Notes from the Desk: An issue for an election like no other
By Bochu Ding, Riley Board, Nora Peachin and Hattie Lefavour | October 29, 2020This is why we’re publishing an election issue.
Opinion
Predicting the 2020 election: Will forecasters repeat mistakes made in 2016?
By Matt Dickinson | October 29, 2020 Assuming political scientists’ fundamentals-based forecast models are accurate, Joe Biden will win next Tuesday’s presidential election with about 53% of the two-party popular vote, and somewhere north of 300 Electoral College votes. But can we trust those forecasts? In 2016, contrary ...
Four years in retrospect: A political scientist’s lessons in engaging with the abnormal
By Bert Johnson | October 29, 2020So how should we view this administration and this election?
MASK OFF, MIDD: The Politics of Romance
By Maria Kaouris | October 29, 2020When I was in high school, I gave a speech that killed my love life.
The fate of the American melting pot
By Tejas Srinivasan | October 29, 2020What would the re-election of this president mean for the future of immigration in America?
After a long history of suppression, minorities still find barriers at the ballot box
By Max Padilla | October 29, 2020Today, marginalized communities face blatant voter discrimination.
During nobody’s normal, staff and faculty make it possible
By Editorial Board | October 22, 2020We are writing to say thank you.
Notes from the Desk: Sweden tried “herd immunity” with Covid-19. I was one of the herd.
By Porter Bowman | October 22, 2020Cultural differences matter — this is a very Swedish strategy and is not something even remotely possible in the United States.
MASK OFF, MIDD: Right person, wrong time?
By Maria Kaouris | October 22, 2020The concept of “right person, wrong time” implies that there are people who are justified in “saving us for later.”...But how long are we supposed to hang on for?
Why you should vote — right now
By Sean Casten | October 22, 2020Democracy is an amazing tool. But only if you use it.
Sex Panther: The internal condom
By Sex Panther | October 22, 2020Do you know what an internal condom is?
Don’t be busy just to be busy
By Editorial Board | October 15, 2020Attending college during a pandemic and a moment of national unrest was always going to be difficult. Yet one Middlebury-made stresser adds yet another layer: our busyness culture.
Notes from the desk: The façade of higher education is crumbling
By Lily Laesch | October 15, 2020This begs the question: what is Middlebury actually selling to us?
Racial justice is impossible without institutional support
By Editorial Board | October 8, 2020It is becoming increasingly evident that Middlebury does not have a concrete framework for addressing the racism that is embedded in the fabric of our institution.
We still have questions for the Hamilton Forum
By Divya Gudur, Claire Contreras and Madison Holland | October 8, 2020We look forward to future conversations between students, professors and administrators that address the deep-seated racism on this campus, including the role that the AHF plays in perpetuating it.
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.
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.