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.
Rain Ji
Arts & Culture Editor Rain Ji '23 is a managing editor of The Campus. She previously served as an Arts & Culture editor.
She is majoring in International and Global Studies with a concentration in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously, she studied abroad in Amman at the University of Jordan. Outside of academics, she enjoys watching Criminal Minds and skiing.
Opinion
Notes from the Desk: Red or green? I’m not sure
By Rain Ji | April 27, 2023When thinking about how to make classrooms or other settings more accessible to students with color deficiency, try to imagine that colors don’t exist.
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 ...
Arts & Culture
“Freedom Dreaming” imagines an anti-racist Middlebury community
By Rain Ji | November 3, 2022What would an anti-racist Middlebury look like? “Freedom Dreaming,” a staged reading directed by Tara Affolter, associate professor of Education Studies, interrogated ways in which Middlebury could follow a path of anti-racism in classrooms on Oct. 28 and 29 at the Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre. ...
Opinion
Middlebury needs better mental health infrastructure
By Rain Ji | October 13, 2022Content Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide.
News
Scam alerts warn the college about phishing emails
By Rain Ji | October 6, 2022The college has seen an increase in gift card scam emails that mostly target employees, according to Chris Norris, Middlebury’s director of information security, risk and compliance, in his scam alert on Sept. 21. The alert was in response to 28 messages sent the same day from an icloud.com ...
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.
Arts & Culture
YouPower faces Vermont winter without prospect of indoor relocation
By Rain Ji | November 11, 2021If you ever pass by the loading dock of the Freeman International Center (FIC) to catch an 8 a.m. morning class, you might notice a group of students riding stationary bikes. This group is YouPower, Middlebury’s free spin club. As the Vermont winter quickly approaches, the group is desperately looking ...
Arts & Culture
New faculty comment on move to Middlebury, return to in-person teaching
By Rain Ji | October 7, 2021Assistant Professor of Black Studies Viola Huang, teaching African American Activism in Education and Beginning German this semester, missed the new faculty group photo because she arrived at the Middlebury campus only a week before classes started. She moved from Passau, Germany to Vermont after finishing ...
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By Rain Ji | November 21, 2019RAIN JIStudents staged a silent protest during Khalid’s lecture to draw attention to human rights abuses in Palestine.