Crossword Solutions 04/23/26: Bookends
By Avery Goldstein | April 23, 2026Crossword Solutions 04/23/26: Bookends
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The Jack Langerman Community Foundation: Honoring a legacy
By Anna Doucet | April 23, 2026For the Middlebury community and all those who loved him, the name Jack Langerman is one held close to their hearts. Jack Langerman ’19.5 was a member of the Middlebury Baseball team and a beloved member of the community. Although Langerman passed away in 2021, his legacy at Middlebury and beyond ...
Recentering learning when we talk about grades
By Linus Owens, Kemi Fuentes-George, Greg Pask, Jason Mittell and Catherine Combelles | April 23, 2026This spring, The Campus has seen numerous articles and editorials discussing grading, ranging from coverage of the Economics department’s new grading policies, to calls for addressing grade inflation with campus-wide grade quotas and caps. The draft of our new strategic plan explicitly calls for action ...
On the move: Meg Simon ’26 receives Hockey Humanitarian award
By Simon Schmieder | April 23, 2026With her dad playing professional hockey, Meg Simon ’26 moved over 50 times growing up. Between trade deals and being called up to the NHL, Simon’s mom made sure the family always followed along. “It was really important to my mom that we moved as a unit,” Simon explained— a luxury that many ...
Golden Rule Mead sources local ingredients to create unique beverages
By Katrina Schwarz | April 23, 2026"Brew unto others" is more than just a clever play on words for Middlebury’s Golden Rule Mead; it is a founding principle of respect for the land and the community. Golden Rule Mead, a meadery located at 8 Elm Street next to Fire & Ice, focuses on producing sustainable, thoughtfully curated meads ...
SPECS Panther Column — Let’s talk about attraction
By Laila Almefty-Hernandez and Emilia Zenker | April 23, 2026At SPECS, we talk a lot about sex — the importance of regular STI testing, the nuances of consent, birth control choices, pleasure and more — but not as much about attraction and how it manifests beyond sexual experiences. In celebration of Asexuality Awareness Day, which took place on April 6, ...
‘A Hall of Mirrors’: layers of performance in ‘The Maids’
By Rachelle Talbert | April 16, 2026In a mirror maze of performativity, reality blends into fantasy until the two become nearly indistinguishable. This is on full display in Jean Genet’s absurdist play, “The Maids,” which was produced by the Middlebury Theatre Department this past weekend. It depicts two sister maids engaging in ...
Feeling things: Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Chien with ‘just practice’
By Prosper Castelli | April 16, 2026Designers Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien like things soft — which is interesting because their work addresses hard issues: immigration, redlining, the climate crisis, flooding and injustice.
It’s your planet too
By Sga Environmental Sustainability Committee | April 16, 2026Insurance companies have begun to pull out of entire states. Homeowners in Florida, Louisiana and California have found themselves uninsurable through no fault of their own. Climate-related disasters meant that the actuarial math no longer worked, and the people pricing this risk were not environmental ...
Watching the wings grow: Proc knitter Marin Melchior
By Zhan Zhu | April 16, 2026Marin Melchior wears the standard college dining services uniform, but beneath the regulation fabric, the markers of a creator remain: a streak of vibrant blue bleached into her hair, a pair of delicate earrings and a blue bow pinned neatly behind her work hat. As the dining servery supervisor at Middlebury ...
EcoReps leads salamander crossing event in an effort to protect local wildlife
By Katrina Schwarz and Anna Doucet | April 16, 2026On Monday, April 13, more than 25 students braved a damp Vermont evening to help salamanders safely cross the road. Donning jackets and mud boots, participants searched the underbrush for salamanders, frogs and other amphibians, carefully guiding them across Morgan Road in Salisbury.
The potent power of SGA
By Jonathan Eaton | April 16, 2026The Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) has long struggled with growing student apathy. Most students view it as a performative body utilized by ambitious students to puff up their resumes rather than a vital community organ. This past year, very few students followed public SGA ...
The potent power of SGA
By Jonathan Eaton | April 16, 2026The Middlebury College Student Government Association (SGA) has long struggled with growing student apathy. Most students view it as a performative body utilized by ambitious students to puff up their resumes rather than a vital community organ. This past year, very few students followed public SGA ...
Conversational Art: Devin Santikarma
By Christy Liang | April 16, 2026Christy Liang: What drew you to photography?
Middlebury men’s golf falls at Dr Tim Brown Invitational
By Kanan Clifford | April 16, 2026Middlebury men’s golf continued its spring season with a 12th-place finish at the Dr Tim Brown Invitational, held in frigid Ballston Spa, NY, last weekend. On Saturday, the Panthers struggled to a +30 clip, with a whopping seven doubles or worse, and only five birdies. Sunday brought with it ...
How Vermont Green FC became a summer soccer phenomenon
By Dylan Mcginty | April 16, 2026Vermont Green Football Club, a pre-professional soccer team founded in 2022 by Matthew Wolff and Patrick Infurna, will open its 2026 season this May following a landmark year for the organization. Created with the goal of establishing a grassroots soccer club rooted in Vermont, the team competes each ...
Letter to the Editor: Combatting grade inflation requires a campus-wide approach
By Gabriella Gerig | April 16, 2026The Middlebury Campus recently reported on the Middlebury Economics department’s new department-wide policy instituting a 95% threshold for receiving an A grade. Previous to this development, grades were up to the professor’s discretion, and there was little standardization across the department. ...
Crossword Solutions 04/16/26: Data Query
By Egan Turner | April 16, 2026Crossword Solutions 04/16/26: Data Query!
Women's tennis sweeps Trinity at home
By Thie Harthono | April 16, 2026On Saturday, April 11, the #12 Middlebury women's tennis team took care of business at home, sweeping Trinity 7-0 inside an empty Nelson Recreation Center. The win was Middlebury’s 13th against Trinity. With the victory, the Panthers remain undefeated against the Bantams. Saturday’s result also ...