Middlebury’s climbing community returned this fall to find a brand-new wall towering over the indoor tennis courts in Nelson Recreation Center, complete with shiny holds, flat panels, and fresh, cushy mats. The first thing wall veterans noticed was what was missing: the cave. The steep and storied ...
Early scientific models that describe how the body functions and responds to different sensations during sex, such as Masters and Johnson’s sexual response cycle and Helen Singer Kaplan’s triphasic model, viewed sex as a linear, sequential experience that began with excitement and desire and ...
Last week, the Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB) and Middlebury’s FLŌRA Cannabis agreed on a settlement of the lawsuit filed last December by Dave Silberman, owner of FLŌRA. The lawsuit alleged that the CCB violated free speech rights by restricting cannabis advertisements. The settlement does ...
On Sept. 18–19, students, faculty, scholars and community members gathered for “AI Unboxed: Moving Beyond Hype and Fear” to explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Symposium offered 11 events over two days, spanning topics including climate change, higher education, computer science, ...
Recently, the Trump administration has proposed a rule to limit the duration of F-1 student visas to four years, irrespective of the length of academic programs. This is an urgent call for all academic institutions to support their international students. We must reaffirm our commitment to them by urging ...
Four months after the release of “Rat Saw God”, their “lightning bolt of a fifth album” as described by Pitchfork Magazine, alternative-rock band Wednesday released a mini documentary called “Rat Bastards of Haw Creek.” Shot by filmmaker and friend of the band Zach Romeo, the documentary ...
In February 2024, I wrote an op-ed for The Campus titled ‘I’m forgetting my mother tongue.’ Within one day of publishing, I was contacted by over 30 students who grew up and live outside of the regions where their mother tongue is spoken. Together, we mourned the loss of our linguistic heritage. ...
“You are a writer. Don’t tell your parents that.” My English advisor, Professor Robert Cohen, told me these words as I sat in his office, talking about my recent turn towards Buddhist thought and how I’ve unclouded my judgment of the outside world over the summer.
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When the Center for Health and Wellness (CHW) recently announced the termination of the MiddSafe Hotline and Mental Health Peer Educators (MPHE) program, it cited a lack of student use as the reason. They pointed to the increase in mental health resources in the CHW as having supplemented the need for ...
In a Sept. 5 email, Associate Vice President for Safety Demitria Kirby and Dean of Students Joe Russell reminded students that parking on campus is “a privilege, not a right,” listing the college’s escalating accountability pathway to crack down on parking violations this year.
At Beijing Capital Normal University, where I took my semester abroad this past spring, I enrolled in Classical Chinese. There, I developed confidence and an interest in reading simple classical Chinese. I also became more familiar with major schools of thought in the Pre-Qin period of ancient China, ...
Judith Butler is famous for writing that gender is a performance. What the renowned gender studies scholar did not write, though, is that gender can be more than a performance; it can also be a competition.
Buy Again Alley, a nonprofit thrift store located in downtown Middlebury, has lost their lease after six years based at 60 Main Street. The owners of the building, who gave the business only 30 days notice before requiring it to vacate the building, intend to open an antique shop there in the coming ...
Foliage radiating across the mountains beyond the soccer pitch, large swaths of the football team squeezed into the film room, and packs of cross-country runners circling the glass fields into dusk are a few of the familiar fall sports sights at Middlebury. Yet none of these are as attention-grabbing, ...
As the Armstrong Science Library in BiHall closed last fall, the Quantitative Center (Q-Center) was implemented in its former space, welcoming STEM students to a collaborative study spot. Meanwhile, the project of relocating Armstrong’s collections presented difficulties for librarians, a challenge ...
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This past Saturday, Sept. 20, the Town of Middlebury hosted the Tour de Farms, an annual biking fundraiser for the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN), a non-profit that promotes the healthy growth of food and agriculture in the Champlain Valley.
When I last wrote an op-ed about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, submissions created with the technology had sneakily won several art and photography contests. Now, it is consistently deceiving hundreds of thousands of internet users every day. Its content creation capabilities have improved so ...
The Middlebury women’s soccer team fought to a hard-earned 0-0 draw against Amherst this past Saturday, Sept. 20, shutting down one of the NESCAC’s most potent attacks. Amherst peppered the goal, but the Panthers’ back line, anchored by a standout performance from senior goalkeeper and captain, ...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, persistent staffing shortages have strained Middlebury’s dining team. On Aug. 15, to combat recruitment challenges, the college’s Human Resources Office launched a three week targeted pilot referral program, offering a $500 bonus in December to faculty and staff members ...