Let’s take grades off their pedestal
By Kemi Fuentes-George | May 7"Let’s be real. Grades are reductive."
Opinion
Facing the Covid-19 crisis
By The Committee On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion | May 7"While the economic crisis is a reality out of our control, our reaction to it and its outcomes are not."
Our approach to changing the grading policy shows how a Middebury education is failing us all
By William Kelley | May 7"Our mission statement claims to welcome change. But we were so caught up in trying to preserve our grading system that we were unable to think of creative solutions to this problem."
Now that FOMO’s gone, here’s what we’re missing
By Editorial Board | April 30If nothing else, lockdown has shown us is that no one really has it all figured out.
A response to anti-Semitic vandalism
By The Middlebury College Hillel Board | April 30"Moments of crisis — like the current pandemic — tend to bring out preexisting hatred and prejudices. All minority groups, including the Jewish people, have experienced that backlash at points throughout history."
Notes from the desk: To prospies, from The Campus
By Bochu Ding | April 28During Preview Days every year, The Campus invites prospective students to our office to give them a sense of how we covered the college that year. If we were all on campus together, prospies, this is what we'd share with you.
Notes from the desk: A return to “Street Haunting”
By Ellie Eberlee | April 27"Nine decades before I’d heard the term 'coronavirus,' Woolf anticipated not only the necessity of escaping, but the literal and figurative refuge found by returning."
What is a writing center?
By Emmanuel Tamrat | April 26I have been in and around educational spaces as a TA, teacher, volunteer, educator and professor for 20 years. Long before I knew that the job of “professor” existed, I was an educator, or, at least, an aspiring one. However, as I was a first-generation college student, writing centers, much like ...
A student’s refutation of the opt-in pass/fail policy
By Mendel Baljon | April 16"After reading the open letter to faculty on the opt-in policy yesterday, I felt the need to respond with counter-arguments."
John Schurer for SGA president
By Editorial Board | April 16The editorial board is proud to endorse John Schurer ’21 for SGA president.
Notes from the desk: On a world without sports
By Miguel Espinosa | April 16Our senior sports editor writes about a world without sports.
This is the time to stand together with our MIIS colleagues
By Shawna Shapiro and Jessica C. Teets | April 16"It was with dismay that we read Professor Swenton’s 'Sense of the Faculty Motion' calling for the immediate sale of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey."
Let’s build an SGA that cares
By Arthur Martins | April 16"I believe that representation demands connection," writes SGA presidential hopeful Arthur Martins '22.5
Covid-19 exposes long-existing patterns of student food insecurity
By Molly Babbin, Bella Pucker and Grace Weissman | April 16"Over the past several months, we have been working with our classmates not only to assess the prevalence of food insecurity among our peers ... but to put together a resource guide for those who are hungry."
On my long-term relationship with the internet
By Christine Mcdow | April 16"My relationship with the internet was fine until Middlebury announced that it would be closing as a precautionary measure due to the Covid-19 crisis."
In support of passionate, progressive politics
By Keith Chatinover | April 16"Instead of allowing yourself to become disillusioned by the prospect of a Biden candidacy, I challenge you to channel the disgust you might very well feel after this primary to motivate yourself. Get, or stay, involved."
An open letter to faculty on the opt-in policy
By Quinn Boyle, Rati Saini and Jack Brown | April 15"Stripping students of grades raises serious concerns about Middlebury’s commitment to academic freedom, a principle outlined in the college’s handbook. Even off campus, we know the product we signed up for. Honor that."
We endorse the mandatory credit/no credit grading system
By Editorial Board | April 14"We recognize that this debate has been a contentious one, with arguments on both sides meriting careful consideration. That said, we find the sheer amount of waffling — on the part of both administration and faculty — unsettling."
Desperate times call for flexible measures
By Editorial Board | April 9"We started out this remote experiment thinking about how to adapt the structure of lecture halls to our laptops, but we should also be envisioning ways to bring the intimacy of our Zoom screens back to our classrooms."
We are in a global crisis, with or without Covid-19
By Divya Gudur, Claire Contreras, Jaden Hill, Hannah Laga Abram, Sophie Chalfin-Jacobs and Asa Skinder | April 9"The economic restructuring and dramatic lifestyle changes we have seen in the past weeks prove the kind of large-scale action needed to address climate change has been possible this whole time."