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 ...
Author: Leslie Lim A couple of weeks ago, I found myself at Philadelphia International Airport, wandering through its long halls and perusing its shops, attempting to kill time during a five hour layover between my flight from Vermont to Barcelona. Starting from one of the domestic terminals, I leisurely ...
Author: Tess Russell Here at Middlebury, there is a discrepancy between the treatment of underage alcohol violations and marijuana use by students of all ages that I find to be somewhat out of touch. My intention here is not to advocate drug legalization, so I'm not going to expound on the reasons why ...
Author: James O'Brien In deciding who to vote for in the upcoming election, I try to pay very little attention to what candidates actually say-mainly because it is never even vaguely related to what they do once they get elected. At the same time, I can fill you in on what I have managed to gather from ...
Author: Dean Atyia The Amethyst Initiative's website looks like it should be the back cover advertisement of a pop news magazine. It colorfully displays rotating images of diverse groups of young people toasting glasses of wine or champagne flutes. These people look like they are having the time of ...
Author: Daniel Streitfeld In the interest of truth and accuracy, in the space provided to me here I would like to address a number of startling fallacies found in Mr. Alex Garlick's latest opinion piece ("An Offsetting Notion," May 1).The esteemed Mr. Garlick derides the validity of the now-popular ...
Author: Felipe PrunedaSenties I would like to use this space to respond to a piece published in these same pages a week ago, which argued that feminists on campus have of late resorted to offensive tactics, like distributing fliers that indiscriminately point fingers at heterosexual men and catalogue ...