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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: 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 ...
Author: [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 ...
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 ...