Sort of Middlebury markets in everything

Middlebury lacks sufficient housing for all the students planning to attend this fall. After exhausting other options, the college plans to pay 30 students $10,000 each to stay away.

Clever idea, but I’m sure you all noticed the “After exhausting other options” clause in there.  Here is from the rest of the story:

But the nonresidential buildings could not be renovated in time to add necessary safety features, and the college decided not to house students at Bread Loaf due to the logistics of running a satellite operation, as well as negative feedback from students who had lived there earlier in the pandemic and said they’d felt isolated from the main campus.

I say Granny Flats and beans!  It is not for long, so let the learning continue.  The article does not discuss the stance of the town of Middlebury, but as it is an exclusive village of about 9,000 I can take a wild guess…