The design and construction of New Battell came with yet another upgrade this fall: a composting system. Bins designated for food waste were placed in lounge kitchens and garbage rooms, giving New Battell residents the opportunity to dispose of their scraps sustainably. Facilities hope to use the new ...
Alex Gklaros-Stavropoulos ’29 is a first year center on the men’s basketball team, towering at 6'11. Originally from Los Altos, California, he plans to pursue a Physics major. He played for Saint Francis High School, where he was a captain his senior year. He hopes to help the team reach the NCAA ...
In a culmination of a years-long effort and collaboration between the college and the Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC), the Bread Loaf Dam on Brandy Brook in Ripton was completed on Aug. 27, restoring the stream and surrounding floodplain to its natural state.
President Ian Baucom entered his tenure with multiple public statements asserting “the freedom of our students to express and explore thoughts outside orthodoxy, inside and outside the classroom, without fear or hesitation.” And yet, the reality of students on our campus dictates otherwise. With ...
The Chateau marked its 100th birthday on Saturday, welcoming French Department alumni, students and professors for a celebration of its legacy. The dorm was the first of its kind in the U.S., a maison française or “french house” conceived and built with the purpose of speaking only French inside ...
Middlebury’s climbing community returned this fall to find a brand-new wall towering over the indoor tennis courts in Nelson Recreation Center, complete with shiny holds, flat panels, and fresh, cushy mats. The first thing wall veterans noticed was what was missing: the cave. The steep and storied ...
Early scientific models that describe how the body functions and responds to different sensations during sex, such as Masters and Johnson’s sexual response cycle and Helen Singer Kaplan’s triphasic model, viewed sex as a linear, sequential experience that began with excitement and desire and ...
Last week, the Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB) and Middlebury’s FLŌRA Cannabis agreed on a settlement of the lawsuit filed last December by Dave Silberman, owner of FLŌRA. The lawsuit alleged that the CCB violated free speech rights by restricting cannabis advertisements. The settlement does ...
On Sept. 18–19, students, faculty, scholars and community members gathered for “AI Unboxed: Moving Beyond Hype and Fear” to explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Symposium offered 11 events over two days, spanning topics including climate change, higher education, computer science, ...
Recently, the Trump administration has proposed a rule to limit the duration of F-1 student visas to four years, irrespective of the length of academic programs. This is an urgent call for all academic institutions to support their international students. We must reaffirm our commitment to them by urging ...
Four months after the release of “Rat Saw God”, their “lightning bolt of a fifth album” as described by Pitchfork Magazine, alternative-rock band Wednesday released a mini documentary called “Rat Bastards of Haw Creek.” Shot by filmmaker and friend of the band Zach Romeo, the documentary ...
In February 2024, I wrote an op-ed for The Campus titled ‘I’m forgetting my mother tongue.’ Within one day of publishing, I was contacted by over 30 students who grew up and live outside of the regions where their mother tongue is spoken. Together, we mourned the loss of our linguistic heritage. ...
“You are a writer. Don’t tell your parents that.” My English advisor, Professor Robert Cohen, told me these words as I sat in his office, talking about my recent turn towards Buddhist thought and how I’ve unclouded my judgment of the outside world over the summer.
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When the Center for Health and Wellness (CHW) recently announced the termination of the MiddSafe Hotline and Mental Health Peer Educators (MPHE) program, it cited a lack of student use as the reason. They pointed to the increase in mental health resources in the CHW as having supplemented the need for ...
In a Sept. 5 email, Associate Vice President for Safety Demitria Kirby and Dean of Students Joe Russell reminded students that parking on campus is “a privilege, not a right,” listing the college’s escalating accountability pathway to crack down on parking violations this year.
At Beijing Capital Normal University, where I took my semester abroad this past spring, I enrolled in Classical Chinese. There, I developed confidence and an interest in reading simple classical Chinese. I also became more familiar with major schools of thought in the Pre-Qin period of ancient China, ...
Judith Butler is famous for writing that gender is a performance. What the renowned gender studies scholar did not write, though, is that gender can be more than a performance; it can also be a competition.
Buy Again Alley, a nonprofit thrift store located in downtown Middlebury, has lost their lease after six years based at 60 Main Street. The owners of the building, who gave the business only 30 days notice before requiring it to vacate the building, intend to open an antique shop there in the coming ...
Foliage radiating across the mountains beyond the soccer pitch, large swaths of the football team squeezed into the film room, and packs of cross-country runners circling the glass fields into dusk are a few of the familiar fall sports sights at Middlebury. Yet none of these are as attention-grabbing, ...