Employees endorse remote fall for safety
By THE AAUP WORKING CONDITIONS SUBCOMMITTEE
June 19, 2020
We know and appreciate that the administration has worked tirelessly to assess various situations and balance many factors, both known and unknown. However, we believe that bringing back a significant number of students to campus risks a devastating health crisis, and thus there is only one path forward that prioritizes the health of our community as well as the long-term financial status of the college.
Notes from the desk: In favor of a less outrageous, more authentic online presence
By LILY LAESCH
May 7, 2020
"The human experience was never meant to be replicated digitally."
Facing the Covid-19 crisis
By THE COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
May 7, 2020
"While the economic crisis is a reality out of our control, our reaction to it and its outcomes are not."
Now that FOMO’s gone, here’s what we’re missing
April 30, 2020
If nothing else, lockdown has shown us is that no one really has it all figured out.
Notes from the desk: A return to “Street Haunting”
April 27, 2020
"Nine decades before I’d heard the term 'coronavirus,' Woolf anticipated not only the necessity of escaping, but the literal and figurative refuge found by returning."
Notes from the desk: On a world without sports
April 16, 2020
Our senior sports editor writes about a world without sports.
We are in a global crisis, with or without Covid-19
By HANNAH LAGA ABRAM, SOPHIE CHALFIN-JACOBS, CLAIRE CONTRERAS, DIVYA GUDUR, JADEN HILL, and ASA SKINDER
April 9, 2020
"The economic restructuring and dramatic lifestyle changes we have seen in the past weeks prove the kind of large-scale action needed to address climate change has been possible this whole time."
Notes from the desk: Having a parent on the frontlines
By LILY LAESCH
April 2, 2020
"My mom stays at work for you, miles and hours away from her loved ones. Please, please stay at home for her."
In praise of a humbler, more human Middlebury
April 2, 2020
Not many would characterize Middlebury’s student-administration relationship as “simple.” Mere weeks ago, the college faced intense, sustained outcry from students protesting Charles Murray’s third controversial invitation to speak on campus. On Murray and other issues, students have critiqued...
What happens now that we’re all in long-distance friendships?
March 24, 2020
Genevieve Herron '23 proposes a solution to the difficulty of long-distance friendships: letter writing.
Online dating in the era of Covid-19
By SEX PANTHER
March 22, 2020
Our Sex Panther has compiled all the best coronavirus references from the dating apps she's been scanning while sheltering in place at home.
Please don’t take a vacation in the middle of a global pandemic
By JAKE GAUGHAN
March 21, 2020
"Right now, your decisions as a traveler, as a tourist, are bound to have unintended consequences."
