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 ...
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 ...