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College tackles multi-year anti-racism and DEI action plan

By Hannah Bensen, Sophia Mcdermott-Hughes, Abigail Chang, Lily Jones and Roya Touran | May 20, 2021

This Middlebury Campus investigation reports on the progress of the initiatives in the Action Plan with a particular focus on those with a proposed timeline of the 2020-2021 academic year. This project is split into five sections — one for each the Action Plan — and is the product of dozens of interviews ...

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Part 3: Fostering & Restoring Community

By Hannah Bensen | May 19, 2021

The Fostering and Restoring Community section involves strategies that are concerned with creating restorative mechanisms to address harm, facilitating spaces for critical conversations and workshops, creating avenues for dialogue between different stakeholders and providing opportunities to report ...

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Zeitgeist 3.0

By Hannah Bensen | April 29, 2021

The pandemic introduced a new variable to our data this year, one that fundamentally shifted the rhythm of Middlebury students’ existence. While previous Zeitgeist surveys asked students about belonging and how identities coalesce, this year we pondered what tethers Middlebury students together — ...

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Midd administration: Give seniors an acceptable goodbye

By Kayla Lichtman, Hannah Bensen, Tia Pogue and Grace Metzler | April 15, 2021

Dear Middlebury College Administration, This year has been marked by tragedy, sacrifice and loss for the Middlebury community. We seniors are also mourning the loss of the normal, triumphant ending to our time here, which we and our families have anticipated for the last four years. Senior week, baccalaureate ...

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Destruction of Proctor milk machine injures employee

By Hannah Bensen | March 18, 2021

The Department of Public Safety is investigating the incident but has no suspects as of Tuesday afternoon.

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Middlebury professor Akhil Rao wins national dissertation award

By Hannah Bensen | February 15, 2021

“Rao’s work on the economics of using Earth's orbits is pathbreaking and crucial for humanity’s successful exploration of space,” said Middlebury Assistant Professor of Economics Julia Berazneva.

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Campus survey finds split opinions on the fall, widespread Covid-19 violations and mental health struggles

By Benjy Renton and Hannah Bensen | January 23, 2021

Although two-thirds of students said they did not regret their Fall 2020 enrollment decision, 76% of students said their mental health was worse during the fall semester than during a typical semester and nearly two in three students broke Covid-19 health protocols, according to a Campus survey. Other ...

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Benjy Renton ’21 garners national recognition for contact tracing the White House

By Hannah Bensen | October 15, 2020

When President Trump tested positive for Covid-19 on Oct. 2, Benjy Renton ’21 helped construct one of the most comprehensive public dashboards contact-tracing the President. Renton has also become an expert on Covid-19 and higher education, writing weekly reports about the topic.

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Unsure of what to expect, first years grapple with a college experience marred by the pandemic

By Hannah Bensen | September 10, 2020

“Nobody wants to get kicked out of Middlebury, but everyone wants to make friends,” said Ella Bode '24. “We just want to be able to experience as much as possible.”

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Legal, financial and language challenges leave Vermont’s migrant workers especially vulnerable during Covid-19 crisis

By Hannah Bensen | July 14, 2020

In addition to the Covid-19-related difficulties all Vermonters face — such as finding childcare or struggling to pay rent — migrant farmworkers in the state are encountering additional challenges during the pandemic, according to Vermont Director of Racial Equity Xusana Davis. “[Migrant workers] ...