For new students, the first few weeks at Middlebury can feel like a crash course in knowing everything you can about life here — and playing off the things you don’t. We remember what it’s like to show up for class in Twilight when you’re supposed to be in Axinn, so let us help you avoid that ...
Long-time workers at Middlebury deserve to be paid more than new hires and should see a one-time increase in pay under our pay-by-tenure system.
Get excited for the normalcy that’s to come, but don’t let it put a damper on whatever great memories the next few months hold.
The rules of the Game are quite simple: you’ll drink. more than you would have had your roommate not specialized in peer pressure but you’ll do it because you want to, really you’ll have friends. lots of them. group chats, clothing swaps and Venmo requests to prove it ...
Middlebury Open the Books is asking our institution to open its financial books as a means of accountability.
Our remote J-Term comes down to this: responsibility.
Two in three students broke Covid-19 guidelines during the fall semester. More than three in four experienced worsened mental health.
The stated mission of Middlebury — and of the other 29 colleges and universities that Facebook has chosen to test Facebook Campus on — is one that revolves around education, not the wealth of corporations.
If Democrats are going to help people at this critical moment where it is so desperately needed, it needs to be done with backbone and it needs to be done now.
MASK OFF, MIDD: A hollow statue will always crumble.
Here’s my recommendation: the next time you’re stressed or worried during these troubled times...try listening to a piece mentioned in this article, or any piece by Beethoven
“...Winning is wonderful. Winning in sports. Winning elections. It beats losing them. But the reality is that winning is only fulfilling if you do it through the rules, and you do it by being able to contribute to other people.” These were the words that Rudy Giuliani spoke in his commencement address ...
We ask that the college implement weekly testing for all students, faculty and staff, no-questions-asked testing upon request and mandatory exit testing in this coming spring semester.
We need to change Midd’s culture so that we can all find the slowness, rest and acceptance we need.
While we may have survived this semester, the sustainability of this new normal has yet to be seen.
If you can’t ask for what you want, you’ll never get it.
Gone are the days of lingering behind after class to chat with professors or to make lunch plans with classmates, engaging in witty rapport and sharing knowing glances — or even pencils — with people next to you.
I wish that I were here to tell you a success story.
The campus community desperately needs to engage with nuanced perspectives around specific aspects of race so we can see how it affects all aspects of our daily lives.
Voting is a right, and barriers to exercising that right should be removed in any form they take.