Students need grades, and we can have grades without sacrificing equitability
By Tianzhi (Lambus) Li | March 28, 2020"Despite imperfections, the letter grading system is the last guardian of fairness in an inherently unfair society."
Opinion
Circumstance is not choice, but community is
By Arthur Martins, Daleelah Saleh and Jackson Tham | March 28, 2020"We cannot choose the circumstances we live in, but we still have a choice about the kind community we want to create."
Make all courses pass/fail now
By Allison Stanger | March 28, 2020Students aren’t having a real college experience. We shouldn’t pretend that they are.
What happens now that we’re all in long-distance friendships?
By Genevieve Herron | March 24, 2020Genevieve Herron '23 proposes a solution to the difficulty of long-distance friendships: letter writing.
Online dating in the era of Covid-19
By Sex Panther | March 22, 2020Our Sex Panther has compiled all the best coronavirus references from the dating apps she's been scanning while sheltering in place at home.
Please don't take a vacation in the middle of a global pandemic
By Jake Gaughan | March 21, 2020"Right now, your decisions as a traveler, as a tourist, are bound to have unintended consequences."
Onward: How The Campus is continuing its coverage
By Sabine Poux, Bochu Ding and James Finn | March 19, 2020The show must go on.
Prompt for contributors: March 19
By Sabine Poux | March 19, 2020We want to hear about the litany of feelings that characterized many students’ last few days on campus.
A plea for international students
By Monique Santoso, Claire Moy, Arthur Martins, Masud Tyree Lewis, Kelly Zhou, Hussam Alzubaidy and Ariana Popa | March 19, 2020As the International Students’ Organization Executive Board, we are distressed about the impact the administration’s decision to evacuate campus.
On crisis and community
By Lynn Travnikova | March 19, 2020It’s taken a pandemic for me to feel it, but real community can happen at Middlebury.
What we talk about when we talk about coronavirus
By Editorial Board | March 12, 2020We hear you: this wasn’t how the spring semester was supposed to go. In the wake of President Patton’s email Tuesday, announcing the shift to remote learning following an early, extended spring break, to say that things are “uncertain” feels like an understatement. Talk to anyone on campus: ...
Take “Wellness” off your to-do list
By Zoe Harris | March 12, 2020Yesterday I received an email from the New York Times that said: Day 5. Refresh. Take a Self-Compassion Break. The email suggested that I take a moment to close my eyes and soothe myself by wrapping my arms around my body. I was then given the option to press a button to “mark this task complete.” Five ...
Midd missed the mark: Calling for a humane sustainability
By Alex Cobb, Hannah Ennis, Olivia Pintair, Jaden Hill and Connor Wertz | March 12, 2020Imagine this: a local farm uses food waste and manure from 900 cows to produce renewable natural gas. This gas is funneled through a 5.6 mile-long pipeline from the farm to Middlebury College. The school then uses the gas to produce 500kW of renewable electricity that powers 50% of the campus. College ...
Re “Coronavirus in N.Y.: Manhattan Woman Is First Confirmed Case in State”
By Bochu Ding | March 12, 2020The following was submitted to the NYT as a Letter to the Editor. To the Editor: Words cannot express the disappointment I felt when I saw that The Times chose to feature an image of Chinatown in Flushing, New York alongside its breaking story about a Manhattan woman who contracted the coronavirus ...
Notes from the desk: engagement is a two-way street
By Elsa Korpi | March 5, 2020It only takes a minute on Twitter to read that a liberal arts education is too coddling.
It’s time to step up: a letter to the Middlebury College Administration
By Cora Kircher, Claire Contreras, Lily Barter, Cara Levine and Rebecca Wishnie | March 5, 2020To the Middlebury College Administration: We ask that you reconsider your decision to permit Charles Murray’s visit on March 31.
Challenging the American historical narrative
By Izzy Lee | March 5, 2020Middlebury students were given the opportunity to re-learn American history in the form of a talk by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
I am not the debris
By Rachel Lu | March 5, 2020I am not a climate change denier. Still, I struggle to connect with the green movement.
When voting in Vermont, don’t half-ass it
By Editorial Board | February 27, 2020Not all college students have an easy time voting in their school’s state. In Vermont, we’re lucky.
Let’s not sit this one out
By Middvote | February 27, 2020It is a widely-held belief that the measure of a democracy is its ability to ensure free and fair elections for its people.