Managing Editor Lucy Townend '22 is a Managing Editor alongside Abigail Chang.
She previously served as a senior section editor, a local editor, and a copy editor.
Townend is majoring in International Politics and Economics, studying French throughout her years at Middlebury and is planning on completing a thesis focused on income inequality and regime change.
This previous summer, Townend interned as a private banking analyst at a mid-sized bank in Chicago and plans to continue her work there after graduation.
In the past two years, we’ve gone through a period of both collective, mass-scale loss but also individual experiences of grief. Yes, we’re “all in this together” — but we’ve also all encountered vastly different versions of the pandemic, from the initial quarantine to the return to school ...
In January 2019, we published our first staff issue. It detailed the impact of workforce planning — a concerted administrative effort to reduce employee compensation costs by 10% — on the staff of the college. Three years (and one global pandemic) later, we again find ourselves inamidst a critical ...
The college has decided to delay the start of J-Term from Jan. 6 to Jan. 10 in order to give staff and faculty adequate time to prepare for the arrival of students. This change is related to the recent surge in Covid-19 cases due to the Omicron variant.
Dear Vice President for Student Affairs Smita Ruzicka, Vice President for Administration and Chief Risk Officer Mike Thomas and Public Safety Director Dimitria Kirby,
Middlebury’s Mead Memorial Chapel, named for John Mead, a Vermont governor and member of the class of 1864, lost the name Mead this morning in acknowledgement of its namesake’s role in promoting eugenics in Vermont during the early 1900s. The piece of stone bearing the chapel’s name was removed ...
It’s been 553 days since we last printed an issue of our newspaper. It’s been 555 days since we were told that we were being sent home from campus due to the pandemic; it’s been 555 days since we gathered in our basement office to work on publishing an issue that looked very different than it ...
Monument Farms Dairy has undergone years of change since becoming the college’s leading dairy provider in the 1950s. While this year was more tumultuous than most, the farm handled its challenges as it typically does: with a vigorous commitment to quality milk, family-style. Monument was started ...
MiddKids have long been known for swinging their Nalgene bottles, sporting Patagonia and engaging with the outdoors — all characteristic of what is considered “crunchy.” And while this outdoors- and environment-centric culture permeates campus life, many also find it to be exclusive and inaccessible. “At ...
The Rotary Club of Middlebury donated $10,000 this spring to Kickstart Middlebury, a program that will offer start-up cash and other support to new businesses looking to occupy storefronts in downtown Middlebury. “One of the reasons why we were so excited to support Kickstart Middlebury is that ...
Many students have found their vaccination appointments canceled after Vermont paused the administering of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines through April 23. The decision follows a CDC and FDA recommendation to halt use of the vaccine until a rare blood clotting condition — found in six out ...
Lucy TownendJon Rooney (right) and Dan James (left) are part of a third and fourth generation of a family of dairy farmers that have run Monument since the 1930s.
Lucy TownendChief Stevens hopes to continue to work with Middlebury College to allow members of the Abenaki Nation to access the college’s land.
Lucy TownendMister Up's, located on Bakery Lane under the Cross Street Bridge, runs entirely on solar power.
Lucy TownendSome student excursions before Covid-19 took students across state borders into the Adirondack Mountains of New York state.
Lucy TownendThe second stimulus package, passed in December of 2020, contained over $900 billion in pandemic relief.
Lucy TownendPorter Hospital is in the process of creating a permanent display in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in one of the center’s main vestibules as part of their DEI initiative.
Migrant Justice members and supporters rally outside Hannaford Supermarket to call for the store’s participation in Milk with Dignity and advocate for farmworkers’ rights.
Lucy TownendAs of March 4, students were allowed to shop for groceries and pick-up takeout from businesses in town.
Lucy TownendCurrently, Vermont has only five cannabis dispensaries, all of which only offer products to consumers with a state-issued card for medical marijuana use.
