College bars 22 students from campus for Covid-19 policy violations
By Amelia Pollard | September 22, 2020For two groups of students, Phase Two festivities came to a grinding halt when Public Safety officers knocked on their doors Thursday night.
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Sustainability concerns pile up amid packaged meal protocols
By Sophia Mcdermott-Hughes | September 17, 2020“Middlebury does an amazing job prioritizing sustainability and the environment during a typical semester, this semester is not typical, and when the rubber hits the road health and safety has to come first.”
Direct Your Attention: An insider’s look at America’s outsiders
By Owen Mason-Hill | September 17, 2020Upon first glance, Andrew Callaghan is like any other news anchor: he wears a suit, holds a mic and stands in front of an ever-present cameraman.
Overlapping crises: Bill McKibben on social solidarity in a world after Covid-19
By Nicole Pollack | September 17, 2020In Friday’s remote lecture, scholar-in-residence Bill McKibben drew comparisons between the pandemic and the climate crisis. “We have this huge mix of crises on top of each other,” he said.
Seeing early success, NESCACs navigate on-campus life during Covid-19
By Lily Jones | September 17, 2020Middlebury, along with its peers in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, have been able to maintain low Covid-19 rates through a mix of geographical and size advantages paired with stringent health protocol.
School of Abenaki pilots first summer remotely
By Catherine Mclaughlin | September 17, 2020“The Abenaki language needs speakers to help keep it alive,” Jesse Bowman Bruchac said, reflecting on this summer’s two-week pilot program on Abenaki language and culture.
Phase Two start date pushed to Thursday, Sept. 17
By Riley Board | September 15, 2020The next period in the college’s “phased approach” to a safe reopening will be pushed back to Thursday, Sept. 17, two days after it was originally planned to begin. Phase Two allows for greater freedoms, including leaving campus for other locations in Addison County and relaxing physical distancing ...
Middlebury holds breath as Covid case number sits at two
By Tony Sjodin | September 10, 2020Middlebury’s second round of Day Seven Covid-19 tests revealed no new cases of the virus among students, leaving the college’s total number of active cases at two. All enrolled students living on campus and in town were tested on Sept. 2, when 821 tests were administered, and on Sept. 4, when 1,138 ...
Staff, cautiously optimistic, face increased workload as students return
By Jake Gaughan | September 10, 2020“I think the administration is doing that best they can, with having students come back," said one longtime dining employee. "Was it the right decision to have on campus classes? It is such a double edged sword, but we can only hope for the best.”
Unsure of what to expect, first years grapple with a college experience marred by the pandemic
By Hannah Bensen | September 10, 2020“Nobody wants to get kicked out of Middlebury, but everyone wants to make friends,” said Ella Bode '24. “We just want to be able to experience as much as possible.”
Economic downturn and Covid-19 precautions bring tuition and endowment draw increases
By Tony Sjodin | September 10, 2020The planned FY21 budget draws an extra 2.5 percent from the endowment, which amounts to a maximum of $23.5 million extra this year.
Covid rules enforcement falls on student leaders
By James Finn and Caroline Kapp | September 7, 2020Dozens of pages of online instructions and 151 minutes of educational videos laid out a plethora of restrictions and regulations that were put in place to make a return to campus this fall possible. Since the majority of students returned to Middlebury last Friday, those rules have become reality. For ...
Second on-campus student tests positive for Covid-19
By Hattie Lefavour | September 4, 2020A second Middlebury student is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19, as revealed by the Day Seven test results delivered yesterday for students who arrived on August 26 and 27. Of the 322 results received from the round so far, only one test was positive, 316 were negative, and five were ...
After delays, Aug. 28 testing results show no new Covid-19 cases
By James Finn | August 31, 2020UPDATE: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 12:03 a.m. The student in isolation in Porter House, who was placed in isolation Monday morning after developing Covid-19 symptoms, received a negative test result late Monday night for a test administered after they developed symptoms. The student told The Campus that they ...
‘Fuel The People:’ Roodharvens Joseph ’22 helps found organization feeding frontline protestors
By Regina Fontanelli | August 26, 2020“What talents do you have that help set people free?” Roodharvens Joseph ’22 and his sister Gaïana Joseph asked themselves when they established their nonprofit, Fuel The People. For them, the answer was cooking. Driven by the belief that healthy food is the fuel for the revolution and called ...
Businesses report quarantine violations as first round of students return
By Sophia Mcdermott-Hughes | August 20, 2020Several local business owners reported seeing whom they suspected were college students wandering town and attempting to patronize their shops as Middlebury College welcomed its first crop of students back to campus on Aug. 18. Such actions are in direct violation of Middlebury’s pre-arrival quarantine ...
In Isolation: Audio portraits from spring 2020
By Sadie Housberg and Hattie Lefavour | August 13, 2020“Springtime at Middlebury College typically finds students packing away their parkas, cuffing their jeans, and finding any excuse to bask in the wavering spring sunshine — perhaps too eagerly for the still-frigid weather. But this past semester was one like no other.” Last spring, when students ...
Following entry testing, Middlebury to test 750 people per week for Covid-19 this fall
By James Finn | August 11, 2020With more than 3,000 Middlebury students, faculty and staff set to return to campus in late August, the college is planning to test 750 of them — on top of those who develop viral symptoms — for Covid-19 each week over the course of the fall semester, in a “targeted” testing approach directed ...
Over half of fall courses to be offered completely remotely, Campus analysis finds
By Benjy Renton | July 27, 2020When Middlebury announced its reopening plans on June 22, the college estimated that roughly a third of classes — approximately 175 of 530 courses — would be taught remotely in the fall. Based on a Campus analysis of the most recent version of the course catalog, that figure is actually over 50%. ...
‘Pure Xenophobia’: New ICE policy evicts international students taking only online courses
By Florence Wu | July 14, 2020UPDATE — Tuesday, July 14 The Trump administration has rescinded its policy that would have forced international students pursuing remote learning to leave the country. Middlebury alumna Judge Alison D. Burroughs announced the decision on Tuesday. —— International students who only take online ...