While the Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life and religious student organizations have shifted much of their programming online this year, spiritual leaders are still working to foster community via Zoom and small gatherings.
With Covid-19 restrictions on travel and in-person gatherings, several student organizations have significantly altered their programming and seen changes to their active membership as a result.
Gov. Scott’s announcement contradicted information from the college, and comes after many students have already been fully or partially vaccinated in the state
The college also hopes to offer vaccinations to students and employees this spring, according to an email update sent earlier today.
With everything online, departments have been able to invite speakers they normally would not be able to afford, the resources of C.V. Starr Schools Abroad and Middlebury Institute in Monterey (MIIS) have been opened up to more students and professors have been able to better maintain channels of communication ...
Update — Wednesday, May 5 Despite initial projections, MiddCourses is still down. The Campus has not been able to confirm a new estimated date for the return of the site. —— Students who rely heavily on MiddCourses — the site that allows students to anonymously review their professors ...
Last fall, go/snitch, the website shortcut for Middlebury’s Covid-19 violation reporting page, was ubiquitous on campus. The college sunsetted the page for the spring semester, citing the “unhealthy atmosphere” of surveillance and anxiety it had created among students.
The Department of Public Safety is investigating the incident but has no suspects as of Tuesday afternoon.
After running fully virtual programs last summer, in-person instruction will resume for the Abenaki, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish schools.
Around 650 students visited the Snow Bowl on the Saturday after the college announced the program.
The Marriage Pact — a project originally launched out of a Stanford economics class in 2017 — consists of an algorithm that uses a 50-question survey designed to find each participant’s optimal romantic — or platonic — match.
Professor John Tomasi of Brown University and Professor Pablo Gilabert of Concordia University presented their sides of the argument and took questions from students during the event.
Many students became aware of the go/palestine, go/palestinian and go/sjp links after SJP Co-President Kamli Faour posted a screenshot of a statement to SJP members on her Instagram story on Saturday.
An anonymous person joined several student organizations’ Zoom rooms, disrupting meetings with comments that ranged from mild annoyances to transphobia.
Though his expected family contribution — the portion of tuition and fees that a student’s family is required to pay — was reduced after he provided documentation of additional household expenses, the student is still looking for ways to cover the nearly $15,000 his father refused to pay.
Much like the first years who arrived in the fall, the usual orientation experience was replaced by a room quarantine, online floor meetings and socially distanced gatherings. Plans for gap semesters were uprooted; for many students, this semester is their first time venturing from home since the onset ...
“Ultimately, our end goal is that in each of the workshops, people are able to leave with one thing, and take one step further in their own learning,” JusTalks program coordinator Jasmin Animas-Tapia ’21 said. “We hope that these conversations can be part of someone’s own learning and actions, ...
Though the national vaccine rollout is still in its early stages, some Middlebury students have already received their jabs because they work with high-risk individuals.
As traditional academics have been disturbed by the pandemic, some professors are using this opportunity to adopt unconventional grading systems in their courses.
First-year Feb Isabeau Trimble ’24.5 returned to their room on Tuesday morning to find the contents of the whiteboard on their door edited to display a homophobic slur. A resident of Forest Hall, Trimble had originally written “FAQ” on the board followed by a few personal fun facts. On Tuesday, ...