In a couple of weeks, the last class who has experienced a full year of pre-pandemic Middlebury will graduate. This has left some of us wondering about the potential loss of institutional memories and traditions that flourished before the onset of social distancing and Zoom links.
A bronze statue celebrating a sport that supposedly began at Middlebury was reinstalled this past week outside of Forest Hall.
With the conclusion of a stressful housing draw, many juniors are left without housing for the fall semester and await the August draw process.
Middlebury baseball’s strong season continued into the playoffs this past weekend as the Panthers beat Tufts in a best-two-out-of-three NESCAC quaterfinal series on home soil. The top-seeded Panthers knocked off the Jumbos in Sunday’s decisive third game after a split doubleheader the day before. ...
Perhaps one of the best things to come out of isolation was "folklore," an exciting creative departure for Taylor Swift. "folklore" is more stripped down than her previous albums. Still, it doesn't skimp on rich imagery and complex storytelling.
A mental health services provider for Addison County raised its pay rate for employees on April 4. In an effort to make wages more competitive with other jobs in the community, Counseling Services of Addison County (CSAC) increased its wages to $17 per hour for direct entry staff, and between $51,000 ...
Khuram Hussain will leave his current position at Hobart and WIlliam Smith Colleges to serve as Middlebury's next vice president for equity and inclusion starting July 1
The Middlebury College Men’s Rugby Club (MCRC) went 11–3 this spring, falling to Bryant University in the Beast of the East tournament on April 24 while still qualifying for the national tournament. The team competes in the National Collegiate Rugby Small College’s New England Rugby Football Union ...
We returned to printing last September. I sat down to do the math recently, and figured out that during my tenure as the Editor in Chief, I’ve overseen 272 pages across 24 print issues of the paper.
Like many young people today, Katie Concannon ’22 has dealt with her share of climate grief. She has searched for relief in the imagination of different visions of the future. One such experiment was her Tidal Shift Award-winning sculpture, “What We Left Behind,” based on her experiences with ...
For their project titled Building for Belonging, Molly Connover ’22, Masud Lewis ’22, Taylor Lovely ’22, Jaab Veskijkul ’22.5 and Galen von Wodtke ’22.5 worked together with SUSU CommUNITY Farm in Newfane, Vermont this spring to support the farm as it grew, as well as creating a guide to permits ...
When Middlebury announced it would remove Cassarino's benefits next year, former students and advisees organized a campaign to demonstrate their support for her.
In the last race of the day at the 2022 NESCAC Championship meet, a 4x800 relay, Middlebury and Tufts were just points away from each other in the standings. Cassie Kearney ’22, the anchor of the relay, got the baton in third, six seconds behind the runner from Tufts.
As part of the Twilight Project’s “Archives of Anti-Racist Activism” Project, which studies the history of student anti-racist initiatives and manifestations of systemic racism at Middlebury, I looked at The Middlebury Campus’s archives. I found that not only has student advocacy for compensation ...
Following the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, more than 100 Middlebury students rallied on the lawn below Middlebury Chapel on May 5 for a Reproductive Freedom Protest that took place in conjunction with over 20 other colleges across the country.
Timely themes of problematic inheritance and climate change loom large in “How Strange a Season,” a new collection of fiction stories from Visiting Assistant Professor of English & American Literatures Megan Mayhew Bergan. The book, containing seven short stories and a novella, “Indigo Run,” ...
The women’s track and field team has enjoyed a stellar season so far, claiming their first NESCAC title since 2000 and setting numerous school and league records. While there have been many record-setters this spring, one standout group is the 4x100-meter relay quartet of Cady Barns ’22.5, Eva Kaiden ...
The college Director of Health & Wellness, Maddie Hope, has proposed the hiring of a nutritionist at Parton to the administration. We need student allyship to accelerate this demand on the administration’s deemed hierarchical list of priorities, as well as vocalize the demand for more than just ...
A few weeks after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Nadya Tkachenko ’00 traveled to Poland, where she has been working to provide aid to Ukrainian refugees crossing the border.
Every year, the Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Interns work with Director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art Richard Saunders on upcoming exhibitions and study the current collection as well as special upcoming projects. This year’s interns, Ethan Moss ’23 and Niamh Carty ’23 put their interests ...