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What’s Going on in the Orchard?
What’s Going on in the Orchard?
By Lauren Bertinato
The addition of Orchard Houses and Jennings Cottage late last spring garnered much attention due to them having faculty residents at the time as well...
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An Apple a Day: Bennington’s Favorite Commodity
An Apple a Day: Bennington’s Favorite Commodity
By Minerva Kamra
Photo from Bennington.edu Fall brings many things to Bennington campus: yellowing foliage, a herald to summer’s dying blaze with subtle cold snaps, and amongst these...
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Why Have There Been So Many Dead Rabbits on Campus Lately?
Why Have There Been So Many Dead Rabbits on Campus Lately?
By Owen Musser
WARNING: This story contains graphic depictions of dead animals. In the month of September, three dead rabbits have been found on campus paths and roads....
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Bennington College Converts Faculty and Staff Housing into Student Housing
Bennington College Converts Faculty and Staff Housing into Student Housing
By Sebastian Martínez
Photo from Bennington.edu Since its inception, Bennington College has made a home for its students as well as its faculty and staff. The historic colonials...
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Chef Steve Resigns, Questions about the Future of Dining Services Loom Large
Chef Steve Resigns, Questions about the Future of Dining Services Loom Large
By Olivia Morrison and Ruby Haller
Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder for the Bennington Banner “It’s like coming from a broken marriage. It just feels split.” -Anonymous Bennington Dining Employee Steve...
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Jia Tolentino Teaches Master Class in Literary Journalism at Bennington
Jia Tolentino Teaches Master Class in Literary Journalism at Bennington
By Isobel Lola Brown
Photo by Elena Mudd This term, The New Yorker staff writer and author Jia Tolentino is on campus to teach a Master Class in Literature...
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Did You Know That There Was a Literature Open Mic in DownCaf?
Did You Know That There Was a Literature Open Mic in DownCaf?
By Evelyn Hardy
DownCaf hosts the first Literature Evening of the term Photo by Elie Pichanick Last Wednesday night, DownCaf was the place to be. Despite the glooming...
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Field Work Term Office Allocates Incorrect Number of Stipends, Leaving Students without Funding
Field Work Term Office Allocates Incorrect Number of Stipends, Leaving Students without Funding
By Sebastian Martínez
Photo taken from Bennington.edu On October 11th, 2023 the Student Council met with the Bennington College Senior Leadership Team to discuss this year's Field Work...
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Bennington College Sells 10 Acres of Land to the Chair of the Board of Trustees to Build a Million Dollar Home
Bennington College Sells 10 Acres of Land to the Chair of the Board of Trustees to Build a Million Dollar Home
By Isobel Lola Brown
Photo by The Lens Staff Sometime in 2021, Bennington College’s Board Chair Nicholas Stephens quietly purchased 10 acres of land from the school on the...
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Students and Faculty Hold Rally in Support of Unionizing
Students and Faculty Hold Rally in Support of Unionizing
By Toulmin Jahncke
Photo posted by @btoncollegeunited on Instagram On Thursday afternoon, supporters and members of Bennington College United (“BCU”) gathered outside the barn to rally for the...
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Bennington College Hosts Graduate School Panel
Bennington College Hosts Graduate School Panel
By Iris Robert
CAPA On Wednesday October 25th, I attended the Graduate School Panel hosted in the CAPA symposium alongside fellow students across undergraduate term-standing. Among the faculty...
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First Literature Evening of the Term
First Literature Evening of the Term
By Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias
Franklin House hosts Bennington's first literature event back Photo by Gerardo Last Wednesday, as this year’s first event of the weekly Literature Evening series, there...
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Bennington Through Dorothy’s Eyes
Bennington Through Dorothy’s Eyes
By Finbar Labelle
A look inside the history of the alumni house and how Bennington town became so severed from the campus. Land Acknowledgement: The profile piece that...
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Twenty Two Years At Bennington: A Conversation with Marguerite Feitlowitz
Twenty Two Years At Bennington: A Conversation with Marguerite Feitlowitz
By Iris Robert
(edited for clarity and length) Marguerite Feitlowitz, a literature faculty member who has taught at Bennington for twenty-two years, is retiring after the spring 2023...
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Winter Storm Update– Power Outage Causes Classes to Be Canceled
Winter Storm Update– Power Outage Causes Classes to Be Canceled
By Isobel Lola Brown
Photo by Naomi Ciel Schneider Monday, March 13th a winter storm warning was issued for the surrounding Bennington area. The storm went into full effect...
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Fer De Lance V. Fels: The Hunt for the Missing Snake
Fer De Lance V. Fels: The Hunt for the Missing Snake
By Lane Schultz and Lola Mosley-Brown
The aftermath of a Jodel post claiming students in Fels House left a venomous snake inside over Field Work Term. On January 24th, 2023, parents...
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Student Council Proposes Increase to FLoW Field Work Term Stipend
Student Council Proposes Increase to FLoW Field Work Term Stipend
By Nathan Kerr
The new Student Council has delivered its first policy proposal to the president’s desk, which offers research and suggestions regarding an increase to the Field...
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Amid Uncertainties, New Student Council Finds Its Footing
Amid Uncertainties, New Student Council Finds Its Footing
By Nathan Kerr
Commons Building In the CAPA Symposium, most of a dozen students crowd around the center table. There’s a document up on the projector screen, and...
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Weekly Party Review (Halloween Edition!)
Weekly Party Review (Halloween Edition!)
By Anonymous
Happy Halloween, Bennington. To those who don’t celebrate, happy drinking. To those who don’t drink, happy weekend of watching everyone make fools out of themselves....
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Where Did The Dinner Plates Go?
Where Did The Dinner Plates Go?
By Finbar Labelle
A deeper look at the college’s staffing crisis Bennington College Dining Hall “We’re on an island right now and all the boats are burning. There's...
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WEEKLY PARTY REVIEW 10.7/10.8
WEEKLY PARTY REVIEW 10.7/10.8
By Anonymous
Y2K collage on "Goat" Week 4 Party Review: Canfield/Kilpat Day Friday, October 7th House Canfield Theme Tops vs Bottoms Rating 1/5 Dear Canfield, We’re not...
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The History of ‘Dress to Get Laid’; Bennington’s Most Infamous Event
The History of ‘Dress to Get Laid’; Bennington’s Most Infamous Event
By Isobel Lola Brown
Crossett Library Digital Archives At a college filled with lucrative and outlandish events, Kilpat’s annual Dress to Get Laid party certainly takes the cake for...
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WEEKLY PARTY REVIEW 9.23/9.24
WEEKLY PARTY REVIEW 9.23/9.24
By Anonymous
Week 2: 9.23 & 9.24 Here at Bennington College, we embraced the first weekend of fall with open arms and closed doors. As parties move...
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The New Student Government
The New Student Government
By admin
Bennington has been without a long-term functioning student government since the 1990s due to the presidency of Elizabeth Coleman. This has been and continues to...
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An Influx of Prospective Students From Bangladesh
An Influx of Prospective Students From Bangladesh
By admin
Tanvir Anjum, a freshman from Bangladesh, estimates that there are about 9 other students from Bangladesh at Bennington College, which he describes as “a lot.”...
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Posts published in “Campus Life & Culture News”

A school built by students

By Thomas Finegar on October 1, 2020

Bennington College was founded in 1932 with the publishing of The Prospectus, penned by Robert Devore Leigh, the first president of Bennington College and notable name to this day.

Bingham Acoustic Show Takes Place After Being Rescheduled
Bingham Acoustic Show Takes Place After Being Rescheduled
By Owen Musser
Photo by Owen Musser On the night of Friday March 15, students gathered in the Bingham house common room for an evening of live music....
Novelist Laura Sims Reads at Bennington Literature Evening
Novelist Laura Sims Reads at Bennington Literature Evening
By Ruby Haller
Photo by Jen Lee / Vogue On Wednesday March 6th Laura Sims came to Bennington to read from her latest book How Can I Help...
“Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal” Exhibit Opens Up In Usdan Gallery
“Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal” Exhibit Opens Up In Usdan Gallery
By Evelyn Hardy
This exhibit was curated by Mark Christman with curatorial research from Jake Meginsky, and designed for the Usdan Gallery by Anne Thompson. The exhibit was...
Bennington and Williams College Students Read Poetry at Literature Evening
Bennington and Williams College Students Read Poetry at Literature Evening
By Iris Robert
Photo by Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias On the night of Friday, December 1st, Bennington students crowded the Franklin common room to listen to a 6x6 poetry...
‘Bottoms’ Review
‘Bottoms’ Review
By Gita Gandelsman
In the 2023 high school movie of the year, Josie (Ayo Edebiri) and PJ (Rachel Sennott) are two best friends determined to make the most...
Three Writers Celebrate Book Launch at the Robert Frost Museum
Three Writers Celebrate Book Launch at the Robert Frost Museum
By Iris Robert
Photo by Iris Robert A crowd of students, faculty, and Bennington community members gathered outside of the Robert Frost Museum on Tuesday, September 26th. The...
Succession: Saying Goodbye to the Tyrant of Television
Succession: Saying Goodbye to the Tyrant of Television
By Eve Dartley
This mid-season review will contain spoilers for Succession Season 4, Episodes 1-9. Courtesy of HBO Big shoes. In the five years since its premiere in...
Okay Kaya Synthesizes Her Subconscious on ‘SAP’
Okay Kaya Synthesizes Her Subconscious on ‘SAP’
By Toulmin Jahncke
'SAP' Album Review Kaya Wilkins, known professionally/musically as Okay Kaya, makes music that sounds like, what I would personally describe as, a haunted tunnel of...
On Midnights, Taylor Swift Shows a Darker Side to Adulthood
On Midnights, Taylor Swift Shows a Darker Side to Adulthood
By Isobel Lola Brown
"Midnights" Album Review No artist in the last two decades has been as prolific as Taylor Swift. Since the pandemic alone, she has released six...
Chance Encounters; In Class with Mary Ruefle
Chance Encounters; In Class with Mary Ruefle
By Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias
Mary Ruefle at Bennington College in 1971, Crossett Library Digital Archives When the name LIT 4358: Chance Encounters first appeared on the Bennington Curriculum Spring...
Never Grow Up
Never Grow Up
By Isobel Lola Brown
A further look into Patti Smith's classic, Just Kids
Escaping the Now: The Anesthetic Injection of Cottagecore Aesthetics
Escaping the Now: The Anesthetic Injection of Cottagecore Aesthetics
By Dylan Walawender
Cottagecore is an internet sensation known for its warm depiction of rural life. But this idyllic landscape exists as a fictive, digital manifestation.
“A Cargo Hold of Stars:” Khal Torabully Reads at Bennington Translates Event
“A Cargo Hold of Stars:” Khal Torabully Reads at Bennington Translates Event
By Dylan Walawender
Khal Torabully and translator Nancy Naomi Carlson give a virtual reading for the Bennington Translates series.
Gossip in the Uncanny Valley: On Hiromi Kawakami’s Absurdist Neighborhoods
Gossip in the Uncanny Valley: On Hiromi Kawakami’s Absurdist Neighborhoods
By Dylan Walawender
A review essay on Hiromi Kawakami's "People From My Neighborhood."
Antigone at Bennington
Antigone at Bennington
By Thomas Finegar
When the full cast takes the stage for their bows, how can we not give them the standing ovation that they and their director so clearly deserve?
“Red Dead Redemption 2” and The American Dream
“Red Dead Redemption 2” and The American Dream
By Will Schultheis
Being the “totally super-current gamer” that I am, I only finished Red Dead Redemption 2 a few months ago. I initially got the game in...
You Couldn’t Pay Me To Watch “Dear Evan Hansen” Again
You Couldn’t Pay Me To Watch “Dear Evan Hansen” Again
By admin
…Well, okay, you probably could, but it would cost you. Let’s address the elephant in the room first: Ben Platt, who stars as the titular...
Book Review: “Circe” by Madeline Miller
Book Review: “Circe” by Madeline Miller
By Dylan Walawender
Teju Cole, in describing the way a curtain hangs in one of the many German hotel rooms he has inhabited, describes the creases in the...
Book Review: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, by Geoff Dyer
Book Review: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, by Geoff Dyer
By Dylan Walawender
In his book Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer shifts the narrative on writing in ways that are more realistic and grounded.
Your Friend, Donna
Your Friend, Donna
By Anonymous
An anonymous prose submission.
Red
Red
By Muhammad Ammar
Prose Submission by Muhammad Ammar.
Book Review: On Michael Jackson
Book Review: On Michael Jackson
By Dylan Walawender
Margo Jefferson's "On Michael Jackson" provides a tour into the life and crimes of Michael Jackson, an iconic and infamous figure in pop-culture, in all of his multiples.
Book Review: “Cane”
Book Review: “Cane”
By Dylan Walawender
A review of Jean Toomer's "Cane," an elusive novel on unique fragmentation of the black experience in the Jazz Age.
Bennington Horror Story: The Horror of Patch Hollow
Bennington Horror Story: The Horror of Patch Hollow
By Iva Sopta
The story of Patch Hollow, one of Vermont's most haunted and sinister places.
Book Review: “Giovanni’s Room”
Book Review: “Giovanni’s Room”
By Dylan Walawender
"Giovanni's Room" departs from the racial and class divisions in America, and focuses one the intricacies of sexuality and morality.
Bennington Horror Story: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Bennington Horror Story: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
By Iva Sopta
Welcome back to the Bennington Horror Story! If you haven’t read part one of my Haunting of Hill House Review, I recommend you do that!...
VA: Lavender Wodnick
VA: Lavender Wodnick
By admin
Lavender Wodnick is a Freshman at Bennington College studying photography and philosophy. She is interested in the capacity of photography to communicate the meditative nature of...
Cross-Over: Translation as Resistance to White Nationalism
Cross-Over: Translation as Resistance to White Nationalism
By Dylan Walawender
In Union Springs, New York, there is a gas station sitting along Route 90, a stretch of highway that runs adjacent to Cayuga Lake. As...
Connecting to your Ancestors with Dr. Raina J León
Connecting to your Ancestors with Dr. Raina J León
By admin
On Sunday, February 21, 2021, the Black Student Union and Hispanic Student Union hosted a reading and discussion with Dr. Raina J. Leon. The event...
Bennington Horror Story: The Haunting of Hill House (Part 1)
Bennington Horror Story: The Haunting of Hill House (Part 1)
By Iva Sopta
Hello, and welcome back to the Bennington Horror Story… As a fan of horror — and a fan of coincidences, when I found out that...
Great Gully Sinners
Great Gully Sinners
By Dylan Walawender
My brothers are never quiet. They like the loud chaos of an old truck shuttering rusty exhales during summer dusks, those warm haloed nights, the...
Emperor Constantine Spits
Emperor Constantine Spits
By Thalia Perry
i haven’t got a comb so i tear out my golden hair and flirt with the boy next to me on the couch, I don’t...
Curse Word Poetry
Curse Word Poetry
By admin
The bus is about the last place you want to be right now, but Jane was your ride, and she’sprobably halfway back to Boulder. You...
Halloween Balloon
Halloween Balloon
By Anonymous
The other night I went with you Down the road to the factory Inside, fuzzy and all heated A lulling occurred and I began nodding ...
Somewhere in 2008 or maybe Somewhere else
Somewhere in 2008 or maybe Somewhere else
By Zans Huth
Somewhere in 2008 or maybe Somewhere else Moma used to tell me stories about KooKoo and who he used to be, how he could lift...
Falling Pine Needles
Falling Pine Needles
By admin
On a long circuit around the campus she stopped outside the marble think tank a socialist companion oncechristened the local monument to opulence and watched...
Food is Power: CAPA screens “Gather” for Indigenous People’s Day
Food is Power: CAPA screens “Gather” for Indigenous People’s Day
By admin
It’s through foodways that we engage in a recovery from historical trauma, and promote indigenous healing and self-determination. And when we talk about these things,...