Editor's Note: Nia Robinson '19 is president of the Middlebury College Student Government Association. In a conversation I had a few weeks ago, we talked about how grateful we were for a mild year, compared to the previous years. We made sure to knock on wood, so we didn’t jinx it. Perhaps the ...
Editor's Note: The below letter was sent to all college administrators this morning with all students cc'd. It has been reprinted here with permission. To the administrators of Middlebury College, The Student Government Association (SGA) exists to be the democratic vehicle of the will of the student ...
These past two weeks, a number of incidents both inside and outside the classroom have made clear that we as a campus have a great deal of work to do in achieving our ideal of inclusivity. We have witnessed the trivialization of acts of historical oppression and genocide, as well as the invitation of ...
As a learning institution, we believe Middlebury College should always look toward the educational possibilities of events and conversations. Two years after the fracturing of our campus around Charles Murray’s visit, what can we say we have learned about hosting divisive and controversial speakers ...
Editor's Note: The below statement represents the views of more than 50 student organizers. The Campus granted them anonymity due to the security concerns cited by the administration in their decision to cancel yesterday's lecture by Ryszard Legutko. To preface this release we would like to reiterate ...
For the second time in just over two years, a controversial visitor has divided our campus. As chair of the political science department, I have heard strong arguments both to retain and to rescind co-sponsorship of these types of talks. I believe that these arguments are so passionate because they ...
We are proud to endorse Varsha Vijayakumar for SGA President.
The need for mandatory bias training has been ignored for years.
A month ago, I took a chemistry test that asked me to calculate the lethal dose of hydrogen cyanide.
When I chose Middlebury College, it was not because I loved Middlebury during Preview Days but because it truly overwhelmed me.
If you don’t start honing your communication skills, then you are setting yourself and the people you interact with up for failure and frustration.
There were countless things I looked forward to when preparing to study abroad in Paris, but the idea of having a semester in which I felt more like a child than I have for over a decade, was not something that had crossed my mind.
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Editor's Note: The below letter has been widely circulated among members of the Middlebury community. It has been reprinted here with permission. The sections in bold were done by the author. Dear Middlebury Faculty, Those of you who do not know me – my name is Thomas Gawel, I graduated from Middlebury ...
As the Rohatyn Student Advisory Board, we would like to express our opposition to the Political Science Department (PSCI) and Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs’ (RCGA) sponsorship of the lecture by Ryszard Legutko. To quote the Open Letter to PSCI and RCGA: “By co-sponsoring a speaker who blatantly ...
Okay, let’s take it from the top. Three weeks ago, the Local Noodle received a picture of a CHEM 103 test with a question asking students to calculate lethal doses of gas as it was used in the Holocaust. We unanimously agreed it deserved to be publicly known and formally denounced, but had heard nothing ...
With the Spring Student Symposium happening tomorrow, all of us here at The Campus cordially encourage you to embrace your inner nerd.
As a parent of a Middlebury student watching the Noodle kerfuffle from the outside, I am appalled.
We write to acknowledge and offer deep apologies for an egregiously inappropriate question that one of our departmental faculty members included on an exam earlier this semester.
The New York Times Student Editors Conference was like a small, hopeful oasis in the middle of busy Manhattan.