MiddView leaders paid $300 stipend for orientation work
By Katie Futterman | September 15, 2022Middlebury orientation leaders, or “MiddView” leaders, are being paid a stipend of $300 this year for their work leading orientation for new students.
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Mixed reviews: Human Resources unveils new ‘skill matrix’ for staff compensation
By Maggie Reynolds | September 15, 2022Cindie Webb has been employed by the college as a custodian for over eleven years. Webb spent the 2021–22 academic year cleaning all of HMKL — Hadley, Milliken, Kelly and Lang Hall — a job meant for five custodians. Webb and a colleague bore the impacts of understaffing, covering all 49 public ...
We need tangible, intentional solutions to housing
By The Editorial Board | September 15, 2022As a residential college in which 95% of students supposedly live on campus, Middlebury states that their “residential system embodies that culture of living, learning, and growing together.” The close-knit, intimate housing community on campus is widely touted as one of the hallmarks of student ...
College continues to use Inn on the Green as student housing for second year in a row
By Ryan Mcelroy | September 15, 2022Middlebury continues to house students off campus at the Inn on the Green for the fall 2022 semester — despite a decrease in overall student enrollment compared to last year — due to insufficient housing on campus.
Notes from the Desk: Pitching The Campus
By Abigail Chang, Rain Ji and Tony Sjodin | September 15, 2022We’re writing to you as the new executive team of The Campus, Middlebury’s only student-run newspaper.
The Performing Arts Series at Middlebury: The Fall Rundown
By Eliza King Freedman | September 15, 2022Each year, the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) hosts internationally-acclaimed performances every couple of weeks — and this year they range from healing sound baths to world-renowned classical musicians. Of the many weekly activities at Middlebury, the arts offerings, and the “long” walk to the MAC, ...
What an evolving sense of institutional memory means for future MiddKids
By Editorial Board | May 13, 2022In 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.
Frisbee Dog statue reinstalled outside of Forest Hall facing Battell Beach
By Maggie Reynolds | May 12, 2022A bronze statue celebrating a sport that supposedly began at Middlebury was reinstalled this past week outside of Forest Hall.
Rising juniors face limited and uncertain housing options
By Charlie Keohane | May 12, 2022With the conclusion of a stressful housing draw, many juniors are left without housing for the fall semester and await the August draw process.
Baseball advances to NESCAC semifinals after intense three-game series against Tufts
By Ryan Heinzerling | May 12, 2022Middlebury 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. ...
Radio Roundup: Songs I found in my mom’s closet
By Wrmc Exec And Djs | May 12, 2022Perhaps 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.
Counseling Services of Addison County raises pay for direct entry staff, clinicians
By Maggie Reynolds | May 12, 2022A 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 appointed new vice president for equity and inclusion
By Amanda Manoogian | May 12, 2022Khuram 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
Men’s rugby reflects on a successful season, looks forward to 50th year on campus
By Ben Wagner | May 12, 2022The 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 ...
Notes from the Desk: 272 Pages
By Riley Board | May 12, 2022We 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.
Katie Concannon’s award-winning sculpture translates climate grief into art
By Emily Thompson | May 12, 2022Like 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 ...
Environmental studies students collaborate with Newfane farm for spring practicum: ES 0401 Class Group worked with SUSU CommUNITY Farm
By Julia Pepper | May 12, 2022For 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 ...
Students organize for extension of visiting professor's contract
By Lauren Thompson | May 12, 2022When Middlebury announced it would remove Cassarino's benefits next year, former students and advisees organized a campaign to demonstrate their support for her.
Cassie Kearney ’22 records three wins, two records at women’s track NESCAC Championship
By Riley Board | May 12, 2022In 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.
Involuntary Unpaid Labor is Unfair Labor
By Mia Pangasnan | May 12, 2022As 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 ...