2008 Woodie Awards
Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 2/17/05 Section: Opinions
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To the Editor:
I just wanted to thank you for The Campus's substantial attention to and comprehensive coverage of the issue of military recruitment on campus. As we work to change the College's policy regarding discriminatory employers it is enormously helpful to have the campus media so ready to bring the issue to the public's attention.
Sincerely,
Craig Johnson '05
Mount Desert, Maine
To the Editor:
I write this letter as a response to J.S. Woodward's opinions piece in last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus. According to the policies of your newspaper, reactions to opinions must be sent in as letters to the editor.
Thus, I am sending the following, which was a part of my original opinions submission, as a letter.
Mr. Woodward believes that the College's "politically correct acceptance of foreign ideas"- namely, its allowing the military to openly recruit Middlebury students - places the school in an "Ivory Tower" in which he "[refuses] to stand."
But I have to ask: what if the College decided to do as Mr. Woodward wishes it would, and prevented the military from recruiting on campus? If the College were to reject the military because its policies - which were drafted and ratified by elected representatives of the American people - don't conform to the enlightened ideas of our all-knowing academic minds, what kind of message would that send about our community?
The academic world suffers its reputation as an "Ivory Tower" - a platform from which the educated elite look down upon the ignorant masses - precisely because of the attitudes of people like Mr. Woodward.
Sincerely,
Dan Morosani '05
New York, N.Y.
To the Editor:
For you it may be the issue of proximity, or the fact that Ross and Atwater hardly offer vegetarian alternatives of the same calibre as Proctor. Maybe you just don't like showing up "on stage" in the modern marvels wearing sweat-pants and the remnants of last night's make-up.
Whatever it is that riles you up about No Proctor on the Weekends, I can probably sympathize. As possibly Middlebury's biggest Proctor slut, I wake-up with a dark cloud over my head realizing that there will be no waffles, no self-made Proctor cooking wonders, no friendly Dr. Proctor smiles or familiar laid back Proctor frequenters. Instead, I know I have a loud, jam-packed, paninied-breakfast-burrito-free brunch awaiting me so, so far away from the warmth of my Stewart bed...
The difficult question: do I trek across campus and position myself awkwardly on the mal-constructed highchairs in Atwater, or do I settle for stares and glares on the Ross Runway? The simple answer: BRING PROCTOR BACK ON THE WEEKENDS!
Sincerely,
Astri von Arbin Ahlander '07
Djursholm, Sweden
I just wanted to thank you for The Campus's substantial attention to and comprehensive coverage of the issue of military recruitment on campus. As we work to change the College's policy regarding discriminatory employers it is enormously helpful to have the campus media so ready to bring the issue to the public's attention.
Sincerely,
Craig Johnson '05
Mount Desert, Maine
To the Editor:
I write this letter as a response to J.S. Woodward's opinions piece in last week's issue of The Middlebury Campus. According to the policies of your newspaper, reactions to opinions must be sent in as letters to the editor.
Thus, I am sending the following, which was a part of my original opinions submission, as a letter.
Mr. Woodward believes that the College's "politically correct acceptance of foreign ideas"- namely, its allowing the military to openly recruit Middlebury students - places the school in an "Ivory Tower" in which he "[refuses] to stand."
But I have to ask: what if the College decided to do as Mr. Woodward wishes it would, and prevented the military from recruiting on campus? If the College were to reject the military because its policies - which were drafted and ratified by elected representatives of the American people - don't conform to the enlightened ideas of our all-knowing academic minds, what kind of message would that send about our community?
The academic world suffers its reputation as an "Ivory Tower" - a platform from which the educated elite look down upon the ignorant masses - precisely because of the attitudes of people like Mr. Woodward.
Sincerely,
Dan Morosani '05
New York, N.Y.
To the Editor:
For you it may be the issue of proximity, or the fact that Ross and Atwater hardly offer vegetarian alternatives of the same calibre as Proctor. Maybe you just don't like showing up "on stage" in the modern marvels wearing sweat-pants and the remnants of last night's make-up.
Whatever it is that riles you up about No Proctor on the Weekends, I can probably sympathize. As possibly Middlebury's biggest Proctor slut, I wake-up with a dark cloud over my head realizing that there will be no waffles, no self-made Proctor cooking wonders, no friendly Dr. Proctor smiles or familiar laid back Proctor frequenters. Instead, I know I have a loud, jam-packed, paninied-breakfast-burrito-free brunch awaiting me so, so far away from the warmth of my Stewart bed...
The difficult question: do I trek across campus and position myself awkwardly on the mal-constructed highchairs in Atwater, or do I settle for stares and glares on the Ross Runway? The simple answer: BRING PROCTOR BACK ON THE WEEKENDS!
Sincerely,
Astri von Arbin Ahlander '07
Djursholm, Sweden