Middlebury mourns death of Yan Zhou ’23
By Ideal Dowling | October 28, 2021Content Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide.
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College breaks ground on new solar panel project, following controversial site selection
By Maya Heikkinen | October 28, 2021An expanse of field off South Street Extension will soon be the site of a 29,000-panel solar array, but community and ecological concerns linger.
NIB: College announces Prism Center for Queer and Trans Life, to open fall 2022
By Katie Futterman | October 28, 2021Exact events and programming has yet to be planned, but the focus of the center will be on community building.
NIB: Anderson Freeman Center receives $110,000 funding from SGA Justice Projects
By Katie Futterman | October 28, 2021SGA Justice Projects funding has granted the Anderson Freeman Center $110,000 to use for travel-learning trips and speaker events throughout the year.
News in Brief: Bread Loaf residents get on-campus lounge, later bus times
By Alexandra Burns | October 28, 2021Students in Bread Loaf, the Marriott, and Inn on the Green now have key card access to the President’s dining room as a lounge space on the college's main campus.
Dining services still struggling to fill vacant positions, divert traffic during peak times
By Ben Wagner | October 28, 2021Amid a staffing shortage, dining services has worked to manage traffic during busy lunchtimes.
Dining halls strive for sustainability while Covid-19 guidelines and waste remain a challenge
By Xiaoyuan Jiao | October 28, 2021Amid a staffing shortage, dining services has worked to manage traffic during busy lunchtimes.
Professors, departments face decision to teach in person
By Sammy Conrad-Rooney | October 28, 2021While many professors are eager to return to in person learning this fall, not all are comfortable with in-person given the persistent risks of Covid-19.
News in brief: students brush up against Covid-19 policies
By Charlie Keohane | October 14, 2021This fall, with long Proc lines, primarily in-person classes and no room capacity limits — according to the campus status page — many students welcome a return to a more “normal” semester. However, ResLife, dining hall staff and Public Safety officers are still tasked with enforcing rules like ...
Anti-racism programming gets $500,000 donation
By Lily Jones | October 14, 2021The CDEI is using its $105,000 to provide grants to departments or programs working on anti-racist projects.
MiddCourses, Middlebury’s students-review-based course rating website, remains unavailable
By Lauren Thompson | October 14, 2021MiddCourses was first created in 2014 and was popular on campus among students until last semester, when it was shut down for renovations.
First years begin new Compass Mentoring Program
By Ben Wagner and William Reed | October 14, 2021This fall, the class of 2025 will be the first to participate in the Compass Mentorship Program, which pairs students with a non-academic staff member at Middlebury who serves as an additional resource and mentor for the next four years. Following the dissolution of Middlebury’s 30-year-old commons ...
‘Grand Theft Wheels’: students notice uptick in bike theft on campus
By Aidan Shepardson | October 14, 2021The increase in on-campus enrollment has brought extra bikes to campus, while the return of in-person classes, athletics, and campus life has spiked demand to get around campus quickly.
As pandemic recedes, student service organizations navigate re-engagement with Middlebury community
By Viraj Shankar | October 14, 2021Service orgs have increasingly had the opportunity to work in-person with community partners.
Alum, founder of girls school in Afghanistan, shares story of escape
By Sophia Mcdermott-Hughes | October 7, 2021“Come to the airport with a purse or backpack. You have 30 minutes,” Shabana Basij-Rasikh ’11 told nine graduates of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), the school she founded in 2008. Of the school’s 95 current students, 92 accompanied Basij-Rasikh and those nine graduates to flee ...
With room freeze lifted, students try to move out of Bread Loaf
By Katie Futterman | October 7, 2021Sixty-five students began the semester living at Bread Loaf, but several have successfully moved out in recent weeks due to rooms opening up on campus or due to ADA accommodations. The college is housing undergraduates at the Bread Loaf campus for the first time to accommodate more than 300 extra ...
Fall family weekend approaches, other visitors still barred from campus
By Carly Mcadam | October 7, 2021Sports recruits, prospective students, visiting speakers, and Fall Family Weekend visitors are allowed on campus, but students are not allowed to host other visitors.
CCI and CCE move to new locations in Kitchel and Blinn Lane
By Ben Wagner | October 7, 2021The college renovated several office buildings to create more living spaces for students in the last year, including the CCI and CCE's former buildings.
Club sports and student orgs navigate return to competition and new Covid-19 guidelines
By Rachel Lu | October 7, 2021The Student Activities Office emailed student organization leaders last week with updated information about college-sanctioned travel guidelines, including new restrictions on lodging intended to mitigate Covid-19 risks. These standards have the greatest impact on club sports, which resumed competition ...
John Mead’s name removed from chapel for role in eugenics
By Ideal Dowling | September 30, 2021Mead, a former Vermont governor and alumnus whose monetary gift funded the creation of the chapel, urged legislation based on eugenics theory in the 1900s. A working group convened in May to deliberate the change.