Opinion
A Preface to Lunch Quidditch The ultimate fantasy sport
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: James O'Brien Why are people so divided on the subject of breakfast for dinner (BFD)? What's not to like? BFD provides pancakes of various pancake flavors, which are somehow far superior to their regular pancake counterparts that we usually eat for breakfast. I'm not sure whether this is due ...
Letters to the editor
October 29, 2008Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:It occurred to me that Mr. Clayton ("The Cranky Socialist," Oct. 23) was confused on who he would want to support when it comes to the election this year. As such a strong socialist, I assumed he would know that his vote should be for Brian Moore and Stewart ...
OP-ED Fliers are the wrong medium for political discourse
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: Julia Szabo and Sarah Tucker As two students who fully respect and appreciate the first amendment, fliers hung up this week by "Jack & Jill" have tested our patience. You've likely seen posters reading "Voting Kills" and "Nothing's Going to Change My World" accompanied by photos of the presidential ...
Out on a Lim Commercialization has tricked out Halloween
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: Leslie Lim With Halloween just around the corner, I started to think about the many days of celebration that warrant a note on our calendars. Now it is clear that holidays, or "days of festivity or recreation when no work is done" in their form today, have come a long way from their origins. ...
Notes from the Desk The precipitous decline of newspapers
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: Andrea Glaessner On the Web site for the New York Times, "maureen dowd" was the number 10 most-searched item in the last 30 days and "krugman" made number seven. "Ayers" was number 24 and "stock market" rolled in at 50. Shame on you, Mr. Obama, for believing that Americans would rather read ...
In my Humble Opinion The importance of this moment in history
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: Daniel Roberts In one of my literature classes last year at Trinity College Dublin, we studied the poem "Easter 1916" by W.B. Yeats. Our professor said the poem is a reminder of how some time periods seem more "historical" than others. In many periods, people can already sense that they are ...
Party Favorites Closing arguments
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: Will Bellaimey "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly," Franklin D. Roosevelt told the country in his first inaugural address, "but let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified ...
Editorial Obama for President, and for our generation
By Middlebury Campus | October 29, 2008Author: [no author name found] The long, arduous trail to the White House will reach its conclusion this week, with Election Day serving as the summit that will motivate the American electorate through the final days of the uphill climb that is partisan presidential politics. On this greatest of days ...
Letters to the editor D-Spot a sore one for men
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:In reference to Dina Magaril's column ("The D-Spot", Oct. 9), there are some things I would like to hear her address in her next column. Mind games are something us men always attribute to women; I had not heard it the other way around. As for the seemingly ...
Editorial Maintaining Middlebury's Core
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: [no author name found] The last decade has been a honeymoon period of expansion for Middlebury College. The College added summer and international programs, acquired an institute for international study, grew the student population, and adorned the campus with huge, shiny, top-notch buildings. ...
Party Favorites How have the campaigns been successful in this election season?
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: Will Bellaimey After the slow-motion self destruction of our last two presidential campaigns it's a funny feeling for us Democrats to look back and say "you know what, we did that just about right." Of course, it isn't over yet. But whatever happens, the 23 year-old geniuses behind Obama campaign ...
Lupo Fiasco A capella financial pleas fall on deaf ears
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: Kate Lupo This Fall Break I went on tour with my a capella group, the wonderful and "steezy" Middlebury Mamajamas. We traveled to University of Vermont to sing with the Top Cats, Union College to sing with the Dutch Pipers and lastly we traveled to Williams to sing with the Springstreeters. ...
A Preface to Lunch Facing myself on Facebook
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: James O'Brien When I started to write this article, I wrote the sentence, "Who are you?" I didn't think I wanted to write an article that began like that, though, mostly because if I was flipping through a newspaper and started reading such an article, I would immediately stop. So I decided ...
Notes from the Desk Obama's got the right stuff
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: Jeff Klein This past Sunday, the Obama campaign got an enormous boost from an official endorsement by one of the most respected political figures in the country, Colin Powell. Powell toted Senator Obama as a "transformational figure. He is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the ...
The Cranky Socialist Ballot initiatives are the key to democracy
By Middlebury Campus | October 22, 2008Author: Adam Clayton I picked up my California absentee ballot the other day, and as a second time voter re-enforced a habit I hope to extend for the rest of my life, turning my gaze immediately towards the back of the ballot. This gives me the greatest hope at socializing the world I live in, and while ...
In my humble opinion Underdog spirit gone in Beantown
By Middlebury Campus | October 8, 2008Author: Daniel Roberts Sorry if a sports column doesn't interest you, but 65 percent of the students here (I just made that up) are from J.O.B., so let's talk Red Sox.From the latest issue of GQ magazine: "Boston… Enough. We get it. You rule the universe… But remember, fifteen years ago, your teams ...
Notes from the Desk Where the ladies at?
By Middlebury Campus | October 8, 2008Author: Grace Duggan After several years working for the The Middlebury Campus as a staff writer, photographer and editor, I think I can safely say that our campus newspaper is certainly no "Old Boys Club". Looking at our Opinions section, however, there is an appalling lack of female contributors to ...
Editorial Lecture season needs the right space
By Middlebury Campus | October 8, 2008Author: [no author name found] The campus is in the midst of an idyllic stretch from fall family weekend through homecoming. This weekend students will enjoy the blissful ignorance that only fall recess can provide. And what a fall it has been. The campus has been blessed with more than just beautiful ...