Behind the Curtain: Middlebury prepares to host double commencement ceremonies in May
By Alec Gong | April 7, 2022As graduation season approaches, preparation for commencement ceremonies for the classes of 2020, 2020.5 and 2022 has begun.
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Reported cases low in week after mask mandate ends
By Lauren Thompson | April 7, 2022Reported Covid-19 cases at Middlebury remained low in the week since students returned from spring break, after the college shifted to an optional mask mandate on March 18 and stopped requiring weekly Covid-19 testing on March 13. According to the college’s Covid-19 reporting dashboard, there are ...
Middlebury receives $25 million for conflict transformation
By Orly Berke | April 7, 2022Middlebury has announced a $25 million grant from an anonymous donor to create the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, a concept designed to reframe the way in which peacebuilding initiatives are discussed and pursued. The money will be doled out over the next seven years ...
High School is Hell: Buffy the Vampire Slayer after 25 Years
By Maggie Mead-Mccaughan | April 7, 202225 years later, “Buffy” has been immortalized as one of the most influential shows to air on television. While it may no longer be a household name so long after the release of its seventh and final season, “Buffy’s” larger impact is clear.
College museum, performing arts events and athletic games re-open to the public
By Julia Pepper | April 7, 2022Just as shifting Covid-19 policies have affected Middlebury College students, staff and faculty, they have also impacted visitors’ access to certain parts of the college. Recently, outside visitors, including families of students as well as local community members, have been allowed to attend sports ...
Reel Critic: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
By Gregory Marcinik | April 7, 2022"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is a film that demonstrates that life is absurd, ridiculous and often meaningless, and gives an answer for how it can be lived. It is a comedy that rivals “Airplane” in its silliness, and is an intellectual masterpiece that can enrapture even the snobbiest of ...
New Amtrak passenger train coming to Middlebury this July, increasing need for rail safety awareness
By Maya Heikkinen | April 7, 2022Starting in July, Middlebury will begin receiving service as a station on Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express train line, for the first time since passenger rail service ceased operating in the area in 1953. While the schedule hasn’t been finalized, a round trip — about seven and a half hours each way ...
WRMC Radio Roundup: Exploring old and new sounds
By Wrmc Exec Board | April 7, 2022This is another childhood album, but I was re-listening to it recently, and it is quite a gem — not a bad track on the album. There is lots of twang and beautiful guitar with poetic lyrics. The third track is called “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten”; I think it’s pretty funny that she’s using texting ...
Starksboro attempts to withdraw from the Mount Abraham School District
By Ben Wagner | April 7, 2022Starksboro is the latest Addison County town to attempt to withdraw from its school district. On March 16, the Starksboro branch of the statewide group Save Our Schools began circulating a petition to force a town-wide vote about withdrawing from the Mount Abraham Unified School District (MAUSD), according ...
Addison Central School District goes mask optional
By Charlie Keohane | April 7, 2022Beginning March 14, the Addison Central School District (ACSD) transitioned to “mask-optional” status following new Vermont state guidelines. In an email sent to the ACSD community, ACSD Superintendent Peter Burrows thanked students and staff for helping keep the school safe over the past two years ...
Acceptance rate drops to 15% for class of 2026
By Ideal Dowling | April 4, 2022The overall acceptance rate for this year was 15% from a pool of around 13,000 applicants. This marks the new lowest rate in public record, slightly lower than the 15.7% of 11,908 applicants admitted in last year’s admissions cycle.
Alum Conversation with Douglas Perkins '94, Associate Director of Operations and Finance at the Middlebury Museum of Art.
By Yinuo Wang | April 3, 2022Alum Conversation is a new podcast series of The Middlebury Campus Multimedia. In this series, we will interview Middlebury alumni. Some of them currently work at Middlebury College, some supplied the salmon at school dining halls, and some started the first mountain bike company in Afghanistan. They ...
Photo of the Week: A Trip to Shoshone National Forest
April 3, 2022A Trip to Shoshone National Forest by Sophia Johnson '22
PERFECT SEASON: Women’s hockey wins sixth national title in dramatic fashion
By Blaise Siefer | March 31, 2022For a brief moment, the Panthers thought they had clinched the national title at the end of regular time.
PFL Weekly Ep. 5: Women’s hockey wins national title, women’s lax ranked No. 1, men’s tennis builds momentum
By Blaise Siefer, Captain Rudolph, Marco Fengler, Caroline Harding and Eli Dibari | March 31, 2022Undefeated! Women’s hockey (27–0–0) completed their perfect season last Saturday with an overtime win in the NCAA final. The PFL Weekly team recaps this historic accomplishment and interviews captain Madie Leidt ’22 about the victory. In other news, women’s lacrosse was recently ranked No. ...
Seven Questions with Alexis Ballo ’25, men’s squash
By Blaise Siefer | March 31, 2022Alexis Ballo ’25, from Baltimore, Md., is a first-year on the men’s squash team. In this installment of “Seven Questions,” Ballo discusses what drew him to Middlebury, his favorite memory on the squash team and his favorite dining hall meal.
Middlebury sports teams travel and compete across country for spring break
By Ben Wagner | March 31, 2022Open water. Dry grass. Warm weather. Last week, many of Middlebury’s varsity and club teams traveled away from campus to practice and compete throughout spring break.
V Smiley Preserves finds a Permanent Home in Minifactory
By Olivia Mueller | March 31, 2022This past weekend marked the long-awaited opening of Minifactory, the location of V Smiley Preserves, an award-winning jam business. The business, located at 16 Main Street in Bristol, Vermont, also includes a coffee shop and eatery.
Reel Critic: “The Batman”
By Jack Torpey | March 31, 2022Ten years on from “The Dark Knight Rises,” the stirring finale to the series that humanized Bruce Wayne and established a Batman for the modern world, director Matt Reeves and star Robert Pattinson have tried their hand at a new iteration of the tortured hero for the big screen. It’s a story of ...
Tuition hikes necessitate institutional transparency
By Editorial Board | March 31, 2022Tuition increases are not new or unexpected. However, we ask that this price tag be accompanied by comprehensive, accessible information regarding exactly how this money will be used. If Middlebury expects students to pay more, it makes sense that we as students can expect to know where our money is ...