Author: Ryan Tauriainen Last week a gay student wrote a scathing op-ed ("Counter-productive Gaypril event baffles," April 10) to reveal to the campus that (gasp) there was a "gay party" the previous weekend. There were a few mistakes or misinterpretations that I will correct rather quickly. First off, ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:Having experienced Laurie Essig as a teacher I feel compelled to respond to the College returning her to tenure track and the resultant support expressed by the Middlebury community. While Laurie Essig as a person is extremely knowledgeable and the material ...
Author: Rachel Pagano On April 2, the Middlebury College Republicans hosted a lecture by Mark Steyn, The New York Times best-selling author of "America Alone," and an internationally known columnist who writes for publications spanning the globe, including The Washington Post, Maclean's, The Jerusalem ...
Author: [no author name found] Despite the supposed freeze on new construction, the College's recent campaign to renovate a number of old buildings on campus has created its own fair share of commotion. While the administration has its reasons for each undertaking, its decision to renovate McCullough ...
Author: James O'Brien Throughout the storied history of my unfortunate column in The Middlebury Campus, I have struggled with how to write an opinion column without having any opinions. As a result, I usually ended up pursuing some sort of polemical rant in order to produce an aggravated op-ed from ...
Author: Alex Garlick The Democratic Primary has had all the characteristics of a heavyweight title bout this year. There have been lots of verbal punches thrown, some low blows and a lot of blowhards beside the ring. I can even picture Howard Dean as the referee (he's got the scream for it). Barack ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner A woman stopped me in the dining hall and said, "I don't think you're going to eat all those sandwiches here." I said, "You're right. I'm taking these to my friends who don't have time to go to the dining hall right now. They're all students too. Does it matter whether we eat ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl What could be duller than sexuality? Sure, it comes with its complications, like relationships, harassment and discrimination, but for most of the normal, well-educated students of Middlebury College, sex is tedious and predictable, nothing more than a lust that is occasionally ...
Author: Rodrigo Seira This past month was not an easy one for politicians. On March 10, The New York Times broke the story that linked New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to a prostitution ring, forcing him to resign only a few days later. On March 24, there came a second sex scandal as Detroit Mayor Kwame ...
Author: [no author name found] Students are doubtlessly grumbling (to say the least) about the College's decision to temporarily disband a cappella group Stuck in the Middle (SIM) for hazing violations. However, the decision - though disappointing for members of the group - ultimately signals the understandable ...
Author: James O'Brien I was listening to WRMC 91.1 - my favorite on-campus radio station - when one show ended and on came a show called Neo-Con Air. I didn't actually listen to the show, but it did jog my memory about the fun Neo-Con posters that I used to walk by on the way to Ross Dining Hall. I ...
Author: Corinne Almquist and David Dolginow "We are the dream generation, we are the dream reborn." This chant started as a whisper, stirring more than a thousand people to unite in song and hope. We rose in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a just and equal society, and in a promise ...
Author: [no author name found] To the Editor:I found out this week that I have been reappointed to the Middlebury faculty. We won! Don't you just love it when the good guys win? It makes you feel like we really can change our lives and the lives of those around us and make this community and, yes, the ...
Author: Paxson Woebler I like Third Eye Blind. I like Cake. I've never been in or been involved with WRMC. And while I don't have a stake in this argument one way or the other, the clumsy vitriol coursing through James O'Brien's piece "A Preface to Lunch: Elitist Tastes not my Jam" (The Campus, March ...
Author: Susan Personette I would like to try to clarify some of the issues around the temporary closing of Proctor Hall's Woodstove Lounge. But first, I'd like to apologize for the glitch in communications about this closure that caught some members of our community by surprise. Simply stated, several ...
Author: Theodore May There is a new and disturbing trend in U.S. race relations - the media has declared, and college students have embraced, that we belong to the "post-racial generation." Though the term goes back a ways, it gained momentum in the media when the country's youth began to show its commitment ...
Author: [no author name found] Middlebury commemorates five years of war in IraqYesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq - an event that ultimately dwarfs the politics of on-campus student organizations. Since the invasion, just shy of 4,000 American soldiers have ...