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May 1, 2025This year has witnessed surprise and turmoil on many levels. Historic election results in the U.S. and around the world, federal budget cuts, ongoing global conflicts, and seemingly universal political tension have allowed international and national discord to exert daily influence on the lives of Middlebury ...
A big thief of my time: Adrianne Lenker’s “Live at Revolution Hall”
By Gus Morrill | May 1, 2025Ten days before the release of Adrianne Lenker’s most recent live album, “Live at Revolution Hall,” this past Thursday, the artist’s label 4AD put out a release promoting the upcoming album. This page included a tracklist of all 43 songs and conversations composing the album’s runtime, as ...
A perfect finale: Ibragimova and Tiberghien close Middlebury’s 105th Performing Arts Series
By Yuhan Zhang | May 1, 2025The sublime artistry of violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien echoed in Robinson Concert Hall this past Sunday, as the pair delivered a performance that marked the end of Middlebury College’s 105th Performing Arts Series season. The duo program featured Janáček’s “Violin ...
Baseball riding eight-game win streak as NESCAC Playoffs approach
By Theo Maniatis | May 1, 2025Middlebury baseball’s season started like a car in the dead of Vermont winter — slow to turn over but now running strong. The Panthers extended their winning streak to eight games last weekend, demolishing Skidmore in a doubleheader (13–3, 13–7).
Nocturne-ing it up: Student arts festival returns for its eighth year
By Virginia Frau | May 1, 2025On the evening of April 26, the arrival of the annual student-run arts festival, Nocturne, coincided with weather characteristic of April; heavy gusts and dark clouds hung over Middlebury, leading organizers to implement the event’s rain schedule. Set across four buildings, the event lived up to its ...
What does it mean to embrace uncertainty?
By The Editorial Board | May 1, 2025Uncertainty is uncomfortable and overwhelming. It can be isolating and anxiety inducing, and it can make questions about our lives even weightier. But uncertainty also lays the groundwork for transformation. It prompts us to consider the norms we take for granted and invites deeper, more critical conversations ...
Middlebury men's Track & Field claims NESCAC Championship: triumph of a brotherhood
By Ting Cui | May 1, 2025That was the razor-thin margin that separated history from heartbreak for the Middlebury men's track and field team who were underdogs heading into last weekend's NESCAC Championship. The Panthers tallied 169 points to edge out Amherst College's 164, capturing their first conference title in six years ...
Crossword 05/01/2025 Solution: But Who Shot First?
By Garrett Durso-Finley | May 1, 2025Solution to this week's crossword: But Who Shot First?
Incoming president endorses budget cuts as faculty plan protest
By Ryan Mcelroy | May 1, 2025In a series of moves last week, Middlebury’s next president, Ian Baucom, began to stake out positions on key issues at the college and in higher education that will shape his tenure, standing up for the college — and for Monterey.
We must defend international students
By Senator Ruth Hardy | May 1, 2025Ruth Hardy is a State Senator for the Addison District. She delivered these remarks on the floor of the Vermont Senate on April 22, 2025.
Seven Questions with Billy Curtis ’25, men’s lacrosse
By Brooke Friberg | May 1, 2025Billy Curtis ’25, from Beverly Farms, Mass., is a senior attackman on the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team. Curtis recently broke a 42-year-old program record for the most assists in a single game with seven assists. As he wraps up his Middlebury career, we caught up with Curtis to document his legacy, ...
Crossword 05/01/2025: But Who Shot First?
By Garrett Durso-Finley | May 1, 2025Crossword of the week: But Who Shot First?
College administrators address student immigration record revocations
By Hugo Zhang | May 1, 2025Since the college’s announcement on April 16 that the U.S. government had terminated the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) status of one Middlebury undergraduate student and three Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) alumni, administrators have further addressed ...
Local Vermont author explores motherhood, climate in spiritually rooted debut novel
By Langan Garrett | May 1, 2025In her book “Mother, Creature, Kin,” local Rochester, Vt. author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder weaves threads of motherhood, ecology, and spirituality together to explore what it means to raise a child in a world facing profound environmental and existential challenges. On April 8, Steinauer-Scudder ...
SPECS Panther Column: Why Middlebury needs harm reduction in consent education
By Emma Cook | May 1, 2025Sex Positive Education for College Students (SPECS) addresses topics such as consent and communication, pleasure, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and safer sex practices. SPECS knows that Middlebury’s diverse student body includes individuals from varying domestic and international backgrounds ...
Investment banker, philanthropist Chuck Davis to deliver 2025 commencement address
By Maggie Bryan, Ryan Mcelroy and Madeleine Kaptein | April 29, 2025Chuck Davis, a philanthropist and investment executive who spent two years at Middlebury before transferring to the University of Vermont, will deliver the 2025 commencement address.
Faculty call for reversal of budget cuts
By Madeleine Kaptein | April 24, 2025In a plenary faculty meeting on Friday, April 18, 94% of the nearly 200 faculty members in attendance voted to pass a motion demanding that the administration and Board of Trustees reverse the recently announced compensation cuts for employees and enrollment increase.
Makes Ya Feel: My top three April albums
By Ellie Trinkle | April 24, 2025Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!
Harvard Director of Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gives talk on Israel-Palestine history
By Phoebe An | April 24, 2025Director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gave this year’s Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, titled “The Struggle for Palestine on the World Stage, 1947–1949.” As Harvard’s William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Penslar studies Jewish history within the ...