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By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2009Author: Mike Waters [no story text found]
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Waters to Wine Don't forget your roots
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2009Author: Mike Waters Over the course of our collegiate years, we all (hopefully) grow more mature, more sophisticated and more discerning in our tastes. We shun Top 40 radio for indie music blogs, we trade department store garments for vintage store discoveries and we deny our previous populist tastes ...
OP-ED The Future of the Republican Party is in the States
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2009Author: Bert Johnson Six years ago at another institution, I invited a guest speaker to my state and local politics class who happened to be in the area, and who seemed like an interesting guy. Even then, Bobby Jindal had an impressive resum
Behind Enemy Lines Green eggs and porn
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2009Author: Andrey Tolstoy When they're not busy polluting our server with oversized miscreants from Photoshop (a.k.a. seizures in a crayon box), staff at the Center for Health and Wellness Education are busy polluting our minds with propaganda most prepubescents would find intellectually offensive. When ...
Editorial Go big, or go home
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2009Author: [no author name found] When Old Chapel first unveiled its plans for the College-owned property at 51 Main St. over a year ago, we were cautiously optimistic about the space's potential to bring students into contact with area residents in a mutually productive and enjoyable way. Increased student ...
OP-ED Love, factually
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2009Author: Cailin Ross February 14, 2009. I sit with a couple of single girlfriends at the Grille at 2:00 a.m. double-fisting chicken tenders and laughing about the absurdity of such a commercial holiday and its chubby toddler mascot. Clearly our society created Valentine's Day to make a bunch of money ...
Campus Poll
February 11, 2009Author: [no author name found] In order to make The Campus opinions section a more accessible medium, starting this semester The Campus will include a poll containing not only numerical data but also personal statements from interested students. Each week we will post the poll question for the next ...
Elephant in the Room Man of Steele
By Middlebury Campus | February 11, 2009Author: Stefan Claypool The election of Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee is a significant event in American politics. The 168 members of the Republican National Committee decided to place the former Maryland Lieutenant Governor at the party's helm, establishing Steele ...
Lupo Fiasco Ring the alarm, Feb women coming through
By Middlebury Campus | February 11, 2009Author: Kate Lupo Get ready. Oh my God. Can't wait. I'm trembling … They're here! The Febs have officially arrived on campus and the school is abuzz. Like a scene out of a Where's Waldo? picture book, older Midd-kids have already started to excitedly pinpoint and identify new Febs all over campus. ...
Editorial At our doorstep
By Middlebury Campus | February 11, 2009Author: [no author name found] As the national economy spirals deeper into recession with each passing day, Middlebury continues to grapple with the financial challenges facing all collegiate institutions during these trying times. Shortly before the recent February vacation, President of the College ...
Notes from the Desk Attainable expectations
By Middlebury Campus | February 11, 2009Author: Emma Gardner At the beginning of each semester at Middlebury I find myself scribbling lists of my aspirations for the next few months in an often neglected assignment book that usually resides somewhere deep inside my cluttered desk, filled with similar records of "to do" items. Depending on ...
Waters to Wine Hi, my name is Mike...
By Middlebury Campus | February 11, 2009Author: Mike Waters At a beer tasting class during my semester abroad in Denmark, the host introduced himself as "a part-time alcoholic," which makes sense. In Denmark, with its government-funded education and universal healthcare, one can afford a part-time schedule. Me, I'm an American. I work full-time.My ...
Behind Enemy Lines The Busch Years
By Middlebury Campus | January 21, 2009Author: Andrey Tolstoy College, I gather, is a formative experience for the young Americans who elect to take part in this fine tradition. It is a place where they not only acquire a deeper and broader understanding of the world around them, but also learn savvy social skills, explore one another's ...
OP-ED A sad tale from overseas
By Middlebury Campus | January 21, 2009Author: Nate Blumenshine For many of us, reading the news the past couple of weeks about the invasion of Gaza stimulates energetic debate, academic interest, and the occasional emotional twinge of guilt. We have no way to really understand the numbers that are reported: 1,300 Palestinians killed, 13 ...
OP-ED May Middlebury never lose its balance
By Middlebury Campus | January 21, 2009Author: James Kerrigan Middlebury College's 2003-2004 prospectus still owns a piece of real estate on my dorm room's bookshelf. Its cover and its message have lingered with me long after I first stepped foot into the Emma Willard House five years ago. Four pictures and one powerful definition graced ...
OP-ED A call to arms from Obama
By Middlebury Campus | January 21, 2009Author: Matt Joseph On Nov. 4, 2008, many of us watched Barack Obama deliver a powerful speech in Chicago's Grant Park after becoming the President-elect of the United States. Amidst all the emotions from Democrats and Republicans alike, Obama spoke to the crowd with a voice to the future. He declared, ...
Shenanigans My history with Barack
By Middlebury Campus | January 21, 2009Author: Alex Garlick The image of Barack Obama taking the presidential oath in front of millions of onlookers Tuesday overwhelmed me. Just five years ago, I had never heard his name. In 2004, at John Kerry's nominating convention in my hometown, he burst onto the national scene; now, four years later, ...
Editorial
January 21, 2009Author: [no author name found] This past week has been an exciting one for Middlebury students. Our bucolic Vermont campus has been galvanized anew by the zeitgeist surrounding the inauguration of the nation's next president.Whomever we supported in last fall's election, we followed Tuesday's events, ...