectually and as fellow human beings. Two years into the genocide and with a new U.S. president in office, this event followed the precedent of the first Gaza Teach-In hosted on November 1, 2023.
Three hundred thousand people, 12,000 athletes, 2,500 boats, 72 events, one river.