By Lark Mulligan '11 and Viveka Ray-Mazumder '11 Seemingly every year during Gaypril, the Middlebury community witnesses hate crimes that attack non-heteronormative identities. The recent homophobic acts are nothing new to us. Whether they were committed by a single individual, as Dean Longman ...
In the midst of a campaign season, woefully managed at best and shockingly incompetent at worst, the SGA managed to pass a piece of legislation long overdue on this campus — a resolution to support gender-neutral housing. The Administration should quickly sign onto this piece of legislation or risk ...
I, Tess Russell, do hereby bequeath the following: To B.M., D.B. and the rest of the ENAM department, I leave: my last residual shred of coolness. When I came to Middlebury, I was, frankly, pretty disillusioned with the whole idea of learning in a classroom, and intended to spend my time here just ...
To the Editor: Over the past nine months, time and again, Middlebury students have extended a helping hand to fellow citizens of our community who are coping with poverty. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Middlebury Community Care Coalition, I write to thank you for your exceptional, heartwarming ...
Proving he’s the whiner his biweekly pinochle club always thought him to be, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is getting all sorts of whiny over the new Arizona immigration law, which is also known by the robo-sounding name SB1070. Experts are shocked that Mexico’s fearless leader is still talking ...
By the time this column makes it to the dining halls, I will already have migrated to my next vessel. I am not authorized to disclose the identity of this vessel, but I can tell you there were 2,350 candidates in the running. Of this number, 90% graduated in the top 10% of their high school class 18% ...
When I began this column three semesters ago, I imagined it as a lighthearted contribution to The Campus’ pages; if not an opportunity to focus solely on seemingly trivial concerns, then just a chance to acknowledge the role alcohol plays in our college lives, for good or ill. And while I hardly thought ...
Since the 90s, Middlebury’s higher-ups have been hell bent on turning the school into the leading liberal arts college by paying for the best professors and attracting the best students. And aren’t we proud; we all wallow in the oohs and ahs when we mention our alma mater to our parents’ friends. ...
In honor of this being National Cognitive Dissonance week, I happily bring you a flurry of poorly researched information about topics you don’t want to think about. You can thank me later. If you’re like me, you have a tough time wrapping your head around the questions of sustainability and overpopulation ...
When I sat down to write my last column of the year, I was tempted to write about the war in Afghanistan, the nuclear proliferation treaty or the way the world would look without America. However, I will have many chances next year to address these problems, and since it is my last column of this year, ...
Nestled in beautiful Vermont, in one of the most liberal states in the nation, Middlebury College is an open and accepting community, where everyone can be whatever they want. That’s what we tell ourselves. Well, we tell ourselves a lie. The acts of homophobic graffiti over the last two weeks tell ...
Recently, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz invited The Campus alcohol columnist Mike Waters ’10 to engage in a discussion about the problems ailing Middlebury’s social life and the potential for a cure. This type of discussion is an encouraging step in the process of student-administration ...
We all watched in horror last year as the real estate market popped like an over ripe tomato, shaking the entire economy with the violence of its implosion. As people lost homes and jobs, tax revenue at all levels of the government shrunk precipitously. Deficits — already out of control after eight ...
Over the past number of weeks, there has been a flurry of rhetorical posturing on all sides of the table. Israeli Barak has reiterated his new favorite line about how Israel must end the Occupation for the sake of its future as a Jewish and democratic state (absolutely correct). American Barack has ...
Calling all cultures! If you want to graduate from Middlebury, you have to meet some academic distribution requirements. Many of us sweat and struggle, searching for that second college writing class. Many of us pull a fist-pump when we discover that we may skip one of the eight disciplinary categories ...
Answers to the crossword will be posted here at 7 a.m. on April 23. Across 1. NaCl 5. Stats for Mayweather 8. Alf or E.T. 13. Greek portico 14. “Habanera” from “Carmen”, e.g. 16. Stuff to capacity, like with food 17. Yao Ming’s fireworks? 20. Salmon breed 21. Internazionale striker Samuel 22. ...
Tomorrow evening, hundreds of people will descend on Middlebury for the town’s annual Relay for Life event. It’s a success by any measure, especially when you consider that our relay has raised more than $1 million for the American Cancer Society since a Middlebury student started it seven years ...
When I heard from friends and teachers that John Elder would be retiring from Middlebury College, it was at the beginning of my junior year, late in 2008. It was not the first time I’d heard that it had come time for him to leave after some three decades, an amazingly long tenure. At the time, posters ...
After three illustrious semesters as a columnist for The Campus, one thing I still haven’t quite figured out is how many people actually read my writing on a regular basis. I hear my friends’ opinions every week, but often they read my column while sitting across from me at lunch on Thursday, so ...