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The 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 ...

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Middlebury needs a Club Alpine Ski Team

By Noah Willson | April 18, 2024

Middlebury is an institution with a vast array of storied DIII athletic teams. Our programs have won multiple national championships, and we have racked up 44 team national titles. Forty-one alumni have gone on to compete at the Olympic games. Our alpine ski team is one of the top DI programs on the ...

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Sarah Says: Did we kill debate?

By Sarah Miller | April 18, 2024

Instagram announced a big change this February: It would begin to limit political content. I didn’t notice this change until a few weeks ago when many of my Middlebury classmates began to post pleas to circulate a text post instructing us how and why we should self-select back into being shown political ...

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The myth of the “Chinese” language

By Aren Lau | April 18, 2024

Middlebury College has allowed a mistake to face the public and its students since 1966. That mistake is the name of the Chinese department’s language courses: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced “Chinese.” Out of the nearly three hundred Chinese languages in existence, only Mandarin — the most ...

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The Prism Center needs an assistant director

By Elio Farley | April 18, 2024

A bell hooks quote lives in the kitchen of The Prism Center and serves as an invitation into the center’s beautiful living spaces: “One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”

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Josh Harkins ’25 for SGA President

By The Editorial Board | April 11, 2024

We are excited to endorse Josh Harkins ’25 for Student Government Association (SGA) president for the 2024-25 academic year. Harkins, who plans to appoint Freddi Mitchell ’25 and Ahmed Awadallah ’26 as vice presidents, has clear and pragmatic goals for his term as SGA president.

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Justice for Governor Mead

By John M. Lord, Jr. | April 11, 2024

As reported earlier this year in The Campus, the lawsuit contesting the removal of the Mead name from our chapel has now moved to the discovery phase, during which each party must provide to the other whatever evidence and testimony it has and intends to present in a trial. Given Middlebury College’s ...

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Going outside the classroom to New Orleans

By Zoe Wang | April 11, 2024

Ah, spring break—a cherished time for us Midd students to escape the routine and unwind. Little did I anticipate that my decision to participate in a InterVarsity Christian Fellowship service trip to New Orleans would expose me to profound human tragedy and adversity. Yet amidst these challenges, ...

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Grade inflation: Is it really so bad?

By Cheryl Liu | April 11, 2024

Grade inflation is a contentious issue on campus, as seen from the news article released on Feb. 22 titled “Average GPA rose to 3.65 last spring, prompting concern over sustained grade inflation” and The Campus’ editorial that week: “Inflated grades, deflated egos: tackling Middlebury’s problematic ...

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Rumi & Ramadan

By Zahra Moeini Meybodi | April 4, 2024

“Rumi” — a name that has become increasingly recognizable in American classrooms, literary circles and spiritual movements. With popular renditions and interpretations of Molānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad al-Balkhi al-Rūmī, or simply Rumi’s writings in English, the 13th century Persian Muslim ...

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Sarah Says: So, I took a class on porn

By Sarah Miller | March 14, 2024

When I tell people I took a class on porn — “Decolonizing Porn: Circulating Desire Between Europe and the Americas,” to be more specific —  the question that invariably follows is “Did you watch porn in class?” To that, I say, yes, sort of, but we watched most of the porn outside of ...

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