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The Librarian Is In
By Cmcconville | February 21, 2018Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer is liaison to the Anderson Freeman Center, the Arabic department, the French department, the Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS Program), the Language Schools, Linguistics and the Spanish & Portuguese departments. These affiliations are ...
Women Finish Third, Martinez Wins 400
By Jordan Howell | February 21, 2018The Middlebury track and field teams competed in their first championship meets of the indoor season last weekend in DIII New Englands. The women’s team was in action last Saturday, Feb. 17, while the men’s side hosted the meet in Virtue Field House last Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16–17. The women’s ...
Study Abroad: The Hardest Four Months of My Life
By Laura Dillon | February 21, 2018“How was abroad? It looked amazing from your Instagram!” was the most frequent greeting I received on returning to campus in January after spending my fall semester abroad in Santiago, Chile. I knew that the “how was abroad” question was inescapable, and even though I had spent the last few ...
Local School Shooting Threat Derailed
By Amelia Pollard | February 21, 2018MIDDLEBURY – Until last week, Vermont had evaded the fear of school shootings that have swept the nation. The state was put to the test last Thursday after two separate tips reached Rutland County authorities regarding a teenager, 18, who was thought to pose a dire threat to the community. A young ...
Long-Time Postal Clerk Pamela Sands Dies
By Sabine Poux | February 21, 2018Pamela Sands, a long-time postal clerk at the college, died last Tuesday at her home after a brief illness. Sands worked at the college for over 34 years and was well known throughout the Middlebury community for her position at the student mail center. She was 54. Sands was born in Germany in 1963 ...
From the Cluttered Desk of Jenny Moss: February 22, 2018
By Jenny Moss | February 21, 2018JENNY MOSS
WGMFU: Imma Let You Finish
By Nia Robinson | February 21, 2018Men — white men specifically — seem to have this obsession with interrupting me. Over the course of one conversation, it regularly happens five times or more. Throw more white men in the mix and the amount of times they cut me off is multiplied. Rarely do they apologize or realize their rudeness. ...
President Announces Four New Projects
By Bochu Ding | February 21, 2018President Laurie L. Patton sent four school-wide emails last week outlining major projects occurring in the spring and following semesters. The emails laid out a variety of initiatives including accreditation, transformational goals for the institution, a contest for new traditions and restorative practices ...
I Cover the Waterfront: On TJ, JA and Guns
By Will Digravio | February 21, 2018Isn’t it funny how often we tend to view historical figures in ways they most certainly would not have approved? I think about that a lot these days, since political leaders seem to grow more and more certain that they know the answers the Founding Fathers would provide to Wolf Blitzer and Rachel ...
Women’s Swimming & Diving Takes Seventh at Nescacs
By Lauren Boyd | February 21, 2018Last week, Feb. 16–18, the women’s swimming and diving team headed to Williamstown, Massachusetts, to take part in the Nescac Championship in which they took seventh place. Williams Ephs took home the gold for the fifth year in a row. Two school records fell for Middlebury thanks to the efforts ...
Reusable Foodware On the Way
By Ben Dohan | February 21, 2018Dining services has ordered 2,000 reusable containers and is working with student authors of an SGA bill to create a reusable to-go container system. They hope to switch over to the system one week after students return from spring break. The SGA bill was introduced on Jan. 28 by Leif Taranta ’20.5, ...
Opioid Epidemic Sees Signs of Hope
By Maria Kaouris | February 21, 2018MIDDLEBURY — With the opioid crisis continuing to erupt across the country, Vermont government officials seem to be breathing a collective sigh of relief for the first time in years. Identified in 2016 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a state with a significant increase in ...
Climate Change Guest Lecture
By Sarah Holmes | February 21, 2018On Friday Feb. 16, Dr. Barney Ellison came to the college to give a talk on climate change and renewable energy. Ellison received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Yale after studying biology at Trinity College in Connecticut. He is now a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Colorado ...
Library Display Celebrates Black History Month
By James Finn | February 21, 2018Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer has collaborated with other staff and students to create a display in Davis Library celebrating Black History Month. The display has been in place since Thursday, February 1 and will remain in the library until Wednesday, February 28. It consists of ...
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
By Cmcconville | February 21, 2018Editor's note: The author of this op-ed has since asked her name be removed from this piece. The Campus has a strict policy that it does not retroactively remove names from stories, but given extenuating circumstances has agreed to do so for this piece. CW: Sexual Assault We have all heard the statistic: ...
What Matters to You and Why? This Week’s Friday Reflection
By Miguel Espinosa | February 21, 2018On Friday, February 19, members of the Middlebury community gathered at the Mitchell Green Lounge to attend the first Reflection Friday series of the semester. The Reflection Friday Series is a program created by the Innovation Hub in which speakers are invited to share what they consider valuable and ...
New Workshop Provides Space for Communal Relaxation
By Allie Stevens | February 21, 2018Between the stress of heavy workloads and the social and societal pressures that students face every day, unwinding and taking time to oneself seems an elusive task. Fortunately, counseling graduate interns Sarah Farrell and David Rapp are attempting to combat this struggle through a weekly “Subtle ...
Redefining ‘Inclusivity’ as ‘Freedoms’
By Shawna Shapiro And Michael Sheridan | February 21, 2018Much of our campus conversation lately has been about “freedom of speech” and “inclusivity,” as if they were opposing values between which we must choose. We have heard lofty statements like, “Freedom and inclusivity must go hand-in-hand,” yet statements like these preserve the binary. Moreover, ...