Opinion
A love letter to The Campus, from the executive team
By Abigail Chang, Rain Ji and Tony Sjodin | May 11, 2023Notes from the desk.
Tony Sjodin
Senior News Editor Tony Sjodin ’23 is a managing editor.
He previously served as community council correspondent, senior writer, news editor and senior news editor.
Sjodin is majoring in political science with a focus on international and comparative politics. He previously held internships with the Appalachian Mountain Club's Outdoor Magazine, political campaigns in Massachusetts and Vermont, and the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica's Environmental Hub. Outside of class, he leads kayaking and hiking trips with the Middlebury Mountain Club.
Opinion
Response to the Letter to the Editor
By Abigail Chang, Rain Ji, Tony Sjodin and Lily Laesch | April 27, 2023Last Thursday, we published what we expected to be one of our least controversial editorials of the semester: another opinion piece centered around work-life balance and managing the pressures of Middlebury’s busyness culture. We’ve opined on this topic before without inciting outrage — so we ...
Opinion
Notes from the Desk: How The Campus is approaching ChatGPT
By Abigail Chang, Rain Ji and Tony Sjodin | March 9, 2023This week we examined how faculty, staff and students are navigating the introduction of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot created by OpenAI and released to the public in November. The Campus also editorialized on campus policies surrounding the chatbot, but we’ve also been having conversations about our own ...
News
Middlebury meets ChatGPT: Faculty, students navigate what AI means for learning
By Tony Sjodin | March 9, 2023ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool trained on text data and human reinforcement, can generate conversational responses to a range of requests like this. It can answer essay-like questions about historical events, suggest solutions to coding problems or draft a reply to an email. Released to the ...
Local
Vermont elects Welch, Balint while vote tallying continues for key national races
By Tony Sjodin | November 10, 2022Vermont elected Democrat Peter Welch to the Senate with 66.8% of the vote and Democrat Becca Balint to the House of Representatives with 60.1% of the vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8. Vermont also re-elected Republican Governor Phil Scott, defeating Democrat Brenda Siegel, with approximately 68.9% ...
Opinion
Notes from the Desk: Pitching The Campus
By Abigail Chang, Rain Ji and Tony Sjodin | September 15, 2022We’re writing to you as the new executive team of The Campus, Middlebury’s only student-run newspaper.
News
Student facing four charges, including hate motivated crime, following reported assault
By Tony Sjodin | April 27, 2022This is a developing story. Continue to check back for updates.
News
Middlebury suspends School Abroad in India until at least 2024
By Tony Sjodin | March 17, 2022St. Stephen’s College — the only Middlebury partner in India that accepts men — informed Middlebury in February that it would not accept any students from the college for the 2022–23 academic year, prompting the program-wide suspension.
News
Staff Council survey highlights staff concerns in Vermont and Monterey
By Tony Sjodin | March 3, 2022The Middlebury Staff Council conducted a survey in September 2021 asking staff at the college and Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey about working conditions across the institution. Fifty-four percent of eligible employees responded to the survey.
News
A look inside Middlebury’s activist culture
By Tony Sjodin | May 13, 2021Activists at Middlebury have spent the last year creating mutual aid networks, educating peers about anti-racism and fighting for a myriad of reforms both on-campus and from their homes across the country. While the pandemic limited in-person events, organizers saw their work become more urgent than ...