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Save small class sizes

By The Editorial Board | November 13, 2025

Small class sizes and intimate academic experiences have long been a core tenet of a Middlebury education. The college proudly boasts our 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio and our average class size of 16 on its website and on every tour. But this has not been reflective of our Middlebury experience for ...

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Letter to the Editor: Response to No Kings! Except the ones we like…

By Ayden Lapon | November 13, 2025

In the op-ed “No Kings! Except the ones we like…”, published in the Nov. 6 edition of The Campus, the author argues that the protest movement across the country is an example of selective outrage, and that the standard for criticism and condemnation is not applied evenly. While I see merit in ...

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Letter to the Editor: Response to No Kings! Except the ones we like…

By Will Beckerman and Charlie Fisch | November 13, 2025

In an article critical of the so-called hypocrisy of the No Kings protest in The Campus last week, Ignacio Gamero ‘26 accused protestors of “cheapening authoritarianism.” He argued that other presidents had previously taken similar oversteps of executive power, and that Trump’s activities were ...

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Letter To The Editor: How democracies die

By Daniza Tazabekova | November 13, 2025

This Letter To The Editor is a response to Ignacio Gamero ’26’s op-ed titled “No Kings! Except the ones we like…,” published in the Nov. 6 issue of The Campus. In his piece, Gamero argued that outrage over presidential overreach is merely inconsistent partisanship and exemplifies selective ...

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Step By Step: Bringing People Closer

By Maryit Khader | November 13, 2025

Last week, I received sudden and heartbreaking news. My aunt, who was traveling from Qalqilya, Palestine (West Bank) to visit my ailing mother in Jordan, passed away unexpectedly. The news left all of us in shock. Yet, I decided to attend the inauguration of Ian B. Baucom as the 18th president of Middlebury ...

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Stop politicizing romance

By Elisabeth Dellit | November 13, 2025

I don’t think there’s a single person who lives in the U.S. who would say that our country is not going through a significant political crisis. The political conversation is ever-present. But what concerns me is the politicization of our personal lives. In particular, we need to stop politicizing ...

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Silence will not protect us

By Sophia Kahn, Natti Martinez and Charlie Fisch | November 13, 2025

Middlebury College’s mission statement states that it seeks to “foster the inquiry, equity, and agency necessary for [students] to practice ethical citizenship.” Yet, our ability to do so is currently under attack. This is not only a result of the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic ...

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Notes from the Desk: What is the Editorial Board?

By Curran Amster | November 6, 2025

The Campus’ Editorial Board (EB) is a group of fixed student editors who meet weekly to discuss issues important to the college community, and then publish a piece reflective of our conversations. We try to reach some degree of consensus to “call for” something, whether that’s a demand for students ...

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A Letter to Middlebury College

By The Miis Student Advocacy Council | November 6, 2025

On behalf of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) Student Advocacy Council, we would like to share our heartfelt sympathy and support for Lia Smith’s family and friends, and to everyone at Middlebury who feels her absence.

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The case for study abroad

By The Editorial Board | November 6, 2025

More than half of the junior class at Middlebury studies abroad each year. They leave behind the comforts and benefits of staying on campus to immerse themselves in a foreign language, experience another culture and confront a totally different, often even more rigorous academic environment. Students ...

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No Kings! Except the ones we like…

By Ignacio N. Gamero | November 6, 2025

On Saturday, Oct. 18, students, professors and Middlebury residents gathered, chanting “No Kings” in protest of President Donald Trump’s perceived authoritarian tendencies. The message was clear: Trump is a threat to our country and must be denounced and opposed. The protest raises an important ...

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Student death remains the routine at Middlebury

By The Editorial Board | October 30, 2025

Two years ago, we wrote about how the losses of student life became a “routine” at Middlebury, when tragedies like losing members of our community and fellow students should be anything but routine. At that time, we urged the college to develop more comprehensive mental health support resources. ...

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Don’t study abroad

By Joey Disorbo | October 30, 2025

Four years is a pitifully short time for something so blatantly, absurdly wonderful: being an undergraduate on this campus. It would be remiss of every Middlebury student to take for granted the fact that everyone they know is within a 15-minute walk. It would be remiss to forget that the gym, the ice ...

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How I processed grief at Middlebury

By Ben Conway | October 30, 2025

In late October of 2022, during my first year at Middlebury, I drove over the Green Mountains and into New Hampshire to see one of my best friends from high school for the last time. Though his eyes shone with their same flinty strength, cancer had weakened his body. After catching up for an hour in ...

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