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This summer, the Davis Family Library staff are planning an upgrade on the main floor of the library, namely new furniture, nearly two decades after its construction.
The University of Vermont’s (UVM) Morgan Horse Farm will commence its 2026 tourist season on May 2, which will run until October 27. The farm is dedicated to preserving and promoting the Morgan horse breed as well as providing hands-on educational experiences to students and the general public.
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.
On Monday, April 13, more than 25 students braved a damp Vermont evening to help salamanders safely cross the road. Donning jackets and mud boots, participants searched the underbrush for salamanders, frogs and other amphibians, carefully guiding them across Morgan Road in Salisbury.
It is a cold Saturday afternoon in January, and Middlebury’s ice hockey team faces off against its fierce NESCAC competitors. The arena is full of excitement and tension. Fans wear oversized hockey jerseys, clutching hot dogs in one hand and blue-and-white pom-poms in the other, as they root for the home team. Vermont does not have any professional sports teams, so, naturally, Middlebury hockey becomes “the team” for many Addison County residents. When scanning Kenyon Arena on a typical game day, a large portion of the stands consists of local residents. This camaraderie encapsulates the mutually sustaining relationship between students and town residents in Middlebury. The borders of college property and the surrounding town are permeable, with both parties having an undeniable impact on one another.
The Middlebury Campus recently reported on the Middlebury Economics department’s new department-wide policy instituting a 95% threshold for receiving an A grade. Previous to this development, grades were up to the professor’s discretion, and there was little standardization across the department.
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?
Insurance companies have begun to pull out of entire states. Homeowners in Florida, Louisiana and California have found themselves uninsurable through no fault of their own. Climate-related disasters meant that the actuarial math no longer worked, and the people pricing this risk were not environmental scientists, but insurance analysts and financial modelers — people who might be sitting next to you in Econ class.
Crossword 04/16/26: Data Query!
Crossword Solutions 04/16/26: Data Query!
Christy Liang: What drew you to photography?
Marin Melchior wears the standard college dining services uniform, but beneath the regulation fabric, the markers of a creator remain: a streak of vibrant blue bleached into her hair, a pair of delicate earrings and a blue bow pinned neatly behind her work hat. As the dining servery supervisor at Middlebury College’s Proctor Dining Hall, she manages the daily ebb and flow of student life; yet, beyond the campus counters, she is the founder of her own knitting company.
Designers Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien like things soft — which is interesting because their work addresses hard issues: immigration, redlining, the climate crisis, flooding and injustice.
In a mirror maze of performativity, reality blends into fantasy until the two become nearly indistinguishable. This is on full display in Jean Genet’s absurdist play, “The Maids,” which was produced by the Middlebury Theatre Department this past weekend. It depicts two sister maids engaging in dramatic role-playing scenes while serving the larger-than-life Madame. Directed by Professor of Theater Cláudio Medeiros ’90, the production ran from April 9–11, and served as the senior acting work of Ryan Ulen ’26 (Claire) and Zeph Santiago ’26.5 (Solange), as well as senior work in costume design for Juli Valle ’26.
Jack of all trades, master of some — in a sport where good “multis” are few and far between, the Middlebury track & field program has had a unique few seasons. Emily Rubio ’26 and Caleb Smith ’27 have represented the Panthers on the NCAA stage a combined seven times in the multi-sport event, and in this issue of Tapped-in, I spoke with the duo to better understand what their competition entails.
On Saturday, April 11, the #12 Middlebury women's tennis team took care of business at home, sweeping Trinity 7-0 inside an empty Nelson Recreation Center. The win was Middlebury’s 13th against Trinity. With the victory, the Panthers remain undefeated against the Bantams. Saturday’s result also came on the heels of a confidence-boosting sweep of #13 Williams last week. The Panthers currently sit third in the NESCAC with a record of 9–4 (5–1 against conference opponents) and look poised to make a deep postseason run.
Middlebury men’s golf continued its spring season with a 12th-place finish at the Dr Tim Brown Invitational, held in frigid Ballston Spa, NY, last weekend.
Lately, Middlebury College has been acting confused. With the state of the world right now, who can blame it? The cost to provide a liberal arts education continues to rise, which is exacerbated by the Trump administration’s war on higher education. We’re in the process of breaking up with our long-distance partner in Monterey, which has been awkward but for the best. Meanwhile, in Vermont, Ian Baucom is crisscrossing our campus with the energy of a philosophical super-senior. What are we here for? he is asking. Our college? This whole thing called a liberal arts education?
A couple years ago, I had a professor who started each class by introducing an “AI tool” and having us fiddle around with it. Write a nonsense poem satirizing the musical Hamilton in Lewis Carroll’s voice, I’d type in, and the program would barf out some metrically-challenged slop. Make me a Marc Chagall-style painting of the Iron Dome, and the machine would produce a hilariously over-saturated image of a Star of David floating in the sky, with angels draped in Israeli flags flying underneath. The purpose of these exercises, according to the professor’s syllabus, was simple: “AI tools are here,” he giddily announced. “There’s no going back, and they’re pretty cool. Let’s not be Luddites… This is your future.”
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.