Author: Dean Atyia Dear Career Services Office, We had a very productive relationship up until last week, and for that I thank you. It started as a casual interchange; I had just broken up with my last conduit to gainful employment, and you were wearing that really pretty little alumni search bit, you ...
Author: [no author name found] In a vote taken last spring, the Middlebury faculty approved a measure to require senior work for all students, beginning with the class of 2013. We applaud this audacious decision as it exemplifies two values that Middlebury stands for: high-level academic discourse, ...
Author: Daniel Roberts An important person that you have probably never heard of (I say this with a complete lack of snobbery, it's just a fact) died a week ago at the young age of 46, and there's a reason why we as college students, but more importantly as the next generation of America's leaders, ...
Author: Gregg Humphrey, Director of Elementary Education The Teach For America recruitment has begun again on campus soon to be followed by Teach Kentucky, representatives from independent schools, and placement agencies such and Carney, Sandoe & Associates. Clearly there is a groundswell of interest ...
Author: Andrey Tolstoy The humble author of this column was nurtured by bears on the outer reaches of the rapidly shrinking Arctic Circle, among the caviar bushes, liquor streams and herring-tree lined promenades of stately Leningrad. For two years now he has been hiding behind his impeccable American ...
Author: James O'Brien After my last column came out, a friend asked me what my thoughts were on "labels." I thought the question was interesting enough, so I'm taking a one week break from my pseudoinvestigative journalism to answer this question. The three main categories of Middlebury romantic involvement ...
Author: Leslie Lim Middlebury is currently the proud owner of a certain college ranking, and a certain nagging fault along with it. Two weeks ago, I read in this very same paper about Middlebury's number one ranking in the Sierra Club's "Ten That Get It" list. Different from many other college rankings, ...
Author: Livingston Burgess In general, I hate whining. I will stand firmly behind the disenfranchised, disempowered and otherwise dissed, but when fringe and marginal voices demand disproportionate representation, I usually draw the line. I hate conspiracy theories, diatribes that blame "the man" and ...
Author: Flint Reilly I am writing to express my sincere thoughts about an unavoidable topic for our community. Underage drinking is absolutely against the law. Our community is lucky to have fine establishments like Two Brother's Tavern, Mister Ups, Doria's and Fire & Ice. The owners and employees ...
Author: Will Bellaimey, Middlebury College Democrats Okay, maybe "Bush's Third Term" is a little harsh. Nobody likes to be serving out someone else's term. Al Gore hated it in 2000, when people said he was just another four years of Clinton. That wasn't true. A Gore presidency was going to be sooo different ...
Author: [no author name found] Around 4:00 p.m. on Sunday the campus lost Internet access. The only Web sites that campus computers were able to access were those associated with Middlebury College - the College homepage, bannerweb and email. For a few short minutes, College students lost touch with ...
Author: Adam Clayton As far as investments go, nothing, except perhaps a house, weighs more heavily on an average person than a college degree. To spend more than two hundred thousand dollars over four years while we could be working puts us a few hundred thousand dollars and four years of work experience ...
Author: James O'Brien Inspired by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser's lecture, I've decided to take on a few weeks of semi-investigative journalism. I'll admit that the extent of my investigation thus far has included accosting people who happen to be walking by or standing next to me, but, acknowledging ...
Author: Bill McKibben, Scholar-in-Residence For a while, it looked as if the 2008 presidential election might be one of the first to really tackle the single biggest problem facing the planet, the threat of runaway global warming. With the Arctic now an island for the first time in human history (and ...
Author: Kate Lupo A cult of motherhood is emerging in American culture today. Even in our own sleepy town of Middlebury, the chic store Rainbow Room on Main Street features three shirts in its storefront window that read "Mother of 1, 2, 3." Instead of reading the traditional news, young women are reading ...
Author: Alex Garlick The last time there was a presidential election it literally consumed my life; of course, I was working full time for the Kerry/Edwards campaign during my Feb semester, a move that did not end up bolstering my résumé in the way I hoped it would. This year, as more of an impartial ...
Author: Daniel Roberts I have been back on campus for two days, and already everyone is completely high. It's not from what you would think (though I definitely smelled some strong 'plants' in Gifford last night). The high is a mellow feeling that spreads over the campus like a blanket, intensifying ...
Author: [no author name found] College mourns losses, looks to new facesThe Mead Chapel bells rang in a new academic year Sunday as Middlebury welcomed 580 first-year faces. Convocation also marked the end of a long summer. The deaths of Nicholas Garza '11, Pavlo Levkiv '11, and Professor David Macey ...
Author: Stefan Claypool Why are liberals, previously riding high on Hopenchange, suddenly quivering in fear? Because Sarah Palin is coming to Washington, and Washington is not ready. And if John McCain was rendered incapable of performing his duties, this young "rough n tumble" reformer is ready to ...