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22nd annual TAM Trek takes to the trail
By Katrina Schwarz | September 25, 2025This past Sunday, Sept. 21, the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) hosted its 22nd annual Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) Trek to raise money and awareness for their organization. The TAM Trek, which spans a 19-mile course, aimed to include various levels of participants by offering a 10k run, a 5k run, ...
Notes from the Desk: What The Campus can (and can’t) do about AI
By Madeleine Kaptein | September 25, 2025ChatGPT was introduced to me in my sophomore year, the spring of 2023, by Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Hector Vila. We pasted our writing into the then-novel software, asked it for an improved version and reflected on what we liked about our work vs the robot’s. I watched my essay about my complicated ...
Middlebury field hockey wins overtime thriller against Amherst
By Hanna Freund | September 25, 2025The Middlebury field hockey team is no stranger to pressure or high expectations. As seven-time consecutive national champions, the Panthers carry a reputation built on records, championship titles, and all-American talent. At Middlebury, it seems to be an assumption that the team will win any given ...
What will it mean to close the Institute?
By Mandy Berghela and Madeleine Kaptein | September 18, 2025With the decision to shut down several programs at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) within two years finalized, Monterey-based faculty, staff and students are mourning the future of their school. On the other side of the country, the Vermont community has commended the choice, ...
Le Petit Salon: The evolution of an eighteenth-century Parisian room across borders
By Maya Alexander | September 18, 2025The gracefully painted, paneled room made in the 18th century for a Parisian mansion, Le Petit Salon, debuted at the Middlebury College Museum of Art on July 8. The exhibition will run until Dec. 7. Designed by French architect Pierre-Adrien Pâris, the exhibition displays a set of wooden carved panels ...
Makes Ya Feel: Summer recap
By Ellie Trinkle | September 18, 2025Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users, and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel! As the solstice approaches and marks the official end of the summer, ...
Twenty years after graduation, alumni take on public leadership roles in Middlebury
By Katrina Schwarz | September 18, 2025Almost 20 years after their graduation from the college, Megan James ’05.5 and Ellen Whelan-Wuest ’05.5 have become involved in Middlebury's public life. The pair, who were senior year roommates after meeting through the Middlebury Mischords, a women’s acapella group at the college, have been ...
A musical playdate: Sophie Shao & Friends
By Kiara Dookie | September 18, 2025The opening notes of the trio Sophie Shao & Friends pulsed through Robinson Hall, the air charged with anticipation. The three women — cellist Shao, violinist Carmit Zori, and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute — launched into an evening of intimacy and intensity, the kind of performance where silence ...
Reflecting on MiddSafe’s end: Why student input matters
By Mia White, Meghan Driscoll, Ellie Cady, Elsa Bollinger, Aashna Banerjee, Hanna Freund and Annika Milliman | September 18, 2025On May 28, shortly after the conclusion of exams and our departure from campus, MiddSafe advocates received a letter from the Health and Wellness Education (HWE) office titled “Changes to MiddSafe & Mental Health Peer Educators – Your Eyes and Response Needed!” This email explained that for ...
Middlebury Football defeated in season opener to Wesleyan
By Simon Schmieder | September 18, 2025The Middlebury football team opened their season against Wesleyan on Saturday Sept. 13, losing 31–17 to the Cardinals on the road. Middlebury is now 6–4 in their last 10 season-opening games, and it is their second consecutive loss to Wesleyan. Nonetheless, Saturday’s matchup was a marked improvement ...
Fall in full swing: A guide to seasonal activities in and around Middlebury
By Ariella Frommer and Mandy Berghela | September 18, 2025With the days growing shorter and the temperature beginning to drop, signs of fall are looming in Vermont. Each year, visitors from all over travel to charming Vermont towns, including Middlebury, to take part in the state's classic seasonal traditions. Leaf peepers, local residents and Middlebury students ...
Dining Services introduces new meal swipe app, food options on campus
By Lila Deluca | September 18, 2025Multiple changes to dining facilities on campus have launched this semester, from a new app to scan into the dining halls to the opening of the cafe “So-Full Sisters” inside BiHall to an expansion of the Grille’s offerings.
Welcome to the Zoo: WRMC’s SOS Fest
By Norah Khan | September 18, 2025WRMC’s annual fall SOS (start of school) Fest brought neighs, ribbets, and everything in between on Sept. 13. The show was headlined by bands Frog and Horse Jumper of Love.
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To maintain free speech, start listening
By The Editorial Board | September 18, 2025The recent uptick in political violence across the country paints a very worrying picture for the future of cross-party dialogue and collaboration, both nationally and here at Middlebury. With the killing of a Minnesota democrat legislator, Melissa Hortman and their spouse this past June, and the killing ...
Men’s golf cards a top-three at the Duke Nelson Invitational
By Kanan Clifford | September 18, 2025Middlebury men’s golf began their trek towards the NESCAC championship this past weekend with a strong third place finish at the Duke Nelson Invitational, held at Middlebury’s very own Ralph Myhre Golf Course.
Vergennes Laundry to move down the block
By Izzy Ronda | September 18, 2025This past August, Nadia Dole, owner of the beloved café and restaurant Vergennes Laundry, said goodbye to its original location at 247 Main Street in Vergennes. Fortunately for local residents and college students who treasure the spot, Dole is relocating just down the street to 205 Main Street and ...
$13 million renovation to Stewart Hall furthers Energy2028 efforts
By Luke Power | September 18, 2025Over the summer, long-planned renovations to the first year residence Stewart Hall began. The renovations will update aging facilities in the dormitory as well as support Middlebury’s Energy2028 initiative by installing an energy-efficient geothermal HVAC system.
Crossword 09/18/2025: Solutions
By Avery Goldstein | September 18, 2025Crossword 09/18/2025: Solutions!
Dream Big, Get Funneled
By Camiel Schroeder | September 18, 2025A career is 80,000 hours of decisions about where your energy goes. It is not just about building a résumé, it is about determining what your one working life will add up to. Choosing whether those hours are spent maximizing comfort or contributing to problems that shape the century is not a neutral ...