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Arts & Culture

“Dopamine”: Where pleasure meets perception

By Ellie Trinkle | April 10, 2025

John McShea ’25 debuted his visual art collection “Dopamine” to an intimate crowd of friends and supporters on April 4. The paintings are complex explorations into how different sources of pleasure affect personal memory and nostalgia. 

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Sports

Panthers on the prowl: Men’s track & field builds momentum for a NESCAC championship win

By Ting Cui | April 10, 2025

The Middlebury men's track and field team has been rewriting the record books this season, and the whispers around the NESCAC are growing louder — the Panthers might just be on the verge of claiming their first conference championship in six years.

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Opinion

What Middlebury’s budget cuts really mean for the faculty and staff who clean up after you

By Lily Buren | April 10, 2025

When I worked for Middlebury’s Office of Advancement, I routinely ended alumni donation calls with: “As a student on financial aid, I thank you for your donation — it really helps to make the Middlebury experience possible for students like me.” But those calls made me think: Who else makes ...

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News

TEDxMiddlebury speakers “Test the Waters”

By Sarah Li | April 10, 2025

TEDxMiddlebury returned to the Mahaney Arts Center Concert Hall last Saturday, April 5 with a series of thought-provoking talks guided by this year’s theme: “Testing the Waters.” The event featured five speakers whose stories explored personal identity, creative reinvention, language, leadership ...

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News

College distributes information about potential for ICE agents on campus

By Maggie Bryan, Julia Roth and Rosella Graham | April 10, 2025

The recent detention of over a dozen international students on college campuses across the country has raised concerns among students, faculty and staff about the potential appearance of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on campus. Following these high-profile detention cases, on ...

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Sports

Men’s golf falters in first spring tournament

By Kanan Clifford | April 10, 2025

 In 2015, Spiethsanity rocked the golf world. As the 21-year-old golf prodigy Jordan Spieth won two major championships and five tournaments overall, fans and players alike marveled at the PGA Tour Player of the Year. Middlebury men’s golf had their own Spieth-like run in the 2022–23 season, ...

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Arts & Culture

Crossword 04/10/25: Seder Time Solution

By Josh Harkins | April 10, 2025

Crossword Seder Time solution!

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Opinion

Middlebury panics as Trump rolls the dice on tariffs

By Joe Gerebi | April 10, 2025

If you’re anything like me, you’ve watched what little you have invested in the stock market shrink dramatically over the past week. Turmoil has rocked U.S. markets as President Trump rolled out a sweeping set of tariffs — most notably the “Liberation Day” tariffs announced on April 2. The ...

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News

Scott Lecture Series highlights rise of Christian nationalism in U.S.

By Evan Weiss | April 10, 2025

This April, Middlebury’s Department of Religion is hosting a four-part lecture series on Christian nationalism, bringing journalists, Christian ethicists and scholars of religion to campus. The first two lectures focused on the implications of this movement for American democracy and how social media ...

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Local

‘Hands Off!’: Vermonters demonstrate against Trump administration in Vergennes

By Noor Khan | April 10, 2025

On Saturday, April 5, an estimated 400 people gathered in downtown Vergennes along Main Street outside City Park as part of the approximately 1,300 nationwide Hands Off! protests against the Trump administration. Beginning around noon, the protest lasted roughly two hours through wind and rain. At its ...

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Sports

The Side Hustle: student-led women’s ultimate frisbee team builds national dynasty

By Theo Maniatis | April 10, 2025

The sport of frisbee can be traced back to Middlebury College students in the fall of 1939. The story goes that a group of brothers from Delta Upsilon — Middlebury still had fraternities at this time — were traveling to a fraternity convention in Nebraska, devouring Frisbie Fruit Pies in the car. ...

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Arts & Culture

Crossword 04/10/25: Seder Time

By Josh Harkins | April 10, 2025

Crossword Seder Time!

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Local

Bristol moves forward with new skatepark project

By Ariella Frommer | April 10, 2025

After 25 years of local skaters practicing their flips and kicks turns in a skatepark with simple wooden and metal features, the town of Bristol, Vt. is fundraising to start construction on a new and improved 12,000-square-foot concrete skatepark.

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Opinion

Why Middlebury should care about the Red Cross in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Alem Hadzic | April 10, 2025

When I arrived at Middlebury College in the fall of 2022, I never thought that I would run a half marathon, organize a fundraising soccer tournament or raise over $3,500 in just three weeks for a humanitarian organization that is over 4,000 miles away. However, that is exactly what I am doing because ...

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News

Federal scrutiny over antisemitism complaints renewed at Middlebury

By Izzy Ronda | April 10, 2025

Middlebury College was one of 60 colleges and universities that received a letter from the Trump administration on Monday, March 10 informing the school that prior allegations of antisemitism on campus would be reinvestigated. The renewed scrutiny on the institution’s treatment of Jewish students ...

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News

Future of DEI office left uncertain after college reorganization, vice president’s resignation

By Hugo Zhang | April 3, 2025

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. 

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Arts & Culture

Makes Ya Feel: March movie madness

By Ellie Trinkle | April 3, 2025

Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel! 

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News

So-Full Sisters food truck offers new dining option as Bihall kiosk closes

By Phoebe An | April 3, 2025

Students returned from spring break to a new dining option officially available on campus: a food truck operated by So-Full Sisters will now be parked outside BiHall and the Freeman International Center every weekday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting Monday, March 24. The email announcing the food truck’s ...

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Arts & Culture

Reel Critic: “Pelikan Blue” is a masterpiece of post-Iron Curtain freedom, forgery and hope

By Wendy Wang | April 3, 2025

The first full-length animated Hungarian documentary “Pelikan Blue” directed by László Csáki greeted an eager audience of town members and students in a packed Dana Auditorium on March 27. The film shares its name with a type of ink, Pelikan Blue, which plays a critical role in the plot due to ...

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News

Anticipated cuts to Fulbright programs prompt concern in Middlebury community

By Madeleine Kaptein | April 3, 2025

Middlebury has been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for the 15th consecutive year, with nine alumni teaching, researching and interning abroad on a Fulbright scholarship for the 2024–25 academic year. These Fulbright recipients have experienced recent uncertainty over their funding following ...