Author: [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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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. ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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, ...
Author: 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, ...
Author: [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, ...
Author: Robert LaMoy In response to Kate Lupo's '10 article "The Sexism of Laughter" (Jan. 15), I must respectfully disagree with the assertion that women cannot be funny without compromising their intellect. Let's address the examples provided in the article. America laughed at Tina Fey's impersonation ...
Author: Hannah Burnett With over a billion people in our world living on less than a dollar a day, the problems of extreme poverty and disease can be daunting, to say the least. It can be hard enough to even imagine such suffering as a part of our world, let alone begin thinking about how to end this ...
Author: Tess Russell "50 percent of Middlebury graduates marry each other." If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone work this dubious statistic into a lunch conversation at Atwater … Well, let's just say I'd be making much more frequent use of the CoinStar at Hannaford. At this point, ...
Author: Grace Duggan and Melissa Marshall We are senior English majors. We spend winter term Friday nights explicating Milton instead of trying to dissect the ingredients in the punch at the Mill. We are some of the only students setting up camp in the blue library chairs on Sunday afternoons (anyone ...
Author: Mark Esposito In 1993, the Green Mountain State rejected the retail monster known as Walmart from building here. It's a shame that 16 years later, we have let something just as bad grow up in our backyard. Burton Snowboards was once a revolution unto itself: it personified youth angst and created ...
Author: Matt Dickinson What can we expect from an Obama presidency? The next two years will be the critical period for his administration. It is the time when presidents exercise maximum influence, often with an attitude of hopefulness tinged with hubris borne from winning a two-year struggle to obtain ...