Why I organized the ‘1619 or 1776’ event
By Gary Winslett | October 8, 2020In essence, the 1776 Project argues that although slavery was a terrible crime that America committed, it was not who America was.
Opinion
Living with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder
By Haley Hutchinson | October 8, 2020October is National Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Awareness month, and I share my story now with the hope of raising consciousness about OCD in the Middlebury community.
MASK OFF, MIDD: I quarantine-dated Casper the Ghost.
By Maria Kaouris | October 8, 2020MASK OFF, MIDD: Don’t let the ghosts scare you.
On getting lost in it all
By Meghan Keating | October 8, 2020It took being quarantined to this campus for me to realize that in my three years here, I have never really stepped outside of it: outside of all the structures and requirements that are simultaneously comforting and confining.
College Covid-19 policies leave students to their own vices
By Editorial Board | October 1, 2020while the college had a strong plan for putting regulations in place to bring us back in a healthy and safe manner, the regulations currently in place are inconsistent and unsustainable.
Can you hear us now, President Patton?
By Kaila Thomas and Rodney Adams | October 1, 2020Dear President Laurie Patton, “Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!” chant more than 500 voices approaching from a distance on Friday, Sept. 25. Were you to step out onto the street right outside your door, you would be able to see the leadership, solidarity and humanity ...
Ask Tré: How should I address racism from white peers?
By Tré Stephens | October 1, 2020Racism is not a joke. When you witness a racist incident, you need to say something.
Our world just got bigger; so did our responsibilities
By Editorial Board | September 24, 2020the tension inherent in these unparalleled circumstances requires students to be more conscientious, intentional and gracious than ever.
Can we please stop talking about our quarantine weight?
By Sophie Clark | September 24, 2020And yet, we spend a lifetime being our own judges and executioners. It’s exhausting.
Sit down, shut up and be a man
By Maria Kaouris | September 24, 2020While women are now forging multidimensional identities, men are sometimes denied comparable flexibility.
Sex Panther: The sexy side of Phase Two
By Sex Panther | September 24, 2020Hey MiddKids! I’m back just in time to answer all the Covid-19-related sex questions you didn’t even know you had. There’s nothing like six months with your parents and siblings to prepare you for the new and strange social landscape that is this semester. Navigating our social lives in college ...
Ginsburg’s passing: A tragedy for the wrong reasons
By Max Padilla | September 24, 2020To achieve a world that belongs to everyone on this earth, we must fight with every year of our life, the way Notorious RBG fought with every year of hers.
Cops don’t belong on Middlebury’s campus
By Middlebury Cops Off Campus | September 24, 2020We hope that during this time of national civil unrest, you can understand the pain and terror experienced by the student body this past semester when we heard that police were coming to campus for a controversial and racist speaker event.
I was one of the two on-campus Covid-19 cases; here’s what I want you to know
By Anonymous | September 17, 2020So, as the campus prepares to move on to Phase Two, I urge everyone to realize that being in our friends’ presence and enjoying the beautiful scenery on our campus is a privilege.
Even with limited spending, staff are not expendable
By Editorial Board | September 17, 2020In May, we editorialized on Middlebury’s need to reaffirm its values by protecting its communities in the face of deep financial uncertainty. Four months later and back on campus again, we are making the same plea. For many in our community, it is hard to imagine how the gaping $18.5million hole ...
Community plea to expand the arts
By Emily Knapp And Adrian Kerester | September 17, 2020We are writing out of deep concern over the state of the humanities at Middlebury College and the absence of BIPOC voices both on campus and in our curriculum.
How will we live together?
By Ben Beese | September 17, 2020This is simultaneously the year to recreate our community support system and to rely on that system more than any of us have before.
MASK OFF, MIDD: Situationships are dead, long live intentional connections
By Maria Kaouris | September 17, 2020Now that human connection is spatially inconvenient, even on our small Vermont campus, I wonder if the pandemic has given us a rare gift.
It’s a hard time to be a student, it’s a harder time to be a first year
By Editorial Board | September 10, 2020While we certainly don’t have all the answers, we want to acknowledge how we all got here, validate what you may be feeling and give you some things to look forward to.
Middlebury is just learning to deal with students in crisis, but it shouldn’t be
By Cooper Siegel | September 10, 2020If they don’t hear you the first time, then speak up some more. You have a right to hold them accountable, and most importantly you all have a strength in numbers that I could never have even dreamed of a year ago.