2008 Woodie Awards
Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 3/9/06 Section: Opinions
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To the Editor:
Recently, Middlebury first-year and senior students received e-mail invitations to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The NSSE is a questionnaire that is being given to students at hundreds of colleges and universities. Results from Middlebury students will allow the College's faculty and staff to evaluate and compare experiences at Middlebury College with those of students throughout the country. In other words, you can help the faculty and staff further demonstrate the value of a Middlebury education. The results are also covered by major media as a measure of national trends in higher education.
If you have received a survey, please complete it as soon as possible. The Dean of Student Affairs Office and the Alliance for Civic Engagement are offering five $50 gift certificates for local restaurants to be awarded by lottery to students who complete the survey by Friday, March 17.
If you have any questions about this project on our campus or our interest in using the results, please contact Jane Kimble at jkimble@middlebury.edu or at x5351. Thank you for your participation!
Sincerely,
Jane Kimble
Institutional Research
To the Editor:
As a student who attended the forum on the cartoon controversy, I was insulted when a professor as knowledgeable as Justin Stearns said that we aren't tolerant enough of Islam. I suppose that by "we" Professor Stearns meant to suggest that the Danish cartoonists abused freedom of speech. And the immediate "we" of the forum, that is, those of us listening to Professor Stearns, are already far more tolerant than the people who rioted in Pakistan.
It's freedom of speech that was on trial, as Uzair Kayani and Professor Murray Dry pointed out. And yet our school's party of "tolerance," led by Professor Stearns, persisted in asking us to be at once tolerant of Islam and to be intolerant of the Danish cartoonists: an intolerable double standard.
Recently, Middlebury first-year and senior students received e-mail invitations to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The NSSE is a questionnaire that is being given to students at hundreds of colleges and universities. Results from Middlebury students will allow the College's faculty and staff to evaluate and compare experiences at Middlebury College with those of students throughout the country. In other words, you can help the faculty and staff further demonstrate the value of a Middlebury education. The results are also covered by major media as a measure of national trends in higher education.
If you have received a survey, please complete it as soon as possible. The Dean of Student Affairs Office and the Alliance for Civic Engagement are offering five $50 gift certificates for local restaurants to be awarded by lottery to students who complete the survey by Friday, March 17.
If you have any questions about this project on our campus or our interest in using the results, please contact Jane Kimble at jkimble@middlebury.edu or at x5351. Thank you for your participation!
Sincerely,
Jane Kimble
Institutional Research
To the Editor:
As a student who attended the forum on the cartoon controversy, I was insulted when a professor as knowledgeable as Justin Stearns said that we aren't tolerant enough of Islam. I suppose that by "we" Professor Stearns meant to suggest that the Danish cartoonists abused freedom of speech. And the immediate "we" of the forum, that is, those of us listening to Professor Stearns, are already far more tolerant than the people who rioted in Pakistan.
It's freedom of speech that was on trial, as Uzair Kayani and Professor Murray Dry pointed out. And yet our school's party of "tolerance," led by Professor Stearns, persisted in asking us to be at once tolerant of Islam and to be intolerant of the Danish cartoonists: an intolerable double standard.