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As the weather finally warms up (forgetting this Tuesday's snow), students finally begin to trade parkas, mittens and wool hats for lighter layers. The College emerges from its winter routine as Adirondack chairs fill Battell Beach and McCullough lawn once again. Students rush to get a coveted seat at the few tables outside the dining halls.
For student-athletes, Athletics staff, and regular gym-goers alike, the Peterson Family Athletics Complex is a daily fixture, but notably far from the college’s main dining hubs. The Den was created to close that gap, bringing convenient access to food to a corner of campus that had long gone without it.
For more than a decade, Middlebury College has hosted students from the Kenya Scholars Access Program (KenSAP), which brings high-achieving and high-need students from Kenya to colleges primarily in the United States.
Unlike the Davis Family Library, BiHall and Kenyon Arena, fraternities existed on campus when Erin Quinn ’86 began coaching at Middlebury. Quinn has since overlapped with six college presidents, and in his time as Athletic Director alone, Middlebury has earned 69 NESCAC team titles, 19 NCAA team championships and 29 NCAA individual titles. Now, at the end of this academic year, Quinn will conclude his 41 years with the college.
On March 2, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a video message on X, formerly known as Twitter, encouraging Americans in the Middle East to monitor updates following the initiation of “Operation Epic Fury.” The travel advisory for Jordan, which typically rests at level two — “exercise increased caution” — was bumped up to level three, “reconsider travel.”
This piece has been written by staff members at The Center for Careers and Internships. For students of the class of 2026 preparing to enter a competitive job market, getting an early start on the job search can help you navigate an increasingly competitive landscape.
International students make up an integral part of Middlebury’s student body. The college has a long and proud history of welcoming international students. It was a founding member of the United World College Davis Scholars program, which has become the largest private scholarship for international students in the United States, and partners with organisations such as KenSAP and SOLA, to bring high-achieving international students to Vermont. However, amid continued uncertainty from the Trump administration, faculty, students, and administrators alike must make immediate and long-term efforts to consider the burdens our international students face.
In June 1948, the Middlebury Board of Trustees voted to elect two women to the board for the first time: Gertrude Cornish Milliken and Alice Guest Howson. While the name Milliken may be familiar to many students on campus, Howson is not. In current blog posts, articles and published materials, Gertrude Milliken is listed as the sole first woman trustee. I am asking Middlebury College to correct this omission to honor Alice Howson for her contributions to our school.
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.
In the 2025–2026 academic year, around 13% of Middlebury students were non-residents, hailing from more than 70 countries. For those students — and for all students in the United States without American citizenship — this means something very different from what it did before the second Trump administration took office.
Middlebury’s Economics Department recently set a new department-wide threshold of 95% for receiving an A-grade. As we recently reported, this policy change stemmed from concerns about grade inflation, which has prompted us to ask: What is the value of an A?
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Middlebury women’s hockey became a varsity sport in 1981, and eight years later, Bill Mandigo took over at the helm. He’s won 697 games with Middlebury since then, the most of any coach in NCAA women's hockey history.
Last year, I had the privilege of serving as Vice President of the Student Government Association (SGA). For three years now, I’ve had a front-row seat to how SGA administrations campaign, govern, and ultimately follow through on the promises they make to the student body. I know what engaged leadership and accountability look like, so I can confidently say that President Nicole Meyers’ ’26 administration falls noticeably short of that standard.
On Wednesday, Feb. 11, a crowd gathered at Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society to listen to a panel of experts on the subject of middle schoolers’ mental health during an event titled “Fostering Resilience and Hope in Our Children Today.”
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.
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.
With about two seconds remaining in the first half, the Panthers turned over the ball near Trinity’s three-point line. The Bantams’ guard bolted forward with the ball, and as the buzzer pierced through Pepin Gymnasium, he launched a shot from the blue “M” at the center circle. With the buzzer still ringing, the ball swished through the Middlebury basket, and the Trinity bench erupted. In one continuous run, from turnover to shot to celebration, the Trinity guard raucously strode off the court and into the locker room.
I share a wall with Joey Disorbo ’25.5, so I know first-hand that those inconceivable work hours stats cited on his film’s informational poster board are true: 2000 hours, split across a thin crew. I know it from the many weekends I’ve seen him holed up in his room editing; I know it from the times I’ve been called in to give feedback on music, sound design and visual effects; I know it from the piles of props and costumes that fill our basement storage space; and I know it from that winter semester where he was practically invisible on campus.
In the fall 2025 semester, residents of Coffrin Hall received an email from Residential Life informing them that the dorm’s only kitchen and lounge would be locked up for the remainder of the semester due to the excessive amount of broken dining hall dishes consistently found in the building’s lounge.