Author: Jack Byrne The current economic turmoil in the world comes with many lessons, some of which we know but seem to have forgotten. A core principle of economics involves the relationship between capital and interest: invest your capital wisely and spend the interest it earns. By some strange mathematics ...
Author: Kevin Redmon The mailman delivering to my Washington apartment is not known for his attention to detail. I end up with a lot of other people's magazines this way. Normally I crumple up the pages to stuff into the crumbling masonry of my poorly constructed and very drafty basement room. Yesterday's ...
Author: Jack Lysohir When I speak to alumni that attended Middlebury in the 1980s and 90s, they almost inevitably date themselves by mentioning their "room phones." Whether coordinating for a big party, asking someone out for a drink at Mister Ups, or even performing pranks of epic proportions, phones ...
Author: Richard Wolfson "Buy an SUV instead of a car," says Bill McKibben, and you'll waste so much energy that "it's like you've decided to leave your refrigerator door open for the next seven years." Shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, you say, and we can replace it with wind turbines. ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Once carbon levels in the atmosphere reach 350 parts per million, drastic changes will occur in the global climate, according to Bill McKibben. The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is currently at 387 ppm and the world is in need of a leader who will ...
With all due respect to my fellow faculty members, I'd like to think that Nick Muller and I, with joint appointments in Economics and Environmental Studies, have the best teaching jobs on campus. Our students not only study the great challenges of this century; if we're doing our job, they also acquire ...
Author: Robert Schlesinger It's hard to get your mind around the extent to which the information revolution has changed the practice of gathering and relaying information, whether in online newspapers, or magazine stories or even history books (I've written all of the above).You get used to the day-to-day ...
Author: Kate Lupo Environmental art has become ever more popular in a world that wishes to acknowledge and solve the problems of climate change. What is "environmental art" anyway and what sets it apart from other contemporary art? According to GreenMuseum.org, an online collaboration of environmental ...
Author: Kevin Moss Last week's election was a victory for democracy and for the reputation of the United States in the world. Americans united in unprecedented numbers and elected a brilliant, charismatic, biracial man from humble beginnings to be our next President. Like many, I was more excited about ...
Author: Leslie Lim During the historic day of Nov. 4 last week, one of my friends asked me whether I would be watching the election at the Grille that night. I wouldn't be, I answered, because I had to be at the town hall theater for a dress rehearsal of the ISO show. I cheekily added that most of us ...
Author: Daniel Roberts Holy hell, we are finally going to have a president that we can be excited about. Even President Bush called the victory "uplifting." And one staunch McCain supporter I know admitted that even though Obama wasn't his choice, he's excited for the country, and proud to be an American. ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy The economist is the creator of beautiful theories. To reveal theory and conceal reality is the aim of economics. The economist is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of the economy.The highest and the lowest form of economics is a mode of ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Last week, Scott Kleiman ("Dear Dolci, Please Change", Nov. 6) expressed his nostalgia for Dolci and his hopes that the camaraderie he experienced as an employee would remain prevalent, despite this year's changes to the organization. I have no doubt that ...
Author: James O'Brien I'm not familiar with the history of politics enough to attempt to identify when politicians' focus turned from serving the best interest of their country to serving the best interest of their party. At some point, though, it happened. Why is Democrats and Republicans working together ...
Author: Angela Evancie PROFESSIONTom: Hey man, any idea what you want to be next fall?Oscar: Yeah, I was thinking either a neonatal surgeon or an archeologist. Tom: Wow, cool. How many spots for archeologists?Oscar: Only ten, so I'll have to get up pretty early to put my name in. How about you?Tom: ...
Author: Michael Geisler Metaphors are tricky business. No doubt, the editorial board in the Oct. 23 Campus is correct in reminding us that the small liberal arts college is "the core" of the Middlebury experience. But a "core," whether we are talking about an apple or a peach, has a function only in ...
Author: Alex Garlick The election of Barack Obama was an historic day for our country, one that made me proud to be an American. While the United States has been the flagship of liberal democracy for over two centuries, its leader has exclusively been a white male, and to break from that mold alone ...
Author: Scott Kleiman Dear Dolci, While I'm sure there are legitimate and compelling reasons for the changes to Dolci recently announced, it saddens me that Dolci will no longer be as I experienced it from 2002-06. My four years cooking, managing, and eating as part of Dolci stand out as some of the ...
Author: Christian Brady Regardless of my personal opinion on the propriety or tastefulness of the political fliers plastered around campus for the last month, I think it's important that we consider what we stand to gain and lose by discouraging these posters, writing them off as "counterproductive" ...