As the leaves change colors on campus, the soccer season is in full swing at Middlebury. The eighth-ranked men's soccer team won twice last week in workmanlike fashion: 2–0 over St. Lawrence at home on Tuesday and 1–0 at Trinity on Saturday, courtesy of Hugo Horowitz's ’27 dramatic winner.
In my return this year to my parents’ motherland, each meal was both an incredible joy and a marathon of appetite. For two weeks at the end of summer, I pilgrimaged to the two sides of the family in China.
Debbie Gardner of New Haven brought her 4- and 7-year-old grandchildren to Middlebury’s Retro Realm arcade on a recent Thursday so that they could play alongside other kids. But when she spotted familiar games from the arcades of her teen years — including an original 1981 Ms. Pac-Man — she joined ...
The Center for Health and Wellness (CHW) recently announced the termination of MiddSafe, a student-run mental health and violence prevention hotline that has been in use for almost a decade. Director of Health and Wellness Education Madeline Hope cited a decrease in student use as the reason for its ...
Protecting the natural world will require changing the human world. While science is a powerful tool to inform the choices we make in the future, those choices will be made by humans. Politicians, policymakers, business leaders, and consumers need to be convinced to take action now for the long-term ...
On Aug. 8, Middlebury College was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts accusing 32 elite colleges and universities of attempting to raise tuition costs through the early decision admissions pathway.
Reading for pleasure can feel like an elusive luxury amid the perpetual, cyclical motion of college. Over the summer, however, time regains its elasticity, yielding a sweet languor I’ve already begun to miss.
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On June 30, Jim Ralph stepped down from his position as Dean of the Faculty, passing the baton to Professor of American Studies Roberto Lint Sagarena. Ralph had agreed to the transition in the spring of 2023, having served in the academic administration since August 2008.
After nearly two decades of polemics, the Monterey campus is set to close in 2027. As the books are settled, we must ask ourselves: What will Middlebury do with its new windfall of nearly nine million dollars a year?
In recent steps, both college President Ian Baucom and Middlebury faculty affirmed their commitment to maintaining academic freedom on campus in response to recent threats to the federal funding of higher education by the Trump administration.
New and first-time filmmakers from around the world came to Middlebury to showcase their work at the 11th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which took place Aug. 20–Aug. 24.
Beginning this fall, Health & Wellness Education is making updates to our community’s violence prevention strategy to strengthen our proactive power. This coming year, the MiddSafe hotline is ending, and a new group named PEAR (Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships, which combines the resources ...
Current first years are the first class to live in the newly constructed Battell Hall on the North end of Battell Beach. The building, which towers over the northern side of campus, houses approximately 300 new students — 41% of the class of 2029 — and 14 Resident Assistants (RAs). It’s the largest ...
This summer, Addison County faced extreme weather, including an intense thunderstorm in July and a drought in August. Both events caused damage throughout campus and in downtown Middlebury, raising concerns about the broader implications of climate change in the local area.
When the strongly nautical “Vanisher, Horizon Scraper” by Quadeca released this summer, I was as landlocked as one could be. It was a few minutes past midnight, and I had just returned from a movie night at a friend’s apartment to my parking spot on the fourth floor of GSU’s parking garage. ...
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The college decided to close its graduate campus, the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), leaving us surprised at the speed of this decision and cautiously optimistic about what it will mean for Middlebury’s future.
“Who’s starting this thing?” the director of the race, Bob Dunkle said as he abruptly stopped his UTV near a group of Middlebury students at the course’s starting line and climbed out. One of the students offered to help, and Dunkle tossed him an airhorn as he delivered quick instructions. Moments ...