Author: [no author name found] Whether by habit or intent, the Student Government Association (SGA) maintains a modest profile. Under pressure to compete with students' daily grind, the SGA suffers from a chronic inability to connect with its constituents. Past senators and presidents have tried to ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy Every age projects its anxieties onto a perceived conflict between humanity and technology. In Plato's time, it was feared that literacy would destroy the art of oration. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was feared that horse-drawn-carriage-loving London would drown in ...
Author: Alison Mehravari There is a fantastic billboard that has made an appearance in recent years. Its caption reads, "Turn off the lights. All it takes is
Author: Robert E. Prasch As everyone now knows, the U.S. and the world are in the grip of a tremendous financial crisis. Many banks have failed. Virtually every honest analyst and commentator understands that many of those that are still operating are actually bankrupt by any reasonable measure - all ...
Author: [no author name found] While the College's Honor Code has always been a somewhat amorphous concept, its existence is undeniably crucial to our Middlebury experience. By forcing students' collective honesty to triumph over greed and self-consciousness, the Code is a learning tool that transcends ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor: I noted with great alarm that Richard Fuld - yes, that guy - is a Middlebury College trustee! Fuld is the Lehman Brothers CEO who shoulders a good deal of responsibility for precipitating the current global economic crisis, either because of malignant greed ...
Author: Peter Baumann As the ball floated upward, what had started as a general rumble erupted into a cacophony of sound and exhilaration.Something about that ball was timeless. With Pepin arena exploding around it, the orange orb continued to fight against the bondage of gravity, climbing towards the ...
Author: Anthony Adragna One year ago, the Middlebury College community was shaken to its core with the news that a young first-year, Nick Garza, had gone missing. What followed was months of uncertainty, rumor and sadness as hope turned to fear - and finally, dread. The tragedy weighed heavily on students, ...
Author: Kate Lupo At the Winter Ball this weekend, it was exciting to see the usual "sweatpants and UGG" library crowd become the beautiful swans that dazzled the dance floor. Girls in their most glamorous outfits shimmied and swayed next to clean-shaven boys sporting suits and ties. One student even ...
Author: Zach Fenster I just returned from Israel for the first time since I lived there last year. As I sat in my seat on the plane in Tel Aviv, waiting to take off to New York, I started thinking about my transition from Israel to Middlebury, with the perspective of having finished a semester and Winter ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:We are writing on behalf of the Middlebury women's squash team. Our team competed in Nationals at Harvard on Feb. 13-15, topping off one of our most successful seasons in over a decade. We were disappointed that the sum of our achievements this year did ...
Author: Stefan Claypool You'll never hear me argue that George W. Bush was a great president. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that despite public outcries to the contrary, many of his policies were acceptable responses to bad situations. President Barack Obama seems to recognize that fact, ...
Author: Brian Fung There's an emotion typically associated with people like us - people who are young, unemployed, thinking about life after graduation. From what I gather, it's pretty common. They call it panic. Maybe you've heard of it. Maybe you're feeling it. Panic is a natural response to pressure. ...
Author: [no author name found] The announcement of the 2009 commencement speaker will undoubtedly elicit varied responses from students and other members of the College community, be they glowing, decidedly less enthusiastic or simply uninformed. ("Who is that?" was the most common reaction among Campus ...
Author: H. Kay Merriman When I applied to Middlebury, back before the days of courting the Top 100 applicants, I was under the impression that Middlebury wanted you to come to them. Want a free Nalgene with your $50,000 education? Get in line. You have to demonstrate an eagerness, a desire, a sense ...
Author: John Birnbaum I was appalled by the student body's overwhelming endorsement of Al Sharpton following his speech in Mead Chapel last Wednesday.Although Sharpton pandered to the liberal agenda of the Middlebury crowd, the speech was non-confrontational. His message: to increase student advocacy ...
Author: Dave Small Experience is the most important kind of knowledge. We lack experience. What we have are facts. We have Wikipedia and Google. The ability to access an inexhaustible source of information rests at the connection between our minds and the Ethernet cable. Without WiFi, without BlackBerry, ...
Author: [no author name found] RESPONSESAccording to Al Sharpton, it's not very nice to die and leave a poor preacher the arduous task of fabricating your life's contributions for all those at your funeral. As a preacher himself, he would prefer to not have to hallucinate that your passing through life ...