Author: Bobby-Joe Smith and Rebecca Harper This year, the Community Council will decide whether or not to implement a "Statement of Community Principles" to be upheld by all members of the Middlebury College community. The statement, which has been in the works since September of 2007, has been created ...
Author: Adam Clayton Last week, someone wrote a Letter to the Editor about my last column. I neglect to mention his name only because it was unpronounceable, abnormally long and would have taken too much space in the intro. He argued that I ought to have endorsed Socialist Party USA's candidate for ...
Author: Robert Prasch, Associate Professor of Economics As I write this, the major stock market indexes have taken another sharp downturn. Billions more can now be added to the trillions already lost in market capitalization and housing. The only certainty seems to be that before this is over we will ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy When I started watching football in the late 90s, Chelsea was a decent team in a pretty good national league. The kings of Europe then were Real Madrid, taking charge after the decline of AC Milan. If you asked me and my friends what our favorite teams were, we would list three ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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. ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: [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 ...
Author: [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. ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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. ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...