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The Abusive Nature of Financial Aid

By Andrew Sebald And Travis Wayne Sanderson | May 2, 2018

CW: Domestic Abuse Andrew Sebald: I have one older half-sister, one younger sister, a mother and an abusive father. My mother is an alumna of Middlebury, which is what spurred my interest in Middlebury College. When I was 14 years old, my mom and dad divorced. The separation was violent. My father ...

Divides and Deliberation: A Report and Invitation

By Jin Sohn And Sarah Stroup | May 2, 2018

Last spring, the Middlebury community became deeply divided over a campus visit by Charles Murray. We each felt these divides personally — Sarah Stroup is a member of the political science department, and Jin plays a leading role in student government. Our campus is not alone in struggling to construct ...

College Recruits from Richer, Whiter High Schools than Peers

By Bochu Ding | May 2, 2018

College recruitment data cited in a recent New York Times article reveals a trend of recruitment at whiter and richer high schools, with Middlebury’s recruitment strategy noticeably lacking in comparison to its peers that demonstrate a more diversity-conscious approach. The article, “Colleges ...

Students Took Koch Money to Fund On-Campus Lecture

By Caroline Kapp | May 2, 2018

The college’s Open Campus Initiative (OCI) hosted a talk on free speech in large part through funding from the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), a libertarian think tank. Charles Koch, an astronomically wealthy champion of the right who has helped back the Tea Party among other Republican causes ...

Student-Led Zero Energy Team Wins National Prize for Elementary School Design

By Nicole Pollack | May 2, 2018

The Middlebury Race to Zero team won the elementary schools contest in the U.S. Department of Energy’s annual Race to Zero Student Design competition held in Golden, Colorado from April 20-22. The college competed against 40 teams from 34 colleges and universities to design marketable, economically ...

Davis Library Says No to Collecting Data on Patrons

By Ethan Brady | May 2, 2018

The debate about data privacy unfolding in national newspapers and the halls of Congress has finally reached the college on the hill. This time, privacy advocates have something to rejoice in. In a memo last week, the Davis Family Library announced it would not keep records on borrowing history for ...

24/7 Lib Here to Stay... for Now

By Elizabeth Sawyer | May 2, 2018

Davis Family Library will remain open for 24 hours each day of finals week, according to Michael Roy, the dean of the library. Roy reached this decision after considering student survey data and deliberating with administrators and members of the Student Government Association. Roy does want to limit ...

More Students Should Be on the Board of Trustees

By The Editorial Board | April 26, 2018

On April 8, the SGA passed a bill requesting the addition of a second student constituent to the college board of overseers. This initiative arose in response to what the bill identifies as “limited and lacking student representation and consequential engagement with the Middlebury college board of ...

Making Generalizations

By Jimmy Conboy | April 26, 2018

Hi, I’m Jimmy. A straight, white male from a suburb of New Jersey. My profile is very well-represented at Middlebury, and you may feel that my a perspective like mine does not need more representation in our paper. When I started to write this piece, I thought that I could divorce my profile from ...

Community Council Restructuring

By Christina Brook | April 26, 2018

The Community Council is currently reflecting on the work that has been done throughout the year, and what the council would like to achieve before the end of the year. This has centered around the election cycle as we welcome in Lynn Travinoka to serve as student co-chair in the Fall, and John Gosselin ...

What If...

By Sebastian Sanchez | April 26, 2018

The same police sirens blare out into the air. The same, yellow crime tape is placed around the scene, marking yet another tragedy in American society. The media picks up the same stories. But that is often where the similarities end. Police officers seem to have preconceived notions as black and ...

SGA Weekly: Show Your Appreciation

By Jin Sohn | April 26, 2018

Dear MiddKids, To begin, thank you to all who voted and participated in this year’s SGA Elections & Referendum. We had an outstanding turnout: 1,730 out of 2,532 students voted (that’s 68 percent, more than voter turnout for national U.S. elections)! Congratulations to all those who have ...

I Cover the Waterfront: On the Movies

By Will Digravio | April 26, 2018

If I walk at a brisk pace and have the right song playing on Spotify, I can get there in eight minutes. I take one left, one right, and cross the street. I go there when I am stressed and in need of a break, when I want to temporarily trade our world for a new one. I could only be talking about one ...

An Outsider’s Take on Guns in America

By Kaitlyn Francis | April 26, 2018

The liberty to own a gun takes away the liberty of so many others. So far in 2018 there have been 7 firearm attacks during school hours across the United States (CNN). Americans own 48 percent of civilian-owned guns worldwide (CNN). There is an average of 89 firearms per 100 people in the United States ...

The Librarian Is In

By Cmcconville | April 25, 2018

Research & Instruction Librarian Brenda Ellis is liaison to History, Political Science, International Politics & Economics (IPE), International & Global Studies (IGS), MiddCore and co-liaison to Environmental Studies.   “It Looked Different on the Model” and “Housebroken: ...

Earth Day Brings Students and Local Organizations Together

By Chris Gernon | April 25, 2018

Whether it’s the small stickers under the light switches that say “Be bright and turn off the light!” or getting rid of the to-go boxes, Middlebury’s commitment to environmental sustainability is displayed often and unabashedly. This past Sunday, Apr. 22, as a celebration of Earth Day, local ...

Reel Critic: “A Quiet Place”

By Devin Mcgrath-Conwell | April 25, 2018

We seem to be living in the midst of a horror renaissance. In the past few years, we have been graced with critical and audience darlings such as “The Conjuring” (2013) and “The Babadook” (2014), and in just the past year the likes of “Get Out” (2017) and “It” (2017) have taken pop culture ...

4.48 Psychosis Explores Peculiarities of Human Mind

By Monique Santoso | April 25, 2018

On Thursday, April 19 through Saturday, April 21, the Hepburn Zoo Theatre transformed into Sarah Kane’s “4.48 Psychosis,” widely thought of as her suicide note, for Roxy Adviento’s ’18 senior work and Stephen Chen’s Intermediate Independent 500-level lighting project. The play was Kane’s ...

Alumni Reflect on Post-Grad Life in Vermont

By Kenshin Cho | April 25, 2018

MIDDLEBURY — Standing between the exposed brick walls and raw wooden beams of his office, Evan Deutsch ’12.5 began describing his path from graduation to where he now works, at a design agency he co-founded with fellow Middlebury alum Jon Portman ’13 four years ago. His story— turning down a ...