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(04/03/25 10:03am)
Recent cuts to the Department of Education by the Trump administration have shaken local school districts across the country, reaching Addison County schools that have faced declining student enrollment and currently rely on federal funding for a variety of purposes. Superintendents of local school districts have expressed their fears of possible funding cuts and voiced support for Vermont’s attempts to fight or impede the looming changes.
(04/03/25 10:02am)
As real Vermonters know all too well, spring comes in two waves: First, “false spring,” tempting those who don’t know better than to put their winter clothes back in storage. But then — as we were reminded this past weekend — a few inches of snow extinguishes those hopes. During this waiting period before true spring arrives, it can be nice to make spring happen indoors. For almost 88 years, Cole’s Flowers has sought to do exactly that, selling bouquets and arrangements for an array of events in Middlebury year-round.
(04/03/25 10:01am)
To celebrate its students’ broad range of instrumental and vocal talent, the Middlebury Community Music Center (MCMC) hosted Bloom and Grow, a pay-what-you-can benefit concert, on Friday, March 28. Proceeds from the concert supported the non-profit’s student scholarship fund, improving accessibility to the center for students. The Center, now in its 10th year of operation, aims to cultivate musical talent and encourage the joy, fulfillment and sense of community that students experience through music.
(04/03/25 10:02am)
Middlebury College hosted a talk with prominent journalist and City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Peter Beinart titled “Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza” on Tuesday, March 25. Sponsored by a dozen departments in the college, the event in Wilson Hall was attended by around 130 students and community members, and it was moderated by Professor of History Febe Armanios and Professor of Jewish Studies Ted Sasson.
(04/03/25 10:03am)
Hannah Smith Allen’s photography exhibition “Beyond Walls” opened on Tuesday, March 11 with a lecture and opening reception in Johnson Memorial Building. The exhibition — which will run until April 5 — includes works made during President Donald Trump’s first term as a method of interpreting, interrupting and engaging with America’s landscapes and its complex political systems.
(04/03/25 10:03am)
If you walked into Proctor or Ross dining hall on Thursday for lunch last week, you probably saw a couple students tabling outside to promote the Migrant Justice Milk with Dignity campaign. On that day, around 80 Middlebury students called Hannaford Supermarket to demand the grocery store chain join the Milk with Dignity program and guarantee humane working and living conditions for the farm workers that produce their dairy products — many of whom are undocumented immigrants.
(04/03/25 10:02am)
I’m shocked when I hear accounts of other American undergraduate students' time abroad, learning nothing more than how to say “merci” while in Paris. As I wrapped up my semester abroad this past December in Bordeaux, France, I could safely say that my French improved exponentially and that there was value in the intense and immersive qualities of the Middlebury program, which is known for its notorious Language Pledge requiring students to only speak in their target language. I lived with a host family and was directly enrolled at the local university, taking courses any native student would take. I successfully blended into the lecture halls, challenging the stereotype that American exchange students can only speak English.
(04/03/25 10:05am)
The first full-length animated Hungarian documentary “Pelikan Blue” directed by László Csáki greeted an eager audience of town members and students in a packed Dana Auditorium on March 27. The film shares its name with a type of ink, Pelikan Blue, which plays a critical role in the plot due to its easy removability, facilitating the fabrication of train tickets.
(04/03/25 10:00am)
The Campus just launched its annual student survey on Monday, March 31, marking the seventh time we have asked Middlebury students to answer dozens of questions about academics, sex and love, social life, politics and other topics. Last year we received completed responses from over 1,200 students; this data has become a touchstone for our reporting on Middlebury’s community, and it has shaped how faculty, staff and administrators understand the student body.
(04/03/25 10:10am)
Khuram Hussain, vice president of equity and inclusion and professor of Education Studies, announced in early March that he will step down from his current administrative role on June 30 and return to the classroom as a full-time faculty member in the fall.
(04/03/25 10:06am)
Students returned from spring break to a new dining option officially available on campus: a food truck operated by So-Full Sisters will now be parked outside BiHall and the Freeman International Center every weekday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting Monday, March 24. The email announcing the food truck’s opening from Student Government Association President B Striker ’25 also noted that the BiHall kiosk, which opened in September 2023, has permanently closed.
(04/03/25 10:00am)
Middlebury does not currently have an institutional policy dictating how artificial intelligence (A.I.) should be used in the classroom, which leaves the decision up to individual professors. In an attempt to encourage intentional A.I. use in academic instruction, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) and the Office of Digital Learning & Inquiry (DLINQ) recently hosted a series of workshops for professors and peer writing tutors that focused on strategies and techniques for implementing A.I. as a tool for learning.
(04/03/25 10:02am)
Play Colinnections by Colin Bourque!
(04/03/25 10:01am)
Crossword 04/03/2025: The Big Dance Solution!
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Crossword 04/03/2025: The Big Dance!
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Middlebury has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for the 15th consecutive year, with nine alumni teaching, researching and interning abroad on a Fulbright scholarship for the 2024–25 academic year. These Fulbright recipients have experienced recent uncertainty over their funding following the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, efforts to cut federal spending on international aid and attempts to eliminate programs it believes promote “woke” ideology.
(04/03/25 10:04am)
Last month, the organizations Black Student Union (BSU) and Black Students Heard (BSH) launched a public initiative to reclaim the Adirondack House (ADK) as an affinity space for Black students, citing historical promises by the college and what they see as an urgent need for community building at Middlebury.
(03/13/25 10:04am)
With the start of Ramadan — a holy month in Islam that celebrates the gift of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammed — on Feb. 28, many Middlebury students and community members have begun to fast from sunrise to sunset each day, breaking their abstinence from food each day in the evening. Around 60 Muslim students have visited local Muslim families in town who have hosted iftar dinners, bringing people together to break their fast with a shared meal.
(03/13/25 10:03am)
The Snow Bowl hosted its third annual Middlebury College Student Ski Day on Friday, March 7, a new tradition designed to promote local snow sports. First held in 2023 as an opportunity to provide the student body with easy access to skiing and snowboarding, on Student Ski Day the Snow Bowl provides students with lift tickets, waiving the cost of a day pass so they can ski for free.
(03/13/25 10:00am)
Since his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has issued at least 128 executive actions, aiming to dismantle federal organizations, slash the budget and disrupt staffing. From threatening the National Institutes of Health (NIH), jeopardizing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, denying the identities of transgender and other genderqueer folks and curtailing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the executive branch is enforcing sweeping systematic changes under the guise of “efficiency.”
