Khuram Hussain, vice president of equity and inclusion and professor of Education Studies, announced in early March that he will step down from his current administrative role on June 30 and return to the classroom as a full-time faculty member in the fall.
Men’s baseball splits opening NESCAC series against Amherst
By Theodore Maniatis | April 3, 2025Latest stories
Good things come in fours: Isidore String Quartet makes a captivating debut on campus
By Yuhan Zhang | April 3, 2025The Isidore String Quartet made a memorable debut at Mahaney Arts Center’s Olin C. Robison Concert Hall on March 28. The ensemble, comprising violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon, presented a program with works by Mozart, Billy Childs and Beethoven. ...
Black Student Union launches campaign to reclaim Adirondack House
By Norah Khan | April 3, 2025Last month, the organizations Black Student Union (BSU) and Black Students Heard (BSH) launched a public initiative to reclaim the Adirondack House (ADK) as an affinity space for Black students, citing historical promises by the college and what they see as an urgent need for community building at Middlebury. ...
Middlebury may be next on Trump’s chopping block. What now?
By The Editorial Board | April 3, 2025Since our last editorial on the topic of the Trump administration and its impact on Middlebury College, the onslaught against higher education has continued. One of the most concerning actions has been the withdrawal of federal funding from several colleges and universities under the rationale of open ...
Local school districts express concern over funding cuts to Department of Education
By Violet Wexler | April 3, 2025Recent cuts to the Department of Education by the Trump administration have shaken local school districts across the country, reaching Addison County schools that have faced declining student enrollment and currently rely on federal funding for a variety of purposes. Superintendents of local school ...
Hannah Smith Allen goes “Beyond Walls” to uncover American landscapes and political systems
By Maya Alexander | April 3, 2025Hannah Smith Allen’s photography exhibition “Beyond Walls” opened on Tuesday, March 11 with a lecture and opening reception in Johnson Memorial Building. The exhibition — which will run until April 5 — includes works made during President Donald Trump’s first term as a method of interpreting, ...
Why the solidarity group “Migrant Justice at Midd” matters
By Charlotte Roberts | April 3, 2025If you walked into Proctor or Ross dining hall on Thursday for lunch last week, you probably saw a couple students tabling outside to promote the Migrant Justice Milk with Dignity campaign. On that day, around 80 Middlebury students called Hannaford Supermarket to demand the grocery store chain join ...
State Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks land and timber rights on Snake Mountain
By Langan Garrett | April 3, 2025In a move to consolidate land and timber rights, the Vermont State Department of Fish and Wildlife has sought to acquire a large parcel of land on Snake Mountain to open for public use and recreational purposes. Snake Mountain Wildlife Management Area currently spans the mountain ridge along the town ...
Cole’s Flowers continues to bloom after nearly 90 years
By Noor Khan | April 3, 2025As real Vermonters know all too well, spring comes in two waves: First, “false spring,” tempting those who don’t know better than to put their winter clothes back in storage. But then — as we were reminded this past weekend — a few inches of snow extinguishes those hopes. During this waiting ...
Journalist Peter Beinart reflects on Jewish identity in light on Israel-Gaza conflict
By Sam Lueke | April 3, 2025Middlebury College hosted a talk with prominent journalist and City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Peter Beinart titled “Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza” on Tuesday, March 25. Sponsored by a dozen departments in the college, the event in Wilson Hall was attended by around 130 ...
Spoiler alert: The Language Pledge is not what improved my French during my semester abroad
By Maya Alexander | April 3, 2025I’m shocked when I hear accounts of other American undergraduate students' time abroad, learning nothing more than how to say “merci” while in Paris. As I wrapped up my semester abroad this past December in Bordeaux, France, I could safely say that my French improved exponentially and that there ...
Colinnections 04/03/2025
By Colin Bourque | April 3, 2025Play Colinnections by Colin Bourque!
Women’s hockey falls to Amherst in frozen four rematch
By Kanan Clifford | April 3, 2025As the dwindling rays of sun illuminated Middlebury College’s campus on Friday, March 29, the women’s hockey team was locked in a tight one-goal Frozen Four battle against Amherst — this time in distant River Falls, Wis. Middlebury women's hockey fans who watched the game from afar (many of thom ...
Middlebury Community Music Center expresses shareability of music
By Madinah Rosen | April 3, 2025To celebrate its students’ broad range of instrumental and vocal talent, the Middlebury Community Music Center (MCMC) hosted Bloom and Grow, a pay-what-you-can benefit concert, on Friday, March 28. Proceeds from the concert supported the non-profit’s student scholarship fund, improving accessibility ...
Crossword 04/03/2025: The Big Dance Solution
By Egan Turner | April 3, 2025Crossword 04/03/2025: The Big Dance Solution!
Seven Questions with Macy Daggitt ’25, women’s track and field
By Jack Mcguire | April 3, 2025In this edition of Seven Questions, Macy Daggitt ’25 spoke with The Campus about her track and field career, her recovery from an ACL injury her sophomore year and her experience with the team at Middlebury.
After seven years, why Zeitgeist?
By Ryan Mcelroy | April 3, 2025The Campus just launched its annual student survey on Monday, March 31, marking the seventh time we have asked Middlebury students to answer dozens of questions about academics, sex and love, social life, politics and other topics. Last year we received completed responses from over 1,200 students; ...
Students and faculty debate the merits of A.I. in classrooms
By Sammy Rosin | April 3, 2025Middlebury does not currently have an institutional policy dictating how artificial intelligence (A.I.) should be used in the classroom, which leaves the decision up to individual professors. In an attempt to encourage intentional A.I. use in academic instruction, the Center for Teaching, Learning, ...
Crossword 04/03/2025: The Big Dance
By Egan Turner | April 3, 2025Crossword 04/03/2025: The Big Dance!
Construction company contracted by Middlebury College addresses worker safety violations
By Ryan Mcelroy | March 13, 2025Following allegations of dangerous housing and job site conditions for its workers, the Vermont Construction Company signed a preliminary agreement with labor rights nonprofit Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council in January to work toward new safety standards. The company has previously worked ...
Muslim students celebrate Ramadan on campus
By Ella Callahan | March 13, 2025With the start of Ramadan — a holy month in Islam that celebrates the gift of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammed — on Feb. 28, many Middlebury students and community members have begun to fast from sunrise to sunset each day, breaking their abstinence from food each day in the evening. Around ...