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SPECS Panther Column - An analysis of “Heartstopper” season 3
By Aiden Levy | January 16, 2025SPECS Panther is a mascot for SPECS (sex positive education for college students) and serves the Middlebury community. As a part of Health & Wellness Education, SPECS Panther seeks to educate and spark independent dialogue, not be the end-all be-all resource on campus. We encourage Midd Kids to ...
The Sheldon Museum earns $650,000 grant to help fund future programs
By Declan Richards | January 16, 2025The Henry Sheldon Museum received a grant in December for $650,000 from the Mellon Foundation, the largest supporter of arts and the humanities in the U.S. The money will allow the museum to increase its curatorial research, hire new staff members and expand the resources it offers to Middlebury as ...
Guest professors bring a breadth of expertise to J-Term courses
By Ella Callahan | January 16, 2025In a typical semester, Middlebury hosts no shortage of impressive faculty to teach across a wide range of disciplines. However, Middlebury’s J-Term course offerings present students with an exceptional opportunity to discover unique classes often taught by guest professors with specialized real-world ...
The Exit Interview: Laurie Patton reflects on legacy and leadership
By Cole Chaudhari, Ryan Mcelroy and Madeleine Kaptein | December 5, 2024With an eye on the horizon after announcing her departure last May, Middlebury College President Laurie Patton has since led her final Commencement ceremony, conducted her final Board of Trustees meeting in October, and, now, sat for her final interview with The Campus.
College to conduct first shelter-in-place drill this week
By Ryan Mcelroy | December 5, 2024 Middlebury has planned its first-ever shelter-in-place drill for this Friday, Dec. 6 at 1:50 pm. Lasting 15 minutes, the exercise is meant to prepare community members for a variety of emergency situations on campus, including active shooter threats, hazardous waste spills, dangerous weather conditions, ...
Students who serve: How Middlebury ROTC nurtures future Army officers
By Luke Power | December 5, 2024Ever been walking to class on a Wednesday morning and wondered who those students in Army fatigues on campus are? They are Middlebury’s very own cadets — and likely part of the next generation of Army officers. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a program that offers college students at ...
Dreaming with Sean Dorsey Dance
By Norah Khan | December 5, 2024Sean Dorsey Dance graced the halls of the Mahaney Arts Center from Nov. 15 –16 to share their new project, titled “THE LOST ART OF DREAMING.” The performance was a beautiful mixture of spoken word, expressive dance and queer joy. The central theme, “DREAMING IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT,” was ...
Resilience in Port Elizabeth: My Journey with I Protect Me
By Ruthie Brown | December 5, 2024As a second-degree black belt and an International Global Studies major with a Global Gender and Sexuality concentration, I am interested in exploring how martial arts have the power to transform lives through empowerment and community-building. This past fall, that passion carried me over 9,000 miles ...
Five years adrift: Why hasn’t Middlebury replaced the commons system?
By The Editorial Board | December 5, 2024It’s time to rethink how we organize our social life. For decades, Middlebury’s social fabric was held together by structured environments — first by fraternities, until 1991, and then by the commons system, until 2019. Much of the fragmentation within the student body can be traced back to the ...
King Lear endears new generation to timeless classic
By Christy Liang | December 5, 2024 From Nov. 14 – 16, the Middlebury community enjoyed a dazzling production of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear. Enthralling visual effects and costume design, original musical innovations, and a dynamic cast breathed contemporary life into this timeless classic, leaving ...
Indigenous students share ongoing struggle for visibility at Middlebury
By Caroline (Xiaoyuan) Jiao | December 5, 2024 The month of November is National American Indian Heritage Month, which was designed in 1990 to commemorate the nation's indigenous heritage. At Middlebury, students who celebrated the Indigenous community last month have said that their visibility on campus and their ability to maintain an organized ...
The Closet Report: Nonna Madoyan ’28
By Aren Lau | December 5, 2024December has arrived. The leaves have fallen, the skies are endlessly gray, the wind chills and Middlebury students have begun dressing more casually to accommodate the cold, prioritizing comfort to focus on finals. However, there are some, including Nonna Madoyan ’28, who embrace the dreariness with ...
Talking Trash: Where does Middlebury’s waste go?
By Maggie Bryan and Lily Mcgovern | December 5, 2024 This semester, Talking Trash has detailed Middlebury’s food waste and recycling processes. This time, we’re investigating what happens to the waste that is not recycled or composted: landfill trash. In 2023, Middlebury sent 943,520 pounds of waste to the landfill, which accounted for ...
Winter Sports Previews
By Jonathan Buchholz, Ting Cui and Jack Mcguire | December 5, 2024Women’s Basketball
SPECS Panther Column: A review of recent sexual health legislation in Vermont
By El Fahey | December 5, 2024Did you know that Vermont, via Proposition 5, was the first state to enshrine the right to an abortion in its state constitution just two years ago? Vermont policymakers have been spearheading the movement toward a more inclusive version of sexual health care and reproductive justice. At SPECS, we affirm ...
The Side Hustle: Middlebury on ice
By Madeleine Kaptein and Max Myers | December 5, 2024The Middlebury figure skating team just keeps on gliding — backwards, in complex spins, but most importantly, forwards. The team has recently increased their activity in the intercollegiate figure skating circuit since competing in the Northeast Conference for the first time in several years in the ...
Middlebury College doesn’t have a cheating problem. It has an honor code problem.
By Cole Siefer | December 5, 2024The Honor Code is no longer present in the minds of students. As a peer writing tutor for the CTLR, I have had countless students ask me what the Honor Code is, how to sign it on their assignments and what it actually means. As students no longer physically sign the Honor Code during their orientation ...
I felt the sludge: Chat Pile at Higher Ground
By June Su | December 5, 2024On Nov. 14, noise rock band Chat Pile brought the live sound of their new LP, “Cool World” to Higher Ground in Burlington. The band’s nihilistic lyrics, downtempo cuts, and punk influences have also led to widespread characterizations of their music as sludge metal. Released on Oct. 11, the band’s ...