In a couple of weeks, the last class who has experienced a full year of pre-pandemic Middlebury will graduate. This has left some of us wondering about the potential loss of institutional memories and traditions that flourished before the onset of social distancing and Zoom links.
Opinion
Notes from the Desk: 272 Pages
By Riley Board | May 12, 2022Involuntary Unpaid Labor is Unfair Labor
By Mia Pangasnan | May 12, 2022Unpacking the stats on happiness
By The Editorial Board | May 5, 2022Notes from the Desk: Is it time to reconsider our mascot?
By Charlie Keohane | May 5, 2022Latest stories
‘Full and Equal Participation’: Rethinking Middlebury’s financial aid
By Editorial Board | April 28, 2022On April 13, fellow NESCAC institution Williams College announced its commitment to move to a fully-grant based financial aid system, effectively eliminating loans and work study packages. This shift is said to benefit the 53% of students who are on financial aid, at a cost of 6.75 million dollars per ...
Let’s show up in solidarity with farmworkers: May 1 action with migrant justice
By Molly Babbin and Andrés Oyaga | April 28, 2022Join us outside the Middlebury Hannaford this Sunday May 1 at 11:30 a.m. alongside farmworkers demanding humane labor standards.
Call our Representative, support an environmental justice bill for Vermont
By Emily Thompson and Emily Hogan | April 28, 2022Vermont’s Environmental Justice Bill S.B. 148, originally introduced by State Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale 10 years ago, aims to confront these inequities and progress Vermont towards environmental justice in all forms.
Arab Reflections with Maryait: Mabrouk
By Maryait Khader | April 21, 2022…or Mabrouk a thousand times. Or even a million times. In English the word is translated to congratulations. It is one of the expressions that we use frequently in the Arab world. We can say it to congratulate friends and loved ones on happy occasions, whether small or big. For example, marriage, ...
“We Keep Us Safe”: Reflections on Patrisse Cullors’ visit
By Daleelah Saleh | April 21, 2022It goes without saying that “Black Lives Matter” has become a household term. The founders of the movement, however — Patrisse Cullors among them — are much less widely known. When I received a promotional email from the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) that Cullors would be giving ...
Raymond Diaz ’23 for SGA President
By Editorial Board | April 14, 2022The Editorial Board of The Campus is proud and excited to endorse Raymond Diaz ’23 for Student Government Association (SGA) president for the 2022–23 academic year. Diaz, who plans to appoint Evelyn Magdaleno ’24 as his vice president, boasts an impressive background of campus leadership positions ...
Compensate MiddView leaders to ensure the future of the program
By Jessica Buxbaum, Calin Lane and Anne Lofgren | April 14, 2022This op-ed was originally sent as a letter to Dean of Students Derek Doucet and Assistant Director of Student Activities for Student Leadership and Development Erin Morrison. It has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.
Ending Endemic Pay Inequities
By Tim Parsons | April 14, 2022With luck, as a community we’re moving to an ‘endemic’ phase of Covid-19. As a community though, it’s time again to recognize the many endemic problems staff face at our institution, and talk about taking one or two off the plate before we add another.
Strength through vulnerability
By Ruhi Kamdar | April 7, 2022My idea is simple. Wear who you are on your sleeve. Think about a label that has always defined you. Cross it out. Be you.
(Academic) conversations with friends
By Eliza King Freedman | April 7, 2022Since coming back from spring break, a lot of my conversations with friends and acquaintances have revealed new interests and values about people I either know well or have been getting to know. Hearing about museums people have gone to, trips they’ve gone on, and ways they’ve spent their time at ...
Arabic Reflections with Maryait: God give you health
By Maryait Khader | April 7, 2022I will never forget the face of my Moroccan teacher when I entered his class and said to him, ‘Ya‘tik al-‘afiya.’ This expression is a key for everyone who visits the Levant, the Arab Gulf, and Egypt — we use it in all contexts for literally everything.
Continuing to care
By Editorial Board | April 7, 2022With the end of Middlebury’s indoor mask mandate came a return to pervasive individualism — in most places if you want to wear a mask, you do, and if you don’t, you don’t. The college administration is no longer the primary regulator of Covid-19 guidelines. Beyond required masking in classrooms ...
Tuition hikes necessitate institutional transparency
By Editorial Board | March 31, 2022Tuition increases are not new or unexpected. However, we ask that this price tag be accompanied by comprehensive, accessible information regarding exactly how this money will be used. If Middlebury expects students to pay more, it makes sense that we as students can expect to know where our money is ...
Arab Reflections with Maryait: Inshallah
By Maryait Khader | March 31, 2022After more than six months for me at Middlebury, I miss many things in Jordan. When I say Jordan, I mean the Arab countries in general, which share many customs and habits. I decided to turn this longing for home into a door through which I might open the opportunity to pass on a part of my culture ...