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(10/09/25 10:01am)
Joseph Jacobson’s recent Letter to the Editor, published in the Oct. 2 issue of The Campus and written on behalf of the Middlebury College Republicans, claims to defend free speech. Responding to an editorial that urged dialogue and safety in campus discourse, the letter accused the Editorial Board of “paradoxically tak[ing] a position leaning in favor of censorship and intolerance rather than any legitimate form of free speech.”
(10/09/25 10:00am)
If the professoriate is your true calling, reality dictates that you go where the openings are, rather than where you wish to be. My experience of the job market was a continental compass tour: As a graduate student, the process landed me at campus visits in Virginia and Texas, and later, as a postdoctoral fellow, in Utah and Vermont. I was quite happy in my postdoctoral position, researching and teaching in New Jersey, and I did not have to leave. I, however, had the rare opportunity to go somewhere I wanted to be. When the offer came from Middlebury College, I did not hesitate.
(10/09/25 10:05am)
MiddCORE, the college’s experiential learning program, recently announced its partnership with OpenAI for its 2026 J-Term session. Serving as a credit-bearing J-Term class, MiddCORE’s winter program requires a competitive application process and involves working with a company partner to take on challenges and foster leadership and problem-solving skills.
(10/09/25 10:04am)
Crossroads Café has brewed up major changes this semester: expanded weekend hours, the removal of the alternative milk surcharge, upgrades to aging equipment and a switch from dark roast to a medium coffee blend.
(10/02/25 10:02am)
When someone places a shot glass filled with beet soup in front of you, you take a sip. When you remember the beets were grown less than a mile away, you take another.
(10/02/25 10:01am)
Crossword 10/02/2025: Solutions!
(10/02/25 10:00am)
Crossword 10/02/2025!
(10/02/25 10:02am)
Across departments, Middlebury professors are grappling with the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. Many professors, including Professor of English Megan Mayhew-Bergman and Lecturer in Chinese Mairead Harris, have modified syllabi to permit AI in specific contexts.
(10/02/25 10:01am)
The design and construction of New Battell came with yet another upgrade this fall: a composting system. Bins designated for food waste were placed in lounge kitchens and garbage rooms, giving New Battell residents the opportunity to dispose of their scraps sustainably. Facilities hope to use the new composting options as a test to gauge students’ engagement with the system.
(10/02/25 10:00am)
The Chateau marked its 100th birthday on Saturday, welcoming French Department alumni, students and professors for a celebration of its legacy. The dorm was the first of its kind in the U.S., a maison française or “french house” conceived and built with the purpose of speaking only French inside in mind. With its iconic dormers and peaked towers, the building has long stood out among the campus’s predominantly gray-stone Georgian architecture.
(10/02/25 10:01am)
Alex Gklaros-Stavropoulos ’29 is a first year center on the men’s basketball team, towering at 6'11. Originally from Los Altos, California, he plans to pursue a Physics major. He played for Saint Francis High School, where he was a captain his senior year. He hopes to help the team reach the NCAA tournament again.
(10/02/25 10:03am)
A vast white gown spilled across the stage of Wright Memorial Theater this past Friday, introducing audiences to the forgotten prodigy of the Mozart family with“The Other Mozart.” The play, written and performed by Sylvia Milo and directed by Isaac Byrne, features a striking 18-foot dress by Magdalena Dabrowska and an evocative soundscape by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen. It is a one-woman show reclaiming the life of Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart, Wolfgang’s gifted elder sister.
(10/02/25 10:03am)
I’ve had many moments at Middlebury over the last few years where I marvel at what I’ve been able to learn here. Taking classes that are actually functional — invigorating, even — has been a fairly novel delight in my academic career, coming from a high school which is consistently on the list of failing public schools in our state. Needless to say, I did not exactly have great preparation for Midd classes, and I definitely did not do enough to remedy this before college. During my first weeks here, I could barely speak in class. The thought of writing anything at the college level made my stomach churn. What changed all of this for me, giving me a voice in discussions and an eagerness to write, was my first year seminar, “The Journey Within.”
(10/02/25 10:06am)
The college recently broke ground on Battell Park, a new outdoor space designed to add more communal areas to campus.
(10/02/25 10:04am)
Since the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions ended, staffing has generally improved on campus. However, several departments still face the burden of being undersupported, especially in light of the budget cuts announced in April. The cuts reduced staff and faculty retirement benefits and offered some staff a financial incentive to retire early.
(10/02/25 10:00am)
Middlebury’s climbing community returned this fall to find a brand-new wall towering over the indoor tennis courts in Nelson Recreation Center, complete with shiny holds, flat panels, and fresh, cushy mats. The first thing wall veterans noticed was what was missing: the cave. The steep and storied overhang where experienced climbers congregated, setting routes that defied gravity, is gone. In its place is a flat, pristine surface that looks more like a commercial gym than the charming, textured wall that preceded it.
(10/02/25 10:05am)
As the Chateau celebrates its 100-year anniversary and the first group of Middlebury students takes up residence in New Battell, we are reflecting on the meaning of the buildings where we study, work, and live. Buildings are part of what makes our campus feel distinctly “Middlebury.” Recent and upcoming construction projects have the potential to significantly alter the character of our spaces, and we want to emphasize that student input and experiences should be at the forefront of administrators’ minds as they think through these changes.
(10/02/25 10:04am)
This letter to the editor from the Middlebury College Republicans is a response to the Editorial Board’s (E.B.) piece titled “To Maintain Free Speech, Start Listening,” published in the Sept. 18 issue of The Campus. I am leading the writing of this letter with the consultation of club members, including Dylan Carroll and Erin Faith Fuller, among others. In their piece, the E.B. has characterized their position as being supportive of free speech. However, a close reading of their argument reveals that they paradoxically take a position leaning in favor of censorship and intolerance rather than any legitimate form of free speech.
(10/02/25 10:02am)
Two weeks ago, I made the case for specifying the global problems you wish to spend years on. Today I want to place these choices at the right altitude, because from arm’s length everything blurs and from 10 years out it usually becomes embarrassingly clear. Set aside the buzz lines, and your career adds up to about 40-50 years, roughly 80,000 working hours. That is the single largest block of time you will ever control. Life is smaller than it feels, and if you do not decide what those hours are for, inertia will determine it for you.
(10/02/25 10:00am)
Early scientific models that describe how the body functions and responds to different sensations during sex, such as Masters and Johnson’s sexual response cycle and Helen Singer Kaplan’s triphasic model, viewed sex as a linear, sequential experience that began with excitement and desire and culminated in orgasm. These models deserve some credit, as they established language and theory about how the body reacts during different elements of a sexual experience. They, however, also set narrow expectations for what sex looks like and, by extension, who is considered “sexually functional.” In reality, these models excluded the experiences of many people with physical, emotional, and cognitive functional differences. At SPECS, we believe it is necessary to reanalyze these models through an inclusive lens.
