Whether or not you support the divestment measures outlined in the Student Government Association (SGA) referendum that was sent out on Monday, we should all be concerned about the process by which the case for this referendum is being carried out. I appreciate that the SGA addressed the concern about ...
Opinion
Staking out our position on the encampment
By The Editorial Board | May 9, 2024Why you should vote in this week’s referendum on divestment
By Aksil Boughida and Lucy Schembre | May 9, 2024Latest stories
Media coverage on the encampments — whose voice is intended to be centered?
By Jacob Burnett | May 9, 2024As Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities have spread across the country, major media outlets have directed their attention to covering free speech rights, encampments as a valid form of protest and the history of student movements.
A call for improvement in on-campus accessibility
By Alex Evangelidis | May 9, 2024I broke my foot in Davis Library at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2023. The moment I realized, I began to cry — not because of the pain, but out of frustration. I immediately knew that my life was about to get a lot more inconvenient and exhausting.
From my archives: Second guessing as a second semester senior
By Charlie Keohane | May 9, 2024For the past three years, I’ve been hoarding issues of The Campus in my closet. I’ve passed dozens of issues, some with faded ink, from my tiny Gifford room with a slanted ceiling to summer storage units to different corners of Forest Hall. With graduation approaching and limited space in my suitcase, ...
Sarah Says: Signing off
By Sarah Miller | May 9, 2024I have worked for The Middlebury Campus since the second week of my freshman year, primarily as an Opinions Editor. When I assumed the role of Editor at Large this year (a wonderfully vague title), I was granted almost total discretion over my writing. Soon into the fall semester, I decided to start ...
AI: Academia on death’s door
By Joey Disorbo | May 9, 2024In the 1990s, chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov was defeated by IBM’s “Deep Blue” computing system. Many people thought this was impossible — an AI system could never be complex enough to emulate the creative and intuitive processes required in high-level chess. Of course, the final score was ...
Students love their clubs — the college should, too
By The Editorial Board | May 2, 2024Upon perusing the results of Zeitgeist 6.0, we noticed an interesting change from last year’s results: Middlebury students now rate student organizations as more important than outdoor recreation, with more respondents indicating a higher level of value placed on clubs than time outdoors.
In opposition to SGA’s solidarity statement and in support of student activists
By Shane Silverman | May 2, 2024The following day, President Shafik called the New York Police Department (NYPD) to clear the protestors on trespassing charges. Half of the arrested students were enrolled at Barnard and faced disciplinary actions such as interim suspensions, but nearly all of them have made agreements with their administrators ...
RAs: The last line of defense
By Marlow Saucier | May 2, 2024Residential Life (ResLife) is a lifestyle more than it is a job. During my four years at Middlebury, I’ve been an Residential Assistant (RA) for three and I am the Head RA of Hepburn Hall this year. Legitimately, some of the kindest and most open-minded people I have met on campus have been those ...
Sarah Says: That’s Why They Call Them The Blues
By Sarah Miller | May 2, 2024Every April, when the days get long again and we shed our winter coats, I remember that I am an essentially joyful person and am, perhaps more importantly, committed to cultivating joy. This is the writerly way of saying I suffer from a low-grade form of seasonal depression. Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder ...
Middlebury’s process of creating new student organizations requires serious structural changes to satisfy student needs
By Francesca Bradley and Rosella Graham | May 2, 2024For all the students who eagerly toured Middlebury College before committing, you surely heard some version of the line, “It is always possible to start a new club on campus if it doesn’t already exist! You just need ten or more interested members.”
What are Middlebury students “fluent” in, anyways?
By The Editorial Board | April 25, 2024The newly launched Middlebury website now features what the college has labeled as the “Four Fluencies”: “Solving the Climate Crisis,” “Analyzing Data,” “Transforming Conflict” and “Understanding Cultural Difference. If you are surprised to hear that these are the four pillars of a ...
Addressing recent vandalism at the Knoll
By Sheila Camacho and Caitlin Sheen | April 25, 2024The Knoll is a place to slow down. At Middlebury, life is constantly moving a hundred miles an hour. For many students, it is a place to breathe and step back. As Knoll interns, we have a lot of love for the space, and as such, it makes us incredibly sad to learn of the vandalism at the end of March. ...
SPECS Panther Column #5: Our Reading List
By Zoe Gregg | April 25, 2024SPECS Panther is a mascot for SPECS (sex-positive education for college students) and serves the Middlebury community. As a part of Health & Wellness Education, SPECS Panther seeks to educate and spark independent dialogue, not be the end-all-be-all resource on campus. We encourage Midd kids to ...
Students need to support the Ilsley Public Library renovation bond vote
By Andrew Mueller, Mohamed Noor, Gavin Gattuso and Macy Daggitt | April 25, 2024The Ilsley Public Library has been a cornerstone of the Middlebury community for a century. It’s time the town of Middlebury gives back to the library for all it has done — serving as a public gathering space and providing resources for the town — by passing a bond to fund its expansion and improvement. ...