Author: [no author name found] This issue's impassioned opinion piece titled "The perils of Club Midd," in which Adam Irish '09 indicts the "Middlebury bubble" for instilling in its inhabitants "egotism, improvidence and avarice," certainly got us talking. However, before we could even begin to address ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy A few months ago, I stumbled upon a YouTube video of Paul Potts, the phone salesman who won the first season of "Britain's Got Talent" with a performance of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma." Throughout the competition - and life - Paul's greatest obstacle was the unsightliness of his ...
Author: Mike Waters It was with complete horror that I read last week's issue of The Campus. Buried on page four, behind headlines like "Dwyer wins coveted CC chair" and "Preview days host 400 students," was an item of news that will change in the way we live here at Middlebury College - one that should ...
Author: [no author name found] In the recent article by Madison Kahn entitled "Homelessness issue hits home in Midd dorm," the descriptions of the homeless couple as they left the dorm were particularly insensitive. In reference to the two leaving, the phrases "He quickly scurried away" and "scampered ...
Author: Stefan Claypool My last column clearly got the attention of some people on campus, including a certain Mr. Harvey. I'm glad to see that some people are paying attention and not just tuning out when a conservative opens his mouth. I think that one of the great tragedies of modern political discourse ...
Author: Michael and Judy Olinick While we agree with [Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science] Murray Dry that achieving marriage equality in Vermont through the legislature rather than the courts was an important "first," we differ with him on some significant points: it's not accurate to say, ...
Author: Perspective on prospectives Over the past two weeks, hundreds of prospective students have descended on our quiet Vermont campus to get an appreciation for the dynamic and exciting nature of life at Middlebury, soggy April weather notwithstanding. Through the Campus Preview days program, this ...
Author: Kate Lupo This weekend, my boyfriend's mom came to visit. At lunch, she extracted her large, outdated cell phone from within her backpack. "Oh God," she said, with panic in her voice. "A voicemail from your father! I thought I checked my messages 20 minutes ago! I better send him a text message." ...
Author: [no author name found] RESPONSESI began filing my own taxes before I graduated from high school. Before students graduate from college, they should know how to negotiate the process. They're likely not to have very complicated forms to file (most of us can use a 1040EZ for our federal taxes), ...
Author: Ben Wessel Middlebury has long been at the forefront of the climate policy debate in this country. Scholars like Bill McKibben, John Elder and Jon Isham, and the students of the Sunday Night Group (SNG), are known throughout the country as premier climate advocates. Midd-kid initiatives like ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Last weekend I happened upon some of Angela Evancie's 09 photography exhibit, entitled "Recognition," on view in 51 Main. The show, which opened two weeks ago, consists of portraits of FIC dining hall staff on white backdrops, with captions of name, hometown, and occupation. ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy Since 1985, The Darwin Awards have been conferred on "people who ensure the long-term survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." In 1998, a German zookeeper named Friedrich Riesfeldt was honored for suffocating under nearly ...
Author: Mike Waters Much has been made of Middlebury's "work hard, play hard" ethic. Constantly decried by its critics as the root of all that ails this institution - its high-stress academic environment and its destructive and embarrassing drinking culture - and yet defended by its proponents as part ...
Author: Brian Fung Ever since journalism became a true profession in the early 20th century, citizens looked to the news to learn about the world around them. Today, the news is the news - and while print, TV and radio organizations still perform the same function they did a century ago, that very commitment ...
Author: Murray Dry After the Vermont legislature enacted the gay marriage bill into law last week, over Governor Jim Douglas's veto, news reports described Vermont as the fourth state to achieve this task, after Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa. Vermont actually deserves more credit than that, ...
Author: [no author name found] Middlebury students have long lamented the inefficacies of the Student Government Association (SGA). But the feeling was mutual last month as our own collective apathy towards the SGA culminated in remarkably low numbers during the organization's special mid-term presidential ...
Author: [no author name found] Mr. Claypool's recent column on the rapid socialization of American society resonated deeply with me. Mr. Claypool is correct in asserting that Barack Obama is rapidly transforming our nation into a repressive authoritarian regime such as North Korea or Cuba. Free market ...
Author: [no author name found] RESPONSESI think it was absolutely reactionary of Vermont's governor to veto that bill; thank God the state legislators here are a bit more intelligent than him on this one. This is the 21st century, and this is America, and it's embarrassing that we still deny civil rights ...