Students elect first-year senators, senior senator to Student Government
By Lily Jones | October 1, 2020First-years elected two class senators to represent the class of 2024 and seniors elected one senator in a special election.
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Big data, big implications: 2020 Clifford Symposium tackles data across disciplines
By Emmanuel Tamrat | October 1, 2020 This year’s annual Clifford Symposium — titled “The Rise of Big Data” — focused on the growth of data across disciplines and its importance for the future of learning at Middlebury. The conference was held over Zoom on Thursday, Sept. 24. ‘Truth in Numbers? Data in Environmental ...
Class-action lawsuit against Middlebury seeks spring tuition refund
By Amelia Pollard | September 30, 2020A class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court late last week accuses Middlebury College of not adequately reimbursing students for spring tuition.
Student reports being the target of a racial slur on campus
By Jake Gaughan | September 26, 2020A day of resistance and solidarity was soured by the actions of a pair of students behind Ross last night. Rodney Adams ’21 and Jameel Uddin ’22 were preparing for a relaxing evening after a day of protesting when two white students confronted and harassed them with a racial slur, according to Adams. Per ...
Changes to Title IX alter reporting and investigation procedures
By Caroline Kapp | September 24, 2020New regulations related to the 1972 federal civil rights law which prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs have changed the Title IX investigation and hearing process at Middlebury.
The essential workers among us: MiddKids on the frontlines
By Sophia Mcdermott-Hughes and Sarah Miller | September 24, 2020As states across the country issued stay-at-home orders last spring, essential workers carried on working and took on personal risks to keep the country functioning. Among their ranks were several Middlebury students who faced daily concerns about personal and familial health, battled exhaustion, balanced ...
Prospective students partake in a new age of admissions
By Adil Alvi | September 24, 2020Prospective students face unique challenges in deciding where to attend college. Middlebury’s Admissions Office has implemented new virtual programming so it can still reach these students.
Student leaders take on an orientation like never before
By Abigail Chang | September 24, 2020This year’s first year orientation had to be adapted for both on-campus and remote students; the Student Activities Office and student leaders adjusted MiddView to a Covid-19 semester.
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.
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 ...