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Pandemic migration fuels Vermont real estate market

Vermont real estate has perked up as people flee crowded cities and states with higher Covid-19 rates, but some agents are doubtful of lasting benefits.

Overlapping crises: Bill McKibben on social solidarity in a world after Covid-19

In Friday’s remote lecture, scholar-in-residence Bill McKibben drew comparisons between the pandemic and the climate crisis. “We have this huge mix of crises on top of each other,” he said.

Community plea to expand the arts

We are writing out of deep concern over the state of the humanities at Middlebury College and the absence of BIPOC voices both on campus and in our curriculum. 

Independence with caveats: Students explore off-campus living during Covid-19

Students living off-campus this semester adapt to pandemic restrictions and increased surveillance.

Seeing early success, NESCACs navigate on-campus life during Covid-19

Middlebury, along with its peers in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, have been able to maintain low Covid-19 rates through a mix of geographical and size advantages paired with stringent health protocol.

Friends

How will we live together?

This is simultaneously the year to recreate our community support system and to rely on that system more than any of us have before.

Throwback Thursday: This day in 1988, Vigsnes’s goal caps off solid weekend

For this throwback Thursday read about the 1988 soccer game against Colby which Middlebury won in the 2nd overtime.

Reel Critic: ‘Boys State’

It’s hectic, clamorous but riveting. This is "Boys State."

Athlete of the Week: Jackson Hawkins ’21.5

Read about our athlete of the week, Jackson Hawkins '21.5, a captain of the crew team.

The Librarian is in: ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ by Marlon James

“A Brief History of Seven Killings” is the most enrapturing audiobook vocal performance I’ve ever encountered.

School of Abenaki pilots first summer remotely

“The Abenaki language needs speakers to help keep it alive,” Jesse Bowman Bruchac said, reflecting on this summer’s two-week pilot program on Abenaki language and culture.

MASK OFF, MIDD: Situationships are dead, long live intentional connections

Now that human connection is spatially inconvenient, even on our small Vermont campus, I wonder if the pandemic has given us a rare gift. 

Phase Two start date pushed to Thursday, Sept. 17

The next period in the college’s “phased approach” to a safe reopening will be pushed back to Thursday, Sept. 17, two days after it was originally planned to begin. Phase Two allows for greater freedoms, including leaving campus for other locations in Addison County and relaxing physical distancing ...

Welcome back! September 10 Issue

Welcome back to the fall semester! This fall, The Campus will continue publishing content online on a weekly basis on Thursdays. You can browse our stories on our website, as well as check out a virtual front page each week.

Middlebury holds breath as Covid case number sits at two

Middlebury’s second round of Day Seven Covid-19 tests revealed no new cases of the virus among students, leaving the college’s total number of active cases at two. All enrolled students living on campus and in town were tested on Sept. 2, when 821 tests were administered, and on Sept. 4, when 1,138 ...

Siefer’s Scoop Podcast: An introduction

New this 2020-2021 school year is The Siefer's Scoop Podcast, which tells the stories of Middlebury varsity student-athletes, hosted and produced by Blaise Siefer '23.

The New Seating Guide

Porter Medical Center prepares for a fall semester transformed by the pandemic

In partnership with Porter Medical Center (PMC), the college has prepared a written plan for providing student medical care during the fall 2020 semester.