Oliver “Ollie” the camel, for years an unlikely Route 7 celebrity and Vermont’s resident two-humped treasure, died on the evening of Feb. 21 at his farm in Ferrisburgh, Vt. He was 17 years old. Ollie, a seven-foot-tall, 1,500-lb Bactrian camel often described as a “ham for the camera,” prompted ...
This is the second article in a series on school consolidation. Read the first article in that series here. Over the last three years, Middlebury and the surrounding towns have shifted from conversations about district consolidation to school mergers and closures. Act 46, the 2015 legislation that ...
Last Friday, the cellist-pianist couple came to campus to deliver the tenth performance of the Performing Arts Series' 100th season, featuring a piece by contemporary composer Pierre Jalbert commissioned especially for the event.
The Middlebury Bridge and Rail Project, promising a passenger rail from Rutland to Burlington by 2021, will necessitate road closures on Merchants Row and Main Street between May 4 and Aug. 5. The town is currently working with Middlebury College administrators, in conjunction with the College’s 15-member ...
Curated by Professor Sarah Laursen, the new exhibit at the Museum of Art showcases forgotten Chinese gold artifacts.
Harriett Beecher Stowe's iconic anti-slavery novel provides a perspective into pre-antebellum attitudes towards slavery and religion in America.
Two generations after his death, P.G. Wodehouse's smart, funny, character-driven prose deserves a revisit.
The Campus reported last week that the college was collaborating with a local committee to ensure a complete headcount for the 2020 Census. The Middlebury/Addison Complete Count Committee, established last spring to directly aid the U.S. Census Bureau, is conducting similar efforts across all of Addison ...
The Vermont Senate read a proposal to add the right to a clean environment to the state constitution this month. This “Green Amendment,” sponsored by Senator Christopher Bray (D-Addison), would give Vermonters the “right to clean air and water and the preservation of the natural, scenic, and cultural ...
It only takes a minute on Twitter to read that a liberal arts education is too coddling.
Bringing the genre of mafia films to the Hirschfield Series, Corneliu Porumboiu's film blends drama with social commentary, bright colors and beautiful set and sound design.
Leif Taranta ’20.5 and other student activists are leading workshops teaching the Middlebury community how to be more effective activists.
As the housing application process kicks off, the International Student Organization (ISO) is eying a residential space for international students that would function as a space for intercultural dialogue across the student body.
To the Middlebury College Administration: We ask that you reconsider your decision to permit Charles Murray’s visit on March 31.
Middlebury students were given the opportunity to re-learn American history in the form of a talk by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Middlebury alumni Kris McGuffie ’97 and Alex Newhouse ’17 spoke last Thursday about the dangerous role of artificial intelligence in online extremism, drawing connections between the growth of the Internet to the rise of online extremist communities.
The Student Government Association Finance Committee is dedicating $100,000 of budget surpluses to fund student-run projects through the MiddKid Mega Project, a one-time competition to incentivize creative ideas and expedite the process of funding them.
Students voted on Feb. 26 in favor of eliminating the position of commons senator, reducing the Student Government Association senate from 17 to 12 members. Only 10 percent of the student body voted in the referendum, which also changed SGA members’ titles from “senator” to “representative.” ...
I am not a climate change denier. Still, I struggle to connect with the green movement.