So here’s the deal: On female birth control
By Sarah Miller | October 6, 2022My gynecologist recommended I take one Aleve before my intrauterine device (IUD) insertion. According to friends and the internet, this advice is common practice.
Opinion
Ban crisis pregnancy centers from our campus
By Middlebury Branch Of The Nescac Coalition To Ban Cpcs | October 6, 2022Two weeks ago, a crisis pregnancy center was allowed a table at Middlebury College’s Student Involvement Fair. On behalf of the NESCAC Coalition to Ban Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs), we invite you to sign our petition to ban CPCs from our campus in the future. And we, as concerned members of the ...
A plea to the basic logic of line structure
By Katie Futterman and Jonah Joseph | October 6, 2022Let me begin by putting this in terms you may better understand: Baaah, bahh, bahh. This is directed toward the sheep that graze in Ross dining hall; the sheep that meekly fall into a single line the length of China’s Great Wall at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you’re saying to yourself ...
Party with care: Respecting the spaces where we live and work
By Editorial Board | October 6, 2022We’re guessing that most of us don’t want broken glass, beer cans, vomit or urine in the spaces we inhabit. Yet a return to the pre-Covid party scene has also, unfortunately, ushered in a return of damage, destruction and vandalism of both public and private spaces. We’re not totally sure why ...
Considering what it means to authentically invest in Middlebury professors
By Editorial Board | September 29, 2022This week, Middlebury’s chapter of the AAUP published an op-ed in The Campus calling for a 10% faculty wage increase, which they state is still less than the 16% they would be granted if raises were correctly adjusted for inflation. They note that “not investing in employees is a short-sighted strategy ...
Employees deserve a cost-of-living adjustment
By Laurie Essig | September 29, 2022When the Middlebury Association of University Professors, which has more than 220 members both faculty and staff, asked for a minimum 10% cost-of-living pay adjustment for all employees, we were being more than reasonable. At the faculty meeting last April, 87% of faculty agreed and supported a Sense ...
Cultivating change: Working to build a community where everyone feels safe
September 22, 2022In the summer of 2020, Middlebury students, alumni and activists rallied together in support of Black Lives Matter and formed a coalition to work towards dismantling oppressive structures on our campus. The students forming this coalition came together from a number of groups including Concerned Students ...
Middlebury students need sustained support, not just diversified admissions
By The Editorial Board | September 22, 2022The recently reported admission statistics for the class of 2026 and 2026.5 illustrate a significant increase in the prevalence of first-generation students: 21% of these incoming students are the first in their family to attend college, compared to 11% of the class of 2023 and 2023.5. The percentage ...
We need tangible, intentional solutions to housing
By The Editorial Board | September 15, 2022As a residential college in which 95% of students supposedly live on campus, Middlebury states that their “residential system embodies that culture of living, learning, and growing together.” The close-knit, intimate housing community on campus is widely touted as one of the hallmarks of student ...
Notes from the Desk: Pitching The Campus
By Abigail Chang, Rain Ji and Tony Sjodin | September 15, 2022We’re writing to you as the new executive team of The Campus, Middlebury’s only student-run newspaper.
What an evolving sense of institutional memory means for future MiddKids
By Editorial Board | May 13, 2022In 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.
Notes from the Desk: 272 Pages
By Riley Board | May 12, 2022We returned to printing last September. I sat down to do the math recently, and figured out that during my tenure as the Editor in Chief, I’ve overseen 272 pages across 24 print issues of the paper.
Involuntary Unpaid Labor is Unfair Labor
By Mia Pangasnan | May 12, 2022As part of the Twilight Project’s “Archives of Anti-Racist Activism” Project, which studies the history of student anti-racist initiatives and manifestations of systemic racism at Middlebury, I looked at The Middlebury Campus’s archives. I found that not only has student advocacy for compensation ...
A Letter to the Administration: We are still the skinniest college in America
By Emma Pagni | May 12, 2022The college Director of Health & Wellness, Maddie Hope, has proposed the hiring of a nutritionist at Parton to the administration. We need student allyship to accelerate this demand on the administration’s deemed hierarchical list of priorities, as well as vocalize the demand for more than just ...
Unpacking the stats on happiness
By The Editorial Board | May 5, 2022Around the midway point of the 2022 Zeitgeist survey, our 1,134 respondents encountered a rather blunt question: “Are you happy?”, with only “yes” or “no” answer options. While we acknowledge how this binary greatly oversimplifies this inquiry, we were curious as to how Middlebury students ...
Notes from the Desk: Is it time to reconsider our mascot?
By Charlie Keohane | May 5, 2022While I love the iconic panther statue and #rollpants as much as the next Midd Kid, I can’t help but wonder why a school in rural Vermont has a black panther, which has never roamed the area, for a mascot. We’re among 33 colleges with this mascot, and the panther is the fourth most popular college ...
‘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, ...