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The Middlebury Campus is not only embedded into the fabric of the school but also the local community. With 121 years of institutional knowledge, The Campus operates as an archival time capsule, preserving history and time through the written word. Over the years, the paper has crafted a rich legacy ...
On Sept. 19, Middlebury residents and community leaders gathered at Town Hall Theater for a conversation surrounding the key issues shaping Vermont and the United States prior to the upcoming midterm elections this November. Over the course of the hour and a half long discussion between State Senator ...
On Sept. 1, students received an email from President Ian Baucom announcing two new initiatives: Midd Saturdays and Midd@Night. Both programs aim to provide a variety of new activities for students and staff alike. Midd Saturdays hosts events, per its name, every Saturday, and Midd@Night will take place ...
It should be standard practice for professors to notify students of their final assessment grades without having to be asked. Students often submit final essays, projects and exams and are left to estimate their performance based on how their known, prior course grades fit in with the letter stamped ...
The Middlebury Women’s Soccer team wrapped up an eventful weekend against two strong opponents, the Amherst Mammoths on Saturday and the Hamilton Continentals on Sunday. A robust win against the Mammoths allowed the team to carry momentum into their following match, ultimately walking away with a ...
It was a windy day when a friend and I joined a voice call to play Life is Strange. As we drifted into the deep end of the story, nothing remained on either end of the line save for a long, heavy silence and the quiet sound of us both weeping. Stepping into this world for the first time, I never imagined ...
VERGENNES — On Friday, Sept. 18, Addison Housing Works (AHW) hosted its fifth Neighborhood Block Party at American Legion Post #14 in Vergennes. From 4 to 7 p.m., the event offered live music, food and drink, a silent auction and, most importantly, community building. With sponsorships from multiple ...
One of the earliest lessons I learned about relationships is that if you want to know someone’s true intentions, you should pay attention to their actions, not just their words. In 2026, the truth can feel as slippery as an eel, obscured beneath a perfectly polished exterior or lost in the confusion ...
In Aug. 2026, the college contracted the Thatcher Group — a historic preservation group — to renovate and restore Painter House. The renovations aim to preserve the unique and tailored interior and to transform administrative offices into distinctly new spaces which include curated living rooms, ...
On Aug. 22, the Trump administration imposed a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, prompting reciprocal tariffs from the Canadian government and leaving Vermont caught in the crossfire of an unprecedented trade war between the two nations. Since Vermont borders Canada, the state’s economy ...
While conversation about the enemies-to-lovers hockey series, “Heated Rivalry”, has undoubtedly cooled off, SPECS Panther is here to look at what it gets right about healthy relationships, communication and consent in contemporary media.
Todd Phelps recalls driving all the way to the town square to get to Middlebury Union High School (MUHS) from Middlebury College. “No matter what you did, you had to go through town,” Phelps, Middlebury native and the college’s new athletic director, reflected in an interview with The Middlebury ...
In line with the new school year, Middlebury dining services have rolled out a suite of upgrades to the online menu service, Nutrislice. Key changes include granular nutritional information for food offerings, the ability to filter meals by allergens or specific dietary restrictions and meal schedules ...
Molly Johnsen MA ’14 and Haley Hutchinson ’24 first met through their shared publisher, Green Mountain Press, and it is a good thing they did. Both are Middlebury alumni; Johnsen graduated from Bread Loaf in 2014 and Hutchinson from Middlebury in 2024. They entered the Abernethy Room for a reading ...
Matt Johnson is not tight-lipped about his approach to filmmaking. Discussing his 2023 film on the creation of the revolutionary mobile device, “BlackBerry,” the director stated, “I can only speak for my own experience, I think that it’s all the same. I look at ‘BlackBerry,’ and I look at ...
Every fall, first years arrive a little earlier than everyone else for orientation week. They wander around campus in their oversized orientation groups and complain there’s too much programming — like many students before them. Even though it’s an annual tradition, some aspects of the experience ...
Claudia Rankine, known for genre-defying work that blends free-form prose, critique, essay writing and art, published her newest work “Triage” in Aug. 2026. She is an expert at beading forms, which I first discovered in 2022, when I read “Citizen: An American Lyric”, the most successful of Rankine's ...
Following a faculty decision, Language Tables will shift its structure for this fall semester. In an Aug. 13 statement online, the program announced that student waiters will no longer be a part of the program. Instead, there will be a “buffet style” meal set up for students, much like how the dining ...
As an international student and a passionate traveler, I have moved a lot— packing up, settling somewhere new, then doing it all over again after a few months. But after a while, I noticed my mental picture of any city usually boils down to the same few things: a couple of go-to restaurants, traffic ...
On May 15, Middlebury’s general counsel, Hannah Ross, signed a Resolution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR), agreeing to remove or relabel 10 women’s scholarships, including BOLD, a scholarship for women in STEM, a scholarship for Japanese University ...
From Aug. 26-30, the 12th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) took place across various venues throughout Middlebury, filling the town with creative energy and vivacity. Since its founding in 2015, the festival has become a hallmark event for aspiring filmmakers, whose films take center ...
