Amateur versus Athlete: My first time on a horse
By Ting Cui | December 4, 2025My introduction to the horse world began with teeth marks on my hand.
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Crosswords 12/04/2025 Solutions: Slippery Slope
By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | December 4, 2025Crosswords 12/04/2025 Solutions: Slippery Slope!
PALANA sees sharp drop in member-residents, risks losing status as social house
By Hugo Zhang | December 4, 2025Earlier this fall, leaders of PALANA, Middlebury’s Pan-African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American multicultural student organization, said they were informed by the Student Activities Office (SAO) and Residential Life (ResLife) that the group is at risk of losing its social house, also known as Palmer ...
Students join farmworkers at Hannaford to call for adoption of Milk with Dignity program
By Laura Gomez | December 4, 2025On Saturday, Nov. 15, the entrance to the Middlebury Hannaford on Court Street was crowded with students, farmworkers, and Addison County residents rallying in support of Migrant Justice’s Milk with Dignity campaign. Participants gathered to urge the supermarket chain to join the farmworker-designed ...
When pushing the limit becomes destructive
By Tessa Husted | December 4, 2025I give the laces of my cleats a quick tug before jogging out onto the turf. Nervously, I nod at my teammates, a conglomeration of ex-collegiate players and middle-aged men clad in fluorescent t-shirts. My first touch sends the ball six feet away, and I wince. Shoot, what was that? This is my first time ...
Balancing the Sabbath and sport
By Simon Schmieder | December 4, 2025In the middle of the night, Nathan Szubin ’29 woke up and brought the couch cushions to the kitchen. He arranged the cushions lengthwise on the floor, repositioned his inflatable pillow and slipped back into his sleeping bag as he drifted off again. It was the night before the regional championship ...
Crosswords 12/04/2025: Slippery Slope
By Avery Goldstein and Ella Charnizon | December 4, 2025Crosswords 12/04/2025: Slippery Slope!
Otter Creek Yoga Equity Project continues endeavors towards social justice
By Rohina Mahadik | December 4, 2025Since its launch in the fall of 2019, the Otter Creek Yoga Equity Project (YEP) has continued to provide a meaningful and welcoming space for BIPOC students and Middlebury town residents alike to relax and forge connections. Over the years, it has grown to be more than just an affinity space for recreation. ...
Davis Library to close Research Desk, citing decline in student use and departmental restructure
By Met Ly | December 4, 2025Beginning next semester, the Research Desk at the Davis Family Library will be terminated as part of a broader restructuring of the Library’s Research, Instruction and Data Services (RI&D) department to adapt to student needs and budget constraints. The RI&D team will instead focus on individual ...
SPECS Panther - Menstruation and Sports
By Dani Bronk | December 4, 2025For athletes, the phrase “listen to your body” is not foreign. However, many might overlook how listening to oneself connects to the menstrual cycle and its impacts. At SPECS, we acknowledge that not everyone who menstruates identifies as female, and many who identify as female don’t menstruate. ...
Referendum organizers express frustration with rejection vote as SGA forms alternative solutions
By Cole Chaudhari | November 13, 2025On Nov. 5, the senate of the Student Government Association (SGA) voted to reject a student-led referendum concerning rights for protection and free expression on Middlebury’s campus, instead announcing alternative solutions to the issues it raises. In response, the writers of the referendum have ...
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Save small class sizes
By The Editorial Board | November 13, 2025Small class sizes and intimate academic experiences have long been a core tenet of a Middlebury education. The college proudly boasts our 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio and our average class size of 16 on its website and on every tour. But this has not been reflective of our Middlebury experience for ...
Letter to the Editor: Response to No Kings! Except the ones we like…
By Ayden Lapon | November 13, 2025In the op-ed “No Kings! Except the ones we like…”, published in the Nov. 6 edition of The Campus, the author argues that the protest movement across the country is an example of selective outrage, and that the standard for criticism and condemnation is not applied evenly. While I see merit in ...
Letter to the Editor: Response to No Kings! Except the ones we like…
By Will Beckerman and Charlie Fisch | November 13, 2025In an article critical of the so-called hypocrisy of the No Kings protest in The Campus last week, Ignacio Gamero ‘26 accused protestors of “cheapening authoritarianism.” He argued that other presidents had previously taken similar oversteps of executive power, and that Trump’s activities were ...
Being a writer at the Monastery
By Christy Liang | November 13, 2025I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department gave a workshop on The Buddhist Unconscious: Yogācāra Buddhism and How It Illuminates Bias.
A resistance of form: Zadie Smith’s “Dead and Alive”
By Nick Penniman | November 13, 2025“But perhaps I am asking the question the wrong way around,” Zadie Smith writes at one point in her essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” which can be found in her new collection, “Dead and Alive.” It’s a typically Smithian line: an expression of self-doubt signalling the ...
Distinguished monologist brings one-woman play to Middlebury
By Kai Arrowood | November 13, 2025On Friday, Nov. 7, critically acclaimed monologist Deborah Lubar put on her one-woman drama, “If You Were Really There” at the Town Hall Theater (THT). The full-length show, running nearly two and a half hours, was Lubar’s first in 25 years, she said in an interview with Zach Shivers, box office ...
Students gather to watch elections, react to Democratic victories
By Mina Rizk | November 13, 2025The Middlebury College Democrats hosted an election watch party on Nov. 4 in Hillcrest, which followed gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as the mayoral race in New York City. Students watched as victories unfolded for Democrats in all three elections.
Letter To The Editor: How democracies die
By Daniza Tazabekova | November 13, 2025This Letter To The Editor is a response to Ignacio Gamero ’26’s op-ed titled “No Kings! Except the ones we like…,” published in the Nov. 6 issue of The Campus. In his piece, Gamero argued that outrage over presidential overreach is merely inconsistent partisanship and exemplifies selective ...
Be not afeard, the room is full of teeth (and flute)
By Anthony Cinquina | November 13, 2025Full of noise it was, when on the night of Nov. 5 in Robison Hall, the avante-garde acapella octet Roomful of Teeth and composer, poet and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull joined forces to produce 75 minutes of utterly remarkable and deeply moving experimental soundscapes. I have heard nothing like it — ...