Author: Leslie Lim Something eerie happened to me during the first few days of school. It was night and most appliances in my room were turned off, but I kept hearing really low strains of music. I attributed it to sensitive ears and somebody else's music. But it happened again, and determined that ...
Author: James O'Brien I heard someone say the words, "work hard, play hard" this weekend, and that, along with the Natural Ice that somehow ended up in my CUPPS mug, made me want to throw up. The whole "Work Hard!!! Play Hard!!!" philosophy is possibly the second dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's ...
Author: Jessie Singleton Sarah Palin did a fine job of memorizing her foreign policy vocabulary words for the VP debate last week; however, I'm not exactly sure what she said, or what she meant to say, or what questions she thought she answered. I get it: Iran hates Israel, Ahmadinejad is a really mean ...
Author: Stefan Claypool In the 1980s, a succession of Soviet hardliners demanded concessions from Western powers, but were unwilling to give up anything in return. Top-level talks stalled until Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko were all dead, leaving Soviet power in the hands of Mikhail Gorbachev. ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy One night, when I was three years old, my mother told me to pack my things and get ready to leave. I grabbed a stuffed animal along with a bag of pretzels, and climbed into the cab with my sister. Four hours later we were in Paris. We stayed in a dingy hotel, the first one we ...
Author: Scott Greene It's Rosh Hashanah, the head of the Jewish New Year, and lately I feel like my "Jew horns" have been sticking out a bit. I just returned from a wedding in which the groom had to undergo counseling sessions to accept a half-Jewish Maid of Honor in his fiancé's bridal party. Ironically, ...
Author: James O'Brien Situation A: There are forty people - a sizable amount of kids - in a basement of one of the Ridgeline houses. Public Safety makes five appearances in a matter of four hours, hands out five citations, but allows the party to continue. Sure, five citations is a pain in the ass, ...
Author: Murray Dry, Professor of Political Science "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, orold. And that's the criteria by which I'm going ...
Author: Will Bellaimey Let me first say that this country's treatment of debates as some sort of scorable contest is ludicrous. There are no rules, no scoreboards, and no objective ways to determine who won. I suppose the same argument goes for figure skating. But even if John McCain had executed an ...
Author: Heather Pangle and Rachel Pagano There are many ways of winning a debate. John McCain came out stronger on the whole by stymieing Obama in a series of encounters on foreign policy. He argued persuasively on reining in terrorism in Afghanistan, working effectively with Pakistan, avoiding a nuclear ...
Author: Adam Clayton "Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean." If this sounds familiar, it's because you probably read or heard it as a child in the ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I would like to thank your columnist James O'Brien for looking into the dating scene here at Middlebury and sharing his observations. I thoroughly enjoyed his piece, especially his reference to the Love & Condoms Department of the Health Center - what ...
Author: [no author name found] In recent weeks, this paper has published numerous articles about Middlebury College's increased physical and economic presence in downtown Middlebury. The College's economic support of Carol's Hungry Mind Café, the new bridge over Otter Creek, as well as the lease of ...
Author: Kate Lupo A few years back there was a TV show on ABC called "Commander in Chief." The premise of the show was such: Geena Davis played the part of Vice President MacKenzie Allen who, following the death of President Teddy Bridge, ascends to the job and becomes the first female president of ...
Author: Stefan Claypool There is a misconception that Washington can "fix" our financial crisis. It can't. However, it can exacerbate the problem, which is why it's important that we consider the security of our financial system when we cast our ballots this November.In the last year we've seen a disturbing ...
Author: Honor Code Review Committee We write to introduce you to the work of the 2008-09 Honor Code Review Committee, and to invite your participation in our review process in the months ahead. In 1963, Middlebury College students developed and implemented an Honor Code that was introduced with the ...
Author: Jessie Singleton "It's the economy, stupid," Clinton advisor James Carville cleverly coined during the 1992 Presidential race against George H.W. Bush. In the years that followed, our economy achieved unprecedented success, bringing jobs to the unemployed, confidence to consumers and real income ...