Reduce The Waste: A project aimed at reducing food waste in Middlebury dining halls
By Shayiq Shah | December 8, 2022When I was younger, my mum had a very simple rule for me and my brother: do not waste food.
Opinion
The eugenics movement and institutional memory at Middlebury
By Aine Powers and Beatrice Donovan | December 8, 2022Though the undergraduate experience is typically limited to a period of four years, we all attend an institution whose history stretches back more than 200 years. As summer Research Fellows sponsored by the Office of the President, Special Collections, and the Scott Center for Religious and Spiritual ...
Finding joy in finals season
By Editorial Board | December 8, 2022December is upon us, and with it the lovely and long-awaited Finals Season. The days are shorter; your once enjoyable afternoon class now feels like a time warp when you leave only to find it is pitch black outside. We now layer up to brave the long walks between classes, just to feel suffocated when ...
It’s time to reimagine and reintroduce first-year orientation trips
By Jessica Buxbaum, Calin Laine, Anne Lofgren and David Goldsmith | November 17, 2022If outdoor programs have been inaccessible in the past, the solution is not to get rid of the outdoors; the solution is to equip the program with the necessary resources and proper leadership to make students feel safe and cared for in the outdoors.
Clubs need support that reflects their importance to student life
By Editorial Board | November 17, 2022Our activity fee has gone up every year, but we are not seeing these resources reflected in current extracurricular infrastructure. Based on current enrollment, we can estimate there is well over one million dollars in total allowance for club resources this fiscal year. It is clear that sufficient ...
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side: A Review of the Inn on the Green
By Marc Chu | November 17, 2022Infamous for keeping way more than one panther apart from the campus, the Inn on the Green incites anguish and sorrow in those assigned to it during the housing draws. However, the proverbial wisdom of the Inn being the worst “dorm” at the college is several worlds apart from reality. The three ...
Abbey Gate
By Sajia Yaqouby | November 17, 2022August 17, 2021. A hot day, after a long night of sleeplessness. I’m in a crowd of hundreds of people. My father leaves my sisters and me at the first checkpoint: Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Reflections on the Midterm Election in Vermont
By Wright Frost | November 17, 2022Even in places like Orange County and Middlebury that appear to be oases of calm and stability, the hate and vitriol on which Klar founded his campaign are still prevalent. Although I wish this wasn’t a lesson I needed to learn, the election reminded me that the civility and level-headed government ...
Tapping into Midd’s strong network of feminist activists
By Sophia Afsar-Keshmiri and Mei Dwyer-Frattalone | November 10, 2022On Friday, Nov. 4, a group of Middlebury students gathered to march in solidarity with the Iranian and Kurdish women protesting for their basic human rights in Iran, and mourning the death of Mahsa Jina Amini. After allegedly being killed by the morality police for not properly adhering to the sexist ...
Envisioning outreach and support at a post-affirmative action Middlebury
By Editorial Board | November 10, 2022The Supreme Court began hearing the oral arguments for two cases which will decide the future role of race in college admissions on Oct. 30. In the 40 years since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke established affirmative action’s constitutionality, there have been numerous challenges. ...
How I feel @ Midd: A new mental health column
By Kristen Watkins | November 10, 2022The idea that Instagram is a cultivated highlight reel is by no means revolutionary. Yet, especially at Midd, it can be hard to remember that the lives of our peers are more complicated than they appear on their social media.
Re-evaluating my experience with therapy
By Dominic Browne | November 10, 2022Therapy was unknown to 16-year-old boys in traditional Caribbean houses like my own. To ask my mother, a traditional Caribbean woman, to talk to someone other than members of my immediate family about my personal issues or mental health status, was just unheard of.
Rethinking (or realizing) YOUR way of help
By Rostyk Yarovyk | November 10, 2022The past two semesters have been nothing short of exhausting. The fear of losing everything I have ever known and loved has overtaken my mind, as I have been lucid dreaming every single day since the war.
In support of a more effective Credit/No Credit option
By Editorial Board | November 3, 2022The CR/NCR option as it currently stands is incredibly limited in scope in that it cannot be used for major, minor, academic distribution, college writing or cultures and civilizations requirements.
Crossing the threshold into action: How Middlebury can do more this election
By Maggie Bryan and Freddi Mitchell | November 3, 2022Middlebury College values students’ civic engagement. The community prides itself in having the second-highest voter registration rate of all U.S. colleges during the 2018 and 2020 elections.
Taking care into our own hands
By Editorial Board | October 27, 2022During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Middlebury students were frequently granted additional flexibility and room for self-care. From the expanded Credit/No Credit grading system to more lax due dates and “freebie” late days, there was infrastructure in place to grant more space to students ...
In Honor of The Knoll
By Andrés Oyaga, Sj O'connor, Aria Bowden, Claire Contreras, Viv Merrill, Hannah Laga Abram and Lauren Gemery | October 27, 2022The Knoll’s 20th anniversary will be celebrated throughout 2023. It is truly remarkable how much the Knoll has grown over the past twenty years through dedication, collaboration, and resilience. We look forward to inviting alumni who helped create the Knoll, past student interns who have cared for ...
Arousal Non-Concordance
By Sex Panther | October 27, 2022This discrepancy between your emotional or cognitive desires and your body’s physiological response has a name: arousal non-concordance. Most people who have done any sort of exploration into their sexuality have likely come across some sort of arousal non-concordance, potentially causing them to ...
It’s not just about wages — respect is the bare minimum, too
By The Editorial Board | October 13, 2022This summer, Middlebury implemented a new compensation system for staff that seeks to promote “ownership and impact” for employees. The plan centers on a “skill matrix” which places staff in one of four categories — ‘learning,’ ‘growing,’ ‘thriving’ and ‘leading’— which then ...
Middlebury needs better mental health infrastructure
By Rain Ji | October 13, 2022Content Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide.